Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour

[Tim]

15 Osborne
14 R Gear
13 Bunce
12 Little
11 Rush
10 Botica
9 Strachan
8 Shelford
7 Barry
6 Cribb/Schuler
5 Jones/Boric
4 Flavell
3 Afeaki
2 Dowd
1 Woodcock

16 Parsons
17 Tu'inukuafe
18 Borovich
19 Larsen
20 Newby
21 Robinson
22 McAlister
23 Evans

[Chris B.]

@Tim Does Rico switch teams at half time?

[Tim]

@Chris-B I hope you're not talking about Canterbury flouting the rules by loaning him out to Ta$man. Where he played three games ...

[Chris B.]

@Tim He played a few more for Nelson Bays. But,....I can't be arsed formatting his table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Gear

[taniwharugby]

had more caps with POverty Bay, Canterbury, Auckland & BOP than he did NB or Ta$man, let alone NH

[Chris B.]

@Tim He was lucky Reuben had cornered the "Suitcase"moniker!

[Tim]

@Chris-B Okay that one got an upvote.

[Smudge]

Richard Kapa!

[Bovidae]

Slade McFarland at hooker.

[shark]

@Tim said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

15 Osborne
14 R Gear
13 Bunce
12 Little
11 Rush
10 Botica
9 Strachan
8 Shelford
7 Barry
6 Cribb/Schuler
5 Jones/Boric
4 Flavell
3 Afeaki
2 Dowd
1 Woodcock

16 Parsons
17 Tu'inukuafe
18 Borovich
19 Larsen
20 Newby
21 Robinson
22 McAlister
23 Evans

Cribb was always an 8 so that takes care of one of your brackets. And when you bracket a player they also need to be bracketed in the reserves.

[shark]

@Tim said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

Who for openside flanker? Four names spring to mind: Gordon Simpson, Liam Barry, Matua Parkinson, and Craig Newby.

Kevin Schuler was more of a six wasn't he?

Dillon Hunt would be ahead of Parkinson and Simpson.

[dogmeat]

I’d have sharkey ahead of ant

[JK]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

I’d have sharkey ahead of ant

Yeah me too.

Poor old Richard Turner not even getting a mention for consideration!

Ron Williams another worth consideration for the bench?

[Nepia]

@JK said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

I’d have sharkey ahead of ant

Yeah me too.

Poor old Richard Turner not even getting a mention for consideration!

Ant over Sharkey for me. Pod (since we're using nicknames) is up against Buck so easy to overlook him I guess. If you don't use him we might put him the Magpies team.

[JK]

Pat Lam is another who spent a wee bit of time in harbour colours

[Bovidae]

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

Pod (since we're using nicknames) is up against Buck so easy to overlook him I guess. If you don't use him we might put him the Magpies team.

That comment reminds me of this review I took a photo of in the Rugby News after an AB trial.

[Nepia]

@Bovidae damn, that’s harsh ... up until a couple of years ago I would have had that rugby news in storage.

[dogmeat]

@JK we’re well sorted from 8 up. Have plenty of options at 6 and 7 without having anyone world class but the lower numbers apart from a couple of obvious standouts are comparative journeymen

To use my favoured airline ticket analogy Our backs Apart from 9 are all looking forward to first class tickets although a couple are on stand by They’ll will be joined by an 8 lock and #1 but the rest are business class and a couple of our bench options are premier economy

Depending on the draw we should still go deep in the Comp but losing semi finalist is the best we can hope for

Of course that’s amazing for a team that’s only played 35 seasons

[JK]

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

@JK we’re well sorted from 8 up. Have plenty of options at 6 and 7 without having anyone world class but the lower numbers apart from a couple of obvious standouts are comparative journeymen

To use my favoured airline ticket analogy Our backs Apart from 9 are all looking forward to first class tickets although a couple are on stand by They’ll will be joined by an 8 lock and #1 but the rest are business class and a couple of our bench options are premier economy

Depending on the draw we should still go deep in the Comp but losing semi finalist is the best we can hope for

Of course that’s amazing for a team that’s only played 35 seasons

Sounds about right! We'll probably upset the eventual winners in round robin but then lose the semi final we should really have won

[JK]

@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

Pod (since we're using nicknames) is up against Buck so easy to overlook him I guess. If you don't use him we might put him the Magpies team.

That comment reminds me of this review I took a photo of in the Rugby News after an AB trial.

Pod always reminded me of wal footroot