Blues all time XV

dogmeat

This thread perfectly illustrates everything that sucks about the Blues specifically and franchise rugby in general.

Play Olo Brown out of position (or a journeyman like Dowd) and leave the teabag man on the bench

Duluth

Play Olo Brown out of position

Someone made a mistake. It's not a big deal. Olo finished up in 1998, that's a whole Hoskins Sotutu life time ago. Depending on people ages it's an easy detail to get wrong

@dogmeat said in Blues all time XV:

(or a journeyman like Dowd)

I picked this one.

To be clear, if I was judging their overall careers (AB's etc) it wouldn't be close, Woodcock would win easily. TW played better rugby at Test level than he did for the Blues IMO. Still very good for the Blues of course.
I'm comfortable leaning towards the great front row combo of the first few years

dogmeat

@Duluth said in Blues all time XV:

To be clear, if I was judging their overall careers (AB's etc) it wouldn't be close, Woodcock would win easily. TW played better rugby at Test level than he did for the Blues IMO. Still very good for the Blues of course.
I'm comfortable leaning towards the great front row combo of the first few years

I get where you're coming from but Dowd had the advantage of playing for one of the greatest Super teams ever and Woody - didn't. No wonder he looked good.

Duluth

@dogmeat

What's your 23?

dogmeat

@Duluth hang on I'm trying to work out whether to pick Waqaseduadua on the wing or at FB...

Tim

Trying to think of a Harbour players for the Blues XV. Hmm.

1 Woodcock
2 Parsons
3 Mafileo
4 Boric
5 Cowley-Tuioti
6 Flavell
7
8 Cribb
9 Hall
10 Evans
11
12 McAlister
13
14
15

Duluth

@Tim

This list should help:
Players that played for Harbour and the Blues at some stage in their careers

I think you got most of the good ones on the first pass

Tim

@Duluth Thanks!

Duluth

@Tim

Duffie, Wulf, Tuitavake?

Tim

@Duluth Gear, Newby, and Tuitivake good players too.

Fullback pick?

dogmeat

@Duluth

1 Woodcock
2 Mealamu
3 Brown
4 Williams
5 R Brooke
6 Kaino
7 Jones
8 Z Brooke
9 Tonu'u
10 Spencer
11 Caucaunibuca
12 McAllister
13 R Ioane
14 Rokocoko
15 Muliaina

16 Fitzy
17 Dowd
18 Faumuina
19 Luatua
20 Blowers / A Ioane
21 Robinson
22 Barrett
23 Clarke

KiwiMurph

@Tim said in Blues all time XV:

@Duluth Gear, Newby, and Tuitivake good players too.

Fullback pick?

Did Nick Evans ever play for Harbour?

George Pisi?

Tim

1 Woodcock
2 Parsons
3 Mafileo
4 Boric
5 Cowley-Tuioti
6 Flavell
7 Newby
8 Cribb
9 Hall/Robinson
10 Evans
11 Wulf/Telea
12 McAlister
13 Tuitivaki
14 Gear
15 Duffie

Duluth

@KiwiMurph said in Blues all time XV:

Did Nick Evans ever play for Harbour?

He did early in his career, then he made the Highlanders and moved South

When he came to the Blues he signed with Auckland but left before the NPC

Tim

@KiwiMurph said in Blues all time XV:

Did Nick Evans ever play for Harbour?

Already at 10.

George Pisi wasn't bad.

Duluth

@Tim said in Blues all time XV:

1 Woodcock
2 Parsons
3 Mafileo
4 Boric
5 Cowley-Tuioti
6 Flavell
7 Newby
8 Cribb
9 Hall/Robinson
10 Evans
11 Wulf/Telea
12 McAlister
13 Tuitivaki
14 Gear
15 Duffie

Northland Blues might have a side competitive with that

Tim

@Duluth @taniwharugby post your XV!

Duluth

1 Nick White
2 Derren Whitcombe
3 Ofa Tu'ungafasi (technically..)
4 Josh Goodhue
5 Glenn Taylor
6 Tom Robinson
7 Justin Collins
8
9 Sam Nock
10 David Holwell
11 Caucaunibuca
12
13 Rene Ranger
14
15

I'm sure I'm missing some obvious ones

Tim

@Duluth

1 White
2 Whitcombe
3
4 Goodhue
5 Taylor
6 Robinson
7 Collins
8
9 Nock
10 Holwell
11 Caucau
12 Tua
13 Ranger
14
15 Payne

KiwiMurph

@Tim Derren Whitcombe hooker?

Caucau 11.

The Silver Fern

Blues all time XV