AB "What could have been" XV

[Cactus Jack]

A few from Taranaki who were sawn off by injury . Mark Allen , Jason Eaton and James Broadhurst . All probably due consideration for such a team .

[A Former User]

@MajorRage
Best comment on here by far..... everyone missed it.

[A Former User]

@TheWolf said in AB "What could have been" XV:

@MajorRage
Best comment on here by far..... everyone missed it.

[MajorRage]

@TheWolf said in AB "What could have been" XV:

@MajorRage
Best comment on here by far..... everyone missed it.

Ummm ..... what?

[Bones]

@MajorRage spam?

[sparky]

Looks to be like "The Wolf" might be a Bot trying to be pretend to be a Ferner.

Got to try harder, Mr Bot. A long rant about Wayne Barnes, Carlos Spencer, Mark Hammett, Akira Ioane or the future of Super Rugby might have been more convincing.

[shark]

Stu Loe
Matt Sexton
Kevin Nepia
Grant Kelly
Mark McAtamney
Greg Smith
Angus Gardiner
Rob Penney
Ben Hurst
Derek Maisey / Mal Arnold / Hamish Gard
Cam McIntyre
Adam Whitelock
FABJM
James Kerr
Daryl Lilley

[MN5]

@shark said in AB "What could have been" XV:

Stu Loe
Matt Sexton
Kevin Nepia
Grant Kelly
Mark McAtamney
Greg Smith
Angus Gardiner
Rob Penney
Ben Hurst
Derek Maisey / Mal Arnold / Hamish Gard
Cam McIntyre
Adam Whitelock
FABJM
James Kerr
Daryl Lilley

James Kerr. Big fan of his work back in the day. Sidestepping Tana.....tackling Jonah.....he could do it all

[Higgins]

Dale Atkins at No 8? Damn good player but needed another four or five inches added to his height. Any thoughts on Neil Ruddell from you Northland guys?

[Nepia]

@shark said in AB "What could have been" XV:

Stu Loe
Matt Sexton
Kevin Nepia
Grant Kelly
Mark McAtamney
Greg Smith
Angus Gardiner
Rob Penney
Ben Hurst
Derek Maisey / Mal Arnold / Hamish Gard
Cam McIntyre
Adam Whitelock
FABJM
James Kerr
Daryl Lilley

I suggest what could have been would have been a lot of losses.

[Tim]

Rob Gordon.

[Chris B.]

@Higgins Atkins is the one I always think of in this sort of thread. A sort of Canterbury Duane Monkley.

No. 8 with the speed of a midfielder - which was a rare thing in the 1980s.

[shark]

@Nepia Yes indeed. But I will say, along the lines of 'what could have been', is if extended AB squads and tests against Japan etc had been a thing in many of those guys' careers, a lot of them would have been capped. Scary. A couple, such as Angus Gardiner and Greg Smith (who's career was all too brief) would have been quite worthy.

[Nepia]

@shark said in AB "What could have been" XV:

@Nepia Yes indeed. But I will say, along the lines of 'what could have been', is if extended AB squads and tests against Japan etc had been a thing in many of those guys' careers, a lot of them would have been capped. Scary. A couple, such as Angus Gardiner and Greg Smith (who's career was all too brief) would have been quite worthy.

I await @ACT-Crusader and @Canerbry's next efforts in the competition for the most Cantanbrian award. This will take some topping.

[MN5]

@shark said in AB "What could have been" XV:

@Nepia Yes indeed. But I will say, along the lines of 'what could have been', is if extended AB squads and tests against Japan etc had been a thing in many of those guys' careers, a lot of them would have been capped. Scary. A couple, such as Angus Gardiner and Greg Smith (who's career was all too brief) would have been quite worthy.

Zac Guildford and Caleb Ralph never scored tried as important as the one James Kerr got either.

[shark]

Yeah but Zac contributed meaningfully in other ways. Such as to the underground Class A trade. And similarly, Ralph almost single-handedly kept STI clinics the province over humming, he was such a swordsman.

[MN5]

@shark said in AB "What could have been" XV:

Yeah but Zac contributed meaningfully in other ways. Such as to the underground Class A trade. And similarly, Ralph almost single-handedly kept STI clinics the province over humming, he was such a swordsman.

Caleb scored my mates wife before they were married. The thing that annoyed him most was she didn’t get with a ‘decent’ AB of the era. It always made watching Crusaders games with them bloody funny when his face came up.

[Kruse]

God Bless bots, if only for re-igniting dead threads randomly.

[Frank]

The halfback for North Harbour Mark Robinson. (Sharky)
Had a quick pass, very strong and quick off the mark.

Random memories but can't remember the name.
A lock that played a few tests for NZ in the late late 90s.
Pretty big, blond spiky hair. High workrate.
Colin Meads commented he was still hitting rucks at the end of a game against Southland.
I think he played for Waikato.
Can't remember his name. (not Mark Cooksley)

[shark]

Royce Willis. But the game evolved quickly shortly after his brief tenure.