Great to see the Maetele wider family continuing being part of our family at the Western Force.Some exciting new signings for the WFW squad.
WF announce the Super W Captain for 2023... Trilleen Pomare!
Trilleen will lead the team alongside Vice Captains Katie Barnes and Sera Ravatudei.
How old is Rupeni?Great to see the Maetele wider family continuing being part of our family at the Western Force.
We now have Manasa, his brother, wife and sister in law on board.
Finished school (Scots College, NZ) in 2021, I am not sure of date of birth but I suspect he is about 20 years old this yearHow old is Rupeni?
Jake White unlikely to leave the Bulls as he has put in a lot of work with their recruitment and rebuild. He has also had health problems this year and was hospitalised for a short period.At what point are the Force going to consider signing Jake White to some kind of role?
A 50/50 blend of on field actual coaching, giving Cron and the other coaches advice, and more of a director of rugby type role.
I think a lot of people forget just how much of an impact he had on the Brumbies. 2nd last with the ‘Real Madrid’ of stars, he sacked most of them and went into 2012 with 3 Wallabies in the team and everyone else was a rookie journeyman (Scott Fardy) or very young, inexperienced backs, 75% of whom were Wallabies within a couple of years.
Totally overhauled the whole organisation, ranging from forcing any contracted/academy player to play in the local comp with a draft type system to make sure the talent was spread evenly, to having pro chefs brought in to make sure the squad were eating proper nutrition and even having a building with special sleeping pods so the team could smash the gym, sleep and recover, then train in the afternoons.
As a Saffer, he’d be a perfect fit for Perth, lots of expats there. Get him on board as the Director of rugby for the Force -a semi hands-on role overseeing the training/development programs and on a roving role consulting with all of the clubs and getting their own development systems on the same page.
For some reason people think the Brumbies under White were boring because the got the meat and veggies on the plate before lots of gravy, but he completely transformed an utter basket case of an organisation in 2 years.
2011 - 2nd last
2012 - 5th
2013 - 2nd.
Good get but harsh on Jackson Pugh. Deserved a startYou guys are playing RWV at #8 this weekend. Good get.
Jackson's time will come. I expect he's undergoing a bulking up program.Good get but harsh on Jackson Pugh. Deserved a start
Hopefully you are right but he is already 23, Harry Wilson is the same age and Valetini only 1 year older so he should be ready by now. Getting decent minutes off the bench now anyway so all goodJackson's time will come. I expect he's undergoing a bulking up program.
Somewhat of an unfair comparison considering that Pugh grew up in Perth and was playing senior rugby after the WF were axed from Super Rugby in 2017.Hopefully you are right but he is already 23, Harry Wilson is the same age and Valetini only 1 year older so he should be ready by now.