Best NZ players never ABs XV

[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?

[Gunner]

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@mariner4life Thorne, Blackadder, L Whitelock ...

Hamilton, Broomhall, Cameron

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@mariner4life Who was that useless number 8 from 2002?

Robertson?

[Gunner]

@mariner4life said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@mariner4life Who was that useless number 8 from 2002?

Robertson?

Think he means Broomhall

[mariner4life]

Blair. Mayerhofler. Slade.

[sparky]

@mariner4life

Mark "Dad's a friend of John Hart's" Carter
Ben Atiga

[mariner4life]

@sparky said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

@mariner4life

Mark "Dad's a friend of John Hart's" Carter
Ben Atiga

Oh yea there's heaps in Auckland too

[sparky]

Brett Cameron

[mikey07]

Ralph n.mauger

[sparky]

Colin Farrell

[Tim]

How about players who were rightly never selected for NZ, despite being talked up?

Number one would have to be Duane Monkley.

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

How about players who were rightly never selected for NZ, despite being talked up?

Number one would have to be Duane Monkley.

More of a legend just because of this

[sparky]

@Gunner

Mark Ranby

[Stargazer]

James Parsons should never have been an AB.

[Tim]

Scott MacLeod.

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

Scott MacLeod.

Excellent call

[Tim]

Adam Thompson

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Best NZ players never ABs XV:

Adam Thompson

Controversial. But I'm on board.

[sparky]

@Tim

Nah, Monkley was a bloody good openside flanker. Not nearly as good as Michael Jones, Josh Kronfeld or Paul Henderson of that era but a lot better than Mark Carter or Liam Barry.