@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Naki v Harbour:

didn't he just sign for the Taipans?

I though SBW was keeping that signing secret until closer to season tip off.

@mariner4life Sky has been showing archive NPC playoff games. I have recorded last nights Waikato-Canterbury SF from 1998, as I remember it well. I won't bother with the final. 🙂

For those in NZ, there is another replay shortly.

Scoreboard looks bad for Harbour, but i don't reckon it reflects the game. I think we all ummed and ahhed before hitting the button

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 RESULTS and Semifinal Draw:

Well pretty lopsided voting results in the quarters

CM lose to OTA (even if I think you lot got that one wrong 😉 )
Naki lose to NH
Poo lose to CAN
AUC the only home game winners against Waikato

So the draw for the Semis is done and we have a Battle of the Bridge and a Battle of the Waitaki

AUC v NH at Eden Park
OTA v CAN at Carisbrook

no way that came out random! two derbies?

Would have been fun to watch that Waikato midfield with both players in their prime.

Ok. Cullen and playing at the Showgrounds Oval tips it in favour of the poo for me.

@mariner4life he started his npc and finished it with the bop I think he gave great service went all the games

@KiwiPie said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@KiwiPie said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@Toddy said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 BOP v Counties:

@KiwiPie you'll need to take that up with Hawkes Bay.

No need to take it up with us, he didn't play for BoP.

I didn't really think it through when I made the comment to be honest - have only just discovered this board.

He might not actually have played but I did once see him sitting the stand - and he wasn't even an All Black when we signed him so we pretty much made him the player he became!

I think his new contract didn't kick over until NPC time in 2012 - the AB website list Hawkes Bay as his province when making the ABs. 😉

But the news broke earlier which was the spur he needed.

Not to mention the best Photoshopping work of the century to date

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We don't need photoshop. 🙂

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Dude really is the missing link.

@Kiwiwomble said in Ultimate NPC: Round 2 Counties v Otago:

@Nepia Latta > oliver, anton was almost as bad as coltmans at lineout thows, 171 games and his nickname is "Crazy"...come on

brewer was a toss up, was goign to swap but the deadline beat me

Oliver was a 50 test AB, Latta was a decent NPC player with a cult following, it really shouldn't have been a contest ....

By the way. This is a 48 hour round. Get your votes in.

@Hooroo he has he’s told a lot of people down the local rugby club.

@Higgins said in Ultimate NPC: - Hawkes Bay:

ANd now Peter O'Shaughnessey has just been the subject to a somewhat "clumsy" tackle and is off undergoing the Head Injury protocol. Is Mark Sisam next in line or would one of the younger guys get the nod if Saus gets the three week stand down?

Time to bring in McClutchie - the Canes selectors might realise he exists then.

@Higgins said in Ultimate NPC: - Counties-Manukau:

@Crucial That was where my question was being aimed at. Dawson should have been a certainty ahead of Tukino and anyone else you might have fronted with.

From memory he played some 6 in his later years (probably among the last 50 of his 200 games) but certainly wasn't at his peak then and was a much better 8.
I had a check and it looks like he was squeezed into 6 for Baabaas and North Island when he was playing 8 so you may be correct about his versatility.

@Higgins ha ha yeah, next game...

@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 Otaaaaaago v Tasman:

How did @Chris-B vote twice?

Cash.

@Tim I reckon Manawatu might have the better pack - at least in terms of the "greatness" pantheon.

Waikato only has Loe and (for a short time) Messam as regular first choice ABs.

Manawatu has Knight, Lambert, Shaw and Eveleigh.

I was going to ask you where Kahu Marfell fits into your thinking? As in how many injuries required before he makes the 23?

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - Canterbury:

@shark said in Ultimate NPC: - Canterbury:

How did Deans become the final choice at fullback?

Home provinces get selection preference over your poaches, Rangi is playing for Tasman.

Isn’t it ironic?

@shark said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 Southland v Canterbury:

So it's 112-0 at half time.

Southland doing well then?
Wait until the dodgy oysters kick in.

@kev

As a skinny, young winger (casually guarding the blindside) nothing grabs your attention more than Wuzz Phillips coming off the back of an Eastern (Kaiwaka) scrum.
It didn't end well ...

@Bovidae he was part of that Star-studded Marist line-up back in the day. Brooke brothers, T. Wright, J. Kirwan etc...it was 1 too many choirboys in the Auckland team for some.

@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: Round 1 Auckland v Wellington:

I saw Jones missing from the team sheet and for a split second thought everyone must have been drunk in the Auckland selection thread.

Thought I'd have some fun.
Just wait until the injury report after round one

@dogmeat he'd be ok in this team, it was more he wasnt overly keen to pass to his brothers before!

@mariner4life said in The Draw! Round 1:

@Nepia said in The Draw! Round 1:

Well Wellington is fucked.

that depends. if enough deluded Hurricanes fans are also Wellington fans, they could rig the vote with spam...

and Hammer happens to coach Auckland...

@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - Waikato:

@Crucial So we are down to our 3rd choice 1st 5 now?

I'm tempted to go for Wayne Smith as the best option for our backline, not Foster. A game for Waikato B must count! 🙂

No one will remember Murray Taylor. I don't.

Well if you didn’t poach your 10s from elsewhere you wouldn’t have that problem.
I have put Foster in at the moment but you can decide a late sub if you want

@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - Otago:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - Otago:

How did Brewer miss out on this team and Pene make it? Justify yourself Otago-ites. 😉

Because Brewer pissed off to Canterbury? 😉

Ok, you've convinced me. 😉

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - Southland:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Southland:

Any love for Ginge Henderson at 7?

Hard as nails that bloke.

All Black test captain with a 100% winning record and a +128 for and against.

Very small sample size there. 1 match versing Japan ? RWC. The Marc Ellis one?

@dogmeat said in Ultimate NPC: - North Harbour:

Despite him being one of my favourite players ever I would drop Rushy for Oz and put Evans into FB.

Yep.

Don't think that Northland will "release" Kamo for you. Assuming that is the Jones that you mean. Boric was pretty bloody good though (when not broken).

@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - Manawatu:

Lee Stensness
Lachie Cameron
Craig Wickes
Ken Granger
Jackson Hemopo
Jason Eaton

Wickes didn't last long.

I thought Granger.

Forgot Nug is from the Poo - My immediate thought was Donaldson

Pretty good pack.

@taniwharugby said in Ultimate NPC: - Wellington:

@nzzp and then the cliff he fell off after being driven into the ground by Cooper

I don't think I've ever seen a forward decline so fast without major injuries. Amazing

@Duluth not me, I'm a johnny come lately with auckland.

@Stockcar86 said in Ultimate NPC: - Central Vikings:

@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - Central Vikings:

@Crucial said in Ultimate NPC: - Central Vikings:

Just in case @Nepia wants to play

You're a nasty nasty man. Just insert the Magpies team from 1996/1997 and Christian Cullen and you're good to go.

But remember that Jarrod Cunningham is at fullback, so Cullen plays midfield

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