Colin Meads
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RIP, the mightiest of trees has fallen.
I expect many at the NOrthland game today were like me in hearing the news when they announced the minutes silence
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A sad day for NZ and NZers but also rugby people everywhere. Commiserations on the passing of a legend.
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@Gunner said in Colin Meads:
@kiwiinmelb said in Bledisloe I:
Wrong thread , apologies, rumours Colin meads passed away
Very sad news for his family and the rugby world.
While we all knew it was coming, its still bloody horrible.
Surprises me that in this day and age of remarkable technology, there is still no cure for bloody rust...
Leg End.
A hero in our household, and we were all backs!As an aside I'm very much of the belief that cancer is in all of us and with some the switch is flipped and it becomes deadly.
Finding a cure is a fool's errand IMHO.
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I remember with surprising clarity meeting Pinetree at a function, sharing a drink or two, having a chat and my wife says I was like a child meeting his hero.
@MiketheSnow said in Colin Meads:
Finding a cure is a fool's errand IMHO.
Unfortunately, that's close to the truth. Preventing cells from turning cancerous effectively would mean humans could replicate their cells perfectly and hence not age. We'd become immortal.
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@antipodean said in Colin Meads:
I remember with surprising clarity meeting Pinetree at a function, sharing a drink or two, having a chat and my wife says I was like a child meeting his hero.
@MiketheSnow said in Colin Meads:
Finding a cure is a fool's errand IMHO.
Unfortunately, that's close to the truth. Preventing cells from turning cancerous effectively would mean humans could replicate their cells perfectly and hence not age. We'd become immortal.
There is research into treatments that seek out cancers cells based on proteins or other biological markers that they have which differ from healthy cells. Treatments could mean true targetted therapy one day. Who knows if any of us will be around to see it
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@MiketheSnow said in Colin Meads:
@Gunner said in Colin Meads:
@kiwiinmelb said in Bledisloe I:
Wrong thread , apologies, rumours Colin meads passed away
Very sad news for his family and the rugby world.
While we all knew it was coming, its still bloody horrible.
Surprises me that in this day and age of remarkable technology, there is still no cure for bloody rust...
Leg End.
A hero in our household, and we were all backs!As an aside I'm very much of the belief that cancer is in all of us and with some the switch is flipped and it becomes deadly.
Finding a cure is a fool's errand IMHO
Fuck, that's a bit bleak Mike 😦
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@Catogrande said in Colin Meads:
@MiketheSnow said in Colin Meads:
@Gunner said in Colin Meads:
@kiwiinmelb said in Bledisloe I:
Wrong thread , apologies, rumours Colin meads passed away
Very sad news for his family and the rugby world.
While we all knew it was coming, its still bloody horrible.
Surprises me that in this day and age of remarkable technology, there is still no cure for bloody rust...
Leg End.
A hero in our household, and we were all backs!As an aside I'm very much of the belief that cancer is in all of us and with some the switch is flipped and it becomes deadly.
Finding a cure is a fool's errand IMHO
Fuck, that's a bit bleak Mike 😦
Difficult to believe otherwise when so much time and money has been invested in so many brilliant minds over such a long period of time and we're still no closer.
We know the triggers, but when so many roll the dice of drinking, smoking, drugs, bad diet and minimal exercise and don't get cancer the risk reward seems worth it for the masses.
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@MiketheSnow said in Colin Meads:
@Catogrande said in Colin Meads:
@MiketheSnow said in Colin Meads:
@Gunner said in Colin Meads:
@kiwiinmelb said in Bledisloe I:
Wrong thread , apologies, rumours Colin meads passed away
Very sad news for his family and the rugby world.
While we all knew it was coming, its still bloody horrible.
Surprises me that in this day and age of remarkable technology, there is still no cure for bloody rust...
Leg End.
A hero in our household, and we were all backs!As an aside I'm very much of the belief that cancer is in all of us and with some the switch is flipped and it becomes deadly.
Finding a cure is a fool's errand IMHO
Fuck, that's a bit bleak Mike 😦
Difficult to believe otherwise when so much time and money has been invested in so many brilliant minds over such a long period of time and we're still no closer.
We know the triggers, but when so many roll the dice of drinking, smoking, drugs, bad diet and minimal exercise and don't get cancer the risk reward seems worth it for the masses.
It certainly works for me
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Legendary All Blacks flanker Sir Michael Jones has revealed the words of Sir Colin Meads in the wake of New Zealand's defeat to France in 1995. Acting as manager of the All Blacks at the time, Sir Colin oversaw the 22-15 defeat to France in Toulouse, taking the post match team talk himself.
Speaking to 1 NEWS today, Sir Michael spoke about the fury Sir Colin unleashed on the beaten team, even clearing other management out of the room.
"He told us we'd been playing like a bunch of so and so's. We were pretty much a disgrace to the All Blacks jersey" Sir Michael said.
"To be able to tell that to Sean Fitzpatrick, Zinzan Brooke, all these seasoned All Blacks that they were a disgrace, there was only one person who could do that." -
Wow, that was truly something that I am pleased to have witnessed. Hopefully there will be someone that puts it up on YouTube so those that were not able to watch it live can also view it later.
I am lucky enough to have witnessed The Tree play live, once and only the once mind you, when King Country challenged HB for the Shield in 1968 (?). Sadly I was too young to have any recollection of the match but at least I can hold my hand on my heart and say "I was there and saw the great man play in person."
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I normally keep my quizzes to the one quiz thread but had to do a Pinetree quiz today. https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/83115/colin-meads-quiz
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Colin Meads interview here from six weeks before he passed away.
http://www.allblacks.com/TeamAllBlacks/AllBlacksTV/Video/29026/all-blacks-legends-sir-colin-meads
