The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV
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Big Reggie Goodes. Started to come into his own for the Canes and was beginning to push for AB selection before concussion cut his career short. Probs would still be playing now but he’s been out of the game for a good 7 years now.
Broadhurst was the other one from the Canes who just made the ABs before retiring from concussion.
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@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
1 Craig Dowd (forced to switch sides by Hart, soon departed)
Should Dowd really be there? He played 64 Super matches and half his career was played before it existed. He was also out of the ABs after only being used as a bench player in his final year.
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@Nepia said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
1 Craig Dowd (forced to switch sides by Hart, soon departed)
Should Dowd really be there? He played 64 Super matches and half his career was played before it existed. He was also out of the ABs after only being used as a bench player in his final year.
He probably shouldn't be, but I was struggling for loosehead props. Maybe Saimone Taumoepeau?
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@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
I'd be interested in a gone too soon to league team. You could assemble one hell of a backline.
- Brett Iti
- Frano Botica
- Va'aiga Tuigamala
- John Schuster (fuck me he was a great player)
- Craig Innes
- Matthew Ridge
- John Gallagher
Marc Ellis surely slots in there somewhere
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@Gunner said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
I'd be interested in a gone too soon to league team. You could assemble one hell of a backline.
- Brett Iti
- Frano Botica
- Va'aiga Tuigamala
- John Schuster (fuck me he was a great player)
- Craig Innes
- Matthew Ridge
- John Gallagher
Marc Ellis surely slots in there somewhere
Utility reserve
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Brendon Edmonds. Was a heck of a player before injury struck. I reckon he could have pushed to All Black contention. Good strong carrier, stable in the scrum, real shame injury wrecked his career.
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@MN5 said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Gunner said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
I'd be interested in a gone too soon to league team. You could assemble one hell of a backline.
- Brett Iti
- Frano Botica
- Va'aiga Tuigamala
- John Schuster (fuck me he was a great player)
- Craig Innes
- Matthew Ridge
- John Gallagher
Marc Ellis surely slots in there somewhere
Utility reserve
I reckon he'd be a much better wing that Ridge.
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@Smudge said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Higgins said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.
I mean, he died 12 years before Super Rugby started...
A shoo-in for the Super Rugby Gone Way Too Soon XV...
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How good was Kane Barrett? He had to quit early.
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Hard to say, he was still improving when he had to quit.
I just looked up his career.. he only managed 4 SR games (3 starts)
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Tiaan Falcon, shone for the NZ U20 scoring 109 points that 2017 tournament, spent a season or two at the Chiefs before upping the sticks and chasing the moolah, man he would've been a great backup for McKenzie in recent years considering the revolving door of disappointment there (Gatland, Ioane, Trask).
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Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon 😀
