NH International Rugby
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@booboo said in NH International Rugby:
Who is David Watkins?
He was by all accounts a bloody good player. Very much in the mercurial mould of Welsh fly halves of the time. However he went North and some bloke called Barry John came and filled in. Quite well as it happened.
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@Catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@booboo said in NH International Rugby:
Who is David Watkins?
He was by all accounts a bloody good player. Very much in the mercurial mould of Welsh fly halves of the time. However he went North and some bloke called Barry John came and filled in. Quite well as it happened.
Legend.
Double code.
Captained the Lions, played GB league.
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@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
@MajorRage walrus just trolling, make stupid judgements, catches more people's attention. Made the headlines here in NZ on stuff and herald. I just ignored
Obvious troll is obvious
Yep. They also rated the 10 best captains which made the local newspapers. The Walrus doesn't rate the GOAT.
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Eddie Jones is set to sign a new England contract:
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Sheesh, young fella.
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@Stargazer Couldn’t see anything on the RFU website
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@Catogrande It seems to come from this article, but it's behind a paywayll, so I can't read it.
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From a NH coach so posting here
Would be hard to beat
McGeechan's greatest rugby XV:
JPR Williams ( Wales ); John Kirwan ( New Zealand ) Brian O’Driscoll ( Ireland ), Phlippe Sella ( France ), Jonah Lomu ( New Zealand ); Dan Carter ( New Zealand ), Gareth Edwards ( Wales ); Tom Smith ( Scotland ), Sean Fitzpatrick ( New Zealand ), Jason Leonard ( England ); Martin Johnson ( England ), John Eales ( Australia ); Richard Hill ( England ), RIchie McCaw ( New Zealand ), Zinzan Brooke ( New Zealand ) -
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
From a NH coach so posting here
Would be hard to beat
McGeechan's greatest rugby XV:
JPR Williams ( Wales ); John Kirwan ( New Zealand ) Brian O’Driscoll ( Ireland ), Phlippe Sella ( France ), Jonah Lomu ( New Zealand ); Dan Carter ( New Zealand ), Gareth Edwards ( Wales ); Tom Smith ( Scotland ), Sean Fitzpatrick ( New Zealand ), Jason Leonard ( England ); Martin Johnson ( England ), John Eales ( Australia ); Richard Hill ( England ), RIchie McCaw ( New Zealand ), Zinzan Brooke ( New Zealand )Too young to remember JPR Williams. He must have been some player if he was a better Fullback than Serge Blanco or Christian Cullen.
I'd pick Maa Nonu and Danie Gerber ahead of his midfield.
Buck Shelford ahead of Zinzan Brooke. Jerome Kaino above Richard Hill. Os Du Randt ahead of Tom Smith.
The rest about right.
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RFU has a £100 million blackhole and is about to fire 25% of its staff:
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
From a NH coach so posting here
Would be hard to beat
McGeechan's greatest rugby XV:
JPR Williams ( Wales ); John Kirwan ( New Zealand ) Brian O’Driscoll ( Ireland ), Phlippe Sella ( France ), Jonah Lomu ( New Zealand ); Dan Carter ( New Zealand ), Gareth Edwards ( Wales ); Tom Smith ( Scotland ), Sean Fitzpatrick ( New Zealand ), Jason Leonard ( England ); Martin Johnson ( England ), John Eales ( Australia ); Richard Hill ( England ), RIchie McCaw ( New Zealand ), Zinzan Brooke ( New Zealand )That's one of the better ones I've seen to be fair
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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
From a NH coach so posting here
Would be hard to beat
McGeechan's greatest rugby XV:
JPR Williams ( Wales ); John Kirwan ( New Zealand ) Brian O’Driscoll ( Ireland ), Phlippe Sella ( France ), Jonah Lomu ( New Zealand ); Dan Carter ( New Zealand ), Gareth Edwards ( Wales ); Tom Smith ( Scotland ), Sean Fitzpatrick ( New Zealand ), Jason Leonard ( England ); Martin Johnson ( England ), John Eales ( Australia ); Richard Hill ( England ), RIchie McCaw ( New Zealand ), Zinzan Brooke ( New Zealand )That's one of the better ones I've seen to be fair
Same.
Weird one is Leonard, though. Not even in his strongest position, majority of career as loosehead.
Hill is a bit of a homer to for the target audience of the paper. But he was good. If you asked 50 former greats to pick an all time 15 probably all 50 would pick a different guy at 6, its that kind of position. -
Hill was a weapon. He's in that top bracket I reckon.
Leonard played test rugby for a long time and won a world cup, he doesn't look out of place.
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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
Hill was a weapon. He's in that top bracket I reckon.
Leonard played test rugby for a long time and won a world cup, he doesn't look out of place.
Yeah. But Leonard was categorically never the best THP in the world, at any stage, even in his own era. IMO.
For a few years in the mid 90s you could put a case for him being best LHP.He sticks out like dogs balls to me in an otherwise good team.
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@sparky Danie Gerber is a very good call. He put the fear of God into us in 1981!
It's a good team, but it's got a bit of a look of making sure there's at least one player from each of the Home Unions - and that's helped squeeze out all of the Saffas.
Here is Gerber cutting up the Irish at 38 seconds.
