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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/101269897/former-all-blacks-forward-gary-seear-dies

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    @jegga 😞

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    @booboo said in RIP 2018:

    @jegga 😞

    Yeah mate, never saw him play but read the stories of the goal kicking no 8 . He sounds like a top bloke too.

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    It's hoing into my earlier (not quite earliest) recollections of the All Blacks.

    Makes me sad that these guys aren't immortal.

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    And now Bevan Congdon has gone too. Our first test-winning captain, caught behind 1 run short of 80.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/101333237/former-new-zealand-captain-bevan-congdon-dies.

    RIP

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    @JC you not read the thread JC? 😎

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    @catogrande there was an obvious pun about the first post not getting past the Congdon going begging there mate. Up your game.

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    Does 59 wickets in 61 tests make someone one of NZs finest all rounders? I thought throwing that label around willy nilly was a more recent thing. Still, Hadlee spoke very fondly of him and said he was a great servant for NZ cricket. RIP.

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    @mn5 said in RIP 2018:

    Does 59 wickets in 61 tests make someone one of NZs finest all rounders? I thought throwing that label around willy nilly was a more recent thing. Still, Hadlee spoke very fondly of him and said he was a great servant for NZ cricket. RIP.

    We were totally shit back then so the bar was set a bit lower I guess

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    Anyone who a commentator can quip ‘has a weakness in the 170’s’ about is pretty handy at the very least.

    Tendulkar had that weakness for a while too 🙂

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    @catogrande said in RIP 2018:

    @JC you not read the thread JC? 😎

    @catogrande Shit no. Other people’s opinions offend me.

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    @mn5 I remember Congdon as a tough bastard - didn't throw his wicket away ever and a useful 4th seamer.

    His captaincy set us up for the great things to come in the 80's, by introducing an expectation that we would be competitive in every game we played and would adopt a professional ethos even though only Turner (and Parker) made a living from the game.

    In the context of often going straight from club cricket to test matches we won our first matches ever against Oz and England (although Burgess was capt for that Congdon played) and really should have beaten them away as well.

    Never heard anyone say a bad word against him. He was definitely old school - more a product of the 50's than the 70's (like Pinetree) but I think his stats don't do him justice.

    I met Seear about 15 years ago when he sold me an industrial property in Chch and he seemed cut from similar cloth to Congdon - archetypal humble and understated Kiwi bloke even as areal estate agent! Being instantly recognisable due to his height and name (at least to those of my generation) can't have hurt his sales.

    He started out as a lock and was always there or there abouts but was never going to make the test side so switched to #8 where he was a safe option for a couple of years after Lawrie Knight pissed off to France until Mexted emerged.

    Definitely a journeyman but hey he was an AB and played all 4 tests on the GS tour in 78! and a toe kicking penalty taker at that.

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    One foir the Aussies.

    Seemed a top bloke. And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.

    Sir Nicholas Shehadie. RIP.

    Feb 11, 2018

    Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91

    Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91

    One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91.

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    @booboo said in RIP 2018:

    One foir the Aussies.

    Seemed a top bloke. And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.

    Sir Nicholas Shehadie. RIP.

    Feb 11, 2018

    Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91

    Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91

    One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91.

    Bit of an underachiever really ...

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    @booboo said in RIP 2018:

    One foir the Aussies.

    Seemed a top bloke. And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.

    Sir Nicholas Shehadie. RIP.

    Feb 11, 2018

    Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91

    Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91

    One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91.

    Great australian, looks like he didn't waste a minute of his life.

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    @booboo said in RIP 2018:
    And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.

    Bit classless to take the piss out of someone that has just died isn't it? 😉

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    Dan Gurney, the man who introduced spraying the crowd with champagne after winning a race.

    Formula 1

    Tribute to Dan Gurney, 1931-2018

    Tribute to Dan Gurney, 1931-2018

    One of the sport's greatest innovators and free-thinking spirits, as well as a world-class driver who survived and excelled in one of racing's most deadly eras.

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    Charles Emerson Winchester III retires to The Swamp in the sky. RIP

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12006240

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    Roger Bannister, the man who broke the 4-minute mile, dead at 88. R.I.P.

    http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43273249

    I remember (and recommend reading) the century-ending Sports Illustrated piece by Frank Deford about athletes of the century; he selected Bannister alongside Ed Hillary.

    https://www.si.com/vault/1999/12/27/271843/pioneer-miler-roger-bannister-and-everest-conqueror-edmund-hillary-became-at-midcentury-the-last-great-heroes-in-an-era-of-sea-change-in-sport

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    RIP Sir Roger

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