Openside flankers

[gt12]

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@kiwiwomble No. I saw this guy play at 1st XV level and thought he would be a star in NZ.

Of course you would add that one!

[gt12]

@chris-b said in Openside flankers:

Does Pete Samu count?

Born and educated in Oz, wasn't he?

[Kiwiwomble]

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@kiwiwomble No. I saw this guy play at 1st XV level and thought he would be a star in NZ.

i forgot about hugh blake

[bayimports]

granny gate Brett Sinkinson wasnt a bad openside either

[Tim]

Glen Marsh.

[canefan]

@nepia said in Openside flankers:

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@nepia said in Openside flankers:

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@nepia Angus MacDonald and Hale T Pole were the other loosies with Harding and Bates.

Yeah, that's why I reckon it was Vallance as Harding is the only "pure" openside out of that lot.

OK. I have no idea who Vallance is, but he's a local to you.

Yep, he's from Hawkes Bay, was a schoolboy star, didn't go very far in senior rugby although did play test and 7s for the Cooks.

Another one blocked out by those Wellingtonians in the Canes academy.....?

[Nepia]

@canefan said in Openside flankers:

@nepia said in Openside flankers:

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@nepia said in Openside flankers:

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@nepia Angus MacDonald and Hale T Pole were the other loosies with Harding and Bates.

Yeah, that's why I reckon it was Vallance as Harding is the only "pure" openside out of that lot.

OK. I have no idea who Vallance is, but he's a local to you.

Yep, he's from Hawkes Bay, was a schoolboy star, didn't go very far in senior rugby although did play test and 7s for the Cooks.

Another one blocked out by those Wellingtonians in the Canes academy.....?

Not sure, but probably, good enough to keep McCaw out but not good enough for the Canes academy.

[chimoaus]

We haven't been too bad at producing some pretty good wingers too Kirwin, Wilson, Lomu, Howlett, Rokocoko, Savea, Ioane spring to mind in my lifetime. Plenty of others also.

[bayimports]

@chimoaus said in Openside flankers:

We haven't been too bad at producing some pretty good wingers too Kirwin, Wilson, Lomu, Howlett, Rokocoko, Savea, Ioane spring to mind in my lifetime. Plenty of others also.

failed wannabe flankers lol

[canefan]

@bayimports said in Openside flankers:

@chimoaus said in Openside flankers:

We haven't been too bad at producing some pretty good wingers too Kirwin, Wilson, Lomu, Howlett, Rokocoko, Savea, Ioane spring to mind in my lifetime. Plenty of others also.

failed wannabe flankers lol

Well at least Lomu was

[Bovidae]

Mealamu

[bayimports]

@canefan said in Openside flankers:

@bayimports said in Openside flankers:

@chimoaus said in Openside flankers:

We haven't been too bad at producing some pretty good wingers too Kirwin, Wilson, Lomu, Howlett, Rokocoko, Savea, Ioane spring to mind in my lifetime. Plenty of others also.

failed wannabe flankers lol

Well at least Lomu was

true, I was just joking but if we dug a little deeper i think we might find a few more

[Chris B.]

@gt12 Learned to play his footy in NZ though. To be fair, he's more a blindside.

[Nepia]

@chris-b said in Openside flankers:

@gt12 Learned to play his footy in NZ though. To be fair, he's more a blindside.

He'd already played for Randwick and in the UK before you lot chequebooked him as a fully grown adult.

[Chris B.]

@nepia Yes - he was a club player we turned into a test player. Didn't the Wallabies pick him directly from the Crusaders?

[Machpants]

@chris-b said in Openside flankers:

@nepia Yes - he was a club player we turned into a test player. Didn't the Wallabies pick him directly from the Crusaders?

Yup, got an early release for it

[ACT Crusader]

Quiz Time: Name the last 30 players to start a test/game for the ABs in the number 7 jersey?

[Toddy]

Papalii
Savea
Blackadder
Cane
Todd
McCaw
Thomson
Braid
Holah
Robertson
Kronfeld

[Bovidae]

Zinzan on debut in 1987.

[Nepia]

Randell