Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato

[Crucial]

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

A good fluffer should be able to come up with an argument at 15

i doubt that.

Scoring strike rate? I suspect DMac wins that one.

[Crucial]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial Is Junior that much better than Duggan? Or did he get a very comfortable ride behind an awesome Akl pack?

Neither what you'd call top notch halfbacks. Still Akl by plenty

Yeah, hadn’t spotted that. Agree.

[Nepia]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial Is Junior that much better than Duggan? Or did he get a very comfortable ride behind an awesome Akl pack?

Neither what you'd call top notch halfbacks. Still Akl by plenty

What happened to David Kirk? Was he in the running for this? RWC winning captain while playing for the 09.

[Crucial]

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial Is Junior that much better than Duggan? Or did he get a very comfortable ride behind an awesome Akl pack?

Neither what you'd call top notch halfbacks. Still Akl by plenty

What happened to David Kirk? Was he in the running for this? RWC winning captain while playing for the 09.

Otago would have first dibs

[Nepia]

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial Is Junior that much better than Duggan? Or did he get a very comfortable ride behind an awesome Akl pack?

Neither what you'd call top notch halfbacks. Still Akl by plenty

What happened to David Kirk? Was he in the running for this? RWC winning captain while playing for the 09.

Otago would have first dibs

Did they select him though?

[Crucial]

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial Is Junior that much better than Duggan? Or did he get a very comfortable ride behind an awesome Akl pack?

Neither what you'd call top notch halfbacks. Still Akl by plenty

What happened to David Kirk? Was he in the running for this? RWC winning captain while playing for the 09.

Otago would have first dibs

Did they select him though?

They went for Kelleher. Can’t remember a strong debate about it

[Nepia]

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Crucial Is Junior that much better than Duggan? Or did he get a very comfortable ride behind an awesome Akl pack?

Neither what you'd call top notch halfbacks. Still Akl by plenty

What happened to David Kirk? Was he in the running for this? RWC winning captain while playing for the 09.

Otago would have first dibs

Did they select him though?

They went for Kelleher. Can’t remember a strong debate about it

Tonu'u and Kellaher over Kirk. I thought we were all crusty old dudes here, apparently I was wrong.

[taniwharugby]

No doubt on the result for this one

[dogmeat]

@Nepia IMO Akl have had a number of halfbacks that were better than Tonu'u

[Nepia]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Nepia IMO Akl have had a number of halfbacks that were better than Tonu'u

Oh who'd you prefer? Devine? Brett Iti?

[dogmeat]

@Nepia Lin Colling for one. Belinda's uncle. Although he played for Otago first as well. Kirk possibly. Gemmell?

[Nepia]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Nepia Lin Colling for one. Belinda's uncle. Although he played for Otago first as well. Kirk possibly. Gemmell?

How much NPC did those guys play?

[Duluth]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

Lin Colling for one. Belinda's uncle. Although he played for Otago first as well. Kirk possibly. Gemmell?

No one older Kirk would have an impact on a poll of TSFers

[dogmeat]

Colling was around at the start of the NPC Gemmell first played for Akl as 19 yr old straight out of school but was kept out by Colling. When he retired Gemmel took over but had his career ended by concussion issues

[dogmeat]

@Duluth you'd think so but look at the Manawatu side

[Kiwiwomble]

i think we assumed Kirk would get picked for Auckland and had already settled on Byron before clicking on first team gets dibs rule...and then never readdressed

[taniwharugby]

I heard of Colling, but not Gemmell.

I think Tonu'u fits best with this Auckland team, Devine or Kirk would go well too

[Duluth]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Duluth you'd think so but look at the Manawatu side

..and look at every other side. The players skew towards a particular time period. Manawatu is an exception because they did not do well during that time

[dogmeat]

@taniwharugby I'm happy for them to have picked Tonu'u

[Snowy]

@Duluth said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Auckland v Waikato:

@Duluth you'd think so but look at the Manawatu side

..and look at every other side. The players skew towards a particular time period. Manawatu is an exception because they did not do well during that time

Yep. Good teams beget. Manawatu are are a scatter gun. Great players over many years.

Crusaders for years as a team and hopefully the Blues now.

Good players get even better when they play together.