Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..
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@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
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@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
Always difficult to know with you half-Jock/half-colonial types.
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@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
Always difficult to know with you half-Jock/half-colonial types.
@catogrande I thought Jocks (and the Irish and the Welsh) are colonials?
https://randompublicjournal.com/2016/05/30/notes-on-the-colonisation-of-scotland/
Then again you were Rome's colonials...so as the wheel turns.. -
The highest compliment I could give DC is that he was even better than Mike Gibson.
And he was.
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The most amazing first five ever seen. A marvel of what's capable on a rugger field.
Shame he sullied it all by signing for the blues. The Australians of New Zealand.
A bit like with Jessica Alba with thrush, or prime Sharon Stone with a yeast infection - nearly perfect
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@catogrande I thought Jocks (and the Irish and the Welsh) are colonials?
https://randompublicjournal.com/2016/05/30/notes-on-the-colonisation-of-scotland/
Then again you were Rome's colonials...so as the wheel turns..@nostrildamus said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande I thought Jocks (and the Irish and the Welsh) are colonials?
https://randompublicjournal.com/2016/05/30/notes-on-the-colonisation-of-scotland/
Then again you were Rome's colonials...so as the wheel turns..Depends on whether one's ancestry is Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Dane or Celt. A total fish-mash. Brought home nicely at a soccer match between England and Germany. England fans had recently sung "If it wants for the English you'd be Krauts" to French fans and the Germans then sung to our boys "If it wasn't for the Saxons you'd be Welsh".
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Considering who we are talking about this thread is a dumpster fire
I can't wait to tell my grandkids about all the ridiculous shit I saw Dan do live. What a rugby player.
Best all round player I ever saw.
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I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
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I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Thinking along that line it makes the 2011 win even more impressive because we did it with 3rd and 4th choice 10s
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Interesting about his thought processes around retirement and coaching
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Which undisputedly proves that Dan was the best ten ever.
As for Jonny being better defensively, he probably put in more hard hits, but Dan's low technique was text book stuff especially to bring down larger players. So I'd go with Dan there too Clive, just because you coached your boy didn't make him better.
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@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
Always difficult to know with you half-Jock/half-colonial types.
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@catogrande said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mn5 said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@mikethesnow said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@sparky said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
Some highlight reel this:
Watched 4 mins and saw one piece of brilliance
Needs a massive edit and refocus
He was no Gavin Henson but he went alright sometimes. Give DC a break
Don’t be so precious mate, he wasn’t knocking DC just the puff piece masquerading as a highlights reel and the thing is if there was ever a player that didn’t need a puff piece it would be Carter.
I’m disappointed you thought I was being remotely serious. Good White knighting though.
Always difficult to know with you half-Jock/half-colonial types.
I don’t take Rugby seriously enough these days to get that triggered.
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Which undisputedly proves that Dan was the best ten ever.
As for Jonny being better defensively, he probably put in more hard hits, but Dan's low technique was text book stuff especially to bring down larger players. So I'd go with Dan there too Clive, just because you coached your boy didn't make him better.
@snowy Jonny’s hard hits broke his body way too young. If Woodentop coached him that he ruined him.
I don’t remember anybody the 10 channel being particularly leaky when DC was playing. Best I’ve ever seen, a privilege to have seen him at his best.
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@snowy Jonny’s hard hits broke his body way too young. If Woodentop coached him that he ruined him.
I don’t remember anybody the 10 channel being particularly leaky when DC was playing. Best I’ve ever seen, a privilege to have seen him at his best.
@jc said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@snowy Jonny’s hard hits broke his body way too young. If Woodentop coached him that he ruined him.
I don’t remember anybody the 10 channel being particularly leaky when DC was playing. Best I’ve ever seen, a privilege to have seen him at his best.
Agreed. Dan was a great defender. I have no idea whether Clive coached that technique with Jonny (I suspect it was earlier). I was getting at Clive playing favourites because he coached him rather than being objective like us AB fans...
Dan was still way better though.
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I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Whoa, way to tarnish the legacy of Stephen Donald, sheeeesh !
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@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Thinking along that line it makes the 2011 win even more impressive because we did it with 3rd and 4th choice 10s
@canefan said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
@berniescorner said in Dan Carter hanging up his boots ..:
I remember thinking in 2011 WC if DC had been fully fit we would have walked it. He was that good.
Thinking along that line it makes the 2011 win even more impressive because we did it with 3rd and 4th choice 10s
Except the third choice turned out to be far, far better than the second choice -- we just did not know that at the time. When Cruden was 1st Five for the the ABs was our best ever period.
Cruden ran onto the 2011 final with no demons (as did Beaver) and could just play his game. Carter was carrying two horrible previous RWC losses in his head. Given that the rest of the team near choked for the same reason, I don't think Carter would have made much difference.
If having Carter would have walked it, why did having McCaw make it so difficult?
