Pick your clubs all time team.
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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
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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 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
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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.
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@Canes4life he can just be the whole tight 5 on his own.
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Was talking to a friend over the weekend about some of these old club rugby stories, and he told me a couple of stories from North Canterbury rugby - including about a future AB.
1 A prop was pulling an opposition lock down in the lineout. The opposing prop said, "Boof, if you don't stop pulling him down, I'm going to have to hit you."
Next lineout, and Boof pulled him down - the opposing prop punched him and knocked out his front teeth. The two of them looked at the teeth on the ground. The puncher said, "Are you going to pick them up"?
Boof said, "I don't want them". And ran off.
2 A similar story of a young prop pulling down a lineout jumper, getting warned and then punched. Except, this time the guy got hit in the eye socket and his eye popped out (like the basketball guy). Guy whose eye supposedly popped out got it stitched back in and then went on to play AB rugby.
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mate of mine tells the story of his first senior game . he was goog to be marking a waikato hooker .our all black no8 told him as the first scrum breaks up to lean to the left he repled what to be told again just go left .so first scrum goes down and finished mate leans to the left just in time for the punch from the back of the scrum to go passed his head to smack the hooker in the head.after a bit off a scrap game goes on and mate had no problems out of oppersition hooker for rest of game
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This isn't my club but Norths (Porirua) would have a fairly handy team.
- Jacob Ellison / Anthony Perenise
- Leni Apisai
- John Schwagler
- Chris Middleton
- Api Naikatini
- Jerry Collins
- Du'Plessis Kirifi / Serge Lilo
- Faifili Levavae
- TJ Perenara
- Jackson Garden Bachop
- Alapati Leiua
- Tamati Ellison
- Robbie Fruean
- Connor Garden Bachop
- Buxton Popoali'i
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@Bones said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
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
1Ope Peleseuma - Centre (Wellington Lions)
Brian Lima - Utility (Auckland, Highlanders, Blues)
James O'Reilly - Hooker (Wellington Lions, Hurricanes)
Joe Apikitoa - Prop (Wellington Lions, Hawkes Bay)
Ben Power - Hooker (Hawke's Bay)
Salesi Rayasi (Wellington, Auckland, Hurricanes, NZ Sevens) -
@Canes4life Huh....when did Lima play? Never knew that! Throw Salesi onto Tiatia's wing and Ope in at 12. Taione still the best pick of the hookers there.
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@Bones I think for a while now but more as a bench option.
Article below mentions him.
Swindale Shield on tenterhooks as Frontrunners Tawa and MSP both defeated
Above: The weather was fine and sunny, but OBU and Avalon Senior 1 players got their first taste of mud on Saturday in their clash at Ian Galloway Park. Story updated: Including headline mistake: The race for the top eight Jubilee Cup spots for the second half of the season is on tenterhooks...
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@Canes4life I reckon if you went back pre-amalgamation, you could probably swap in a few old-timers from Titahi Bay or Porirua rugby club too.
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@Canes4life hmmm...was that "the" Brian Lima? At 42 years old?
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Sydenham
Nepo Laulala All Blacks
Codie Taylor All Blacks
Dave Hewitt All Blacks
Elliot Dixon All Blacks
Adam Parker NZ Maori and Japan
Craig Philpott Canterbury
No 7 ?
Nasi Manu Crusaders Highlanders and Tonga
Aaron Flynn Crusaders
Dion Kerr Canterbury and NZ Maori
Jonny McNicholl Crusaders and Wales
Kieran Flynn Canterbury and Southland
Wiremu Maunsell Canterbury and NZ Maori
Morrie Dixon All Blacks
Darryl Lilley Crusaders. -
@Canes4life said in Pick your clubs all time team.:
@Daffy-Jaffy Petone updated:
- Ken Gray / Laurence Hullena
With a straight face?
