@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Naki v Harbour:

didn't he just sign for the Taipans?

I though SBW was keeping that signing secret until closer to season tip off.

@mariner4life Sky has been showing archive NPC playoff games. I have recorded last nights Waikato-Canterbury SF from 1998, as I remember it well. I won't bother with the final. 🙂

For those in NZ, there is another replay shortly.

Scoreboard looks bad for Harbour, but i don't reckon it reflects the game. I think we all ummed and ahhed before hitting the button

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 RESULTS and Semifinal Draw:

Well pretty lopsided voting results in the quarters

CM lose to OTA (even if I think you lot got that one wrong 😉 )
Naki lose to NH
Poo lose to CAN
AUC the only home game winners against Waikato

So the draw for the Semis is done and we have a Battle of the Bridge and a Battle of the Waitaki

AUC v NH at Eden Park
OTA v CAN at Carisbrook

no way that came out random! two derbies?

Would have been fun to watch that Waikato midfield with both players in their prime.

Ok. Cullen and playing at the Showgrounds Oval tips it in favour of the poo for me.

@mariner4life he started his npc and finished it with the bop I think he gave great service went all the games

@KiwiPie said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@KiwiPie said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@Toddy said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@KiwiPie you'll need to take that up with Hawkes Bay.

No need to take it up with us, he didn't play for BoP.

I didn't really think it through when I made the comment to be honest - have only just discovered this board.

He might not actually have played but I did once see him sitting the stand - and he wasn't even an All Black when we signed him so we pretty much made him the player he became!

I think his new contract didn't kick over until NPC time in 2012 - the AB website list Hawkes Bay as his province when making the ABs. 😉

But the news broke earlier which was the spur he needed.

Not to mention the best Photoshopping work of the century to date

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We don't need photoshop. 🙂

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Dude really is the missing link.

@Kiwiwomble said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Counties v Otago:

@Nepia Latta > oliver, anton was almost as bad as coltmans at lineout thows, 171 games and his nickname is "Crazy"...come on

brewer was a toss up, was goign to swap but the deadline beat me

Oliver was a 50 test AB, Latta was a decent NPC player with a cult following, it really shouldn't have been a contest ....

By the way. This is a 48 hour round. Get your votes in.

@Hooroo he has he’s told a lot of people down the local rugby club.

@Higgins said in Ultimate NPC: - Hawkes Bay:

ANd now Peter O'Shaughnessey has just been the subject to a somewhat "clumsy" tackle and is off undergoing the Head Injury protocol. Is Mark Sisam next in line or would one of the younger guys get the nod if Saus gets the three week stand down?

Time to bring in McClutchie - the Canes selectors might realise he exists then.

@Higgins said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial That was where my question was being aimed at. Dawson should have been a certainty ahead of Tukino and anyone else you might have fronted with.

From memory he played some 6 in his later years (probably among the last 50 of his 200 games) but certainly wasn't at his peak then and was a much better 8.
I had a check and it looks like he was squeezed into 6 for Baabaas and North Island when he was playing 8 so you may be correct about his versatility.

@Higgins ha ha yeah, next game...

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 Otaaaaaago v Ta$man:

How did @Chris-B vote twice?

Cash.

@Tim I reckon Manawatu might have the better pack - at least in terms of the "greatness" pantheon.

Waikato only has Loe and (for a short time) Messam as regular first choice ABs.

Manawatu has Knight, Lambert, Shaw and Eveleigh.