AB Quizzes (Wingers + others)

[Bovidae]

@chris-b said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Was there another Canterbury hooker during the Shield era?

John Mills

[ACT Crusader]

@bovidae said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@chris-b said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Was there another Canterbury hooker during the Shield era?

John Mills

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[Crucial]

@bovidae said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@chris-b said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Was there another Canterbury hooker during the Shield era?

John Mills

That's the one I was thinking of that went on the Cavaliers tour. Thought he was a jaffa.

[Chris B.]

@act-crusader Yeah - I'm just recalling the outrage in Keith Quinn's voice when Cropper (a flanker) came on as a sub early in a Shield challenge against Auckland - and Canterbury insisted on going to golden oldies scrums.

"WE KNOW CROPPER CAN HOOK!!!!"

[Crucial]

Are we down to just number 24?

[ACT Crusader]

Updated

1 - Samisoni Taukei’aho
2 - Asafo Aumua
3 - Liam Coltman
4 - Codie Taylor
5 - James Parsons
6 - Nathan Harris
7 - Dane Coles
8 - Aled de Malmanche
9 - Hika Elliot
10 - Derren Witcombe
11 - Corey Flynn
12 - Keven Mealamu
13 - Andrew Hore
14 - Tom Willis
15 - Mark Hammett
16 - Anton Oliver
17 - Norm Hewitt
18 - Warren Gatland
19 - John Buchan
20 - Sean Fitzpatrick
21 - Bruce Hemara
22 - John Mills
23 - Brett Wilson
24 -
25 - Grant Perry
26 - Hika Reid
27 - Andy Dalton
28 - John Black
29 - Graeme Crossman
30 - Peter Sloane

Graham Dowd in there between Hewitt and Gatland

[Chris B.]

@bovidae said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@chris-b said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Was there another Canterbury hooker during the Shield era?

John Mills

That's him - we had a run of Johns.

[Bovidae]

@crucial said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Are we down to just number 24?

So from the early 1980s.

[ACT Crusader]

@chris-b said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@act-crusader Yeah - I'm just recalling the outrage in Keith Quinn's voice when Cropper (a flanker) came on as a sub early in a Shield challenge against Auckland - and Canterbury insisted on going to golden oldies scrums.

"WE KNOW CROPPER CAN HOOK!!!!"

Just found this on Cropper

VCS Websites (NZ) - Lower Hutt and Wellington www.vcsnet.co.nz

Philip Anthony Cropper | New Zealand Rugby History

[Crucial]

I gave up and cheated. Good luck to anyone that can remember 24. I didn't.

[Chris B.]

@act-crusader said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@chris-b said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@act-crusader Yeah - I'm just recalling the outrage in Keith Quinn's voice when Cropper (a flanker) came on as a sub early in a Shield challenge against Auckland - and Canterbury insisted on going to golden oldies scrums.

"WE KNOW CROPPER CAN HOOK!!!!"

Just found this on Cropper

VCS Websites (NZ) - Lower Hutt and Wellington www.vcsnet.co.nz

Philip Anthony Cropper | New Zealand Rugby History

Can you remember that game?

Keith went on and on and on about it. Much to his satisfaction we lost, but it was probably the closest anyone came to beating the Auks in about 5 years.

[Bovidae]

@crucial said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

I gave up and cheated. Good luck to anyone that can remember 24. I didn't.

What province?

[ACT Crusader]

@crucial said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

I gave up and cheated. Good luck to anyone that can remember 24. I didn't.

It’s an obscure one for sure.

[Crucial]

@bovidae said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@crucial said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

I gave up and cheated. Good luck to anyone that can remember 24. I didn't.

What province?

A southern one

[Bovidae]

@crucial Ah, I know who it is now.

[Chris B.]

@bovidae Me too. But, I've cheated.

I still have him as part of a set of bubblegum cards from the mid-1970s, but I didn't think he'd ever been an All Black.

[Bovidae]

I don't remember seeing him play for the ABs but with the clue about his province, his name was in the back of my brain. All sorts of useless crap in there!

[Kiwiwomble]

@bobily2 said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Derren Witcombe

shit its worrying when you have no recollection of someone that's played relatively recently, had to look him up, made the AB's in my first year in the UK which in my defense was a bit...foggy...in general

[bobily2]

@kiwiwomble said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

@bobily2 said in AB Quizzes (Wingers + others):

Derren Witcombe

shit its worrying when you have not recollection of someone that's played relatively recently, had to look him up, made the AB's in my first year in the UK which in my defense was a bit...foggy...in general

Probably most memorable for retiring after having his neck broken in a scrum - I remember hearing Corey Flynn (the opposing hooker) talking about it. I only started really following rugby in around 2006, and he retired in 2007 so presumably that's why I remember him.

[ACT Crusader]

So the elusive #24 is Otago hooker (and captain for a couple of seasons), Ken Bloxham. Went on a tour to Fiji in 1980 and started both games. Neither were test status.