Provincial Classics
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@nzzp I think Blair Feeney was pretty key in that side. Don't forget the likes of Andrew Roose and Api Naevo too. Quality, quality side. Semi innovative with the uniform change too, even if it was a copy of the North Sydney Bears. Errol Brain was one of the best post game interviewees ever.
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@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@nzzp I think Blair Feeney was pretty key in that side. Don't forget the likes of Andrew Roose and Api Naevo too. Quality, quality side. Semi innovative with the uniform change too, even if it was a copy of the North Sydney Bears. Errol Brain was one of the best post game interviewees ever.
Agree with all this except for the uniform change, the old jersey was much better, the North Sydney Bears copy rivals that mythical Central Vikings jumper for ugliness.
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@kiwiinmelb Counties didn't win. They never won the Shield until 2013.
I was at that 79 game on the Terraces. It was the last game I saw in NZ for 13 years.
Akl had only just lifted the Shield from North Auckland and had to face the challenge of Counties in their first defence. Counties were undefeated for the season and had been crowned NPC champs .
EP was packed (50K in those days) on a fine spring day. First half was attritional but Counties took a deserved 3-0 lead into the break.
Akl pack stated to assert dominance in the second half before Counties broke out from inside their 22 and scored from a speculative kick helped in large measure by the ref inadvertently obstructing the Akl cover defender. 9-0 to Counties.
However Akl took control of the game and the much vaunted and popular Counties side choked. They started putting balls out on the full, missing tackles etc but with 15 minutes to go Akl still hadn't converted the pressure into a score. They then scored a couple of unconverted tries. One to Farrell can't remember the other. 9-8 Counties. Less than 5 minutes to go and inexplicably Counties tried to run it from under their own posts and got nailed. Penalised at the resulting ruck. 11-9 Akl.
Cue much jubilation in the stands and on the pitch (well for half the crowd) and a very, very big night.
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@Nepia said in Provincial Classics:
@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@nzzp I think Blair Feeney was pretty key in that side. Don't forget the likes of Andrew Roose and Api Naevo too. Quality, quality side. Semi innovative with the uniform change too, even if it was a copy of the North Sydney Bears. Errol Brain was one of the best post game interviewees ever.
Agree with all this except for the uniform change, the old jersey was much better, the North Sydney Bears copy rivals that mythical Central Vikings jumper for ugliness.
I didn't say it was better. I said it was "semi innovative".
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@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@Nepia said in Provincial Classics:
@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@nzzp I think Blair Feeney was pretty key in that side. Don't forget the likes of Andrew Roose and Api Naevo too. Quality, quality side. Semi innovative with the uniform change too, even if it was a copy of the North Sydney Bears. Errol Brain was one of the best post game interviewees ever.
Agree with all this except for the uniform change, the old jersey was much better, the North Sydney Bears copy rivals that mythical Central Vikings jumper for ugliness.
I didn't say it was better. I said it was "semi innovative".
I don't think making something uglier is semi innovative.
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@Nepia said in Provincial Classics:
@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@Nepia said in Provincial Classics:
@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@nzzp I think Blair Feeney was pretty key in that side. Don't forget the likes of Andrew Roose and Api Naevo too. Quality, quality side. Semi innovative with the uniform change too, even if it was a copy of the North Sydney Bears. Errol Brain was one of the best post game interviewees ever.
Agree with all this except for the uniform change, the old jersey was much better, the North Sydney Bears copy rivals that mythical Central Vikings jumper for ugliness.
I didn't say it was better. I said it was "semi innovative".
I don't think making something uglier is semi innovative.
you're clearly not in a marketing departmetn
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@nzzp said in Provincial Classics:
@Nepia said in Provincial Classics:
@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@Nepia said in Provincial Classics:
@shark said in Provincial Classics:
@nzzp I think Blair Feeney was pretty key in that side. Don't forget the likes of Andrew Roose and Api Naevo too. Quality, quality side. Semi innovative with the uniform change too, even if it was a copy of the North Sydney Bears. Errol Brain was one of the best post game interviewees ever.
Agree with all this except for the uniform change, the old jersey was much better, the North Sydney Bears copy rivals that mythical Central Vikings jumper for ugliness.
I didn't say it was better. I said it was "semi innovative".
I don't think making something uglier is semi innovative.
you're clearly not in a marketing departmetn
No, but I do work closely with them when I reach the end of my Indesign skills.
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@dogmeat said in Provincial Classics:
@kiwiinmelb Counties didn't win. They never won the Shield until 2013.
I was at that 79 game on the Terraces. It was the last game I saw in NZ for 13 years.
Akl had only just lifted the Shield from North Auckland and had to face the challenge of Counties in their first defence. Counties were undefeated for the season and had been crowned NPC champs .
EP was packed (50K in those days) on a fine spring day. First half was attritional but Counties took a deserved 3-0 lead into the break.
Akl pack stated to assert dominance in the second half before Counties broke out from inside their 22 and scored from a speculative kick helped in large measure by the ref inadvertently obstructing the Akl cover defender. 9-0 to Counties.
However Akl took control of the game and the much vaunted and popular Counties side choked. They started putting balls out on the full, missing tackles etc but with 15 minutes to go Akl still hadn't converted the pressure into a score. They then scored a couple of unconverted tries. One to Farrell can't remember the other. 9-8 Counties. Less than 5 minutes to go and inexplicably Counties tried to run it from under their own posts and got nailed. Penalised at the resulting ruck. 11-9 Akl.
Cue much jubilation in the stands and on the pitch (well for half the crowd) and a very, very big night.
You remember the details of the game a lot better than me , it may have been the lion reds,
But the lasting impression on me was the nature of the crowd ,
Something in NZ I was only used to seeing at test matches
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@Billsy111 The Bay didnt challenge for the shield in 1993, you must be thinking of a different team or year.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback Yes they did. They played Auckland at Eden Park and got beaten 69/31.
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@Billsy111 said in Provincial Classics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback Yes they did. They played Auckland at Eden Park and got beaten 69/31.
You are a bit new on this forum so it's understandable that you won't "get it". The Bay, at the moment is Bay of Plenty. The other lot are known as Hawkes, until the beat the bay
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@Billsy111 Some inside jokes here are ten years+ in the making and have gotten pretty obscure.
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@Kirwan said in Provincial Classics:
@Billsy111 Some inside jokes here are ten years+ in the making and have gotten pretty obscure.
FABSH?
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@Snowy said in Provincial Classics:
@shark Something like “if Scott Hamilton becomes an All Black, I’ll eat my hat” followed by AB team announcement, probably on a Thursday, and various helpful recipes for hats.
I thought it was you predicting FABSH?
And in a small squad he picked five fucking wingers so we got to scrap the bottom of the barrell.
