2022 Black Ferns
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NEW ERA FOR BLACK FERNS IN 2022
The Black Ferns programme has received a welcome boost in 2022 with 29 contracted players leaving behind their day jobs to focus their attention on rugby.
Building on the professional performance contracts introduced in 2018, the new contracting model confirms Black Ferns players will have a guaranteed increase to their retainer along with assembly fees and a range of other benefits.
After more than a decade in the team juggling work and training commitments, Kendra Cocksedge, Renee Wickliffe, Carla Hohepa and Eloise Blackwell now find themselves focusing on training and development.
2021 Black Ferns debutants Ariana Bayler, Alana Bremner, Liana Mikaele-Tu’u, Maiakawanakaulani Roos and Georgia Ponsonby pick up contracts for the first time.
Contracted players will train out on regionalised hubs in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch, receiving technical, tactical and strength and conditioning programmes.
One day a week is committed to Personal Development with players focussing on the areas of career/education and work, finance and asset protection, character development, mental wellness and other professional rugby obligations and expectations.
The first 29 contracts are locked in, with further contracts to be confirmed in coming months.
Contracted Black Ferns
Ariana Bayler (Waikato)
Eloise Blackwell (Auckland)
Alana Bremner (Canterbury)
Chelsea Bremner (Canterbury)
Grace Brooker (Canterbury)
Kendra Cocksedge (Canterbury)
Ruahei Demant (Auckland)
Amy du Plessis (Canterbury)
Les Elder (Bay of Plenty)
Carla Hohepa (Waikato)
Renee Holmes (Waikato)
Ayesha Leti-I'iga (Wellington)
Pip Love (Canterbury)
Patricia Maliepo (Auckland)
Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu (Counties Manukau)
Charmaine McMenamin (Auckland)
Liana Mikaele-Tu'u (Auckland)
Krystal Murray (Northland)
Aleisha-Pearl Nelson (Auckland)
Georgia Ponsonby (Canterbury)
Cheyelle Robins-Reti (Waikato)
Maiakawanakaukani Roos (Auckland)
Amy Rule (Canterbury)
Chelsea Semple nee Alley (Waikato)
Kennedy Simon (Waikato)
Grace Steinmetz (Canterbury)
Hazel Tubic (Counties Manukau)
Renee Wickliffe (Bay of Plenty)
Kelsie Wills (Bay of Plenty) -
Even I noticed this one as a bit ‘off’, I thought maybe I’d just missed the Black Ferns version? It does remind me when Melodie Robinson rather effectively shut down a bit of condescending banter on Re-Union (I think) with a bit of top quality banter “and how many World Cups have you guys won?”
EDIT: Shoulda read the article first, there was a Black Ferns post I didn’t see, and it was earlier in the day. Much ado over nothing
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@machpants said in All Blacks 2022:
Even I noticed this one as a bit ‘off’, I thought maybe I’d just missed the Black Ferns version? It does remind me when Melodie Robinson rather effectively shut down a bit of condescending banter on Re-Union (I think) with a bit of top quality banter “and how many World Cups have you guys won?”
lol holy shit that is bad!!
Not sure Aaron Smith and Sevu Reece are really the poster children you should be going with either.
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@machpants said in 2022 Black Ferns:
Even I noticed this one as a bit ‘off’, I thought maybe I’d just missed the Black Ferns version? It does remind me when Melodie Robinson rather effectively shut down a bit of condescending banter on Re-Union (I think) with a bit of top quality banter “and how many World Cups have you guys won?”
Step back and think before posting is the lesson. I get what the comms team were doing (one from the ABs saying thanks to women and the same from the BFs) but man did they get this wrong with using Nugget and Reece.
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@machpants The harpy who posted about it on Twitter, the only "outrage" I saw, does nothing but manufacture claims of rugby sexism.
Sad to see such clickbait posted here.
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SM is posted without context so can easily be taken out of context.
Maybe do the BF one first then reply to it with a thanks from the ABs would have been a good strategy.
Given that way more people subscribe to AB posts you can see why it looks poor.
Fonterra did the same recently. Announced a bunch of speakers at a get together for International Womens Day but they were all men and they got roasted.
The missing contaxt was that the day itself was mainly presentations by women and this part was a men's perspective of the value to the business of a female view.
You'd think companies would employ savvy SM comms people.....oh wait 'savvy SM comms people that are good' -
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@mikethesnow said in All Blacks 2022:
Oops
Haha, wow. Putting Reece in is really bad taste. Is Foster in charge of the Twitter account too ?
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IMO it's a blunder because nothing you say will keep the lunatics from complaining. That being said, I do agree that including Sevu is remarkably tone deaf. One wonder why this level of incompetence exists at NZR - it permeates everything they do.
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APRIL CAMP SQUAD
Ruahei Demant – Auckland
Patricia Maliepo – Auckland
Eloise Blackwell – Auckland
Liana Mikaele-Tu’u – Auckland
Maiakawanakaulani Roos – Auckland
Aldora Itunu – Auckland
Tafito Lafaele – Auckland
Renee Wickliffe – Bay of Plenty
Les Elder – Bay of Plenty
Kendra Reynolds – Bay of Plenty
Pia Tapsell – Bay of Plenty
Luka Connor – Bay of Plenty
Santo Taumata – Bay of Plenty
Angel Mulu – Bay of Plenty
Kendra Cocksedge – Canterbury
Amy du Plessis – Canterbury
Grace Steinmetz – Canterbury
Olivia McGoverne – Canterbury
Alana Bremner – Canterbury
Chelsea Bremner – Canterbury
Pip Love – Canterbury
Georgia Ponsonby – Canterbury
Amy Rule – Canterbury
Lucy Anderson – Canterbury
Hazel Tubic – Counties Manukau
Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu – Counties Manukau
Ruby Tui – Counties Manukau
Harono Te Iringa – Counties Manukau
Carys Dallinger – Manawatū
Kaipo Olsen-Baker – Manawatū
Krystal Murray – Northland
Iritana Hohaia – Taranaki
Chelsea Semple – Waikato
Ariana Bayler – Waikato
Cheyelle Robins-Reti – Waikato
Renee Holmes – Waikato
Carla Hohepa – Waikato
Kennedy Simon – Waikato
Awhina Tangen-Wainohu – Waikato
Tanya Kalounivale – Waikato
Grace Houpapa-Barrett – Waikato
Ayesha Leti-I’iga – Wellington
Monica Tagoai – Wellington
Joanah Ngan-Woo – Wellington
25 of the selected players are currently contracted (Aleisha-Pearl Nelson, Charmaine McMenamin, Kelsie Wills and Grace Brooker are still returning from injury), with the remaining 19 having been picked off the back of Sky Super Rugby Aupiki form.
Nine players out of the champion Chiefs Manawa side will attend the camp, with Black Ferns Sevens playmaker Ruby Tui included. She’s joined by Luka Connor, Pia Tapsell, Angel Mulu, Harono Te Iringa, Grace Houpapa-Barrett, Tanya Kalounivale, Awhina Tangen-Wainohu and Santo Taumata.
Hurricanes Poua pivot Carys Dallinger has been selected alongside teammates Monica Tagoai, Iritana Hohaia, Kaipo Olsen-Baker and Joanah Ngan-Woo.
From the Blues, Aldora Itunu and Tafito Lafaele are included, and Lucy Anderson, Kendra Reynolds and Olivia McGoverne will attend out of Matatū.After gaining valuable game time in Sky Super Rugby Aupiki, Black Ferns Sevens stars Sarah Hirini, Kelly Brazier, Theresa Fitzpatrick, Stacey Fluhler, Portia Woodman, and Tyla Nathan-Wong return to Tauranga ahead of the World Series tournament in Langford next month.
In-form players selected for Black Ferns camp in Christchurch
44 players have been chosen to take part in the Black Ferns camp which will take place in Christchurch in early April.
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I'm not sure if they got to choose but I would have thought Hirini, Nathan-Wong, Brazier and Woodman especially shone out in Aupiki.
Tui being the only one is a bit funny as she was probably the 'flakiest' of the Sevens girls at 15s. Great competitor but unpredictable and loose (as you would expect) -
A certain hooker hasn't been selected. The final selection of the props will tell us if Moore and co have learnt their lessons from the NH tour. We need more size and dynamism in the tight five. Finding a lock over 6' would also help the lineout. Too late now to convert a netball/basketball player.
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@crucial Yeah, but there's a Commonwealth Sevens (20 July - 1 August) and RWC Sevens (9-11 September) coming up first, this year. They may return to XVs after that. Although there's only a month in-between both RWCs, I think they did that last time, too (I mean a late switch). I think the upcoming legs of the World Series determine the RWC draw.
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