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Bobby Sands

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You blokes just signed Josh Kemeny, well done thats a good signing.
 
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Jim Lenehan (48)
Not sure what’s going on with Abel, I know he was talking to Auckland towards during the season. He’s had a good couple of years at NPC level so would seem a good mix. Vailanu might end up being no.3 rake.

Disappointed to lose Roach, he’s very underrated and the perfect bench hooker with his impact. Could easily be a guy that does what the Scottish hooker Frazer Brown does and sometimes comes on as a flanker if the team needs something different, also allows you to carry specialists in other positions.
 
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Andrew Slack (58)
Rebels3 said:
Disappointed to lose Roach, he’s very underrated and the perfect bench hooker with his impact. Could easily be a guy that does what the Scottish hooker Frazer Brown does and sometimes comes on as a flanker if the team needs something different, also allows you to carry specialists in other positions.
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Funny thing about that is that Browny was the earliest of our 3 hookers to make the switch to the front row: Turner played in the back row at U20s level and McInally got his first international cap as a blindside: and yet he's always the one who gets put to the backrow. Goes back to the Bath v Glasgow game in the Champions Cup where our pack injuries were so bad we had a Lock at 6, a Hooker at 7 and a Center at 8.

My gut call is that it works for Browny because he's the number one hooker at his club at "domestic" level, in the top 3 for country, and has been both for much longer than the four and a bit years that he's occasionally been played in the back row professionally. Deliberately looking for or retaining that Hooker at this level, if they're not already the "best" option in a general backroom sense will come with some sort of compromise, be it ability, performance, player loading, gametime demands, additional financial strains, etc. that wouldn't balance out with the added versatility in the match day and club squads. Would go for scrum halves too.
 
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Peter Sullivan (51)
Rebels have updated their player page, 36 peeps, (Louwrens who i thought had signed is not on it). We could do with more backrow cover and a few extra outside backs :rolleyes:

Hookers
Rangi
Uelese
Erasmus ?
Props
Orr
Ainsley
Sa’aga
Smith
Fa’amausili
Gibbon
Second Row
RHP
Philip
Hosea
Haangana
Jones

Backrow
Cottrell
Killingworth
Wilkin
Naisarani
Hardwick
Kemeny
Wells
Leota
Halves
Lomani
Tuttle
Louwrens ?
10's
Deegan
Too’mua
Centres
Meakes
English
Magnay
Hodge
Wings
Potter
Tupou
Koroibete
Kellaway
FB
DHP
Maddocks
 
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Ken Catchpole (46)
Sully said:
I thought the max was lower than that?
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its 36 or 37 including development contracts (usually 5)

guys like kemeny and potter. Gibbon was development last year, pretty sure perhaps some of the u20 players (tupou, hosea, haangana) were/are development)
 
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