Northland Origin
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This is a real geeky topic, and I’m sure others will be able to help more than what I can add.
Was pondering over other players throughout the country or even overseas that have Northland origins or even links through iwi etc.
I’m sure there’s a shit load that are in schools thought NZ so feel free to add them, but I’m looking predominantly at ABs/Super Rugby/M10 cup sides.
I’ll throw a few in from my limited knowledge:
Akira Ioane
Rieko Ioane
Elliot Dixon
Billy Proctor
Matt Proctor
Alex Nankivell
Pouri Rakete-Stones
Namatahi Waa
Robbie Abel
Waimana Redlinger-Kapa
Josh IoaneSome are obviously far removed but I know the Proctor’s are Ngapuhi origin from Pawarenga in remote western Northland.
I’m sure there’s heaps more.
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@Nepia said in Northland Origin:
@J77 That's a wide selection criteria, even I'd be eligible under it despite the fact I've been to Northland once in my life and hate you b'stards with a passion.
Haha it was bloody hard typing in any players that have worn black and white jerseys I’ll tell you that much! 😛
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@Nepia would stop you at the border anyway!
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@taniwharugby said in Northland Origin:
@Nepia would stop you at the border anyway!
You let me through in July, TBF I snuck up the Dargaville way so it was probably assumed I was a few Northland Kumara short of a hangi.
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@Nepia said in Northland Origin:
@taniwharugby said in Northland Origin:
@Nepia would stop you at the border anyway!
You let me through in July, TBF I snuck up the Dargaville way so it was probably assumed I was a few Northland Kumara short of a hangi.
Dargaville! Wtf were you thinking??
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@J77 said in Northland Origin:
@Nepia said in Northland Origin:
@taniwharugby said in Northland Origin:
@Nepia would stop you at the border anyway!
You let me through in July, TBF I snuck up the Dargaville way so it was probably assumed I was a few Northland Kumara short of a hangi.
Dargaville! Wtf were you thinking??
I'd never seen a person with one dreadlock on their head, and I don't mean one curly dread, they had a full head of hair that hang down to nearly the waist that had formed into a single dreadlock. I think that's a good enough reason.
We were heading to Tane Mahuta ... Dargaville was an eye opener to the Aussie and Palestinian we were travelling with.
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@Nepia an Aussie, would have thought he'd have seen significantly more, er, interesting towns than Dargaville over the Ta$man....I do have to be careful, my parents live over there these days!
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@taniwharugby said in Northland Origin:
@Nepia an Aussie, would have thought he'd have seen significantly more, er, interesting towns than Dargaville over the Ta$man....I do have to be careful, my parents live over there these days!
She .. she's also from Logan in Brisbane, so the Dargaville of Brisbane.
Even the Palestinian was shocked and he's a refugee ... TBF he's the most pampered precious refugee you'd ever come across. Grew up in Kuwait pre invasion and then Jordan and works in IT and wont eat any meat with a tiny bit of fat on in it (unless it's crispy bacon that he can't tell is fat) because his Mum used to cut the fat of for him.
Where do your parents live?
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@Machpants I said they live over there nowadays, not that I was from there....
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@taniwharugby said in Northland Origin:
@Machpants I said they live over there nowadays, not that I was from there....
So your saying it's better that they choose to live there rather than being born there? 😜
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@Machpants they bought a business there about 6 years back...I suggested it wasnt the best move, particulalrly selling up in Whangarei and moving given dad had been commuting for a few years already...but parents, what are you to do.
If you get the chance, from Kaikohe drive down Mangakahia Road (recently got designated a SH) some great rural vistas of largely unspoilt hillsides (that look like somehting out of JUrrasic Park) other parts you expect to see a boy playing a banjo (or guitar more like) on the deck of an old broken down house.
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@Bovidae said in Northland Origin:
@Nepia You should have ventured further north, and then Dargaville wouldn't appear so bad. I drove through Kaeo about 8 times. No wonder Eric Rush left.
Bar the flooding I’d take Kaeo over Dargahole any day. But yep, best to keep driving through otherwise. However if you venture around the coast a stones throw from Kaeo you get some of the best little beaches in the north.
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@taniwharugby said in Northland Origin:
@Machpants I said they live over there nowadays, not that I was from there....
Thought you meant Straya
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@J77 We were based in Mangonui and made a point of visiting places like Matauri Bay and Taupo Bay. Really nice and popular, but some of the other inland towns weren't so appealing. I've never seen so many abandoned cars left on the side of the road as up north either. Worse than GBI.
