The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV

[SouthernMann]

Brendon Edmonds. Was a heck of a player before injury struck. I reckon he could have pushed to All Black contention. Good strong carrier, stable in the scrum, real shame injury wrecked his career.

[Nepia]

@MN5 said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Gunner said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

I'd be interested in a gone too soon to league team. You could assemble one hell of a backline.

9. Brett Iti
10. Frano Botica
11. Va'aiga Tuigamala
12. John Schuster (fuck me he was a great player)
13. Craig Innes
14. Matthew Ridge
15. John Gallagher

Marc Ellis surely slots in there somewhere

Utility reserve

I reckon he'd be a much better wing that Ridge.

[Higgins]

There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.

[Smudge]

@Higgins said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.

I mean, he died 12 years before Super Rugby started...

[Higgins]

@Smudge Sorry, I misread the thread title as "Gone too soon All Blacks XV"

[Donsteppa]

@Smudge said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Higgins said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.

I mean, he died 12 years before Super Rugby started...

A shoo-in for the Super Rugby Gone Way Too Soon XV...

[Rancid Schnitzel]

How good was Kane Barrett? He had to quit early.

[Duluth]

@Rancid-Schnitzel

Hard to say, he was still improving when he had to quit.

I just looked up his career.. he only managed 4 SR games (3 starts)

[ruggabee]

Tiaan Falcon, shone for the NZ U20 scoring 109 points that 2017 tournament, spent a season or two at the Chiefs before upping the sticks and chasing the moolah, man he would've been a great backup for McKenzie in recent years considering the revolving door of disappointment there (Gatland, Ioane, Trask).

[Bones]

@ruggabee playing for Toyota since '21. Is he actually any good or just on a par with those others listed?

He can't be that great if HB don't even rate him their best...

[cgrant]

Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.

[taniwharugby]

Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon 😀

[Duluth]

I remember there were a few Cantabs on here who really rated Hamish Gard.

[African Monkey]

@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?

[Nepia]

@taniwharugby said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon 😀

This is the left to soon thread not the should have left earlier.

[Nepia]

@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?

Similarly there was a Fern contingent who rated Robbie Robinson as the better 10 prospect than Cruden. Then he actually did leave too soon as he was a pretty decent fullback.

[African Monkey]

@Nepia Yeah, he had massive hype around him. I feel like he tried to come back with North Harbour unsuccessfully a couple of years after his Chiefs stint?

Regan King?

[pakman]

Is there no Fern love left for Charlie Ngatai?

[Bovidae]

@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.

[SouthernMann]

Scott Hamilton. Sadly cut short after just two All Blacks caps. On a podcast he seemed a really good bloke too