The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV

[SouthernMann]

Brendon Edmonds. Was a heck of a player before injury struck. I reckon he could have pushed to All Black contention. Good strong carrier, stable in the scrum, real shame injury wrecked his career.

[Nepia]

@MN5 said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Gunner said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Tim said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

I'd be interested in a gone too soon to league team. You could assemble one hell of a backline.

9. Brett Iti
10. Frano Botica
11. Va'aiga Tuigamala
12. John Schuster (fuck me he was a great player)
13. Craig Innes
14. Matthew Ridge
15. John Gallagher

Marc Ellis surely slots in there somewhere

Utility reserve

I reckon he'd be a much better wing that Ridge.

[Higgins]

There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.

[Smudge]

@Higgins said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.

I mean, he died 12 years before Super Rugby started...

[Higgins]

@Smudge Sorry, I misread the thread title as "Gone too soon All Blacks XV"

[Donsteppa]

@Smudge said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Higgins said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

There doesn't appear to be any love for Nicky Allen.

I mean, he died 12 years before Super Rugby started...

A shoo-in for the Super Rugby Gone Way Too Soon XV...

[Rancid Schnitzel]

How good was Kane Barrett? He had to quit early.

[Duluth]

@Rancid-Schnitzel

Hard to say, he was still improving when he had to quit.

I just looked up his career.. he only managed 4 SR games (3 starts)

[ruggabee]

Tiaan Falcon, shone for the NZ U20 scoring 109 points that 2017 tournament, spent a season or two at the Chiefs before upping the sticks and chasing the moolah, man he would've been a great backup for McKenzie in recent years considering the revolving door of disappointment there (Gatland, Ioane, Trask).

[Bones]

@ruggabee playing for Toyota since '21. Is he actually any good or just on a par with those others listed?

He can't be that great if HB don't even rate him their best...

[cgrant]

Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.

[taniwharugby]

Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon

[Duluth]

I remember there were a few Cantabs on here who really rated Hamish Gard.

[African Monkey]

@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?

[Nepia]

@taniwharugby said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Jimmy Gopperth...given he has played something like 500 pro games of rugby and only 62 in super rugby...def left way too soon

This is the left to soon thread not the should have left earlier.

[Nepia]

@African-Monkey said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

@Duluth Tyler Bleyendaal too from memory?

Similarly there was a Fern contingent who rated Robbie Robinson as the better 10 prospect than Cruden. Then he actually did leave too soon as he was a pretty decent fullback.

[African Monkey]

@Nepia Yeah, he had massive hype around him. I feel like he tried to come back with North Harbour unsuccessfully a couple of years after his Chiefs stint?

Regan King?

[pakman]

Is there no Fern love left for Charlie Ngatai?

[Bovidae]

@cgrant said in The "gone too soon" Super Rugby XV:

Ben Tameifuna, Rory Grice.

That's a name I haven't heard in a while.

Sean Maitland? He's just retired too.

[SouthernMann]

Scott Hamilton. Sadly cut short after just two All Blacks caps. On a podcast he seemed a really good bloke too