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Tim

1995 World Cup backline should've been:

9 Bachop
10 Spencer
11 Osbourne
12 Little
13 Bunce
14 Kirwan
15 Cashmore

nzzp

@Tim Cashmore > Osborne? Really? Glen was magnificent at that RWC

Tim

@nzzp Cashmore was the best goalkicker in NZ.

MajorPom

@Tim said in North vs South:

1995 World Cup backline should've been:

9 Bachop
10 Spencer
11 Osbourne
12 Little
13 Bunce
14 Kirwan
15 Cashmore

Bit rough on Lomu.

Tim

@MajorRage Defence wins big matches.

Kiwiwomble

@Tim cant win without scoring

nzzp

@Tim said in North vs South:

@nzzp Cashmore was the best goalkicker in NZ.

Yes, but goddamn that Osborne step was a thing of beauty.

Also, Mehrts wasnt' bad to be fair.

Finally, Poor bloody osborne had 1 1/2 years at the back, had injuries and then someone called Cullen rolled up and made him look pedestrian. I was a big Cashmore and Osborne fan, but goddamn I'd take Osborne in that team.

Tim

@nzzp said in North vs South:

Also, Mehrts wasnt' bad to be fair.

Never won anything at test level. Ridiculously overrated player in NZ. Not rated anywhere else.

1995: Choke
1996: Culhane and Preston won the series
1997: Spencer dominance
1998: Lost every game
1999: Destroyed at the world cup

Tim

1999 was when idiot New Zealanders thought Josh Kronfeld was an All Blacks hardman. :face_with_tears_of_joy:

Bones

Bones

@Tim is the walrus.

Bovidae

@Tim Howarth was favoured to be the fullback in 1995. JK was already past it.

Bovidae

@Tim is on fire.

I still remember Spencer's woeful goal kicking in Wellington when the ABs lost to the Boks.

Tim

@Bovidae I am bringing the passion!

Bovidae

@Tim So Bachop can count himself lucky to make your 1995 RWC backline.

MN5

@Tim said in North vs South:

@nzzp said in North vs South:

Also, Mehrts wasnt' bad to be fair.

Never won anything at test level. Ridiculously overrated player in NZ. Not rated anywhere else.

1995: Choke
1996: Culhane and Preston won the series
1997: Spencer dominance
1998: Lost every game
1999: Destroyed at the world cup

Stephen Jones likes him though

Tim

It's pretty clear that the only good South Island AB loose forward of the professional era was Richie McCaw.

Tim

South Island coaches were so bad in that era.that Marty Brooke missed out on the ABs to Chris Tregasgis, and Zinzan Brooke, the most dominant NZ player of the 90s, got overlooked for Aaron Shithouse Pene.

MN5

@Tim said in North vs South:

It's pretty clear that the only good South Island AB loose forward of the professional era was Richie McCaw.

Sounds like someone never saw Rueben Thorne do anything of note in an AB jersey.

Then again none of us did either.

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