Best NZ players never ABs XV

[sparky]

@Stargazer

Okay, Bryn Hall is in ahead of Simon Crabb.

[Nepia]

@sparky said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@Stargazer

Okay, Bryn Hall is in ahead of Simon Crabb.

I thought you said best? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_closed_eyes:

[sparky]

Ian Foster at 10 ahead of Glen Jackson?

[sparky]

@Stargazer

I'd still go with David Latta who was excellent in the early 1990s. He would have played Hooker for the All Blacks in almost any other era, but had Sean Fitzpatrick and Warren Gatland (than Norm Hewitt) ahead of him.

[Stargazer]

@sparky Ha, apart from some test and Hawke's Bay rugby, my memory doesn't go back that far.

[booboo]

@Chris-B said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

He's not post-1987, but Dale Atkins!

Don Hayes
Alwyn Harvey

[African Monkey]

David Holwell

[Chris B.]

@booboo Gary Hooper!

[Toddy]

Reading through the players listed so far gives you an appreciation of how many caps have been handed out since 1987.

[sparky]

@Toddy Yep, lots of very good players who played for the ABs once (Charlie Nganti) or a handful of times. Many fewer very good players who never got to be All Blacks, but Duane Monkley the exception.

[Magpie_in_aus]

Karl Lowe.

A couple of games really took lots of players off the list over the years like that Samoa game where no Landers or Canes I think it was played in it because of the super final. Also the Japan game more recently.

[gt12]

Pauliasu Manu at 1?

I believe he never played a game.

[Gunner]

Justin Collins

[Gunner]

Someone should start a ‘Should never have played for the All Blacks XV’...

I would but that would require too much brain power for a Saturday evening

[mariner4life]

@Gunner said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

Someone should start a ‘Should never have played for the All Blacks XV’...

I would but that would require too much brain power for a Saturday evening

Shitfights galore

[Gunner]

@mariner4life so what are you waiting for? Let’s get the popcorn out

[mariner4life]

@Gunner said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@mariner4life so what are you waiting for? Let’s get the popcorn out

Rampant cantab baiting

[Tim]

@mariner4life Thorne, Blackadder, L Whitelock ...

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@mariner4life Thorne, Blackadder, L Whitelock ...

Start with the easy ones

[Tim]

@mariner4life Who was that useless number 8 from 2002?