Conrad Smith to retire
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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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@mariner4life said in Conrad Smith to retire:
Conrad Smith retired in late October 2015
Yup, to paraphrase @Chris-B - once you leave NZ rugby, you are dead to me.
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@bones said in Conrad Smith to retire:
@mn5 are you sure that wasn't just people slipping in the jizz stream you were spraying everywhere when following him?
I walked past him fatboy, I'll leave the behind fantasies to you when you're not busy regaling us with tales of your heroic prem rugby career.
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