Openside flankers

[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

[Frye]

Geez 30 is a lot!

Harding
Henderson
Newby?
So'oialo
Masoe

[MN5]

Mike “Grade A Prick” Brewer

[ACT Crusader]

@toddy said in Openside flankers:

Papalii
Savea
Blackadder
Cane
Todd
McCaw
Thomson
Braid
Holah
Robertson
Kronfeld

There may not be an exact science to my order but I’ve got 30 😀

From your list @Toddy you have
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 8, 11, 15, 19

[MN5]

Liam Barry

[ACT Crusader]

@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

Zinzan on debut in 1987.

22

[ACT Crusader]

@nepia said in Openside flankers:

Randell

18

[Bovidae]

Latimer and Whitelock in the same game in Chch. I was there and it was fuckin' freezing.

[ACT Crusader]

@frye said in Openside flankers:

Geez 30 is a lot!

Harding
Henderson
Newby?
So'oialo
Masoe

12, 23, 10, 9

[MN5]

Michael Jones