Highlanders all time XV
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@Bovidae hemopo! loved Hemopo, think he could have been a great
guess that asks another question, are we bothering to pick a squad that would work, then i personally would have another lock, not just someone who can cover....but very good point re a dixon
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Factor's I guess is how many years played for the team in question. And his form over these years. Thorn could qualify. But not Franks for the Canes as an example as he is only making up the numbers at the end of his career. Whereas Lomu might
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@Winger an interesting discussion where to draw lines, Jimmy cowen for example played twice as many games for the landers, was a centurion and about the same number of AB games as Byron
Coltman played loads more games the Ash Dixon and was an AB...but i'd still pick Ash over him
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@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders all time XV:
@Winger an interesting discussion where to draw lines, Jimmy cowen for example played twice as many games for the landers, was a centurion and about the same number of AB games as Byron
At their respective peaks, I'd take Jimmy every time. Byron was flaky and fragile mentally - if your scrum half can't keep calm you're stuffed
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Isitolo Maka would probably be my preference at 8.
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@taniwharugby another good shout, nasi pips him for me due to his captaincy during 2015
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@taniwharugby said in Highlanders all time XV:
Isitolo Maka would probably be my preference at 8.
Oh hell yeah. I don't know if I can abide no Ropati too. Leslie is a romantic pick, he's not as good as Alatini - that's like picking Holwell over BB for the canes. Besides, Jeremy Stanley is better than both.
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@Smudge good team bro.
I reckon Josh Blackie is a little unlucky not to make the bench spot. He was one of few shining lights for the Landers during some dark days. I thought he should’ve made the ABs but that doesn’t IMO minimise what he was doing in Super rugby at a high level.
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@Bones said in Highlanders all time XV:
@taniwharugby said in Highlanders all time XV:
Isitolo Maka would probably be my preference at 8.
Oh hell yeah. I don't know if I can abide no Ropati too. Leslie is a romantic pick, he's not as good as Alatini - that's like picking Holwell over BB for the canes. Besides, Jeremy Stanley is better than both.
i use to think the same, maybe not specifically Ropati...but i watched some old footage of Leslie....he was very good...a lot of our backline moves start with Leslie
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@KiwiMurph that was a pretty common thread in the comments of the original post
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@ACT-Crusader said in Highlanders all time XV:
Josh Blackie
unlucky to play at a time when NZ rugby was absolutely overflowing with gun opensides
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@KiwiMurph Patrick Osborne was a bloody good left winger too.
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@taniwharugby he was a great finisher, naholo may have been great in a various aspects but Osborne was right with him inside the 22 with a sniff of the line
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@taniwharugby said in Highlanders all time XV:
@KiwiMurph Patrick Osborne was a bloody good left winger too.
Nah, too much fish n chips
