Aaron Cruden
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@MN5 Brewer was actually a bloody good player despite appearing to be an utter twat off the field. He was probably in his prime in 1991 when he was denied a RWC tournament because of an injury ... then he wound up playing at the exact same time for Otago in the NPC.
His powers were declining by 1995 but he was still a handy player. Completely blotted his copybook late in his career by moving to play for Canterbury.
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@gollum said in Aaron Cruden:
He was the white Stephen Luatua....or the thin conservative Adam Thompson. Imagine Victor Vito without any of the impact... no question he should have gone to the WC in 91. Making him do his fitness tests without any strapping was a farce
A thin Adam Thompson would need to move round in the shower just to get wet
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@MN5 said in Aaron Cruden:
@gollum said in Aaron Cruden:
He was the white Stephen Luatua....or the thin conservative Adam Thompson. Imagine Victor Vito without any of the impact... no question he should have gone to the WC in 91. Making him do his fitness tests without any strapping was a farce
A thin Adam Thompson would need to move round in the shower just to get wet
Why do you think Cruden has such good footwork? Us skinny buggers may have to work hard to get wet in the shower but it pays off when avoiding lumberous forwards
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@rotated said in Aaron Cruden:
Between that Nathan-Kirkpatrick-Mourie-Hobbs-Jones-Kronfeld-McCaw-Cane there is perfect overlap.
The only gaps are Sundays during the late eighties, early nineties.
Yes and no. A couple if small windows. Geoff Hines in 1980.
And Ken Stewart was a backward step for tests 1 and 2 when Mourie missed the 81 Boks due to apartheid. Frank Shelford was alright though come test 3. But not lobg in the seat.
Baby Black Brooke-Cowden also good pre Jones but very short.
Mark Carter.
Scott Robinson had a run or two at 7 pre McCaw too didn't he?
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@Rapido said in Aaron Cruden:
Brewer was excellent at 7 in 1989 after Jones wrecked his knee.
Was good at all the traditional 7 roles of the time, plus he has about 10cm height on a normal 7 so was excellent at the back of the lineout.
Ah, I miss the pre-lifting era throw to the back of the lineout.
And 88 in Aus. 2 of the three tests were Sundays.
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@booboo said in Aaron Cruden:
@rotated said in Aaron Cruden:
Between that Nathan-Kirkpatrick-Mourie-Hobbs-Jones-Kronfeld-McCaw-Cane there is perfect overlap.
The only gaps are Sundays during the late eighties, early nineties.
Yes and no. A couple if small windows. Geoff Hines in 1980.
And Ken Stewart was a backward step for tests 1 and 2 when Mourie missed the 81 Boks due to apartheid. Frank Shelford was alright though come test 3. But not lobg in the seat.
Baby Black Brooke-Cowden also good pre Jones but very short career.
Mark Carter.
Scott Robinson had a run or two at 7 pre McCaw too didn't he?
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@booboo said in Aaron Cruden:
@rotated said in Aaron Cruden:
Between that Nathan-Kirkpatrick-Mourie-Hobbs-Jones-Kronfeld-McCaw-Cane there is perfect overlap.
The only gaps are Sundays during the late eighties, early nineties.
Yes and no. A couple if small windows. Geoff Hines in 1980.
And Ken Stewart was a backward step for tests 1 and 2 when Mourie missed the 81 Boks due to apartheid. Frank Shelford was alright though come test 3. But not lobg in the seat.
Baby Black Brooke-Cowden also good pre Jones but very short.
Mark Carter.
Scott Robinson had a run or two at 7 pre McCaw too didn't he?
Where careers overlapped you kind of give it a pass, like where Richie was rested from the Cantablacks and Holah/Braid replaced him, or where he played the odd test at 6/8 and Latimer/Cane played 7. Technically Hobbs' last test was immediately followed by Jones' first - although Brooke-Cowden snuck in a couple while Hobbs was injured(?) just before retirement.
I guess Robertson nudged Kronfeld out at the end there, but he was in most of the match day teams, just on the bench . But you hit on the a gap between Kronfeld's retirement at the end of 2000 and Richie's debut at the end of 2001 where Randell played 7 predominantly (Collins and Cribb one test each in June).
So there is a break in the streak albeit one that lasted less than a year.
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