All the Northland boys sung a team Waiata at the aftermatch. Impressive.

All with their sunglasses on!

Is Stephen Jones not feeling well ?

No, it wasn’t booing.

It was a good group of Northland supporters yelling “Blue”

Our man Kane ....

Pakistan v New Zealand

The frictionless genius of Kane Williamson

Up-and-down pitch, sizeable deficit, great leggie at his peak. How do you take those ingredients and score a hundred of seeming inevitability?

NZ ODI batting record achieved by Kane Williamson in this match.

With consecutive innings of 79* (v Afghanistan), 106* (v SA), and 148 (v WI) he scored 333 runs before being dismissed.

This beats the NZ record held by Chris Harris of 320 ODI runs before being dismissed, achieved over nine matches May 1997-January 1998 with consecutive scores of:
26*, 77*, 29*, 18*, 52*, 9*, 37*, 62*, 10

Chiefs: Damian McKenzie, Sean Wainui, Anton Lienert-Brown, Alex Nankivell, Sam McNicol, Aaron Cruden, Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi; Pita Gus Sowakula, Sam Cane (c), Luke Jacobson, Mitchell Brown, Michael Allardice, Atu Moli, Bradley Slater, Aidan Ross.
Reserves: Samisoni Taukei'aho, Reuben O'Neill, Ross Geldenhuys, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Mitchell Karpik, Lisati Milo-Harris, Kaleb Trask, Quinn Tupaea.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119668451/super-rugby-sam-mcnicol-luke-jacobson-return-for-chiefs-after-concussion-absences

Great to see Rene Ranger appearing in NPC again. You hardly see long serving players appearing in the comp anymore - makes you nostalgic for the old days - pre professional - when the provincial squads were a lot older then than what they are now.

He debuted in 2006, so he must be the longest serving player in this year's Bunnings NPC?

I guess everyone has to be somewhere.

Twitter is reporting Chiefs have signed Wellington hooker Tyrone Thompson.

Joe Apikotoa has gone from Chiefs to MP.

I believe Isaia Walker-Leawere is still with the Canes.

@Higgins

What has happened to Ted Walters, a stalwart of the Tech midfield for about the last 10 years?

Went to the Hastings RS v Pirates match.

Neria Fomai played the whole 80 minutes for HRS while Jacob Devery (with well strapped-up right knee) played the first 40 only. Danny Toala was water boy.

Fomai scored two of Hastings three tries while Devery got the other.

Pirates, with the wind behind them in the second half, had just scored a converted try to close to one point behind at 13-12 and were on attack again in the Hastings 22 when Fomai intercepted and ran 80 metres for his second try.

Pirates conceded three yellow cards to Hastings one. At one point in the first half Pirates had 13 men.

When big tighthead prop Jarryd Broughton came on in the second half the Pirates scrum dominated Hastings, and towards the end of the game Hastings had a put in to a scrum in their own 22 and Pirates just shoved them right off it.

Pirates have the big Poverty Bay prop Jarryd Broughton in their lineup for tomorrow.

It's the third tournament for Bradley Crichton, Harry Godfrey, Dominic Ropeti and Raymond Tuputupu.

@Higgins said in Magpies 2023:

@Number-10 That's really good news but with the Shield I would have expected the surplus to have been a bit more (even allowing for the Silver Lake money). With the recent devastating weather we have suffered I hope the HBRFU have taken that into account when it comes to budgeting for the upcoming season. I expect there will be a reasonable chunk of money missing from the loyal rural supporters/sponsors that might have fronted up with a few thousand here and there that they simply won't be able to afford for the next few years.

They had budgeted 2022 to be a $20,000 loss, so taking out the Silver Lake $ it is a better than expected result.

The possible negative effect of Cyclone Gabrielle on sponsorship money for this year was mentioned at the AGM.

Hawke's Bay RU AGM tonight.

Profit of $1,078,178 declared. Take out the $1,000,000 received, as one of the 14 Premier Unions, from the Silver Lake deal and still would have made a profit. That Silver Lake money is tagged - it cannot be spent on Operational activity - and is currently invested.

Reserves now $3.6 million.

Five new staff positions created - 2 more RDO's, 1 Girls Junior Rugby manager, 1 club administration officer and 1 Coach Development manager. The Coach Development manager is George Konia.

New President is Mavis Mullins - first female president of the HBRU.

@Stargazer

As you have previously recorded Gus Brown is at Canterbury - was always destined for Canterbury Univ which is why HB could not keep him.

Manahi Goulton - Hawke's Bay Under 16, 2019, from Hastings BHS

Max Radcliffe is at Otago University.

Others not returning apparently are Gareth Evans, Namatahi Waa and Will Tremain.