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Chris

I don't know if any are true but I have heard Akira moving,JNK moving,PUJ and TUJ moving.
But just rumours I have no 100% confirmation.

Tim

@Duluth and Finlay Brewis

Tim

@Chris said in Blues 2023:

Akira moving

Wants to play number 8?

Chris

@Tim

I think the Crusaders are letting Brewis go because of to many injuries and keeping Calder or Sykes-Martin

Not sure on why with Akira but it is just a rumour.

Tim

@Chris Brewis has been unavailable for nearly all of the last two seasons?

Duluth

@Tim isn’t he another player with a netball girlfriend? Maybe it’s just related to her not being in Auckland?

Tim

@Duluth yeah, he spent the off season in Christchurch before 2022 season, IIRC.

Chris

@Tim
Yep shoulder and neck injuries reminds me of Harrison Allen he was the same over 2 seasons.

george33

Akira will b at Blues so I understand there r rumors of highlanders that's started in media

Chris

@Tim

Akira trained with the Crusaders pre Christmas for a couple of weeks while he was down there.

Tim

Parsons mentioned Jacob Pierce as one of the best scrumaging locks he's played with. Missed opportunity!

Tim

Josh Fusitua
~~Alex Hodgman~~
~~Nepo Laulala~~
James Lay - may go to MP
Marcel Renata
Ofa Tuʻungafasi

Kurt Eklund - off contract
Ricky Riccitelli
Soane Vikena

Sam Darry
~~Taine Plumtree~~
~~James Tucker~~
Patrick Tuipulotu

Adrian Choat
Akira Ioane
Dalton Papalii
~~Tom Robinson~~
Rob Rush
Anton Segner
Hoskins Sotutu
Cameron Suafoa

Finlay Christie
Taufa Funaki
Sam Nock

~~Beauden Barrett~~
Stephen Perofeta
Harry Plummer

Corey Evans - leaving for game time?
Rieko Ioane
Tanielu Teleʻa - will he be injured?
~~Roger Tuivasa-Sheck~~
Bryce Heem

Caleb Clarke
AJ Lam
~~Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens~~
~~Caleb Tangitau~~ - Sevens
Mark Telea
Zarn Sullivan

Nogusta

@Daffy-Jaffy signed with Auckland as well for this years NPC

cliff

Looks like Caleb tangitau, Taine plumtree and jrk will be leaving the blues

Tim

@cliff Tangitau leaving for game time?

cliff

Perhaps he could be headed to the landers or canes

Chris

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Chris

@Tim

Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens Maybe heading to the Crusaders

Nogusta

@Tim going back to the 7s program

KiwiMurph

But some of it must fall on the head coach. His team were patently unready. Was that a mindset thing? A mental weakness? Are these Blues players still, after all these years, bereft of the sort of steel, fortitude, fabric that is clearly imbued in the Crusaders, and Chiefs for that matter?

It would have been nice to ask MacDonald some of these questions, but,unlike Hurricanes coach Jason Holland, he has gone silent at the end of his time in franchise footy. His organisation has put the shutters up, right when questions about them are at their loudest.

Like why was chief assistant coach Tom Coventry never heard from the entire season? What happened with No 8 Hoskins Sotutu for him to drop completely off the radar of the national selectors? Why did normally cool, collected types like Beauden Barrett, Rieko Ioane and Dalton Papalii seem like headless chooks at OT Stadium on Friday?

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