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kos said:

Mooks is there assisting

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He is a good man for supporting Stacey and everyone including Bellamy knows he is a great assistant to a head coach.

I thought Stacey got the game plan bang on with the way he had them using the ball and playing second phase, it is our natural game and these guys know what to do when the opposition have the ball.

Nice to see Stacey get some wins as coach and for NZs greatest test coach to be part of it in the legend Kearny.

Just watching Metcalf on Josh Mansour’s Poddy.
He said everything’s been going perfectly so far and his aiming for the nine month timeline to return
He said he’s hoping to be available for round 6.
You don’t know what will happen but that would be huge if he only misses 5 games.

Noitall said:

Brings a tear to my eye how real SJ is. Good bugger. Lovely words about Foran

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Still remember him and Foran tearing up Aussie 2014/15. And this is Aussie Cameron Smith, Slater, Thurston years.

So yeah, lot of history there with those 2.

Man id love to give Aussie a crack with this forward pack right now...

Tonga and Samoa did the Kiwis a favor with the movement of players away from New Zealand.

New Zealand having lost all the stars to Tonga and Samoa have become a team that has returned to oldschool Test match culture, the players that the Kiwis have available now are there for the old fashioned reasons people played test matches in days gone by.

By reducing their options the Kiwis have ended up with hearty play for the flag types of players.

Even though Tonga and Samoa took some players that were better than their Kiwi counter parts at the time of the split, what really makes a strong test team is the will to fight for your colors.

In this vein it is good people like Dimitric and Leka chose where their hearts lie.

Gee Dimitric is a good bench player.

Another awesome sight this weekend with the crowd. International league is improving but it's not really due to management and planning but more luck they fell into with the Tongan & Samoans drawing the crowds.

That middle 3 of the Kiwis with JFH, Leota and Tapine is a great unit. This week there was less of a drop off when they were replaced. Whyte, Willison and Clark kept it going through the middle.

Nice work from the halves. Having a fast elusive fullback helped a lot.

Also Isaako knocking over the majority of the conversions.

Dannevegas said:

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Haere Mai

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He would instantly turn us into a premiership threat overnight.

Haere Mai

We've signed two more Nelson College rugby players as part of next years SG ball squad. 1st five Wiremu Makea and wing Alfred Leweni

skinnydippng said:

man if i had 18 try assists this season as a half and still wasn’t good enough i’d be pretty sad

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Add in the fact that your edge D conceded the least amount of tries amongst all left edges in the comp

Are we better with Egan? Yes.
Is Healey ready for 60+ mins every week in the nrl? No.

Egan was close to a SOO debut, he’s in the top 5 hookers in the game imo. Hes a leader for us, has captained us & makes other players better around him.

He does need a reduction in mins though, that i agree with. Hes probably a 60 min hooker these days, with the speed & physicality of games. But I think people underestimate how important Egan is to our side.

man if i had 18 try assists this season as a half and still wasn’t good enough i’d be pretty sad

BangBro's (still banging) said:

I thought it was his best ever season, thats why I dont see him getting much better, and he is hopeless if he has to lead this team around.

I dont know why he cant play lock?

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Probably because the dally m lock of the year is playing for us lol

WARRIORS

Return: Staggered from November 5 to early January

The first crop of players will report for training on November 5, and will include Jett Cleary, Motu Pasikala, Jason Salalilo and Makaia Tafua and Jake Thompson. Code converts Caelyse-Paul Putoko and Harry Inch will also join the group.

Senior players like Dallin Watene-Zelezniak will start pre-season on November 20, with the grand final winning NSW Cup players to arrive on November 26.

Representative stars, including James Fisher-Harris and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, aren’t due back late December. Players will break for Christmas on December 20 to January 5.

Star signing and former Titans flyer Alofiana Khan-Pereira will join the group mid-November.

Would love to see a group of Kiwi men doing what the Ladies are and coming home and stacking the team

Warriorsfan92 said:

Timoko testing the market.. he’d be another good get, bringing an Auckland boy back home.

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Would love to see him here. Played 105 consecutive games from round 19, 2021 to round 26, 2025 without missing a single game. That kind of reliability is a pipe dream at the wahs.

1. Jye Linnane
2. Alofiana Khan-Pereira
3. Rocco Berry
4. Kayliss Fatialofa
5. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
6. Chanel Harris-Tavita
7. Luke Metcalf
8. Mitch Barnett
9. Wayde Egan
10. James Fisher-Harris
11. Leka Halasima
12. Kurt Capewell
13. Erin Clark

14. Sam Healey
15. Demitric Vaimauga
16. Jacob Laban
17. Eddie Ieremia-Toeava

Wouldn't take Riki over Leka, Laban, EIT, Kayliss or Bishop.

Leave him in Brissy, we are good.

Recruit experience cheaply in other positions, we don't have to go out and get a like for like replacement for Capewell/Niukore

sup42 said:

Well if this rumor is true (big if) you would be silly not to look at him seriously.

He would walk into our game day 17 every day of the year irrespective of our young guns potential.

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He’s extremely handsome but massively over rated. I’d start both Laban and Leka ahead of him and still have Fatialofa, Eddie and Neal coming through. A bit of a pointless signing if this is true