Gooonnnnee too soon

[MN5]

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@majorrage said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

My old man's tennis partner Chris Laidlaw gave Rugby away at 26. Pretty young.

By tennis partner, do you mean saw him at breakfast once?

Nope. This is genuine family friendship, not one of @jegga s stories.

He was at my wedding. ( Chris Laidlaw, not jegga )

GFYS. Did Laidlaw flog any of your wedding gifts on the way out?

Not sure but the ex and I did have fun re gifting some of the shit ones.

[jegga]

Danyon Loader was only 25 when he gave away competitive swimming.

[MN5]

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

1. Craig Dowd
2. Derren Witcombe
3. Carl Hayman
4. James Ryan
5. Norm Maxwell
6. Victor Vito
7. Luke Braid
8. Steven Luatua
9. David Kirk
10. Luke McAlister
11. James Lowe
12. John Schuster
13. Craig Innes
14. Charles Piutau
15. Matthew Ridge

Someone will probably come up with better picks for 7, 10 (McAlister takes his rightful place at 12 then), and 11.

Frank Halal. He actually made the All Blacks.

[Nepia]

@tim Kipper ahead of Ridge.

That team would be crazy with Lucky and Johnny the Shoe stepping all over the place.

Mark Brooke-Cowden at 7 over Braid?

[jegga]

Nobodys mentioned Ron Cribb. I wonder why?

[Nepia]

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Nobodys mentioned Ron Cribb. I wonder why?

Career killed off by spiteful domehead on a journey wasn't one of canefan's criteria?

[jegga]

@nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Nobodys mentioned Ron Cribb. I wonder why?

Career killed off by spiteful domehead on a journey wasn't one of canefan's criteria?

Running sideways and giving away lots of stupid penalties probably had more to do with it.

[Tim]

@nepia Should be in the team over Vito.

[taniwharugby]

Duane Monkley, Mark Carter....

[Tim]

@nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Mark Brooke-Cowden

That's the guy I was trying to remember.

[Nepia]

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Nobodys mentioned Ron Cribb. I wonder why?

Career killed off by spiteful domehead on a journey wasn't one of canefan's criteria?

Running sideways and giving away lots of stupid penalties probably had more to do with it.

Pfft, I guess you were happy with him being replaced by Sam Broomhall.

[Tim]

@nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Kipper ahead of Ridge.

It's crazy how many good players we lost to league in a couple of years.

[Bones]

@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

1. Craig Dowd
2. Derren Witcombe
3. Carl Hayman
4. James Ryan
5. Norm Maxwell
6. Victor Vito
7. Luke Braid
8. Steven Luatua
9. David Kirk
10. Luke McAlister
11. James Lowe
12. John Schuster
13. Craig Innes
14. Charles Piutau
15. Matthew Ridge

Someone will probably come up with better picks for 7, 10 (McAlister takes his rightful place at 12 then), and 11.

Frank Halal. He actually made the All Blacks.

He's muslim now?

[Nepia]

@tim Yep, we were like the Welsh in that era. Even the next rung down like Halligan had a cracking career, and then there were the guys like Crossan who went as well.

[jegga]

Sam Harding, poor bugger came along at the same time as Richie and Marty Holah

[MN5]

@bones said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

1. Craig Dowd
2. Derren Witcombe
3. Carl Hayman
4. James Ryan
5. Norm Maxwell
6. Victor Vito
7. Luke Braid
8. Steven Luatua
9. David Kirk
10. Luke McAlister
11. James Lowe
12. John Schuster
13. Craig Innes
14. Charles Piutau
15. Matthew Ridge

Someone will probably come up with better picks for 7, 10 (McAlister takes his rightful place at 12 then), and 11.

Frank Halal. He actually made the All Blacks.

He's muslim now?

Of every ferner who could have spotted my auto correct error it is so apt that it was you.

[Tim]

@nepia I loved John Schuster back then. My brother and I would yell "Johnny the Shoe" at the TV like the couple of little idiots we were.

[Nepia]

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Sam Harding, poor bugger came along at the same time as Richie and Marty Holah

For a while it looked like he was edging Richie, then 2 seconds later - bang Richie is a legend. Josh Blackie was unlucky not to be capped in that era.

[Tim]

Aside from the pre Holah/McCaw period, we have produced an amazing crop of sevens in the professional era. Damn Blowers doing his knee.

[jegga]

@nepia I remember reading that Canterbury and Otago had some gentlemans agreement not to poach each others schoolboys and Otago signed Harding so Canterbury got Richie .