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The Waitomo Chiefs Manawa squad for the 2023 Sky Super Rugby Aupiki

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The Waitomo Chiefs Manawa squad for the 2023 Sky Super Rugby Aupiki

The Waitomo Chiefs Manawa squad for the 2023 Sky Super Rugby Aupiki season includes nine Black Ferns and six newcomers who will make their debut in the New Year.

The new squad will defend the team’s title in the Sky Super Rugby Aupiki competition which celebrated its inaugural kick-off last year.

Waitomo Chiefs Manawa head coach Crystal Kaua says the 2023 squad was “a great balance of youth and experience”.

“The good human piece is vital in our selection. We want it to be competitive, but with love – the drive to be better, make each other better and make the team better. Our endgame is maximising the uniqueness of every player, creating an environment where people feel they belong and can play with freedom.”

The new rookies are Bay of Plenty’s Azalleyah Maaka and Te Urupounamu McGarvey, Auckland’s Mererangi Paul, as well as Violet Hapi-Wise, Tynealle Fitzgerald and Merania Paraone.

Maaka brings a lot of speed to the team with her previous Sevens experience. She was a part of the gold medal-winning 2018 Youth Olympic Games New Zealand Sevens team and has since solidified herself in the 15s game with outstanding performances during Farah Palmer Cup (FPC).

Her fellow Bay of Plenty Volcanix teammate McGarvey will add depth to the front line, becoming the third hooker in the mix alongside the experienced Luka Connor and Grace Houpapa-Barrett.

Read More: Rugby World Cup 2023 Fixtures

The players in the 2023 Waitomo Chiefs Manawa squad are

● Amanda Rasch (Wellington, 0)*

● Angel Mulu (Wellington, 5)

● Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu (Counties Manukau, 5)

● Awhina Tangen-Wainohu (Waikato, 5)

● Azalleyah Maaka (Bay of Plenty, 0)*

● Carla Hohepa (Waikato, 4)

● Charmaine Smith (Northland, 0)*

● Chelsea Bremner (Canterbury, 0)*

● Chelsea Semple (Waikato, 3)

● Chyna Hohepa (Waikato, 3)

● Dhys Faleafaga (Wellington, 0)*

● Georgia Daals (Wellington, 4)

● Grace Houpapa-Barret (Waikato, 4)

● Hazel Tubic (Counties Manukau, 5)

● Kelsie Wills (Bay of Plenty, 1)

● Kennedy Simon (Waikato, 5)

● Langi Veainu (Counties Manukau, 5)

● Luka Connor (Bay of Plenty, 5)

● Merania Paraone (Waikato, 1)

● Mererangi Paul (Counties Manukau, 0)*

● Pia Tapsell (Bay of Plenty, 5)

● Renee Wickliffe (Counties Manukau, 4)

● Santo Taumata (Bay of Plenty, 3)

● Tanya Kalounivale (Waikato, 5)

● Te Urupounamu McGarvey (Bay of Plenty, 0)*

● Tynealle Fitzgerald (Bay of Plenty, 2)

● Victoria Edmonds (Waikato, 4)

● Violet Hapi-Wise (Waikato, 0)*

Brackets denote players’ provincial union and Waitomo Chiefs Manawa caps, while * denotes a player that is yet to debut for the Waitomo Chiefs Manawa. Bolded players denote those who have signed their first fulltime Sky Super Rugby Aupiki contract.

The Black Ferns Sevens players will shift their focus to the HSBC World Rugby Sevens series making them unavailable for selection for the Super Rugby Aupiki competition.

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'It wasn't the way I wanted to move on but it just had to be...'

4:47am, 03 October 2021 Telusa Veainu was enjoying an autumnal day off from Stade Francais last Wednesday when RugbyPass unwittingly took the pep from his step by mentioning over the phone the deflating news that had broken in England the day before. Wasps had provided a seriously disappointing medical bulletin on the status of Malakai Fekitoa, the former All Blacks midfielder who was recently able to change his Test XV allegiance to Tonga after representing their 7s side in June in the Olympic qualifier head in Monaco. ADVERTISEMENTRather than now giddily going on and playing for the Tongans in the upcoming internationals versus Scotland at Murrayfield and England at Twickenham, a shoulder dislocation has ruled out the 29-year-old who earned the last of his 24 All Blacks caps in 2017. The revelation about Fekitoa had eluded Veainu, who had spent his Tuesday winding up his football-mad Stade teammates at training by claiming he was a Manchester City fan before that night’s clash with PSG at the Parc des Princes across the road from his current club’s Stade Jean-Bouin stadium.

What happened when RugbyPass went behind the scenes with the Tonga national team

What happened when RugbyPass went behind the scenes with the Tonga national team“I’m not really a big football fan but I know boys at the club are big PSG fans. I was supporting Man City just to stir the pot a little bit. It’s the hottest ticket around town at the moment, the PSG ones,” he quipped at the start of the interview with RugbyPass.Veainu went on to be playfully polite and well-spoken on a myriad of topics, even when it came it reflections on his delicate contract rebel exit from Leicester in July 2020. However, the prognosis about Fekitoa now being unavailable for the internationals on October 30 and November 6 left him flustered. “Is he (out)? I didn’t even know that. Ah, f**k that… ah s**t!Ex-All Blacks midfielder Malakai Fekitoa was all set to represent Tonga against Scotland and England but Wasps have now issued a disappointing update #Wasps #Tonga #AllBlackshttps://t.co/sMqvGEjplm— RugbyPass (@RugbyPass) September 28, 2021“As soon as he qualified a lot of the boys sent him messages, ‘This is awesome’. It was just a good vibe. I spoke to some of the boys from the 7s and they were so happy to see him come back and to give back to Tonga. It was really good.” ADVERTISEMENTIt was 15 months ago when Veainu’s change of a different type of allegiance made headlines. Financially worried Leicester were demanding across the board salary cuts but the Tongan international, who had been in the East Midlands for five years, stuck to his guns along with Manu Tuilagi, Noel Reid, Greg Bateman and Kyle Eastmond by refusing to stay for less. He’d nothing lined up when he took his brave stance, but it didn’t take long for his talent to find a suitable suitor in Stade Francais and a three-year deal was quickly agreed. Sweet. “At the time they did what was right for them in terms of the pandemic and I was doing what I needed to do for my family and to support them and that was the decision I had to make based on that. “At the time I didn’t really have any options and it was just when things started to break down with Leicester and the news started to be published that Stade heard about it and came through. At the time all the clubs had finished all their signings and I was very fortunate to be picked up by Stade. I owe so much to Leicester and they will always be my team. It has a special place in my heart. It’s where everything took off for me and I’m always cheering the boys on, supporting them from afar. “Welford Road is probably the best place I have played in front of fans. Every time I went out and played I just wanted to showcase myself, to put my best foot forward and it gave me a confidence and an arrogance that when I stepped out at the stadium I was never going to lose. ADVERTISEMENT“But looking back at the decision I made, it was just the right one at the right time for me and it was probably the change that I needed. They were fine, they had Freddie Steward coming up as a young kid. He had all the potential and we knew he was going to go out and showcase it, so it was just a matter of time. For me, it was just the perfect time to move on. It wasn’t the way I wanted to move on but it just had to be.“As a Pacific islander, your faith comes first and then your family and then it’s either football or food. That was part of the decision and the other one was just to try and experience something different. Experience a different culture. I’d been there for five seasons and just wanted to try something different.”Paris is proving to be exactly that – very different in so many ways. To begin with, moving there in a pandemic wasn’t exactly ideal. “It was crazy,” he admitted. “It was pretty stressful on my partner and my daughter at the time, especially not being able to speak the language and coming here trying to settle in. The training was tough and we were all in little bubbles.”Stade eventually finished sixth in Veainu’s first season and while they are currently bottom following four defeats in their opening five games this term, the latest coming at Brive on Saturday, it is still very early days. “Top 14 is a long season and it’s definitely more about how you finish,” he explained. “It’s a marathon. For us it’s just focusing on what we are trying to do, trying to play some good footy, getting those combinations right and believing in our own ability.“Gonzalo (Quesada) has been awesome. He has been all about getting to know the person, allowing individuals to express themselves when they go out on the pitch. He is also big on family and the off-field stuff. He has got a very simple game plan as well which I really love and enjoy playing. It worked for us last year and when we do things right we can punish some teams. “I just like how the French embrace life,” continued Veainu. “Rugby can’t be everything to them. It’s about balance. They like to have a cigarette here and there, have wine with their lunch and all that stuff. It has definitely opened up my eyes. When I was at Leicester it was all about rugby, rugby, rugby. Even when you went home it was rugby, rugby. But here they are able to switch off and they are able to go and have a nice dinner together. It’s just different. “When I first came here I thought, ‘No, this is the wrong way’. Then I realised there are more ways, different ways of skinning a cat. They have just got a different way of doing it. You think the French are unprofessional but they are not, they have just got their own way of dealing with how they play rugby and their approach to it. They are a lot more emotional. There is so much more passion in it, which is a bit more different to what I experienced at Leicester. It’s just crazy sometimes but it is just such a refreshing attitude on rugby and life as well.”Not since after the 2019 World Cup in Japan has Veainu made it back to Christchurch. Home is where the heart is, where the 30-year-old’s rugby story started in league before switching to union and accelerated. “I’m from a big family, one of eleven. A Christian family brought up in New Zealand, we didn’t have much. My parents were very hard workers, my dad worked two jobs to provide for us. I owe a lot to my parents for the sacrifices they made for me and the family… They watch my games, but Peppa Pig is dominating the TV back home at the moment. They are just more happy they have got grandkids.”When Veainu started out it was with notions of being the league superstar. “I thought I was Benji Marshall but I was nothing like him and when I saw the rugby (union) boys getting really cool kit, I decided to switch. We were playing league on Sundays, rugby on Saturdays. I just played along with my friends, then started to make a few rep teams and that was it, I stuck at it.“I still played league all the way up until I was 16, just dipping in and out, just keeping it quiet and not telling the rugby coaches about it. I was on a scholarship in my school so when they found out we had to stop and I wasn’t allowed to play anymore so I just had to focus on rugby. “I’m not the type of person that gets down and would be gutted about things like that. It was, ‘Oh it was fun while it lasted’ and I moved on. At the time I was training in the academy at the Crusaders and then made New Zealand U17s. From then on that was when I was really thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I was so, so fortunate to be in the top 50 players in New Zealand’. Coming back from that camp I was on a high. I realised I could make a decent career out of this if I trained hard and put my head down.”It wasn’t enough, though. For sure he had the potential. Just look at his pedigree with the World Cup-winning Baby Blacks, scoring a hat-trick for New Zealand in the 2010 Junior World Cup final. However, Veainu couldn’t crack Super Rugby. Unfulfilled spells at the Highlanders and Crusaders led him to the Rebels, but even there it didn’t happen for him and by June 2015 he was considering his options outside the game. Then came a life-changing call from Tonga. “I was sort of at rock bottom and then Tonga threw me the lifeline for the Pacific Nations Cup. I played a few games and the coach at the time asked me if I wanted to come to the World Cup. Obviously, they had a load of good wingers and full-backs at the time but I just said, ‘Yeah, why not, I’ll come along as baggage man’. Next thing you know I’m playing all of those games and I’m picked up from Leicester after that. “In Melbourne, I didn’t get much game time. I was just doing a lot of training and playing club rugby. Really low in confidence because I wasn’t getting selected. I felt at the time I could offer something different but I wasn’t being used. I was still doing everything I could but I just wasn’t getting a crack. The coach at the time just wouldn’t give me a look in until everyone got injured pretty much.“When I came back to New Zealand and I was, ‘Far out, I need to get a job’. I’d a few interests in rugby but at that point of time, I just wanted to be home with family, be surrounded by them and seeing them motivated me to get back into rugby and find the love for it and literally two, three weeks later I was at Tonga training. When I went to Tonga it felt, ‘This is where I belong’. Being back at home in the motherland and just seeing my people was awesome. It gave me such a refreshing perspective on rugby.”Welcome to Tigers @tveainu #Tigersfamily pic.twitter.com/1gKxekKnQx— Leicester Tigers (@LeicesterTigers) October 28, 2015It’s a perspective Veainu would love the global rugby authorities to appreciate and nourish rather than allow their reputation to be tarnished by embarrassments such as last July’s 16-try, 102-0 hammering by the All Blacks. It was never a fair fight, the result highlighting how difficult it is resources-wise for tier two countries such as Tonga to bridge the gap to the rugby elite. “How long has this been going on for, and it’s the same for Fiji and Samoa. Fiji are a lot better now but there is just no fair game for us in the Pacific Island nations. They asked us for a game but there were no MIQ spots. Everything just seems to go against us.”If there was one thing Veainu would change overnight it is the eligibility rules. The last rugby league World Cup demonstrated the positives that can materialise as a strengthened Tonga were transformed and packed out stadiums in New Zealand. “By being able to switch alliances you don’t know how much that impacts the young generation. Instead of wanting to play for the Kiwis they want to play for Tonga now and you have guys who have had one or two Tests for New Zealand or Australia, they can now offer their services to grow the game here in Tonga by playing for Tonga and bringing their high profile over.“The Tonga fans don’t have much but they give their voices and literally would give you the shirt off their back. They just love rugby and rugby league. Can you imagine if Tonga was a tier-one nation? Oh my goodness! The towns would be painted red and there is a lot of support in New Zealand as well. We have had training in Auckland and there were a lot of supporters turning up, bringing us fresh watermelon, coconut juices and things like that. We just loved putting a smile on their faces.”It’s two years now since Veainu earned the last of his twelve Test caps before the world ground to a halt, but he hopes to soon add to that tally with the upcoming games in Scotland and England as Toutai Kefu has been in touch. “I’ve spoken to him a few times. He is quite a bubbly guy and he is pretty happy. He just wants to get busy again. He is recovering (from being injured in a robbery at his home) and I’m really happy that he came through alright.“I’m definitely putting my hand up to be involved in the game. I’m looking forward to it. I haven’t been able to play for Tonga in a long time due to the pandemic, so I can’t wait to see the boys again.”

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From TV to reality: Veainu has a chance to take on France

Flying fullback Telusa Veainu was far away when he watched Tonga’s Rugby World Cup upset win against France in 2011

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Where it’s all gone wrong for Leicester Tigers as they go up for sale

Leicester Tigers the most decorated club in English rugby history – are up for sale.

An admission that the once-great institution – who have won 10 Premiership titles and two European Cups – is failing to keep up with the Premiership big boys?

If not that it is certainly the next stage in a sorry saga that has been playing out for the last three years.

A steady decline of poor performances, a loss of identity and a succession of sackings accelerated Leicester's decline last season – their worst ever.

And now the club has put itself up for sale, hoping to be bought out for around £ 60m, reset and renew, Sportsmail asks: where has it gone wrong for Leicester?

Leicester Tigers have announced that the club has put up for sale for a reported £ 60m

THE PERFORMANCES

Having made the Premiership play-offs every year between 2005 and 2017 – including making nine finals in a row – Leicester fell spectacularly last season.

They finished a desperate campaign in 11th, 10 points clear of Newcastle, beating the Falcons very late in the season to save their bacon.

Hammering at the hands of Exeter Chiefs (twice by 30 points), Gloucester, Bristol, Saracens and Sale made it a harrowing season.

Geordan Murphy's side narrowly escaped relegation last season – as they finished 11th

Before the 52 -20 home defeat by the Chiefs when it looked like Leicester might be for the drop, the club chairman Peter Tom was a walking fit the press box and motion a noose around his neck.

The gallows humor did not make Leicester's concession of their most points in a league game since 1988 any easier to take – and fans made their feelings known to Tom as they walked out of Welford Road that day.

Tom, along with a board including a chairman , chief executive, head of recruitment and director of ru gby or head coach all having a say in major decisions is known to be cluttered.

Peter Tom is part of a hierarchy at Leicester that have seen major decisions become cluttered

Most concerning to the Tigers faithful has been the lack of backbone on the field at Leicester.

A club once feared for its gnarly, brutal and uncompromising pack now had a boy-band backline – of Ben Youngs, George Ford, Matt Toomua, Manu Tuilagi, Jonny May and Telusa Veainu but creaked loudly up front.

Long gone are the days of the ABC club front row, Martin Johnson, Ben Kay, Neil Back, Lewis Moody, Martin Corry and the like.

Neil Back was an integral part of the Tigers best days during a 15-year spell at the club

THE EROSION OF A FORMIDABLE CULTURE

It was the Youngs brothers – Ben and Tom – who admitted it during the last season's decline

Asked in an exclusive Sportsmail interview in April whether the Tigers aura had gone, Tom said candidly: "I would say we have.

" With Leicester one of the things you get is expectation to win something, "he explains.

" We've tried to succeed in doing what has happened in the past. "

Ben Youngs (left) and his brother Tom have admitted that Leicester have lost their aura

With Ben adding: "I wouldn't disagree that we have lost our identity and our aura.

" When you have lost as many games as we have at Welford Road you do lose something

'As players scratch your head. For a while we have looked at short-term fixes. "

No one fears Welford Road now. Leicester loses 15 or 22 league games last season – with their last gasp loss to Bath on the final day their 10th defeat of the campaign at home in all competitions.

Leicester loses 15 of 22 league games last season in a season to forget for the Welford Road side

THE PLAYER DRAIN

Tigers have managed to keep fans happy with a few big-name acquisitions – like May and Toomua (who has now since left) – but have lost many who have starred elsewhere.

Harry Thacker, a hooker at Bristol, has been a revelation in the west country. Vereniki Goneva left in his 30s and went on to be crowned Premiership Player of the Year when Newcastle pipped Tigers to fourth in 2018.

Ed Slater was swapped for May that year and joined Gloucester – he never wanted to leave his boyhood club and now is a cornerstone or a vastly better pack at Kingsholm.

All were allowed to leave with little coming in to replace them properly.

Leicester have snapped up at least for next season some forward grunt, with no-nonsense Argentina lock Tomas Lavanini, Crusaders' flanker Jordan Taufua and Munster back-rower Jaco Taute coming in.

Hooker Harry Thacker has been a revelation at Bristol since leaving Leicester last summer

THE SACKINGS

It has been a revolving through at the top. Richard Cockerill was sacked in January 2017 at the beginning of Leicester's limp – and since there have been three other head coaches.

Cockerill, before he went, had been undermined by the board bringing in the former All Black Aaron Mauger. The Kiwi was thought to be the man to transform Leicester from their beat-em-up style to a side that could wow in attack too.

But the messages all became confused, the pair did not bond at all and it was Cockerill who went – much to his ire.

Leicester legend Richard Cockerill was sacked as their head coach in January 2017

The 48-year-old is now in charge of Edinburgh – where he is excelling with the Scottish side

Soon, though, Mauger was out too. There was a bizarre scenario where it was announced he would be sacked the morning after winning Leicester their first trophy for four years – the Anglo Welsh Cup – in March 2017, and then asked to speak to the media the following day.

With just five games left in the season Mauger was devastated, described the conversation where he was told he would be inside as 'letter' and when asked if he felt let down, he had to pause, bite his lip and simply say : "I am disappointed I am not going to be here for the rest of the season."

Matt O'Connor – the bad-cop to Cockerill's bad-cop when the pair coached Leicester to three league titles between 2008 and 2013 – was brought back. The Australian failed spectacularly with the head coach job and was turfed out one game into the next season after a 40-6 defeat on the opening day to Exeter.

The players were livid that plans had been ripped up after a week. Later last season Ben Youngs said: 'You set yourself up with a bit of a task straight away when you make a change after one game. You can't spend 12 weeks getting a whole game plan, a philosophy in place and then get rid of it after one game and then expect a magic wand to come in. "

Aaron Mauger replaced Cockerill but was sacked himself just two months later in March 2017

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Matt O'Connor just last one game in charge last season – to sum up Leicester's fortunes

The unprecedented early sacking brought legendary club full-back Geordan Murphy into interim charge.

After a letter bounce in results he signed to become full-time head coach in December 2018, but results quickly slumped with Leicester losing 10 of the last 12 matches of the season.

Rumors now swirl about whether a big-hitting director or rugby, like Australia coach Michael Cheika, will be brought in above Murphy next season.

Murphy is now in charge but there is speculation that he could be demoted for someone else

THE FINANCES

Leicester are not the only Premiership club losing money hand over fist. Every side in the league – apart from Exeter who continues to make a small profit – do.

The Tigers had the third highest turnover in the Premiership – or £ 19.7m based on their 2017 accounts – but also had the third highest wage bill, or £ 12m and losses are increasing.

Based on their 2018 strategic report 'rugby income' has dropped from £ 5.9m to £ 5.4m between 2015 and 2018, season ticket sales have slumped by 1,200 in the last four seasons down to 14,027 for 2017-18 and commercial income has dropped by more than £ 1m since 2014.

Tigers still spend up to the £ 7m playing squad salary cap, but while they made a profit of £ 479,000 back in 2015, the last three sets of accounts have shown increasing losses – or £ 424,000, £ 686,000 and £ 991,000.

That's not a unique situation in the Premiership, however, why league chose to sell a 27 per cent stake in private equity firm CVC – the company that tarted up Formula 1 then sold it to Liberty Media for £ 6bn – giving them each a windfall or around £ 13m for next season.

Indeed Chairman Tom said in the statement that confirmed Tigers were up for sale that: 'CVC's investment in Premiership Rugby has created a unique opportunity – catapulting the sport into the public consciousness like never before and broadening its appeal to potential investors. It is our duty as a Board to explore the Club's strategic options and assess the best possible ownership structure to benefit from the changes ahead and off the pitch. "

At least Leicester avoided relegation. Without stating the obvious that would have been a monument to the most successful club in the country.

As Sportsmail reported at the end of the season the Tigers stars had no relegation release clauses, so many would have had to stay in the Championship on big money, and once the league's parachute payments had run out if they did not return next season Leicester would have been faced with a catastrophe.

The Tigers announced on Tuesday that they are up for sale as they look to reshape their future

WHAT NEXT?

Former coach Pat Howard oversaw a review of the club at the end of the season, and now Leicester have decided that they should try and sell up.

With the CVC money they now have no debt and see this – looking positively – as a way to catapult themselves back to the top.

But gathering clouds of uncertainty hang on Welford Road. There is huge uncertainty at this stage about the future direction of the club.

What is certain is the playing squad – at least in the short term – should not be affected.

Rugby is not like football where new owners come in and completely revamp the backroom staff and playing squad. With players locked into contracts, and a salary cap to adhere to there is little wiggle room for next year.

Any new owners can't come in and splash the cash straight away.

But they must be charged with rediscovering the Tigers' bite on and off the field.

Leicester are looking at rebuild and their pitch as their gradual decline continues

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