Highlanders all time XV
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@Winger an interesting discussion where to draw lines, Jimmy cowen for example played twice as many games for the landers, was a centurion and about the same number of AB games as Byron
Coltman played loads more games the Ash Dixon and was an AB...but i'd still pick Ash over him
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@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders all time XV:
@Winger an interesting discussion where to draw lines, Jimmy cowen for example played twice as many games for the landers, was a centurion and about the same number of AB games as Byron
At their respective peaks, I'd take Jimmy every time. Byron was flaky and fragile mentally - if your scrum half can't keep calm you're stuffed
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Isitolo Maka would probably be my preference at 8.
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@taniwharugby another good shout, nasi pips him for me due to his captaincy during 2015
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@taniwharugby said in Highlanders all time XV:
Isitolo Maka would probably be my preference at 8.
Oh hell yeah. I don't know if I can abide no Ropati too. Leslie is a romantic pick, he's not as good as Alatini - that's like picking Holwell over BB for the canes. Besides, Jeremy Stanley is better than both.
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@Smudge good team bro.
I reckon Josh Blackie is a little unlucky not to make the bench spot. He was one of few shining lights for the Landers during some dark days. I thought he should’ve made the ABs but that doesn’t IMO minimise what he was doing in Super rugby at a high level.
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@Bones said in Highlanders all time XV:
@taniwharugby said in Highlanders all time XV:
Isitolo Maka would probably be my preference at 8.
Oh hell yeah. I don't know if I can abide no Ropati too. Leslie is a romantic pick, he's not as good as Alatini - that's like picking Holwell over BB for the canes. Besides, Jeremy Stanley is better than both.
i use to think the same, maybe not specifically Ropati...but i watched some old footage of Leslie....he was very good...a lot of our backline moves start with Leslie
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@KiwiMurph that was a pretty common thread in the comments of the original post
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@ACT-Crusader said in Highlanders all time XV:
Josh Blackie
unlucky to play at a time when NZ rugby was absolutely overflowing with gun opensides
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@KiwiMurph Patrick Osborne was a bloody good left winger too.
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@taniwharugby he was a great finisher, naholo may have been great in a various aspects but Osborne was right with him inside the 22 with a sniff of the line
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@taniwharugby said in Highlanders all time XV:
@KiwiMurph Patrick Osborne was a bloody good left winger too.
Nah, too much fish n chips
