Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..
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The highest compliment I could give DC is that he was even better than Mike Gibson.
And he was.
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The most amazing first five ever seen. A marvel of what's capable on a rugger field.
Shame he sullied it all by signing for the blues. The Australians of New Zealand.
A bit like with Jessica Alba with thrush, or prime Sharon Stone with a yeast infection - nearly perfect😉
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@nostrildamus said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande I thought Jocks (and the Irish and the Welsh) are colonials?
https://randompublicjournal.com/2016/05/30/notes-on-the-colonisation-of-scotland/
Then again you were Rome's colonials...so as the wheel turns..Depends on whether one's ancestry is Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Dane or Celt. A total fish-mash. Brought home nicely at a soccer match between England and Germany. England fans had recently sung "If it wants for the English you'd be Krauts" to French fans and the Germans then sung to our boys "If it wasn't for the Saxons you'd be Welsh".
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Considering who we are talking about this thread is a dumpster fire
I can't wait to tell my grandkids about all the ridiculous shit I saw Dan do live. What a rugby player.
Best all round player I ever saw.
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I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
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@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Thinking along that line it makes the 2011 win even more impressive because we did it with 3rd and 4th choice 10s
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Interesting about his thought processes around retirement and coaching
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Which undisputedly proves that Dan was the best ten ever.
As for Jonny being better defensively, he probably put in more hard hits, but Dan's low technique was text book stuff especially to bring down larger players. So I'd go with Dan there too Clive, just because you coached your boy didn't make him better.
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@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
Always difficult to know with you half-Jock/half-colonial types.
I don’t take Rugby seriously enough these days to get that triggered.
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@snowy Jonny’s hard hits broke his body way too young. If Woodentop coached him that he ruined him.
I don’t remember anybody the 10 channel being particularly leaky when DC was playing. Best I’ve ever seen, a privilege to have seen him at his best.
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@jc said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@snowy Jonny’s hard hits broke his body way too young. If Woodentop coached him that he ruined him.
I don’t remember anybody the 10 channel being particularly leaky when DC was playing. Best I’ve ever seen, a privilege to have seen him at his best.
Agreed. Dan was a great defender. I have no idea whether Clive coached that technique with Jonny (I suspect it was earlier). I was getting at Clive playing favourites because he coached him rather than being objective like us AB fans...
Dan was still way better though.
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@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Whoa, way to tarnish the legacy of Stephen Donald, sheeeesh !
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@canefan said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Thinking along that line it makes the 2011 win even more impressive because we did it with 3rd and 4th choice 10s
Except the third choice turned out to be far, far better than the second choice -- we just did not know that at the time. When Cruden was 1st Five for the the ABs was our best ever period.
Cruden ran onto the 2011 final with no demons (as did Beaver) and could just play his game. Carter was carrying two horrible previous RWC losses in his head. Given that the rest of the team near choked for the same reason, I don't think Carter would have made much difference.
If having Carter would have walked it, why did having McCaw make it so difficult?
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@jc said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@snowy Jonny’s hard hits broke his body way too young. If Woodentop coached him that he ruined him.
I don’t remember anybody the 10 channel being particularly leaky when DC was playing. Best I’ve ever seen, a privilege to have seen him at his best.
What an absurd assertion, to claim Wilkinson is better because he was a better defender (which is debatable anyway, was he a better defensive communicator, a better scrambling defender yada yada). Defending at 10 is important, but the requirement is to be solid, not a destroyer. Far more important is your ability to coordinate the team, to put them in the right areas, to keep defenders honest.
There is a reason why we still see some great 10's at the highest level despite being very average defenders (hi Merhts)
Carter was the best, bar none.
Also that link is broken, here it is again:
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when you think PIri had time at 10 too, you should say we had 5 10s in 2011.
JW was always a hard hitter on defence, he and HOniball were 2 agressive defenders (legal, not like Butch) however DC was more efficient with is use of his tackles. Was a very good defender but did so by simply making the tackle without putting in the big hits, thus being kinder to his body.
BUt its when you add in the other aspects to DC's game where he sits head and shoulders above anyone else, running, kicking, passing.
When he went down in 2011, I though, faaaark we are done, nope
Then there were some people questioning his selection in 2015, nope, he was awesome, that DG he got v Aus in 2015 was sublime, such a clutch play that you get from the greats.
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@chester-draws said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@canefan said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Thinking along that line it makes the 2011 win even more impressive because we did it with 3rd and 4th choice 10s
Except the third choice turned out to be far, far better than the second choice -- we just did not know that at the time. When Cruden was 1st Five for the the ABs was our best ever period.
Cruden ran onto the 2011 final with no demons (as did Beaver) and could just play his game. Carter was carrying two horrible previous RWC losses in his head. Given that the rest of the team near choked for the same reason, I don't think Carter would have made much difference.
If having Carter would have walked it, why did having McCaw make it so difficult?
McCaw had a broken bone in his foot in the 2011 RWC.
As for Carter, the best 10 i've ever seen. He had it all.
That 2015 RWC quarter, semi and final performance from him something else. He finally laid to rest the issue of never having won a World Cup (by being on the field). The drop goal in the final gets more publicity but the drop goal in the rain in the semi was just as impressive - up to that point the ABs were looking a bit shaky and he grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck.
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@kiwimurph wasn't that one in the semi off his right as well?
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