Rugby

[pete]

What an absolutely shitty spectacle.

[Hesi]

?????

[pete]

Just now, Hesi said:

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The game mate. It's awful. Puts me off watching rugby. 

[pete]

Ugly wins.

[craigos1]

I don't watch Rugby hardly at all these days,

Cricket , Rugby League , Football , Golf ,Aussie Rules ,Tennis

In no particular order after Cricket

[Gordy]

Hopefully this is the All Blacks one poor game of the season.

I don’t have sky sports now, so will wait for the highlights to come up on YouTube.

[Hesi]

I used to follow the Lions tours around in NZ, lots of provincial games at provincial towns, great.  That 71 Lions team was awesome, Andy Irvine, David Duckham, JPR Williams etc etc

I hardly bother watching rugby these days, not sure why, perhaps it is after they went professional.

Went to Massey Uni, never missed a Manawatu game, Hugo Blair, Doug Rollerson, George Hawkins Alan Innes etc

Can probably name 5 in the All Blacks these days.  I like Beauden Barrett though, hasn't he been mucked around, from being World player of the year 2 years in a row I think.

Now if you wanted to see a great game this evening, then Panthers vs Storm was the place to be

[craigos1]

3 minutes ago, Hesi said:

I used to follow the Lions tours around in NZ, lots of provincial games at provincial towns, great.  That 71 Lions team was awesome, Andy Irvine, David Duckham, JPR Williams etc etc

I hardly bother watching rugby these days, not sure why, perhaps it is after they went professional.

Went to Massey Uni, never missed a Manawatu game, Hugo Blair, Doug Rollerson, George Hawkins Alan Innes etc

Can probably name 5 in the All Blacks these days.  I like Beauden Barrett though, hasn't he been mucked around, from being World player of the year 2 years in a row I think.

Now if you wanted to see a great game this evening, then Panthers vs Storm was the place to be

I agree Alan ..... What a game , I gave Penrith no chance but they were awesome.

In the 70's my favourite player for Manawatu was Mark Donaldson.

[Hesi]

8 minutes ago, Maximus said:

Max saw the Lions v Wai-Bush game in '71 in Masterton, QE2 Park. Duckham was blisteringly fast and elusive.

He used to rack up so many tries in those provincial games

[Gordy]

I remember my first year at high school 1969, the year Wales toured NZ. They had a training session at Waitemata park and the School let their rugby players go and watch. I managed to get Barry John’s autograph. My dad took me to Eden park for the test and of course saw Fergie kick 24 points which was a record.

[Hesi]

10 minutes ago, craigos1 said:

I agree Alan ..... What a game , I gave Penrith no chance but they were awesome.

In the 70's my favourite player for Manawatu was Mark Donaldson.

He was a stroppy bastard, from the Te Kawau club.  Manawatu used to have good teams in those days, because the Massey University club used to provide so many classy players.  You might recall that very good stand off Bob Burgess

[craigos1]

velly velly deep!!!

[craigos1]

Headline in ODT this morning.

All Blacks clinches thriller against the Boks!

[ngakonui grass]

I think Foster is having problems getting the team of 5million to come on the trip.

[Hesi]

I think he is a watered down version of Hansen.

Would love to see Scott Robertson, if not for the fact he would bring a new flair to the team.

Much rather listen to him at the post match than Foster

[Globederby19]

21 hours ago, Maximus said:

Max saw the Lions v Wai-Bush game in '71 in Masterton, QE2 Park. Duckham was blisteringly fast and elusive.

My last yr at Rongotai College in 71 and they trained on our main ground. Wasn't really interested as I had spent 9 yrs playing soccer. 

[von Smallhaussen]

On 9/25/2021 at 9:23 PM, Maximus said:

you'll only need to allocate 3 or 4 minutes of your life for the highlights Gordy, unless you like seeing knock-ons, forward passes, poor lineout throws, endless Springbok kicks from the base of the scrum, and a dumb-ass ref who thinks the game is about him.

spot on there Gluteus - especially about that ref! - you missed the purple undies though 

[von Smallhaussen]

On 9/25/2021 at 9:22 PM, Hesi said:

 

Went to Massey Uni, never missed a Manawatu game, Hugo Blair, Doug Rollerson, George Hawkins Alan Innes etc

 

Do you mean Russell Hawkins??

[Hesi]

Yes, have you heard of him, he was known as George.  Awesome centre for Massey Uni and Manawatu, I think he even played for NZ Universities, but never in contention for All Black status  

[Hesi]

Amazingly Googled Massey Uni and this pic came up

Rollerson, Blair and Innes are all bottom right.  Hawkins would have left by then.  Of interest to racing people, top middle is Carey Hobbs, who has run Taranaki racing for a while, also another from Taranaki, who a few might know, is Terry Sole, bottom, second from left

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[von Smallhaussen]

38 minutes ago, Hesi said:

Yes, have you heard of him, he was known as George.  Awesome centre for Massey Uni and Manawatu, I think he even played for NZ Universities, but never in contention for All Black status  

I thought you were getting confused with your past and the former Minister of Police George Hawkins 😆

[Dancing Show]

12 hours ago, Hesi said:

Yes, have you heard of him, he was known as George.  Awesome centre for Massey Uni and Manawatu, I think he even played for NZ Universities, but never in contention for All Black status  

This is a useful site.   https://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/player/russell-s-hawkins