The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV
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@Duluth Moala was 28. Great player, sadly as he was just about to break in, he'd get injured.
@mariner4life From memory he wasn't offered a Super Rugby contract? He had a few injury problems and was capped too early. We never saw the best of him here.
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@Duluth said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Regan King?
yeah why did he leave just as he appeared to be cracking it? Especially given he's a centre, a position we are rarely stacked at?
Really weak tackler. I remember one of the well connected Waikato posters said he hated any contact work. Probably knew he didn't have a long NZ career ahead of him?
that would pretty much do it
managed a few games up North i see.
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@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Stanley Jr
he was superb. But you cna't mix a career as a Doctor with a rugby career any more.
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@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Moala was 28
Oops must have mixed him up with someone else
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@nzzp I thought he had a neck injury or other serious injury...must be thnking of someone else as there is no mention of it
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@taniwharugby said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@nzzp I thought he had a neck injury or other serious injury...must be thnking of someone else as there is no mention of it
Spinal cord:
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@Duluth cheers, nothing on the brief piece on Wiki and nothing specific on his NZ Rugby profile either (just says at bottom 'career ending' that I missed on first reading)
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@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@Duluth said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Regan King?
yeah why did he leave just as he appeared to be cracking it? Especially given he's a centre, a position we are rarely stacked at?
Really weak tackler. I remember one of the well connected Waikato posters said he hated any contact work. Probably knew he didn't have a long NZ career ahead of him?
that would pretty much do it
managed a few games up North i see.
regan was sraight out money more to be made up north.last i heard he had a season of club rugby anf heartland for mid canterbury ,so would imagine he didnt save much. sisters doing better though
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@dogmeat said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@ploughboy he has come out as having a gambling addiction. Mainly because he was accused of having ripped people off to fuel it.
that wouldn't surprise me givan stories I've heard from mid canterbury people
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@nzzp said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Stanley Jr
he was superb. But you cna't mix a career as a Doctor with a rugby career any more.
Also was already done at like the start of the thread
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who?
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@Bones said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@nzzp said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Stanley Jr
he was superb. But you cna't mix a career as a Doctor with a rugby career any more.
Also was already done at like the start of the thread
Yeah apparently so. Interesting, my brain forgot that entirely
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@Bovidae said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@cgrant said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.
That's a name I haven't heard in a while.
Sean Maitland? He's just retired too.
A few years ago, Grice was named best Nr.8 of the Top 14.
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@Duluth said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@mariner4life said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:
Regan King?
yeah why did he leave just as he appeared to be cracking it? Especially given he's a centre, a position we are rarely stacked at?
Really weak tackler. I remember one of the well connected Waikato posters said he hated any contact work. Probably knew he didn't have a long NZ career ahead of him?
King in his prime was possibly the best attacking 13 in the Northern Hemisphere. Numerous 13s of the round in Heineken Cup. Had an almost Svengali ability to make people think he was going where he was not and thereby to stroll though quality tight defences untouched.
Never known up here for tackling.
Stanley left counting his lucky stars - NZ Herald
