R.I.P. 2020
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Sad to hear EVH is gone. Despite being a goofy-looking clog-wearer he was so farking cool in the Jump video playing both guitar and keyboard.
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Johnny Nash has gone today too. He was 80.
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Eddie Tonks, aged 85.
https://www.allblacks.com/news/nzr-pays-tribute-to-former-chair-eddie-tonks/
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Spencer Davis just stopped
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Just read his bio on the BBC. Spoke 4 languages fluently, discovered Bob Marley and promoted Robert Palmer.
Quite a CV
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@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
Just read his bio on the BBC. Spoke 4 languages fluently, discovered Bob Marley and promoted Robert Palmer.
Quite a CV
And Welsh. Who knew.
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Another Welshman down
JJ Williams
Wales rugby legend JJ Williams dies at 72 | Wales Online
Tributes have been pouring in for the former Bridgend and Llanelli speedster who became a rugby great for Wales and the British and Irish Lions
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Remember him from that '77 tour. IIRC in a pretty sour tour, he was one of the few the public actually liked.
Gets a bit worrying when players you watched as a teenager start dropping away.
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@Snowy Yes, that's from the Lancaster Park game which the Lions won. Colin Farrell, the ABs Fullback was omitted for the rest of the series and never played for the ABs again.
Rest In Peace, JJ Williams. A fine man and an excellent Rugby Player.
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@sparky Colin Farrell was one of my favourites when he played for Auckland - remember him well and still feel sorry for him that he had such a mare in black. That just had to be nerves because he did deserve his selection. Trying to remember who else was around at the time?
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@Snowy Farrell was undone by nerves, poor conditions and te game plan from memory.
He was a favourite of mine too. Many a wednesday afternoon taken off from school sneaking a kit bag full of Lion Super in to watch Auckland in a shield defence
Farrell was a running fullback but in his two tests the AB's only spun it along the backline once.
He did OK in the first test but was undone by a couple of errors in the second that made him look comical. He got isolated by a kick that took a leg break, ran it back once and got caught and had a pathetic attempted clearance. But it wasn't the worst AB display ever. He was a scape goat - doesn't deserve the worst AB ever tag.
You forgot Brian McKechnie
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@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
Nobby Stiles has died at 78
If I had read that this morning I would have said "Who?".
Listened to some zb via the Interwebs and have discovered he's a legend. False teeth and all. Legally blind (or damn close to it, and 1966 World Cup winner.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
Gets a bit worrying when players you watched as a teenager start dropping away.
3 ABs I've played against (or would have if not for injury) have already moved on!
