Ultimate NPC: - Otago

[Crucial]

OK you Southern men. Who is in your XV?

[Kiwiwomble]

giving some thought to this...just on wiki and none of our records (most tries etc) has been set since 2001...so other than Bender there might not be to many recent players

[Kiwiwomble]

1. Kees Meeuws

2. Dave Latta - beats Coltman and Oliver because he could throw a lineout

3. Carl Hayman

4. Jackson Hempo

5. James Ryan

6. Randell

7. Kronfield

8. Jamie Joseph

9. Byron Kelleher

10. Tony Brown/ Ioane :man_shrugging_light_skin_tone:

11. Paul Cooke

12. John Leslie

13. Tamati Ellison

14. Goldie

15. Bender

in the mix: Hoeft, nick evans, Faddes, dickson...lots of other names...im not going to argue too much about any selections, there are loads of bloke of similar skill to pick from with a few world class

[Duluth]

@Kiwiwomble

Taine Randell > Evans

[Gunner]

Tom Donnelly/Simon Maling > Hemopo

[Kiwiwomble]

@Duluth id be happy with that, big randell fan, Dunedin RFC old boy, remember him coming back to the club rooms for a beer when playing at higher levels

partially slipped my mind, partially my personal lean towards underated dudes

@Gunner was a hard choice for me, i just love Hemopo. once again, we've been blessed with a few really good locks, annoyed i straight up forgot Maling, i was working off a list on wiki...historically maling was one of the first on the list for me

[Duluth]

@Kiwiwomble

I'd have Marc Ellis ahead of Ellison too

[Nepia]

Damn, some weird recency bias in this thread - Evans over Randell, Hunt bracketed with Kronfeld?????
No John Timu?

[Kiwiwomble]

@Nepia i just didn't know where to play timu without being out of position, goldie and bender are/were world class and Cooke is our record try scorer both total and in a season, well underated

hunt probably just on my mind...might edit to avoid too much shit

[Nepia]

@Kiwiwomble said in Ultimate NPC: - Otago:

@Nepia i just didn't know where to play timu without being out of position, golde and bender are/were world class and Cooke is our record try scorer both total and in a season, well underated

hunt probably just on my mind...might edit to avoid too much shit

Timu over Cooke I'd say (there's a reason Timu was an AB) but they're both from Hawkes Bay anyway so I'm happy with either.

[Bovidae]

Pene at no.8 with Randell at 6.

[Nepia]

Here's the start of my Otago team:

2. Anderson-Heather
5. Maling
6. Randell (c)
7. Kronfeld
8. Evans
9. Forster/Lee
11. Cooke
14. Timu
15. Cooper

[Kiwiwomble]

@Nepia timu and cooper over bender and goldie? interesting

[Bovidae]

@Nepia There must be a few other Otago players who drove through Hawkes.

[Nepia]

@Kiwiwomble said in Ultimate NPC: - Otago:

@Nepia timu and cooper over bender and goldie? interesting

As good as they are they don't quite meet my selection criteria.

[Gunner]

@Kiwiwomble said in Ultimate NPC: - Otago:

@Nepia timu and cooper over bender and goldie? interesting

You might have missed the joke. Same but different joke that @ACT-Crusader rolls out all the time

[Nepia]

@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - Otago:

@Nepia There must be a few other Otago players who drove through Hawkes.

TBH, I've been at parties where lots of them have turned up, but I am sticking to players from the Bay, this isn't Ta$man we're talking about.

[Smudge]

Without too much thought

15 Smith
14 Wilson
13 Ellis
12 Leslie
11 Timu
10 Brown
9 Kelleher
8 Randell
7 Kronfeld
6 Joseph
5 Ryan
4 Maling
3 Hayman
2 Oliver
1 Hoeft

16 Latta
17 Hotton
18 Meeuws
19 Timmins
20 Thomson
21 Forster
22 Alatini
23 N Evans (can cover 10/15, hence the midfield cover on the bench)

[Kiwiwomble]

i should declare my bias, Paul Cooke and John leslie coached one of my high school teams, thay flatted together and had the whole team over for fish and chips etc, that was pretty cool for a 13 year old

[Kiwiwomble]

@Smudge goldie as reserve hooker?...big call