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James Haskell - Highlanders Debut

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Post by AFewTooManyKnocks Sat 25 Feb 2012, 9:13 am

Just a quick update for all of you "Brand" followers.

Although only on for part of the second half as an openside replacement James Haskell didn't do anything to discredit himself during the Highlanders 23-19 win of the Chiefs. It was a slow start - hitting rucks etc - but he did win the game ending penalty to stop any Chiefs comeback. Strong start considering he's only been in NZ for a few days.

I don't expect many responses as most Haskell fans remain in the closet Wink


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Post by Rory_Gallagher Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:26 am

I like Haskell to be honest. I'm not english but I like him. He is a good player and had a brilliant world cup. I think when he returns to England he will definitely get a place in the back row. He would add a significant amount of firepower.

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Post by ChequeredJersey Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:55 am

I think he has grown to become a very handy player and he will slot into the EPS rather well (especially if we can get him to play 8 at Club level!) and he is covers 7 and 8 well from his position but my only issue with him is that he seems to be a douche
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Post by yappysnap Sat 25 Feb 2012, 1:55 pm

He was probably Englands best player last season, his brilliant form from the 6N's was carried on to the world cup but then inexplicably dropped.

He had a good debut and yes got a key pen at the end. Did he come on at 8 or 7?

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Post by HammerofThunor Sat 25 Feb 2012, 2:46 pm

Just a shame he's a total dick off the field.

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Post by Rory_Gallagher Sat 25 Feb 2012, 5:48 pm

Do you know the guy or are you getting these facts off the media might I ask?

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Post by HammerofThunor Sat 25 Feb 2012, 6:01 pm

Yeah I know him

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Post by ChequeredJersey Sat 25 Feb 2012, 6:27 pm

Actually one of my mates went to the same school as him and he is apparently a dick, or was at school. Apparently so was Waldouck
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Post by Bathite Sun 26 Feb 2012, 11:33 am

He gave me the old Samoan sidestep at school. Think Lomu vs Catt, but I actually stopped him! You guys must have heard the PDJ and Haskell story then? Ha

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Post by Rory_Gallagher Sun 26 Feb 2012, 12:52 pm

Where Haskell videos him in action? Yeah, that was an odd one.

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Post by AFewTooManyKnocks Sun 26 Feb 2012, 9:33 pm

yappysnap wrote:He was probably Englands best player last season, his brilliant form from the 6N's was carried on to the world cup but then inexplicably dropped.

He had a good debut and yes got a key pen at the end. Did he come on at 8 or 7?

He came on as a 7 replacement for Hardie. To be honest he probably played a bit of a floater role with Adam Thomson, splitting the 6/7 duties.

Nasi Manu, who plays 8 for the Highlanders is an absolute beast and will be hard to displace for the 8 jersey. The only scenario I see fitting is Haskell playing a mixed role with Thomson where by they share the 6/7 roles.

One thing you can be sure of is that if you're wanting to improve your loose foward play you can have no better task master than Jamie Joseph.

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Post by Taylorman Sun 26 Feb 2012, 9:38 pm

[quote="AFewTooManyKnocks"]
yappysnap wrote:
One thing you can be sure of is that if you're wanting to improve your loose foward play you can have no better task master than Jamie Joseph.

Very true- Thompson's game came on leaps and bounds last year under Joseph. Not his biggest fan but Haskell couldn't do much better than Joseph...

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Post by propdavid_london Tue 28 Feb 2012, 8:58 am

I saw that game - he did OK. dropped the pill at one restart but then got into the game.
Looked to be working hard and forced the turnover to end the game.
All in all, not a bad debut.

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Post by AsLongAsBut100ofUs Tue 28 Feb 2012, 10:20 am

AFewTooManyKnocks wrote:Just a quick update for all of you "Brand" followers.

Although only on for part of the second half as an openside replacement James Haskell didn't do anything to discredit himself during the Highlanders 23-19 win of the Chiefs. It was a slow start - hitting rucks etc - but he did win the game ending penalty to stop any Chiefs comeback. Strong start considering he's only been in NZ for a few days.

I don't expect many responses as most Haskell fans remain in the closet Wink

AFTMK, is that the nature of Brand followers? Wink

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