Best of all time?
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Batty the angry midget - loved to run in from his wing to pick a fight with the opposition forwards -
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
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Best at Athletic Park Bernie Fraser
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Anyone who could make JPR Williams look stupid on defence had to be very, very special.
One of my favourite ABs of all time. Hard as nails and when he hit you, you went down hard. From 1:35.
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Classic example of why many think Bruce Robertson was the best ever.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Best of all time?:
Anyone who could make JPR Williams look stupid on defence had to be very, very special.
One of my favourite ABs of all time. Hard as nails and when he hit you, you went down hard. From 1:35.
JPR was playing 14
He mullered Andy Irvine
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@MiketheSnow said in Best of all time?:
JPR was playing 14
Think we've confused videos. In '73 (the video Daffy Jaffy posted), David Duckham was 14, JPR 15.
Had the pleasure of meeting Duckham about 10 years ago. Said Batty was a "real hard bastard"
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@booboo said in Best of all time?:
@ACT-Crusader too many non-Cantabs
I was ready to go Ben Blair over Chr… but that would’ve been too easy 😉
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Best of all time?:
Batty the angry midget - loved to run in from his wing to pick a fight with the opposition forwards -
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
I never saw my dad play but he would have played like Batty I reckon, same stature. My dads joke was he never made the All Blacks because they couldn't have two little wingers so Bee Gee got his spot.
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Batty was a giant compared to Ponty Reid; winning halfback against the Boks in 56 and AB captain against Oz.
Wringing wet he was (can only remember the old stats) 5'2" and less than 10 stone so that's about 60kgs and not much more than a metre and a half!
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@booboo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
My dander has been re-raised.
On your skin grows "the fur of fluffy cats and long-haired dogs"? I'd have that looked at if I was you..
Back on the rugby, I think Horan or Nonu at 12 is worth a thread of its own, and there were other contenders.NB for that 'prestigious' forum ruck.co.uk
Nonu doesn't even feature at 12
The greatest rugby XV of all-time picked by statisticians - Ruck
REVEALED: The greatest ever XV in the history of rugby… and there’s no room for Carter, O’Connell and Parisse. World’s greatest ever XV: 15. Serge Blanco (France) The French icon’s…
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@booboo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
My dander has been re-raised.
On your skin grows "the fur of fluffy cats and long-haired dogs"? I'd have that looked at if I was you..
Back on the rugby, I think Horan or Nonu at 12 is worth a thread of its own, and there were other contenders.NB for that 'prestigious' forum ruck.co.uk
Nonu doesn't even feature at 12
The greatest rugby XV of all-time picked by statisticians - Ruck
REVEALED: The greatest ever XV in the history of rugby… and there’s no room for Carter, O’Connell and Parisse. World’s greatest ever XV: 15. Serge Blanco (France) The French icon’s…
SBW gets an honourable mention at 12. He doesn't even rate a mention for GOAT AB12. Stopped reading that tosh
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@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@booboo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
My dander has been re-raised.
On your skin grows "the fur of fluffy cats and long-haired dogs"? I'd have that looked at if I was you..
Back on the rugby, I think Horan or Nonu at 12 is worth a thread of its own, and there were other contenders.NB for that 'prestigious' forum ruck.co.uk
Nonu doesn't even feature at 12
The greatest rugby XV of all-time picked by statisticians - Ruck
REVEALED: The greatest ever XV in the history of rugby… and there’s no room for Carter, O’Connell and Parisse. World’s greatest ever XV: 15. Serge Blanco (France) The French icon’s…
SBW gets an honourable mention at 12. He doesn't even rate a mention for GOAT AB12. Stopped reading that tosh
I stopped reading when Christian Cullen didn’t even manage that let alone be named at 15
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Confession: I knew when people read the SBW mention at 12 that some would see red (or at least yellow) ...
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@MN5 said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@booboo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
My dander has been re-raised.
On your skin grows "the fur of fluffy cats and long-haired dogs"? I'd have that looked at if I was you..
Back on the rugby, I think Horan or Nonu at 12 is worth a thread of its own, and there were other contenders.NB for that 'prestigious' forum ruck.co.uk
Nonu doesn't even feature at 12
The greatest rugby XV of all-time picked by statisticians - Ruck
REVEALED: The greatest ever XV in the history of rugby… and there’s no room for Carter, O’Connell and Parisse. World’s greatest ever XV: 15. Serge Blanco (France) The French icon’s…
SBW gets an honourable mention at 12. He doesn't even rate a mention for GOAT AB12. Stopped reading that tosh
I stopped reading when Christian Cullen didn’t even manage that let alone be named at 15
Saw that too
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@nostrildamus Keith Wood ahead of Fitzy is laughable.
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@sparky said in Best of all time?:
@nostrildamus Keith Wood ahead of Fitzy is laughable.
Naaaa, Wood was fucken good in an average era for Ireland.
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I'm not clicking on obvious rage bait
But if any zero achieving Irish players made it, you know it's hot garbage
