@No-Quarter said in RWC All Blacks v South Africa:

Man Rieko left right out, that's a pretty significant fall from grace even when you consider his minor injury.

Goodhue's the other that's fallen out of favour. Prior to his injury I would have thought he was the lock in the midfield with the other 4 contenders jockeying to be his partner. Not that I have a problem with the combo chosen.

I still don't like Reece in the team but then I railed against MacKenzie's selection right up until he got injured and we missed him. Long after I secretly knew he was quite good.

@jegga preferable to a motorboat from a prickly pair (pear)

@jegga you like hairy cactuses?!

@jegga Another one I have (unfortunately) met. Very strange dude. Not sure if he's a sociopath but you would definitely go a long way to meet a greater narcissist.

Not quite the investment genius he like to make out either

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/bornoverseas.ASP?stats_ID=8

When I saw I had replies to my earlier post, I was sure it would be about tits not tests, boobs not blacks.

@Victor-Meldrew all blacks.com has no AB's born in North America.

I have also checked the team lists for the matches played in Nth America (British Colombia & Eastern Canada in 67 and BC and New York in 72) and there are no one-off caps or players that weren't established NZ provincial players.

I do recall a (Kiwi born) one off ring in against Western Australia at some stage but can't find him.

I also fondly remember as a young boy a photo in the 72/73 Post Tour Magazine of a group of AB's (Wyllie, Sutherland, Norton...) out at a Bavarian Beer Hall in 72. They were being served by a very buxom wench who was leaning forward over their table. Not one of the AB's was looking at the camera

@Victor-Meldrew darn - skim read fail again

I'm just glad Tamihere's let his mouth run away from him during the election campaign.

I mean it was always odds on to happen, but I can't imagine the scale of the damage he could do to Auckland if elected with his bullshit no thought popularist policies.

I'm not particularly a fan of Goff's but Tamihere makes him look like a combination of Roosevelt, Churchill and Mandela.

@jegga More weird that Pauliasi Manu has one

@Victor-Meldrew Article has Ireland as finalists.....