Pick your clubs all time team.
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Is rotorua and te puke gone as well? There was that one amazing ground in rotorua, in a natural bowl. Great deck on it too.
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Bloody clubrooms. Marist had rooms on Mandeville St in Riccarton when I was at school (unsure where the home ground was) and by the time I played for them from 1997, they'd amalgamated with Albion and were at Lochee Rd, Riccarton, on a site with several fields sharing facilities with The Riccarton Club whilst also having adjoining rooms of their own. This was a great set up, and we were able to walk to our sponsor pub on Blenheim Rd as well. Latterly all that set up somehow turned to shit and now they share a bowling club on Condell Ave, Bishopdale. Unsure if they play at the adjacent fields these days, but suspect still Lochee Rd.
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@shark Yes they play at Condell Ave these days. Been there for a few years now.
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@African-Monkey said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
@shark Yes they play at Condell Ave these days. Been there for a few years now.
Thanks for clarifying. I thought I recalled a score update cross last year on Red n Black radio that had them at Lochee Rd, but I must have been deluded, or drunk, or severely hung.
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@mariner4life said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
Is rotorua and te puke gone as well? There was that one amazing ground in rotorua, in a natural bowl. Great deck on it too.
Te Puke.. I think has lost clubrooms as well.
Smallbone is awesome, but all the teams over there have changed. Hard to keep up. None of teams you played still exist -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
@mariner4life said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
Is rotorua and te puke gone as well? There was that one amazing ground in rotorua, in a natural bowl. Great deck on it too.
Te Puke.. I think has lost clubrooms as well.
Smallbone is awesome, but all the teams over there have changed. Hard to keep up. None of teams you played still existThat's so strange to think
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@mariner4life Central folded, St Michael's folded, RBHS doesn't have a real cricket program. A team called Indians started up in B grade did well and to Prem grade, then changed to be Central Indians, some team called Geyser city us still knocking about. Taupo as well has a Prem team.
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@Canes4life Even though Tana was from my hometown he never actually played for Wainui so you can have him
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My Wainuiomata team
15.Josh Robertson Weepu
14.Uale Mai
13.Peter Umanga-Jenson
12.Thomas Umaga-Jenson
11.Jonah Lomu
10.Earl Va’a
9.Piri Weepu
8.Marvin Karawana
7.Gensis Mamea
6.Henry Stowers
5.Sharne Eru
4.Bevan Clark my mates lil bro absolute beast though
3.Justin Va’a
2.Deon Leolofi
1.Dave Va’a -
This is tough! Or more likely my memory is crap.
HOBM Eagles.
15 Colin Sullivan
14 Chase Tiatia (or Bernie Fraser if we can go back to pre-amalgamation)
13 Misi Fata-Meafou
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11 Hosea Gear
10 Jon Bentley
9 Piri Weepu
8 Doug Power
7 Semo Sititi
6 Gavin Hill
5 Jeremy Thrush
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3
2 Elvis Taione
1Eastbourne
4 Sam Lousi
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@Daffy-Jaffy Geez we really are stacked with talent over the years aren't we? We could name quite a few sides and still be strong.
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@JK This is too hard. Be easier if I could pick leaguies
1 Ron Williams
2
3 James Afoa
4 Snow White (OK he was a LHP but he also played TH and Lock for the AB's)
5 Nick Williams (we are light on locks)
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7
8 Pod Turner
9 Bryn Hall / Brett Craies
10
11 Richard Kapa
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13 Marc Ellis
14 Karl Te Nana
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@dogmeat said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
@JK This is too hard. Be easier if I could pick leaguies
1 Ron Williams
2
3 James Afoa
4 Snow White (OK he was a LHP but he also played TH and Lock for the AB's)
5 Nick Williams (we are light on locks)
6
7
8 Pod Turner
9 Bryn Hall / Brett Craies
10 Mike Harris
11 Richard Kapa
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13 Marc Ellis
14 Karl Te Nana
15A few other names I recall from back in the day are Paul Carlton (but we good for wingers), Craig Burgess (was he a 15?) and some Ward fella who I think was a loosie who was either bloody quick or offside 80% of the time but he was a machine. Room for any Mayhews? I also think Wayne Pivac played for both Northcote and Takapuna (not sure how anyone could bring themselves to do that!)
Added Mike Harris at 10.
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@ JK I was trying to pick guys who would be widely recognised rather than club stalwarts but yeah I'll through in a couple of Mayhews. Pivac did start with Cotes but.... nah...
@Bovidae you are quite right Craies was a 10 - don't know what I was thinking. He originally moved south because Fox was in his way at Akl
@JK This is too hard. Be easier if I could pick leaguies
1 Ron Williams
2 Mike Mayhew
3 James Afoa
4 Snow White (OK he was a LHP but he also played TH and Lock for the AB's)
5 Nick Williams (we are light on locks)
6 Richard Mayhew
7 Nigel Ward
8 Pod Turner
9 Bryn Hall
10 Mike Harris / Brett Craies
11 Richard Kapa
12
13 Marc Ellis
14 Karl Te Nana
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@dogmeat said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
@ JK I was trying to pick guys who would be widely recognised rather than club stalwarts but yeah I'll through in a couple of Mayhews. Pivac did start with Cotes but.... nah...
@Bovidae you are quite right Craies was a 10 - don't know what I was thinking. He originally moved south because Fox was in his way at Akl
@JK This is too hard. Be easier if I could pick leaguies
1 Ron Williams
2 Mike Mayhew
3 James Afoa
4 Snow White (OK he was a LHP but he also played TH and Lock for the AB's)
5 Nick Williams (we are light on locks)
6 Richard Mayhew
7 Nigel Ward
8 Pod Turner
9 Bryn Hall
10 Mike Harris / Brett Craies
11 Richard Kapa
12
13 Marc Ellis
14 Karl Te Nana
15Cupboards pretty bare then I think!
Did Terry Wright actually play any games in the maroon and gold? (at prem level)
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@Bones said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
4 Sam Lousi
He would have had to lose a few kegs to rep Eastbourne's solo 85kg team.
