The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV
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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 😀
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@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?
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@taniwharugby said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon 😀
This is the left to soon thread not the should have left earlier.
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@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?
Similarly there was a Fern contingent who rated Robbie Robinson as the better 10 prospect than Cruden. Then he actually did leave too soon as he was a pretty decent fullback.
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@Nepia Yeah, he had massive hype around him. I feel like he tried to come back with North Harbour unsuccessfully a couple of years after his Chiefs stint?
Regan King?
