@nostrildamus Scottish grandparents as well. So that’s a fourth country ( though who wants to play for Scotland)
@KiwiInLondon said in Highlanders 2025:
@nostrildamus Scottish grandparents as well. So that’s a fourth country ( though who wants to play for Scotland)
Don't tell you know who on here, he's trying to change Scottish rugby into something akin to the French Foreign Legion.
NB Haig (high, noble) is also originally a Viking/Norse name.
@KiwiInLondon said in Highlanders 2025:
@nostrildamus Scottish grandparents as well. So that’s a fourth country ( though who wants to play for Scotland)
They are well and truly a team on the up and would probably give us a good run for our money right now
Looks like we are in agreement Haig will play international rugby. Just a question of for who. Hopefully it will be for us, and we have a dutchman and an English accent in our starting pack.
@SouthernMann said in Highlanders 2025:
Looks like we are in agreement Haig will play international rugby. Just a question of for who. Hopefully it will be for us, and we have a dutchman and an English accent in our starting pack.
And maybe a German.
i acknowledge my bias right, we can get past that
he's exactly the kind of person i was hoping would be a bolter this year...loosies for the ab's havent really jelled for a while...and yet we still try and use the same 6 guys
Imagine the poaching chat if we have those three in black. @Kiwiwomble agree, a lot of the loosies we are picking at the moment play in a very similar style to eachother too.
@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2025:
i acknowledge my bias right, we can get past that
he's exactly the kind of person i was hoping would be a bolter this year...loosies for the ab's havent really jelled for a while...and yet we still try and use the same 6 guys
I like the fact he is a specialist 6* and just wants to do the core roles well, plus that height would be useful in the lineout 
*ok, can be a lock a well.
@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2025:
i acknowledge my bias right, we can get past that
he's exactly the kind of person i was hoping would be a bolter this year...loosies for the ab's havent really jelled for a while...and yet we still try and use the same 6 guys
Yes plus we have to develop new 7s.
@HLD2023Champions said in Highlanders 2025:
Any new signing rumours?
Two locks and a prop are where the gaps are... sounds like the prop will come from off-shore (either in the form of a NZer or a straight-up international)
Have heard nothing about locks, other than our only two currently signed being Holland and Dunshea.
@KiwiInLondon said in Highlanders 2025:
@frugby wonder where they’d be getting locks from. NZ in general is incredibly short on locks and no one in club rugby seems to be putting their hands up
Hugo Plummer has been looking good for Wellington. I hope he is back again. Another lock. Bit of a lottery.
@SouthernMann said in Highlanders 2025:
Imagine the poaching chat if we have those three in black. @Kiwiwomble agree, a lot of the loosies we are picking at the moment play in a very similar style to eachother too.
Added bonus of knowing the Springboks lineout calls.
@HLD2023Champions said in Highlanders 2025:
Can anyone do a rough idea of the Highlanders Squad next year?
Cheers
You’ll see it further up the thread mate. There’s been a couple updated ones.
@ploughboy said in Highlanders 2025:
fifita off to tonga nov 15 so will be playing again 2027
So 21 when he returns?
@SouthernMann said in Highlanders 2025:
@ploughboy said in Highlanders 2025:
fifita off to tonga nov 15 so will be playing again 2027
So 21 when he returns?
sorry not to sure