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Super Rugby Aotearoa: Round 9 - [8 - 9 August 2020]
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwiwomble" data-source="post: 1001886" data-attributes="member: 45355"><p>you could call it an "all star game"</p><p></p><p>squads were selected based on the first 1st class team a player played for, so that would be NPC (Auckland, wellington, Canturbury et al) or Super rugby (Blues, Canes, Saders et al)</p><p></p><p>so there are some weird selections, Damien Mackenzie born and raised in southland (south island) high school in christchurch (south island)...first played for Waikato so in the North Island team</p><p></p><p>the barrett brothers are in different squads because even though they grew up together they first played for different teams</p><p></p><p>its viewed as a mix of all star spectacle and all black trial</p><p></p><p>personally, i think NZR has been a little short sited, I would have preferred high school 1st XV, then they could have done a whole lot of build up with players going back to their highschools, maybe training in their old jerseys</p><p></p><p>at the moment thee seems to be very little build up too it...its like "hey fellas....there's another game of rugby on...check it out"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwiwomble, post: 1001886, member: 45355"] you could call it an "all star game" squads were selected based on the first 1st class team a player played for, so that would be NPC (Auckland, wellington, Canturbury et al) or Super rugby (Blues, Canes, Saders et al) so there are some weird selections, Damien Mackenzie born and raised in southland (south island) high school in christchurch (south island)...first played for Waikato so in the North Island team the barrett brothers are in different squads because even though they grew up together they first played for different teams its viewed as a mix of all star spectacle and all black trial personally, i think NZR has been a little short sited, I would have preferred high school 1st XV, then they could have done a whole lot of build up with players going back to their highschools, maybe training in their old jerseys at the moment thee seems to be very little build up too it...its like "hey fellas....there's another game of rugby on...check it out" [/QUOTE]
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