Gooonnnnee too soon

Bones

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

Craig Dowd

Derren Witcombe

Carl Hayman

James Ryan

Norm Maxwell

Victor Vito

Luke Braid

Steven Luatua

David Kirk

Luke McAlister

James Lowe

John Schuster

Craig Innes

Charles Piutau

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:

Craig Dowd

Derren Witcombe

Carl Hayman

James Ryan

Norm Maxwell

Victor Vito

Luke Braid

Steven Luatua

David Kirk

Luke McAlister

James Lowe

John Schuster

Craig Innes

Charles Piutau

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 .

Nepia

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

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

You mean the Kronfeld era?

is that some really rancid bait or did you not rate Josh?

booboo

Anybody mention Craig Wickes?

Nepia

@jegga said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@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 .

Yeah Hansen mentioned that one time I think.

Tim

@nepia I don't rate him, but I was meaning when we were playing Taine Randell at 7.

jegga

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@nepia I don't rate him, but I was meaning when we were playing Taine Randell at 7.

And Scott robertson

Nepia

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@nepia I don't rate him, but I was meaning when we were playing Taine Randell at 7.

Why do you hate Hastings so much? TBF, I thought Blowers was overrated.

I think Randell was just a fill in? But wasn't it Robertson who was the actual guy in the gap.

Tim

Nicky Allen is often mentioned in these threads.

Tim

@nepia Great link player, mediocre defender, gave away a lot of ruck penalties even if he got a lot of turnovers.

Blowers defence was brutal, his workrate we high, and he had real pace. Then he fucked his knee up.

MN5

@nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@nepia I don't rate him, but I was meaning when we were playing Taine Randell at 7.

Why do you hate Hastings so much? TBF, I thought Blowers was overrated.

I think Randell was just a fill in? But wasn't it Robertson who was the actual guy in the gap.

He's probably been there

jegga

Aaron Hopa

Virgil

Ron Jarden, retired from all rugby at only 26. Scored 145 tries from 134 first class games. Considered the best winger in the world at the time. Gave it away to further his career.
What’s worse he died age only 47

jegga

@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@nepia said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@tim said in Gooonnnnee too soon:

@nepia I don't rate him, but I was meaning when we were playing Taine Randell at 7.

Why do you hate Hastings so much? TBF, I thought Blowers was overrated.

I think Randell was just a fill in? But wasn't it Robertson who was the actual guy in the gap.

He's probably been there

Was thinking the same thing. Kronfeld can't have liked it much either , leaving as soon as he could .

The Silver Fern

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