Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau

[Tim]

@mikedogz said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

Api Naevo

Solid player.

[Crucial]

@mikedogz
I like your teams. Not so sure about your 10s. We might yet get to lay claim to Beaver if Waikato don't.

I am embarrassed to have left out the Irish centre.

Nicky Allen might have only played 4 games for CM but he also only played 10 for Auckland as well.
His career was so short I barely remember it, but he proved himself very quickly. Some say he would have been a great and writers add him in their top AB lists regularly. Hard to tell whether his sad early death increased his reputation.

[shark]

No Hare Makiri?

[Crucial]

@shark said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

No Hare Makiri?

Good call.
A different player to Marsh but both good.

[shark]

I thought he was an 8?

[Crucial]

@shark said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

I thought he was an 8?

Played 7 as an international for Tonga. Doesn't get past Brain as an 8.

Brain was a great.

[shark]

Just throwing his name out there

[Nepia]

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@shark said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

I thought he was an 8?

Played 7 as an international for Tonga. Doesn't get past Brain as an 8.

Brain was a great.

Japan?

[Crucial]

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@shark said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

I thought he was an 8?

Played 7 as an international for Tonga. Doesn't get past Brain as an 8.

Brain was a great.

Japan?

Yeah, one of those small pacific countries anyway.

[Smudge]

Disgraceful lack of respect for Lindsay Raki.

Even if he didn't have much respect for pokie machine funds staying in the correct accounts...

[Crucial]

@Smudge said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

Disgraceful lack of respect for Lindsay Raki.

Even if he didn't have much respect for pokie machine funds staying in the correct accounts...

No lack of respect at all. Was a good servant to the union for many a season. For a long time was the only rep from my school as well.
Never really in the frame for higher honours though.
Would have been a solid super player in today's age but not much more.

[Higgins]

@Crucial How do you guys rate Bob Lendrum (a really long servant for Counties) and GK Taylor who played well inside Bruce Robertson if my memory serves me right, also Brett Codlin at fullback?

[mariner4life]

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

[Crucial]

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

[mariner4life]

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

he's better then both of those players.

I find the general attitude to Alatini on here a bit strange. Around the turn of the century he was the absolute fucking man.

[Crucial]

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

he's better then both of those players.

I find the general attitude to Alatini on here a bit strange. Around the turn of the century he was the absolute fucking man.

Welly can have him then

[mariner4life]

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

he's better then both of those players.

I find the general attitude to Alatini on here a bit strange. Around the turn of the century he was the absolute fucking man.

Welly can have him then

against your own rules

[Crucial]

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

he's better then both of those players.

I find the general attitude to Alatini on here a bit strange. Around the turn of the century he was the absolute fucking man.

Welly can have him then

against your own rules

No. If a player played for a union they can select him. If two teams select the same player he goes to the one he first repped

[mariner4life]

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

he's better then both of those players.

I find the general attitude to Alatini on here a bit strange. Around the turn of the century he was the absolute fucking man.

Welly can have him then

against your own rules

No. If a player played for a union they can select him. If two teams select the same player he goes to the one he first repped

your funeral

[Crucial]

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

How is Pita Alatini not playing 12?

Because no one wants him there over Marsh or Aki?
Not a lot in it really except selecting a midfield likely to get the ball to Jonah

he's better then both of those players.

I find the general attitude to Alatini on here a bit strange. Around the turn of the century he was the absolute fucking man.

Welly can have him then

against your own rules

No. If a player played for a union they can select him. If two teams select the same player he goes to the one he first repped

your funeral

So between Beaver at 10 and Robertson at 13 you’d select Alatini?
Also his best work was as a stepper rather than a distributor. I want the ball going to Jonah and Joeli as much as possible.