Otago 2025
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@SouthernMann said in Otago 2025:
This will not make Taranaki's biggest fan @Dan54 happy...
You are right it wouldn't SM, though I would be surpised. I hope someone has got confused with his Highlanders gig. Not sure how Otago could afford him with Millar being there, both players must be prem players payments at NPC level.
And as Kruse rightfully points out Shining Peak is a better brew than Speights!
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@Dan54 said in Otago 2025:
@SouthernMann said in Otago 2025:
This will not make Taranaki's biggest fan @Dan54 happy...
You are right it wouldn't SM, though I would be surpised. I hope someone has got confused with his Highlanders gig. Not sure how Otago could afford him with Millar being there, both players must be prem players payments at NPC level.
And as Kruse rightfully points out Shining Peak is a better brew than Speights!
Emersons is better than Shining Peak though.
I doubt it is a cost thing.
Will be about lifestyle and limiting impact on the family. Two kids in daycare. Keep them in the same one. Don't shift between islands.
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comparing a craft beer to mass produced is just coming across desperate for a win
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@Kiwiwomble said in Otago 2025:
comparing a craft beer to mass produced is just coming across desperate for a win
lucky Waikato is a craft beer then
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@frugby not only kicking his goal kicking, he’s setting up tries and actually controlling the game this season. He’s taken some serious steps ahead this year. Absolutely stoked for the guy.
He’s had a lot of responsibility put on his shoulders the last 2/3 years for such a young guy, add to that a couple serious injuries so it’s nice to see him come through that and show positives signs. Still only 23 years old as well.
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@jimmyb said in Otago 2025:
Am I correct in thinking that Otago will be without CLW and Bower and Cantab will be without Darry and Bell?
Think the AB XV players will still be available. Canterbury should be without Darry and Bell. Still having its AB XV players. Same with us and Lio-Willie.
On Millar. He had his best attacking game I have ever seen. Still to me he does lack quite a bit in that area. The next couple of years will be interesting especially with JJ clearly see his team having a future with Jacomb in the driver's seat.
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@SouthernMann said in Otago 2025:
@jimmyb said in Otago 2025:
Am I correct in thinking that Otago will be without CLW and Bower and Cantab will be without Darry and Bell?
Think the AB XV players will still be available. Canterbury should be without Darry and Bell. Still having its AB XV players. Same with us and Lio-Willie.
On Millar. He had his best attacking game I have ever seen. Still to me he does lack quite a bit in that area. The next couple of years will be interesting especially with JJ clearly see his team having a future with Jacomb in the driver's seat.
Millars confidence looked completely fried after what was a v good 2024 NPC season.I don’t think JJ managed him (or many players for that matter) well at all in 2025.
Hopefully he can steadily impose himself in the next season. If JJ is under the impression that Jacomb will fix the short comings of the attack, I think we’ll be in trouble. Having Pledger at 9 will significantly help.
If Millar can put on 5-7kgs on, which should be incredibly easy, he’ll fix his biggest issue
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@jimmyb said in Otago 2025:
@SouthernMann said in Otago 2025:
@jimmyb said in Otago 2025:
Am I correct in thinking that Otago will be without CLW and Bower and Cantab will be without Darry and Bell?
Think the AB XV players will still be available. Canterbury should be without Darry and Bell. Still having its AB XV players. Same with us and Lio-Willie.
On Millar. He had his best attacking game I have ever seen. Still to me he does lack quite a bit in that area. The next couple of years will be interesting especially with JJ clearly see his team having a future with Jacomb in the driver's seat.
Millars confidence looked completely fried after what was a v good 2024 NPC season.I don’t think JJ managed him (or many players for that matter) well at all in 2025.
Hopefully he can steadily impose himself in the next season. If JJ is under the impression that Jacomb will fix the short comings of the attack, I think we’ll be in trouble. Having Pledger at 9 will significantly help.
If Millar can put on 5-7kgs on, which should be incredibly easy, he’ll fix his biggest issue
A big issue was we ran certain players into the ground. They got injured and the step down was significant. Whether Otago/Highlanders like it or not. JJ is building his side around Jacomb. What that means for Millar who knows.
Millar's big issues are his size, being competitive in contact, struggling under the high ball and continuing to develop his attack. He will never be a Dmac, Mo'unga, Barrett or Carter. He is a very steady kicker though. It certainly helps having a rockstar playing at nine.
Sounds like Hurley should be fine for next weekend. His acceleration is such an asset.
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@SouthernMann said in Otago 2025:
@jimmyb said in Otago 2025:
@SouthernMann said in Otago 2025:
@jimmyb said in Otago 2025:
Am I correct in thinking that Otago will be without CLW and Bower and Cantab will be without Darry and Bell?
Think the AB XV players will still be available. Canterbury should be without Darry and Bell. Still having its AB XV players. Same with us and Lio-Willie.
On Millar. He had his best attacking game I have ever seen. Still to me he does lack quite a bit in that area. The next couple of years will be interesting especially with JJ clearly see his team having a future with Jacomb in the driver's seat.
Millars confidence looked completely fried after what was a v good 2024 NPC season.I don’t think JJ managed him (or many players for that matter) well at all in 2025.
Hopefully he can steadily impose himself in the next season. If JJ is under the impression that Jacomb will fix the short comings of the attack, I think we’ll be in trouble. Having Pledger at 9 will significantly help.
If Millar can put on 5-7kgs on, which should be incredibly easy, he’ll fix his biggest issue
A big issue was we ran certain players into the ground. They got injured and the step down was significant. Whether Otago/Highlanders like it or not. JJ is bading his side around Jacomb. What that means for Millar who knows.
Mark brown refers to Cam as his General. it would be quite awkward if Jacomb doesn't make the big touring group of South Africa next year, a good awkward I suppose
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it's been a fun ride, I had so much belief in brown when he brought in casey & pledger into the starting lineup after the loss to the Bay
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God I hope we can win tomorrow just get the feeling this will be 1 of Pledgers only full seasons for Otago
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@Grooter said in Otago 2025:
God I hope we can win tomorrow just get the feeling this will be 1 of Pledgers only full seasons for Otago
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Yeah. With him it is our chance. It is the thing with NPC, one or two very good or different types of players can turn around a playing group.
You swap in Hastie (an decent domestic halfback) and Harry Taylor for Pledger and Casey and this season would have been very different.
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@Grooter said in Otago 2025:
@Chris always good Info from you Chris cheers, makes me think Cam Millar might have a Welsh or Scottish granny lol
With a name like Cam(eron)? And Millar, a miller, a vocation with an association to Glasgow? No way!
How could anyone think that name is Scottish!
Cameron Millar - Screen Academy Scotland