2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby
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It looks like club rugby starts on Saturday, 2 April.
Nash Cup (k/o 3pm):
Pool 1:
Hastings v Pirates
Clive v NOBMPool 2:
Tamatea v Taradale
Havelock North v Napier Tech
Central v MAC (this is a cross-over game; MAC is in Pool 1)The Town & Country competition also starts on 2 April.
No doubt there are more, but I've seen on the Manawatu website that there are some preseason club games there in which HB clubs are playing:
Sat 6 March - CET Arena (Palmerston North):
12.30pm: Hastings Colts v Petone Cols
2.00pm: Hastings Premiers v Petone PremiersSat 13 March - QEC (Palmerston North)
2.00pm: College Old Boys v Taradale -
Only the top four in each pool go forward to the Maddison Trophy.
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Hawke's Bay RU AGM tonight.
Profit of $713,579 declared for a 22nd consecutive profit. Reserves now at $2.4 million.
Emma Jensen was voted on to the Board.
11 Colts teams are entered for the 2021 club competition - the most since 2002.
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@number-10 Thanks, that's great to hear. All points.
Wow, 11 Colts teams, that's a lot! Do you think that's because of the success of Flanders anc co. in the Magpies squad (and SR)?
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@number-10 Clearly the Shield is still the money spinner it has always been for the provincial areas where people treasure it's history and significance more than the host areas of Super Teams. Long may it remain in the Hawkes Bay!
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@stargazer Is that all the Nash Cup clubs plus Onga Tiko (and maybe Eskview) or do some clubs field two teams?
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@higgins I don't know; the colts' draw isn't online, yet.
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@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:
@number-10 Thanks, that's great to hear. All points.
Wow, 11 Colts teams, that's a lot! Do you think that's because of the success of Flanders anc co. in the Magpies squad (and SR)?
At the AGM it was stated that high school playing numbers for boys have actually gone up in Hawke's Bay over the last couple of years. So there is a flow-on effect this year no doubt. But the two biggest drop-off rates in numbers still occur in the 9-10 and 15-16 age brackets.
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Both Hastings R&S and NOBM will compete for the Spillane Cup, tomorrow. This year's tournament is at Owen Delany Park, Taupo.
NOBM will try to defend their title.
NOBM ready for Spillane Cup retention mission
It will be a youthful Napier Old Boys Marist side that will attempt to retain the Spillane Cup at this weekend's 90th annual New Zealand Marist rugby tournament in Taupo. "But we're still going there with the goal of winning the cup at an ev...
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NOBM retained the Spillane Cup after beating Hastings in the final.
NOBM retain Spillane Cup in Taupo
Napier Old Boys Marist rugby coach Ellery Wilson had every right to heap kudos on his youngsters after the Green Machine retained New Zealand Marist's Spillane Cup in Taupo today. "I'm really happy. A lot of young guys stepped up," Wilson (pictured...
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Only 4 teams? That's sad.
When I was a kid I was a ball boy at a Spillane Cup tournament and you had powerhouse teams like Auckland Marist and MSP involved.
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From the "Club rugby" article below:
The tournament features 16 club teams, split across four competitive divisions, and a Presidents match. The top tier Spillane Cup is between the top four seeded teams based on last year’s results. Saturday’s semi-finals see Hamilton Marist and Hastings Rugby & Sports clash on the number one ground at 1.30pm, followed by defending champions Napier Old Boys Marist and Hutt Old Boys Marist at 3.00pm. The Division 2 semi-finals for the Ham Cumming Cup over on the number two field see North Harbour Marist and Palmerston North Marist meet in the first game and Rotorua Marist and Marist St Pat’s contest the second fixture. Division 1 and 2 matches on Sunday see the winners play the winners and losers play the losers. The Ham Cumming Cup winners earn promotion to the main draw at the expense of the fourth placed top tier finisher. MSP finished fourth last year, hence why they are in the Division 2 this year. Whanganui and Masterton Marist vie on Saturday for the division 3 Brennan Cup. There is also a four team Colts section for the Moran Cup, with day one games between North Harbour Colts and Hutt Old Boys Marist Colts and Marist St Pat’s and Taupo Marist Colts. The other match on Saturday is a one-off fixture between the Hutt Old Boys Marist Presidents and the Taupo Marist/Greerton Marist Presidents. -
@stargazer Auckland Marist not involved at all.
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@bovidae Maybe because they just came out of level 2? The Covid situation will have affected their trainings the past few weeks.
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@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:
@bovidae Maybe because they just came out of level 2? The Covid situation will have affected their trainings the past few weeks.
Possibly, although North Harbour Marist was there.
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Reminder, club rugby starts this Friday (2 April 2021)!
Premiers - NASH CUP (K/O 3PM):
Pool 1:
Hastings v Pirates
Clive v NOBMPool 2:
Tamatea v Taradale
Havelock North v Napier Tech
Central v MAC (this is a cross-over game; MAC is in Pool 1)The Town & Country competition (Pratt Trophy) also starts this week. The first game is between Eskview and Maraenui on Friday night (6.30pm).
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From the article below:
Hastings... will be at least temporarily without Magpies midfielder Neria Fomai, who is on a short-term Super Rugby contract with the Highlanders. They have also lost Jayden Rihia (moved to Australia) and Antonio Mikaele Tu'u (out for the season with a ruptured Achilles) ...
Pirates... picked up some talented youngsters from the Hawke's Bay academy system ...
Tamatea... have also recruited, well adding Magpies Lincoln McClutchie and Kianu Kereru-Symes ...
Taradale... loss of club legend Andrew Gardner offset by new recruit Kienan Higgins from Wellington ...
MAC... take Hurricanes Development prop Paula Latu and Magpies flanker Solomone Funaki ...
Central... having picked up 2020 NZ Secondary Schools first five Harry Godfrey from Whanganui and Joeli Suka from Hastings Rugby and Sports.
Havelock North... should have former Magpie and Highlanders wing Ryan Tongia and the abrasive Tony Lamborn at their disposal ....
Napier Tech... a number of the squad retiring from rugby ...I think Zac Guildford is one of them?
Clive... have brought in lock Jay Tuavaiti from Auckland ...
Napier OB Marist... have a new coach in Ellery Wilson, and with the returning Paul Bickle and promising new first five Jonte Millar from Feilding High School ...
New look for senior club rugby
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A new Town and Country grade will sit under the premier men's division.
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@stargazer I think I can just about tolerate Kurt Baker at Club level but that's about the limit to any affection toward him!!!! Wonder who the Texan's retirements might be (apart from myself who is scaling back to Golden Oldies level this season), maybe TBW and Tim Farrell amongst others?
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@higgins I already mentioned Zac G, but yeah, TBW might be one of them. And Mark Braidwood.
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@stargazer With my expanding girth I might have to reconsider not being available for front row selection then!
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Opening day is Good Friday, so the players can have a three-day weekend.
It has usually been the case in recent years to play on Good Friday in the Easter Weekend.
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You might not be able to get much info about HB club matches other than quotes from Team Managers about who played well but it is very pleasing to know we can still get comprehensive newspaper reports about Sheep Dog Trials. Only people form rural provinces can be aware of the importance and significance of that sport.
It might even deserve to have it's own thread!
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@number-10 said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:
Hawke's Bay RU AGM tonight.
Profit of $713,579 declared for a 22nd consecutive profit. Reserves now at $2.4 million.
Emma Jensen was voted on to the Board.
11 Colts teams are entered for the 2021 club competition - the most since 2002.
2002....when I made my Tech Colts debut as a lanky underweight 15 year old.
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@magpie_in_aus You will be pleased to know that along with the 2020 Black & White Trophy we won for the best Club overall we also won the Pat Ryan Memorial Trophy for the Colts/Under 21 Grade. At this stage we are still (and have been since 2018) the NZ Club One Day Cricket Champions but have to put that title at stake this coming weekend I think. I am doing a rain dance in the hope that it might wash out the entire tournament thus enabling the Mighty Texans to retain the Title for yet another season!!!!!!!!
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From Magpies Facebook:
This season we will be live streaming one game a week. Tomorrow's live-stream is CHB v MAC. This game kicks off at 3pm, so make sure to check out the live stream here on our Magpies Facebook page.
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@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:
From the article below:
Tamatea... have also recruited, well adding Magpies Lincoln McClutchie and Kianu Kereru-Symes ...I am pretty sure that McClutchie was playing for Tamatea last year wasn't he, or did he leave Tamatea the year before, and is returning to them?
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@stockcar86 No those 2 and Mason Kean all played for MAC last year and have all gone back to tamatea.
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@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:
From Magpies Facebook:
This season we will be live streaming one game a week. Tomorrow's live-stream is CHB v MAC. This game kicks off at 3pm, so make sure to check out the live stream here on our Magpies Facebook page.
I'll be at the Hastings RS v Pirates game.
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Just confirming no B Retallick listed on the Central Hawkes Bay team sheet. Looks to be a reasonably sunny, if not a tad wind, down in Waipukurau today. But as I type that the sun disappears as MAC run onto the field, let the battles begin.
Would help if someone could post score updates from Anderson Park for me and magpie_in_aus thanks! -
Opps forgot to add the Link to the game https://www.facebook.com/hbmagpies as MAC in for the first try of the season after just a couple of minutes. The conversion from in front is a mere formality.
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@Magpie_in_aus And this is the Altherm Window Systems Texans lineup - looks to be plenty of old faces and doesn't appear to be too many retirements
- Tim Farrell
- Teremoana Joel
- Perrin Manuel
- Elijah Martin
- Trent Boswell Wakefield
- Corey McCaffrey
- Amos Ruddick
- Xavier McCorkindale
- Sheridan Rangihuna
- Tamati Samuels
- Wade Moore
- Ted Walters
- Ben Lewis
- Kyle Cornellissen
- Leighton Shaw
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MAGPIE WAA TO CAPTAIN TARADALE THIS SEASON
Hurricane Danny Toala will play at first five-eighth for Hastings today. His backline will miss the services of Magpies midfielder Neria Fomai who has a short-term contract with the Highlanders, Jayden Rihia who is in Australia and Antonio Mikaele-Tu'u who is out for the season with a ruptured Achilles.
Clive have secured the services of former key Havelock North players in halfback Trent Hape and winger Anzelo Tuitavuki.So Neria Fomai was with the Blues and is now with the Highlanders. That explains why I saw him in a photo with Fakatava (in Dunedin) on instagram, yesterday.
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I assume it's (close to) half time in most games. These are the scores; just a little typo in the first game
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@stargazer I'm loving what I see from Anderson Park! The scores look a little behind as the live stream from Rugby Park has MAC leading 17 - 10 (from memory) at half time.
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@higgins I thought you would!
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@stargazer On closer inspection of the more minor games I suspect at least one of the scores is incorrect. There is no way Pirates could possibly rack up 164 points in half a game of rugby unless their opponents have been reduced by red cards to about ten players. They would be thanking their lucky stars if they got that many points in an entire season!
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@stargazer Not so thrilled about the Town & Country (Town Division) grade result though. No doubt stockcar86 will be exactly the opposite on that one, still his mob did have home advantage.
Bit of a worry about Pirates and Havelock Prem Reserves defaulting, lets hope it is simply because so many of their players are out of town for the weekend. Having said that surely they could have used some of their Colts player to bolster those teams for the weekend?
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The livestream was hard to watch,kept cutting out.Who was number 18 for MAC he is enormous, would have to be close to 140kgs,lol.
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Hastings RS beat Pirates 41-36.
There was some odd scoring patterns.
Pirates led 17-12. Hastings scored 26 unanswered points to lead 38-17, then 41-29. Pirates scored a converted try with two minutes left to close to 41-36.
From the restart they had to go from their own 22 to win and got to the Hastings ten-metre line where their maul was held up and the game finished.
Pouri Rakete-Stones played the whole game for Pirates apart from ten minutes in the bin. He was a bit unlucky - Hastings had a long movement on attack in the Pirates 22, there were about three or four advantages during it, just short of the line the ref awarded Hastings a penalty try and gave Rakete-Stones the card because he was the last transgressor.
Danny Toala played at first five for Hastings, played the first 50-55 minutes and came back on for the last three on the wing.
Mason Emerson played centre for Hastings and other Magpies in the Hastings team were Jacob Devery (started at 8 and finished at hooker), prop Jason Long subbed off with about five minutes left, and halfback Connor McLeod who went to first-five when Toala was subbed off.
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Spillane tournament in Taupo and pre-season rugby starting in Wellington this weekend
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