@booboo said in Aaron Cruden:
@rotated said in Aaron Cruden:
Between that Nathan-Kirkpatrick-Mourie-Hobbs-Jones-Kronfeld-McCaw-Cane there is perfect overlap.
The only gaps are Sundays during the late eighties, early nineties.
Yes and no. A couple if small windows. Geoff Hines in 1980.
And Ken Stewart was a backward step for tests 1 and 2 when Mourie missed the 81 Boks due to apartheid. Frank Shelford was alright though come test 3. But not lobg in the seat.
Baby Black Brooke-Cowden also good pre Jones but very short.
Mark Carter.
Scott Robinson had a run or two at 7 pre McCaw too didn't he?
Where careers overlapped you kind of give it a pass, like where Richie was rested from the Cantablacks and Holah/Braid replaced him, or where he played the odd test at 6/8 and Latimer/Cane played 7. Technically Hobbs' last test was immediately followed by Jones' first - although Brooke-Cowden snuck in a couple while Hobbs was injured(?) just before retirement.
I guess Robertson nudged Kronfeld out at the end there, but he was in most of the match day teams, just on the bench . But you hit on the a gap between Kronfeld's retirement at the end of 2000 and Richie's debut at the end of 2001 where Randell played 7 predominantly (Collins and Cribb one test each in June).
So there is a break in the streak albeit one that lasted less than a year.
R