Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?
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@act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: QUIZ ALERT #2 Name the 38 halfbacks? If you can pick where they are in the order then an extra virtual chocolate fish for you. I’ll get things started with a couple of hints: 1 - Finlay Christie I'm thinking that Tahuriorangi was before him and Drummond and Weber before that. 
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@bovidae said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: @act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: QUIZ ALERT #2 Name the 38 halfbacks? If you can pick where they are in the order then an extra virtual chocolate fish for you. I’ll get things started with a couple of hints: 1 - Finlay Christie I'm thinking that Tahuriorangi was before him and Drummond and Weber before that. In order of last picked first, Christie is number 1 
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@act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: @bovidae said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: @act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: QUIZ ALERT #2 Name the 38 halfbacks? If you can pick where they are in the order then an extra virtual chocolate fish for you. I’ll get things started with a couple of hints: 1 - Finlay Christie I'm thinking that Tahuriorangi was before him and Drummond and Weber before that. In order of last picked first, Christie is number 1 That is what I am meaning going from most recent to the next most recent, etc. 
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@act-crusader Bruce Deans, Steve Scott, Justin Marshall, Andy Ellis, Jon Preston, Lyn Davis, Mitch Drummond. 
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@nepia said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: @chris-b Now Kahn did reach peak performance when he moved to the Magpies, however he was already playing for Samoa by then so can’t really be included in the best AB 9 discussion. He's in the coulda, woulda, shoulda discussion - a bit like Robbie and Alan Hewson. Injustices that are not forgotten.  (Actually, Kahn's AB prospects were largely farked by Robbie preferring Andy Ellis - something I agreed with at the time). 
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@chris-b said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: @act-crusader Bruce Deans, Steve Scott, Justin Marshall, Andy Ellis, Jon Preston, Lyn Davis, Mitch Drummond. Only have to find 8 more and it’s a quality XV of halfbacks  3 - Mitch Drummond 
 11 - Andy Ellis
 21 - Justin Marshall
 24 - Jon Preston
 26 - Bruce Deans
 31 - Steve Scott
 35 - Lyn Davis
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@act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: 1 - Finlay Christie 
 2 - Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
 3 - Mitchell Drummond
 4 - Brad WeberPulu I'll leave the rest.  
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@bovidae said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: @act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: 1 - Finlay Christie 
 2 - Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
 3 - Mitchell Drummond
 4 - Brad WeberPulu I'll leave the rest.  5 - Augustine Pulu 
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@act-crusader said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?: 1 - Finlay Christie 
 2 - Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
 3 - Mitchell Drummond
 4 - Brad Weber
 5 - Augustine Pulu
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 11 - Andy Ellis
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 38 -Throwing a few more names at you between Marshall & Kirk 
 S Forster
 A Strachan
 J Hewett
 P McGahan (tour games only in France 1990, I think?)
 G Bachop (debuted on the 1987 Japan tour?)
 Dean Kenny
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Updated: thanks @Smudge, I left off Hewett. So it’s 39 1 - Finlay Christie 
 2 - Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
 3 - Mitchell Drummond
 4 - Brad Weber
 5 - Augustine Pulu
 6 - TJ Perenara
 7 - Tawera Kerr-Barlow
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 9 - Alby Mathewson
 10 - Brendan Leonard
 11 - Andy Ellis
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 13 - Piri Weepu
 14 - Jimmy Cowan
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 16 - Steve Devine
 17 - Rhys Duggan
 18 - Byron Kelleher
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 20 - Junior Tonu’u
 21 - Justin Marshall
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 23 - Ant Strachan
 24 - Jon Preston
 25 - Jason Hewett
 26 - Paul McGahan
 27 - Bruce Deans
 28 - Graeme Bachop
 29 - Dean Kenny
 30 - David Kirk
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 32 - Steve Scott
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 36 - Lyn Davis
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