Ultimate NPC: - Northland
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@kev said in Ultimate NPC: - Northland:
@Nepia After Holmes I would have gone for Neil Ruddell.
Ian Ruddell was very good, heady loose forward { No. 8 or 7). He made NZ age grade and trials from memory. Perhaps lacking a little mongrel at times?
The only slight problem with this discussion is that you are comparing amateurs with professionials (or semi professionials).
So the likes of Peter Sloane, Joe Morgan, Going/ Woodman/Dunn/Phillips whanau are all at at are slight disadvantage. It's all great fun though... -
@taniwharugby
Are you alluding that he was a better rugby player than teacher? ...
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@Pepe Haha more like pushing something uphill with a toothpick getting him to sit still and learn
Yea always gonna encounter issues comparing players from eras.
Colin Meads is a prime example, one of our greatest ever players, yet isn't really tall enough for a lock in today's game, Bert Cooke, supposedly the Christian Cullen of his day, yet he weighed in at 65kg, arent many kids playing 1st 15 rugby that low anymore, but both still worthy of being considered greats of our game.
Always remember a bit in Meads book where the current AB dietician at the time was discussing it with Meads, and he was like we ate this, did that and we did well, the response was imagine how much better you could have been with current diet and training...which he didn't have a response to
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@Pepe Agree with you on Ruddell. He was a bit unlucky when it came to higher honours, sort of the Duane Monkely of North Auckland. Your finalised team looks very vulnerable without a Woodman on the wing and especially a Dunn at first five.
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@taniwharugby yep that’s a quality side. 😀👍
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