Chiefs 2024

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah

There will be a few positions to fill for the confirmed departing players:

• Prop (Moli)
• Lock (Retallick, McWhannell)
• Loose forward (Sowakula)

Also others might have only been on a 1 yr contract. Everything has gone quiet in the last few weeks.

[Bovidae]

If Ta'avao is going back to the Blues two new TH props are needed to replace him and Moli. A fit Reuben O'Neill might mean he is back, and then???

[Yeetyaah]

https://www.chiefs.co.nz/news-item/shaun-stevenson-secured-by-the-gallagher-chiefs

Shaun Stevenson has put pen to paper on a new contract which will see him remain with New Zealand Rugby, the Gallagher Chiefs in DHL Super Rugby Pacific and North Harbour in the Bunnings Warehouse NPC until 2025.

[Tim]

@Yeetyaah Great news, even if it's just for one year.

[Dan54]

@Tim Yep grteat news, and it's for 2 years!

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah The same back three again!

[cliff]

Any rumuors of signings? So far I've only heard of the naki flyhalf jacombs

[Tim]

Paul Feeney has a new job as assistant coach at NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu.

[cgrant]

Sangster ? He hasn't been signed by the Hurricanes ... yet.

[cliff]

@cgrant if we could snap him he would be a fantastic signing he has some good aggression

[Bovidae]

I'm sure Sangster is still contracted to the Hurricanes, but you never know.

[Yeetyaah]

Got a wee scoop that George Dyer is expected to stay on.

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah Dyer is the starting TH now. So he was another off-contract? I wonder what Ollie Norris' situation is?

[Grooter]

Hearing Sam Cane will be using his sabbatical clause and joining Tokyo Sungoliath

[Bovidae]

The Chiefs will definitely need to find another specialist 7 then, even if Boshier is used as one too.

[cgrant]

Tom Florence ?

[Bovidae]

@cgrant said in Chiefs 2024:

Tom Florence ?

Yeah, he would be near the top of my list.

The others used in the last 12-24 months are:
Mitch Jacobson
Jacob Norris
Wallace Sititi - not really a specialist 7
Veveni Lasaqa

[SouthernMann]

@Bovidae Leroy Ferguson from Southland may be worth a look

[ploughboy]

wings and props could be only interesting spots in team . openside and lock a bit less

[Bovidae]

If we look at the 2023 squad (with some possibilities):

Hookers (3):
Samisoni Taukei’aho
Bradley Slater - assuming he stays

Tyrone Thompson

Props (6):
Aidan Ross
Ollie Norris
Jared Proffit
George Dyer

Angus Ta’avao/John Ryan (Reuben O’Neill)
Atunaisa Moli ???

Locks (5):
Brodie Retallick (Fiti Sa)
Tupou Vaa’i
Josh Lord

Laghlan McWhannell ???
Manaaki Selby-Rickit

Loose Forwards (7):
Sam Cane??
Luke Jacobson
Naitoa Ah Kuoi
Samipeni Finau

Pita Gus Sowakula (Tom Florence/Jacob Norris/Mitch Jacobson)
Kaylum Boshier
Simon Parker

Halfbacks (3):
Cortez Ratima
Xavier Roe
Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi (replacing Brad Weber)

First five-eighths (3):
Damian McKenzie
Kaleb Trask (replacing Bryn Gatland)
Josh Ioane
Rivez Reihana

Midfielders (5):
Anton Lienert-Brown
Quinn Tupaea
Rameka Poihipi
Daniel Rona
Gideon Wrampling

Outside backs (6):
Emoni Narawa
Etene Nanai-Seturo
Shaun Stevenson
Peniasi Malimali
Ngantungane Punivai ???
???

So 2 TH props, 2 locks, 2 loose forwards if Cane goes to Japan, and 2 outside backs. One of the loose forwards needs to be a 7.