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    #116

    Yeah Kahui was a fantastic player but never had a long enough run at it due to injuries, and the misfortune to play centre at the same time as Conrad Smith. His greatest achievement will be blocking up a wing in the RWC 2011 win.

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    @shark said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Like the Jasin Goldsmith call. Where did he go anyway? Was it an extremely early injury enforced retirement?

    There was a kid called Brendon Daniel. Ridiculously promising BOP winger at the onset of the prefessional era I think, who went overseas at something like 20 and as far as I know never returned to play but nor did he make it wherver he went, surprisingly. Anyone else remember him?

    Another in that sort of category was an open side from Canterbury called Greg Smith in around 1994/95. Crazy promise then disappeared.

    Goldsmith: yep injury.

    I recall I was at an early season game at Eden Park where he broke his leg very badly. Either that ended it all or he never fully recovered and struggled to come back. Will have to google.

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    @booboo said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    @shark said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Like the Jasin Goldsmith call. Where did he go anyway? Was it an extremely early injury enforced retirement?

    There was a kid called Brendon Daniel. Ridiculously promising BOP winger at the onset of the prefessional era I think, who went overseas at something like 20 and as far as I know never returned to play but nor did he make it wherver he went, surprisingly. Anyone else remember him?

    Another in that sort of category was an open side from Canterbury called Greg Smith in around 1994/95. Crazy promise then disappeared.

    Goldsmith: yep injury.

    I recall I was at an early season game at Eden Park where he broke his leg very badly. Either that ended it all or he never fully recovered and struggled to come back. Will have to google.

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    @bovidae said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    @shark Goldsmith had a lot of injuries. I remember watching him for Waikato as an 18-yr old, when he had a very good game against the 1988 Welsh team.

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    Ah. Damn. Read the thread booboo ...

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    @mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Koala Tukino

    *Koula

    Anyway, interesting article here about what a bright spark he was. (I had a wee laugh at the line about the 1999 World Cup and who might feature there...)

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    How good was Mose Tuiali'i, and how much potential did he have? I'm a bit hazy on him.

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    @tim I'd probably rank him just below Vito by the time he left. Would do an adequate job but never quite got to see if he could be a good starter, rather than bit-part filler.

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    A no.8 that never fulfilled his potential was Isitolo Maka. The test in Durban in 1998 changed when he left the field, never to seen in black again.

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    @bovidae said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Isitolo Maka

    Good call.

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    @junior said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    @mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Koala Tukino

    *Koula

    Anyway, interesting article here about what a bright spark he was. (I had a wee laugh at the line about the 1999 World Cup and who might feature there...)

    Maori? I suppose they all look the same to the Welsh.....

    As for Pita Wilson.....

    Stuff
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    @tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    How good was Mose Tuiali'i, and how much potential did he have? I'm a bit hazy on him.

    He was no Sam Broomhall .

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    Mose was a beast for the Saders.

    Henry brought him in around that transition time when Collins was moved from 8 to 6 and he was looking for a new no8 trying several options - Rush, Mose, Bates, Lauaki, Newby - before ultimately settling with Rodders. Mose was decent but wasn’t given the time to develop as an AB for whatever reason. He was only 23 when he first made the ABs.

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    @act-crusader said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Mose was a beast for the Saders.

    Henry brought him in around that transition time when Collins was moved from 8 to 6 and he was looking for a new no8 trying several options - Rush, Mose, Bates, Lauaki, Newby - before ultimately settling with Rodders. Mose was decent but wasn’t given the time to develop as an AB for whatever reason. He was only 23 when he first made the ABs.

    Crikey, some ordinary names in that list.

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    Didn't Craig Green leave NZ after the RWC in '87 for Italy?

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    @jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    @tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    How good was Mose Tuiali'i, and how much potential did he have? I'm a bit hazy on him.

    He was no Sam Broomhall .

    But then, who was?

    I couldn't work out why Mose never made it. He had every physical gift needed to be a great Test 8, but it never clicked

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    @shark said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Like the Jasin Goldsmith call. Where did he go anyway? Was it an extremely early injury enforced retirement?

    There was a kid called Brendon Daniel. Ridiculously promising BOP winger at the onset of the prefessional era I think, who went overseas at something like 20 and as far as I know never returned to play but nor did he make it wherver he went, surprisingly. Anyone else remember him?

    Another in that sort of category was an open side from Canterbury called Greg Smith in around 1994/95. Crazy promise then disappeared.

    Didn't Daniel have a long career with Saracens (I think).

    Didn't Greg Smith go out with Melodie Robinson before "Canterbury Steve Walsh"?

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    @nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    @shark said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

    Like the Jasin Goldsmith call. Where did he go anyway? Was it an extremely early injury enforced retirement?

    There was a kid called Brendon Daniel. Ridiculously promising BOP winger at the onset of the prefessional era I think, who went overseas at something like 20 and as far as I know never returned to play but nor did he make it wherver he went, surprisingly. Anyone else remember him?

    Another in that sort of category was an open side from Canterbury called Greg Smith in around 1994/95. Crazy promise then disappeared.

    Didn't Daniel have a long career with Saracens (I think).

    Didn't Greg Smith go out with Melodie Robinson before "Canterbury Steve Walsh"?

    I had a good old read-up on Brendon Daniel last nigth after posting. Left in 2002 so not as long ago as I thought and yep played 200 or so games in the NH and then came back to BOP in 2011. I don't recall him ever playing for BOP again though?

    As for dating Melodie Robinson, well, who can remember all of them??

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    Sorry, possibly a bit harsh on Melodie. Might have her confused with BOK 😉

    I was once told she got her cans out in a spa full of ABs in Hamilton though.

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    @shark I just checked out that BoP Times article (I assume that was the same one you read) and the dates are confusing - he was playing England 7s in 1998 so the 2002 date seems a missprint.

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    That makes a lot more sense Nepia.

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