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  • canefanC Online
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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-released

    Contract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.

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    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-released

    Contract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.

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    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-released

    Contract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.

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    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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    @bones Yeah, funny how skinny white guys like him and Ben Smith are actually massive units when you meet them in real life.

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    @milk too right, Connie had an extra 20 kegs on me.

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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-released

    Contract at Pau: $66k per MONTH.

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    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

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    Good God man, What a lardass

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    Really would have missed him in France in 07 if the RWC had gone ahead that year. My favourite player of the last decade. Top drawer player and seems a top bloke

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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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    @mn5 are you sure that wasn't just people slipping in the jizz stream you were spraying everywhere when following him?

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    Well I was in his class at school and I can verify definitely confirm skinny guy, really surprised when I heard he made the Wellington team, not even sure he was 1st XV at school? Maybe as half back?

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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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    @mn5 said in Conrad Smith to retire:

    @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.

    Both of those things may not be mutually exclusive.

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    @bones said in Conrad Smith to retire:

    @mn5 said in Conrad Smith to retire:

    @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.

    Both of those things may not be mutually exclusive.

    Did you move to the midfield or the forwards like other noted fatso Brendan Laney?

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    @mn5 move?

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