Highlanders 2022
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The ODT has written a summary of the Highlanders squad and what spots are still open
Who will get seats when the music stops?
Whisper it quietly, but the Highlanders are assembling a squad that could have a fair crack at the new-look Super Rugby Pacific competition. Sports...
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@duluth said in Highlanders 2022:
The ODT has written a summary of the Highlanders squad and what spots are still open
Who will get seats when the music stops?
Whisper it quietly, but the Highlanders are assembling a squad that could have a fair crack at the new-look Super Rugby Pacific competition. Sports...
Good article. Would be nice to see a similar one for each franchise.
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@crucial said in Highlanders 2022:
@duluth said in Highlanders 2022:
The ODT has written a summary of the Highlanders squad and what spots are still open
Who will get seats when the music stops?
Whisper it quietly, but the Highlanders are assembling a squad that could have a fair crack at the new-look Super Rugby Pacific competition. Sports...
Good article. Would be nice to see a similar one for each franchise.
Good article but terrible boss.
Just kidding - Meiks is a good man, even taking his North Otago fetish into account.
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@stargazer said in Highlanders 2022:
@southernmann I think there's a lot of hidden potential in the Netherlands, waiting to be discovered. It's a minor sport overthere, but if you want to develop young locks, that's where scouts should look. The Dutch are the tallest people in the world, but most of these tall guys will be playing basketball, not rugby. Fabian Holland also comes from a basketball family; he just chose to try rugby as a young kid and it stuck. He converted his whole family to rugby, mum, dad, younger brother and sister.
Imagine the NH press if the ABs had a Dutch lock and a German flanker. Next thing you know Ireland would mysteriously have a “project player” system for those with Teutonic roots.
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@billy-tell Maybe they can find a few relatives of Josh van der Flier.
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Happy with that as long as we get someone like Kereru-Symes
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I'll put this here. An article about Fabian Holland.
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@bovidae He apparently didn't tell Cully about the All Blacks 7s training at his club in the Netherlands and teaching the local kids the haka (in 2014). In Dutch interviews he says that that's really inspired him, not watching the ABs when he was five. Or maybe Cully mixed a few things up?
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@tim said in Highlanders 2022:
Some more info about the Highlanders' squad in the article.
Result for the sharkies
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The lads are getting all the talent.
Fabian Hollan plays for them as well.
Gareth Evans will be back there too.
I doubt they will be getting any Fakatava time though.
I'd say Faleafaga will go straight into the prem squad as well.
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@southernmann dont forget Freedom
i wasn't sure if Evans would be back as he's only back for the Highlanders
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Club season tends to run fairly parallel to the Super season. If he's available he will play. A bit like Brad Weber, with the Sharks almost being their top teams to play for. I think Bryn Evans has been assigned to them too.
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@southernmann yeah, that what i was meaning, they run at the same time and i expect evans to on the bench quite a bit, don't think we brought him back down for nothing, so not sure he'll be available much
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If Harmon wasn't injured I wouldn't see Gareth Evans playing a huge amount. With him injured, I think you need to play both him at Lentjes. It is just we also need to fit in Tu'u, Renton and Frizzell. Competition for places will certainly be stiff. Could have two loose forwards in the bench, but will then only have Banks as a back reserve.
