The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV

[Rancid Schnitzel]

How good was Kane Barrett? He had to quit early.

[Duluth]

@Rancid-Schnitzel

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)

[ruggabee]

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).

[Bones]

@ruggabee playing for Toyota since '21. Is he actually any good or just on a par with those others listed?

He can't be that great if HB don't even rate him their best...

[cgrant]

Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.

[taniwharugby]

Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon 😀

[Duluth]

I remember there were a few Cantabs on here who really rated Hamish Gard.

[African Monkey]

@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?

[Nepia]

@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.

[Nepia]

@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.

[African Monkey]

@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?

[pakman]

Is there no Fern love left for Charlie Ngatai?

[Bovidae]

@cgrant said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.

That's a name I haven't heard in a while.

Sean Maitland? He's just retired too.

[SouthernMann]

Scott Hamilton. Sadly cut short after just two All Blacks caps. On a podcast he seemed a really good bloke too

[MN5]

@Bovidae said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@cgrant said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.

That's a name I haven't heard in a while.

Sean Maitland? He's just retired too.

Na he knew cracking the ABs would’ve been easy but wanted the bigger challenge of playing for Scotland

[Mr Fish]

Jared Payne was always fun to watch, as was Paul Williams.

[MN5]

@Mr-Fish said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Jared Payne was always fun to watch, as was Paul Williams.

Did he make an All Black training squad or did I imagine that? Good player, surprised he didn’t get a few AB caps

[booboo]

Gareth Anscombe

[Mr Fish]

@MN5 said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Mr-Fish said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Jared Payne was always fun to watch, as was Paul Williams.

Did he make an All Black training squad or did I imagine that? Good player, surprised he didn’t get a few AB caps

He did, maybe 2008? Think he was even called into a match-week squad at one point but never played a game. Ended up representing Samoa.

[Darren]

I think both Victor Vito and Ngani Laumape might have left too soon. Both could have been useful for the AB's