Aaron Hopa
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@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@taniwharugby said in Aaron Hopa:
That is a brilliantly written heartbreaking story.
Have to look at a new vacuum cleaner, as the current one clearly isnt doing its bloody job!
Considering all their other stories about rugby are mostly sneering it’s a surprise that one slipped through the cracks .
There’s been a few Wellington players who were rubbish collectors over the years , back in the day when then collected it from your back door it would have been an awesome way to get fit .
Greatest of them all being the late JC of course.
Yeah , imagine doing the oriental bay run ? Carrying two cans down five flights of stairs and back again . Chris Tregaskis was a rubbishman too and I think Frank Bunce?
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@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@taniwharugby said in Aaron Hopa:
That is a brilliantly written heartbreaking story.
Have to look at a new vacuum cleaner, as the current one clearly isnt doing its bloody job!
Considering all their other stories about rugby are mostly sneering it’s a surprise that one slipped through the cracks .
There’s been a few Wellington players who were rubbish collectors over the years , back in the day when then collected it from your back door it would have been an awesome way to get fit .
Greatest of them all being the late JC of course.
Yeah , imagine doing the oriental bay run ? Carrying two cans down five flights of stairs and back again . Chris Tregaskis was a rubbishman too and I think Frank Bunce?
Chris Tregaskis was a builder I think and even in the amateur days an absolute monster.
I prefer a more leisurely stroll on ori bay, you can do much more perving at walking pace.
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@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@taniwharugby said in Aaron Hopa:
That is a brilliantly written heartbreaking story.
Have to look at a new vacuum cleaner, as the current one clearly isnt doing its bloody job!
Considering all their other stories about rugby are mostly sneering it’s a surprise that one slipped through the cracks .
There’s been a few Wellington players who were rubbish collectors over the years , back in the day when then collected it from your back door it would have been an awesome way to get fit .
Greatest of them all being the late JC of course.
Yeah , imagine doing the oriental bay run ? Carrying two cans down five flights of stairs and back again . Chris Tregaskis was a rubbishman too and I think Frank Bunce?
Chris Tregaskis was a builder I think and even in the amateur days an absolute monster.
I prefer a more leisurely stroll on ori bay, you can do much more perving at walking pace.
I worked with him a couple of years ago, he’s a tiler now. His nickname trash because he worked on the bins for a while.
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@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@taniwharugby said in Aaron Hopa:
That is a brilliantly written heartbreaking story.
Have to look at a new vacuum cleaner, as the current one clearly isnt doing its bloody job!
Considering all their other stories about rugby are mostly sneering it’s a surprise that one slipped through the cracks .
There’s been a few Wellington players who were rubbish collectors over the years , back in the day when then collected it from your back door it would have been an awesome way to get fit .
Greatest of them all being the late JC of course.
Yeah , imagine doing the oriental bay run ? Carrying two cans down five flights of stairs and back again . Chris Tregaskis was a rubbishman too and I think Frank Bunce?
Chris Tregaskis was a builder I think and even in the amateur days an absolute monster.
I prefer a more leisurely stroll on ori bay, you can do much more perving at walking pace.
I worked with him a couple of years ago, he’s a tiler now. His nickname trash because he worked on the bins for a while.
Not because kinda sounds like Tregaskis?
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@booboo said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 said in Aaron Hopa:
@jegga said in Aaron Hopa:
@taniwharugby said in Aaron Hopa:
That is a brilliantly written heartbreaking story.
Have to look at a new vacuum cleaner, as the current one clearly isnt doing its bloody job!
Considering all their other stories about rugby are mostly sneering it’s a surprise that one slipped through the cracks .
There’s been a few Wellington players who were rubbish collectors over the years , back in the day when then collected it from your back door it would have been an awesome way to get fit .
Greatest of them all being the late JC of course.
Yeah , imagine doing the oriental bay run ? Carrying two cans down five flights of stairs and back again . Chris Tregaskis was a rubbishman too and I think Frank Bunce?
Chris Tregaskis was a builder I think and even in the amateur days an absolute monster.
I prefer a more leisurely stroll on ori bay, you can do much more perving at walking pace.
I worked with him a couple of years ago, he’s a tiler now. His nickname trash because he worked on the bins for a while.
Not because kinda sounds like Tregaskis?
double entendre?
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@dk said in Aaron Hopa:
Frank Bunce was a dustie, and played for the Dustie's Touch team at Manukau Rovers and Carlton (Grammar Tech). Had a pretty handy team mate in Eric Rush who played as well, although Eric wasn't a dustie.
I thought Rush did while he was a law student?
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@nepia said in Aaron Hopa:
I didn't know that, thought he came too late for the dusties in rugby.
Lowen's career after rugby. I don't know if he still does this now.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/sport/2732028/Rubbish-run-gives-Lowen-a-workout
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@nepia Rush runs a supermarket here now.
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@taniwharugby said in Aaron Hopa:
@nepia Rush runs a supermarket here now.
Robin Brooke used to own our local supermarket, used to see him regularly. Sold it a couple of years ago.
Back on track - what was the actual cause of death with Aaron? I know he was doing an emergency ascent from a dive but what was the physiological problem? I haven't read enough about it.
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Without being a dick about it was he really THAT good ? Could he have single handedly won the 99 WC? Call me cynical but dying young certainly enhances a legacy somewhat....
Put it this way, people raved about Flavell and Cribb back in the day, not every bright talent has an awesome career.
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@mn5 That's the
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@antipodean said in Aaron Hopa:
@mn5 That's the mystic of unfulfilled promise. Look at how James Deans is immortalised.
Yeah exactly my point. I do remember watching the game against Auckland and he was brilliant but I guess you never really know.
