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New Zealand provincial competition delayed

14 Aug 2020

Canterbury celebrate winning the 2017 Farah Palmer Cup. Photo / Getty Images

The opening two rounds of the Farah Palmer Cup will not go ahead as scheduled, New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has announced today.

The North pool of the premier women’s competition was due to kick off next Saturday 22 August, with North Harbour hosting Waikato, Counties Manukau playing Bay of Plenty and Northland hosting Taranaki.

NZR Head of Women’s Rugby Cate Sexton said: “With Auckland-based teams unable to train or host matches for the next 12 days due to Level 3 restrictions, the decision has been made not to start the competition next weekend.

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“We’ll now discuss with Provincial Unions and the Players Association around the different options for revising the draw. The Farah Palmer Cup is an exciting competition and we know our teams and fans are looking forward to it getting underway.”

The Farah Palmer Cup will be played in two pools split geographically with Northland, North Harbour, Auckland, Counties Manukau, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki making up the seven-team North pool and Manawatu, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Tasman, Canterbury and Otago in the South pool.

– New Zealand Rugby

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JPM 2 hours ago

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What fake news ??!!! They are his own various declarations.

That’s my last reply as you really want to make a point despite more complex reality, insisting on your own theory of home-grown coaches…

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Why French rugby would be poorer if Ronan O'Gara leaves La Rochelle

Are you sure they were not fake news as in the Midi Olympique story?

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Edwards was the biggest single influence in the style of play, which began to revolve around strong defence and countering off turnover ball. It is still the way France plays now, just look at the tries scored and conceded, and he low number pf phases taken to score…

Sure ROG has made his share of mistakes he has a winning pedigree at the highest level - and where do you get the idea he has a problem with his players??

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He’s French and he’s been siphoned off by France…?

Apart from the money (which we have no info of for now), there are way more games between the Top14 and the European cups to get some game time compared to SR. With 29 games of Top14 for those who qualify in the top 6 and play the final, plus the potential of 8 Europan cups games, that’s almost 37.

Many 18/19/20 year old French already play in the Top14 or those cups, sometimes in the U20 6 Nations or World Cup, with a high level of rotation.

The guy was quite ahead in his development, playing during the 2024 6 Nations, he was said to be tested for the Argentina summer tour. And no SR game time.

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What player issues are you talking about? Everything I’ve read talks about how strong the connections are between Club, players and their families?

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