Club Rugby - Whangarei NZ

Scrumhalf wrote in post #16035254
I played scrumhalf (as my id suggests) and looking at the rolling maul shot in post #6, that scrumhalf is built a bit more solidly than me!

Haha His name is Sonatane Takulua He was just selected for the Tongan National Sevens team, Quite the solid chap

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Club Rugby season is over now, but I've been asked to photograph my local ITM Cup team The Northland Taniwha so I'm quite excited about that!

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Excellent.

Go the Taniwha! Big game to start the ITM.

2bluesfan wrote in post #16212586
Go the Taniwha! Big game to start the ITM.

You're not wrong there, Go the Taniwha!

Club Rugby is over and Now the ITM Cup is underway,
I'll post a couple of photos from each home game for those of you interested

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^ Now that's the beauty of rugby... you can go to a lower-grade match and still manage to see up-close somebody like Rene Ranger. Fantastic!

Final rugby shots for the year

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Great as always! Are these night matches? Looks like that a bit from the shadows. If so,the lighting is absolutely perfect.

Scrumhalf wrote in post #16397784
Great as always! Are these night matches? Looks like that a bit from the shadows. If so,the lighting is absolutely perfect.

Cheers mate, yep most of them were night matches, pretty hard with a 7d getting good shutter speed

Did Rene Ranger get hurt? I saw him play well in the France test (the pitch length try that he played such a key role in the 30-0 win against France was my choice for try of the year) but I guess he was dropped for the RC? And he's not in the NH tour squad either, I think.

Scrumhalf wrote in post #16403306
Did Rene Ranger get hurt? I saw him play well in the France test (the pitch length try that he played such a key role in the 30-0 win against France was my choice for try of the year) but I guess he was dropped for the RC? And he's not in the NH tour squad either, I think.

He had the choice of being an All Black and being away from his new baby daughter or staying at home with his family and playing for Northland. You don't get any more loyal than Rene Ranger

Respect his decision regarding putting his family first, as well as probably securing his financial future with his Montpelier contract coming up, but it must have been awfully hard to turn down the AB jersey, given how well he was playing.