Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?
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22 and 33 have been named in this thread
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@bovidae said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?:
A couple of others from the 1970s will be Lin Colling and Kevin Greene.
35 - Kevin Greene
39 - Lin Colling -
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1 - Finlay Christie
2 - Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
3 - Mitchell Drummond
4 - Brad Weber
5 - Augustine Pulu
6 - TJ Perenara
7 - Tawera Kerr-Barlow
8 - Aaron Smith
9 - Alby Mathewson
10 - Brendan Leonard
11 - Andy Ellis
12 - Kevin Senio
13 - Piri Weepu
14 - Jimmy Cowan
15 - Danny Lee
16 - Steve Devine
17 - Rhys Duggan
18 - Byron Kelleher
19 - Mark Robinson
20 - Junior Tonu’u
21 - Justin Marshall
22 - Stu Forster
23 - Ant Strachan
24 - Jon Preston
25 - Jason Hewett
26 - Paul McGahan
27 - Bruce Deans
28 - Graeme Bachop
29 - Dean Kenny
30 - David Kirk
31 - Andrew Donald
32 - Steve Scott
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35 - Kevin Greene
36 - Lyn Davis
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@bovidae said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?:
33 and 34 will be Loveridge and Donaldson.
Correct.
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@higgins said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?:
Bruce Gemmell was in there a year or two before Lyn Davis so he might be either number 37 or 38
Well played. He’s 37
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Only 38 to go.
This player played both halfback and 1st 5
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Played only 3 tests, but played 30 non-test games
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@higgins said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?:
Ian Stevens????
Bingo.
Great write up on Stevens here
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Started one test vs Oz at halfback and played 1st 5 in his other two.
Stevens as a halfback had good all round skills, a swift pass and an accurate boot and a breaking ability round the fringes of rucks and mauls which made him one of the Wellington representative side's most dangerous attacking weapons.
But at national level his rise to an All Black spot was blocked by any number of talented contemporaries. Chris Laidlaw, Sid Going and Lyn Davis were only slightly older and in their prime from the late 60s through to the mid 70s.
Later, too, Stevens faced considerable competition for All Black places from Lin Coiling and Bruce Gemmell.
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1 - Finlay Christie
2 - Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
3 - Mitchell Drummond
4 - Brad Weber
5 - Augustine Pulu
6 - TJ Perenara
7 - Tawera Kerr-Barlow
8 - Aaron Smith
9 - Alby Mathewson
10 - Brendan Leonard
11 - Andy Ellis
12 - Kevin Senio
13 - Piri Weepu
14 - Jimmy Cowan
15 - Danny Lee
16 - Steve Devine
17 - Rhys Duggan
18 - Byron Kelleher
19 - Mark Robinson
20 - Junior Tonu’u
21 - Justin Marshall
22 - Stu Forster
23 - Ant Strachan
24 - Jon Preston
25 - Jason Hewett
26 - Paul McGahan
27 - Bruce Deans
28 - Graeme Bachop
29 - Dean Kenny
30 - David Kirk
31 - Andrew Donald
32 - Steve Scott
33 - Dave Loveridge
34 - Mark Donaldson
35 - Kevin Greene
36 - Lyn Davis
37 - Bruce Gemmell
38 - Ian Stevens
39 - Lin Colling -
@act-crusader Who's this John Hewett guy?
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@higgins said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?:
Ian Stevens???? Halfback for Wellington but I can remember him playing at first five for the All Blacks with his long hair on the 1972 tour to the home unions. Not sure if he played halfback though.
Just looking at his games, during the 73 Europe tour on 3 February he started at halfback against France B, then 4 days later he started at 1st 5 against a French Selection team.
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@bovidae said in Discussion of AB 9s. Best ever All Blacks Half Back?:
@act-crusader Who's this John Hewett guy?
Don’t know him
But Jason was a great All Black from the 91 RWC. Amazing he only played one test and that was a start against Italy.
