F*ck playing them rugby XV
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My brother used to work with an Aussie player quite a while ago. He asked him who was the dirtiest player he ever played against and he said without hesitation “Andy Earl”.
Then one Monday morning after playing the Springboks he arrived at work and said he’d changed his mind and it had become Uli Schmidt. -
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@Wally said in F*ck playing them rugby XV:
My brother used to work with an Aussie player quite a while ago. He asked him who was the dirtiest player he ever played against and he said without hesitation “Andy Earl”.
Then one Monday morning after playing the Springboks he arrived at work and said he’d changed his mind and it had become Uli Schmidt.Didn't Andy Earl get in a punch up/push up with one of his AB teammates on one of those videos from the late 80s/early 90s?
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I remember playing a Pre Season for my Div 1 Metro Club at Glenmark as we used to go out there every Pre Season .
Was having a leak in the toilets when Alex Wyllie and Andy Earl came flying through the door smashed the shit out of each other, it spilled out into the clubrooms.I asked one of the Glenmark boys what the Fuck is that allbout he just said AHH happens every week old Bull v Young Bull that sums up Glenmark.Grizz was Canterbury coach at the time. -
I remember a recording of All Blacks playing Barbarians in approx 1973. The Barbarians did the old fashioned Willie away move from a line out. The guy who tapped the ball at the back of the line out fell to the ground and Grizz stamped on his face as he ran past.
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It rings a bell. At a Canterbury training around 1990 the Sydenham forward pack were brought in for some opposed line out training. Earl took a swing at one of the Sydenham guys which was a mistake as he was a skilled boxer who landed a barrage of about 10 punches on him before he was pulled off.
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Flavell was probably as mad as any of them , but played in the wrong era ,
Hey troy , you cant do that shit anymore .
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@kiwiinmelb said in F*ck playing them rugby XV:
Flavell was probably as mad as any of them , but played in the wrong era ,
Hey troy , you cant do that shit anymore .
Poor old Flavell. Such an amazing talent but labelled a thug from the moment Steve Skinnon ruthlessly eyed him in the thumb....
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Calder had to be fuckin' brave to do that to Fitzy
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labelled a thug from the moment Steve Skinnon ruthlessly eyed him in the thumb...
Bit like Danny Grewcock. Developed a taste for players fingers - and Kev Mealamu's thumb.
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@MN5 said in F*ck playing them rugby XV:
@kiwiinmelb said in F*ck playing them rugby XV:
Flavell was probably as mad as any of them , but played in the wrong era ,
Hey troy , you cant do that shit anymore .
Poor old Flavell. Such an amazing talent but labelled a thug from the moment Steve Skinnon ruthlessly eyed him in the thumb....
Had he played in a previous era , we may be looking back on him as some kind of bad guy hero .
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@MN5 said in F*ck playing them rugby XV:
Weren’t all the guys of that era scared of Frank Oliver? I remember reading he smashed Grizz in a game back in the day
Was known as "Tom Tom" - as in the tom-toms were beating as Frank came into town as opponents had been warned of his physical prowess.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in F*ck playing them rugby XV:
Calder had to be fuckin' brave to do that to Fitzy
Really ? Calder was as tough as anyone who played. rumour has it he shaved the day he was born.
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its funny how times have changed ,
league was probably on a different level again , players would go toe to toe , exchanging blows so often it was nothing , much like ice hockey ,
my old man played in the ellerslie premiership sides in the late 50s, and said they would all have to do compulsory boxing training , not for fitness , so when fights broke out , they knew how to handle themselves
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It's amazing to think how psycho it was and the refs didn't give a shit. Even right up until the start of professionalism it was almost a free for all. I remember Aus vs Ireland at Ballymore in 1994 and an Irish player clocked David Wilson on the back of the head during a break in play (had probably stamped on his head). Ref just told him to get back to his side. He'd be off and out for weeks now. I also remember Lomu getting his head stamped by Brian Lima (a psychopath worthy of this thread). That enraged the big man, and the next chance he got, he picked Lima up and threw him head first into the ground. Again, it would have been a red and weeks on the sideline for both of them.
Not saying that was acceptable, but it's gone waaaay too far in the other direction now.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel I agree , I’m probably a bit old school , but I find it a bit too sanitised now at times
