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[antipodean]

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

Sometimes forget how good Mils was as a running fullback back in those days.

really? how do you forget this?

I just do (early on-set dementia?), maybe because I compare him with the gold standard Rangi (I'm not @Chris-B) Cullen, and remember him as the solid all round fullback he was more than the attacking dynamo.

Mils is our 2nd best FB is have seen. Great runner, really good at bringing his wingers in to the game. He's the man. One of my favourite ABs of the past 20 years (probably 2nd behind Kaino)

And beautifully soft, fast hands. The amount of tries he was the last one to put someone away.

[voodoo]

So reliable too, at both ends. Barely made mistakes. And that Franck Bunce temperament.

[junior]

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

Sometimes forget how good Mils was as a running fullback back in those days.

really? how do you forget this?

I just do (early on-set dementia?), maybe because I compare him with the gold standard Rangi (I'm not @Chris-B) Cullen, and remember him as the solid all round fullback he was more than the attacking dynamo.

Mils is our 2nd best FB is have seen. Great runner, really good at bringing his wingers in to the game. He's the man. One of my favourite ABs of the past 20 years (probably 2nd behind Kaino)

I'd probably go Cullen, Kipper, Mils of the ones I've seen.

Agree with you on Kaino for favourite AB of the last 20 years.

Kipper can't compete with Cullen in terms of sheer brilliance (despite being quite brilliant himself) or with Mils in terms of longevity

[junior]

@antipodean said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

Sometimes forget how good Mils was as a running fullback back in those days.

really? how do you forget this?

I just do (early on-set dementia?), maybe because I compare him with the gold standard Rangi (I'm not @Chris-B) Cullen, and remember him as the solid all round fullback he was more than the attacking dynamo.

Mils is our 2nd best FB is have seen. Great runner, really good at bringing his wingers in to the game. He's the man. One of my favourite ABs of the past 20 years (probably 2nd behind Kaino)

And beautifully soft, fast hands. The amount of tries he was the last one to put someone away.

Yep, it was like having another play maker out the back, together with the pace of winger and the usual hallmarks of a top notch fullback

[Tim]

[antipodean]

@Tim before soccer mums got involved in the sport

[Bones]

@Daffy-Jaffy faaaaark yes. I could watch that angle from Cully against the Boks all day.

[taniwharugby]

@Tim love that one early, but puts hands in ruck, gets the rewards...

[Nepia]

@junior said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

Sometimes forget how good Mils was as a running fullback back in those days.

really? how do you forget this?

I just do (early on-set dementia?), maybe because I compare him with the gold standard Rangi (I'm not @Chris-B) Cullen, and remember him as the solid all round fullback he was more than the attacking dynamo.

Mils is our 2nd best FB is have seen. Great runner, really good at bringing his wingers in to the game. He's the man. One of my favourite ABs of the past 20 years (probably 2nd behind Kaino)

I'd probably go Cullen, Kipper, Mils of the ones I've seen.

Agree with you on Kaino for favourite AB of the last 20 years.

Kipper can't compete with Cullen in terms of sheer brilliance (despite being quite brilliant himself) or with Mils in terms of longevity

Yeah, and that's why he's second, and I don't generally have longevity as one of my key metrics when picking my favourite/best players.

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Classic Rugby Vids:

it was almost a different game really.

[Daffy Jaffy]

2015 QF All Blacks v France masterclass with Brit commentary.

[mikedogz]

18 year old Jonah. I was a big fan of Luke Erenavula as a kid.

https://www.facebook.com/npcrugby/videos/682717492484361/

[mikedogz]

[nzzp]

@mikedogz said in Classic Rugby Vids:

Luke Erenavula

Such a differnet game back then. Would love to have the space in the calendar to play a Probables Possibles game in a regional stadium.

[mikedogz]

https://www.facebook.com/npcrugby/videos/2491391557789066/

[Bones]

@mikedogz Lolani Koko! Awesome.

[Nepia]

@mikedogz Cheers for posting that, I was at that game ... the girls we were with (from the local Catholic school) wouldn't shut up about how hot Marc Ellis was.

[Catogrande]

@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:

@mikedogz Cheers for posting that, I was at that game ... the girls we were with (from the local Catholic school) wouldn't shut up about how hot Marc Ellis was.

I hope you enjoyed a bit of second hand success on the back of it?

[mariner4life]

Watching these videos, rugby was at its absolute pinnacle in the late 90s

[Daffy Jaffy]

Some example matches of rugby's evolution through the decades -