Conrad Smith to retire
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Conrad Smith retired in late October 2015
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Loved him as a player. A great foil for Nonu, and a wonderful career proving skinny white guys can still thrive at the top level. Intelligent, thoughtful, funny, a top bloke and incidentally played some sensational footy.
Edit: I don' tthink this will be the last we'll see of him
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@nzzp said in Conrad Smith to retire:
Loved him as a player. A great foil for Nonu, and a wonderful career proving skinny white guys can still thrive at the top level. Intelligent, thoughtful, funny, a top bloke and incidentally played some sensational footy.
Edit: I don' tthink this will be the last we'll see of him
Conrad for PM.
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@nzzp said in Conrad Smith to retire:
Loved him as a player. A great foil for Nonu, and a wonderful career proving skinny white guys can still thrive at the top level. Intelligent, thoughtful, funny, a top bloke and incidentally played some sensational footy.
Edit: I don' tthink this will be the last we'll see of him
I remember reading one of those bullshit player profile things on the canes website and he said his ambition was to have a beer in every pub in NZ. That's brilliant, judging by some of his efforts on Courtney Place that I saw he is giving it a good nudge.
I think @Nepia said it best when describing about what made him so good in that it was really hard ie when sitting down with the Grandkids. He was just good at all he did.
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Can't say I'm surprised. Only went overseas to make some $$$ security for his family.
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I think he would have been fine money wise. Vague recollection that the family had hoped to live abroad and if you can add in a decent wage why not!
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@paekakboyz is he still able to practice Law, pretty sure they get paid well.
Awesome player, smarts, skills, in a time when players were getting bigger, stronger and faster, he was smarter and fitter!
I hope whatever he does post rugby, it is back in NZ, especially if he intends being involved in the sport going forward.
Legend.
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@taniwharugby said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@paekakboyz is he still able to practice Law, pretty sure they get paid well.
Awesome player, smarts, skills, in a time when players were getting bigger, stronger and faster, he was smarter and fitter!
I hope whatever he does post rugby, it is back in NZ, especially if he intends being involved in the sport going forward.
Legend.
He'd sail into a law firm, on the fast track, there is prestige in having an AB great as partner
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@taniwharugby said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@paekakboyz is he still able to practice Law, pretty sure they get paid well.
starting salary of lawyers: $45-50k per year.
https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/news/new-zealand-law-society-and-hays-legal-salary-guide-releasedContract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.
Fark, why not take a couple fo quiet years overseas...
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@nzzp said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@taniwharugby said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@paekakboyz is he still able to practice Law, pretty sure they get paid well.
starting salary of lawyers: $45-50k per year.
https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/news/new-zealand-law-society-and-hays-legal-salary-guide-releasedContract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.
Fark, why not take a couple fo quiet years overseas...
Think he'd start on just a leeettle more than $45k per year ...
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@booboo said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@nzzp said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@taniwharugby said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@paekakboyz is he still able to practice Law, pretty sure they get paid well.
starting salary of lawyers: $45-50k per year.
https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/news/new-zealand-law-society-and-hays-legal-salary-guide-releasedContract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.
Fark, why not take a couple fo quiet years overseas...
Think he'd start on just a leeettle more than $45k per year ...
Nah, he needs to start on the wing and get a bit of experience before moving in
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@nzzp said in Conrad Smith to retire:
Loved him as a player. A great foil for Nonu, and a wonderful career proving skinny white guys can still thrive at the top level. Intelligent, thoughtful, funny, a top bloke and incidentally played some sensational footy.
Edit: I don' tthink this will be the last we'll see of him
As a man who earned my nickname the hard way in prem rugby, I wish I'd been as "skinny" as him.
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@booboo said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@nzzp said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@taniwharugby said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@paekakboyz is he still able to practice Law, pretty sure they get paid well.
starting salary of lawyers: $45-50k per year.
https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/news/new-zealand-law-society-and-hays-legal-salary-guide-releasedContract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.
Fark, why not take a couple fo quiet years overseas...
Think he'd start on just a leeettle more than $45k per year ...
He could say he went to Harvard and then bullshit his way in from there. No one would know the difference.
Would make a great TV show although the sameness of each episode might get a bit boring by season 4.
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@bones most people would have 20kgs on you!
Some players do look bigger in RL, some don't, Conrad was as 'big' as I expected him to be.
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@taniwharugby said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@bones most people would have 20kgs on you!
Some players do look bigger in RL, some don't, Conrad was as 'big' as I expected him to be.
None of them were bigger in real life than old mate Johan Ackermann. He was like a walking barn, people were getting caught up in the slipstream behind him on Lambton Quay.
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@taniwharugby maybe not so much these days
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@bones said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@taniwharugby maybe not so much these days
Good God man, What a lardass
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