Farah Palmer Cup 2022

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The FPC draw has been released.

Media release: https://www.provincial.rugby/news/bunnings-warehouse-npc-fpc-and-heartland-championship-2022-draws-announced/

Draw: https://www.provincial.rugby/farah-palmer-cup/fixtures-and-results/

The first round is a Premiership only round due to the difference in numbers of teams in both divisions.
There are no cross-over games in the FPC; possibly due to the need for a short season before the World Cup.

Premiership:
Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Counties Manukau, Manawatū (promoted from Championship in 2021), Waikato and Wellington

Championship:
Hawke's Bay, North Harbour, Northland, Otago (relegated from Premiership in 2021), Taranaki, Tasman

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Final Wellington Pride squad named for Farah Palmer Cup

Wellington Pride Head Coach Zak Feaunati has named a 33-player squad for the upcoming 2022 Bunnings Warehouse Farah Palmer Cup (FPC) campaign.

[Crucial]

Was announced last week.
Obviously the local club comps and schedules all run differently. Wellington have their final tomorrow. BOP still have two weeks to go and have named a 50 strong training group only so far as have HB

[Bovidae]

Angel Mulu was BOP, so must have transferred to Wellington.

The Waikato women's final is this weekend. I assume a squad will follow.

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Those bloody poachers have stolen our big prop Ashley (Moomooga) Palu!

[NateHill74]

@Stargazer Yeah from Hawke's Bay, Kelsyn McCook is from Taranaki, 3 more players from Otago adding to the 4 that were already there. They do like to bring in players from out of town

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@NateHill74 Yes, that's true, but the difference is that Otago often benefits from having a University, which attracts players from other provinces (for example: Teilah Ferguson, Rosie Kelly). We normally only lose players and many of them don't come back (again: Teilah Ferguson, who's now in the Wellington squad.

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Waikato probably names their squad after this game.

[mikedogz]

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@Bovidae said in Farah Palmer Cup 2022:

Waikato probably names their squad after this game.

You’d think they’d name the squad before the pre-season like most others?

@mikedogz theres a CM pre season with BOP this weekend.
BOP officially announce squad tomorrow.

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@Crucial said in Farah Palmer Cup 2022:

You’d think they’d name the squad before the pre-season like most others?

They probably have internally, but not officially to the public. Maybe a team for this game gets named later in the week.