Best Magpies Import Poll (Nominations)

[African Monkey]

Sona Taumalolo?

[Magpie_in_aus]

Danny Lee would almost fit the bill as well but he might be more for your next poll best local imported back. Him and Zac and Gareth and Weber, Matty B etc

Sona was just a rock up from working the forestries from memory more than an import.

I genuinely can't remember but was N Mauger terrible for us or were we just terrible when he was there.

[Stockcar86]

I’d have Thomas The Tank Engine rather than Coman, but probably neither. For loose forward import I’d pick O’Connor.

Lock import, Mark Abott?

[Nepia]

@Magpie_in_aus said in Best Magpies Import Poll (Nominations):

Danny Lee would almost fit the bill as well but he might be more for your next poll best local imported back. Him and Zac and Gareth and Weber, Matty B etc

Sona was just a rock up from working the forestries from memory more than an import.

I genuinely can't remember but was N Mauger terrible for us or were we just terrible when he was there.

Nah, those guys are all local so they don't count, has to be a straight up import - Lee played for the Magpies (and the 'spit' Vikings) before moving away.

[Stargazer]

Is Neria Fomai an import? I have the impression that about his whole family lives in the Bay, so I'm not sure. (Is Tivaini Fomai - a Magpie in 2012 - his brother?)

[Stockcar86]

I guess our best hooker import would be Ash Dixon (from Auckland several times as I remember)

Edit I am an idiot, he played for us first

[Stockcar86]

For a midfielder , Robbie Fruen was pretty good for us

[Stargazer]

Geoff Cridge didn't play 1st XV in Hawke's Bay but played for the HBU18s, so arrived here directly after school. Not an import according to @Nepia 's definition ?

[Higgins]

@Stockcar86 said in Best Magpies Import Poll (Nominations):

I guess our best hooker import would be Ash Dixon (from Auckland several times as I remember)

Edit I am an idiot, he played for us first

Still an import as he came through the Canterbury System and in true Ken Laban style attended St Bedes College. Some pretty decent players in the 2006 NZ Schools team that he played for

NZS 2006

SQUAD L.G. Braid (Tauranga BC) M.B. Cameron (Hamilton BHS) A.J. Cathcart (Hamilton BHS) H.M. Cochrane (Marlborough BC) R.S. Crotty (Shirley BHS) I.I.A. Dagg (Lindisfarne College) A.L....

[Bovidae]

@Higgins I'm sure Ash Dixon went to CBHS. I remember him being interviewed on TV as the captain of their 1st XV.

[Higgins]

@Bovidae I stand corrected. Obviously Ken Laban had nothing to do with the post of the 2006 NZ Schools Team listed on the College Sport Media Website. It is enormous relief to learn that the former Captain of Napier Tech Old Boys is not an old boy of a doolie outfit.

[dogmeat]

@Nepia Kel Tremain

[Number 10]

@dogmeat That deserves many upvotes!

[Magpie_in_aus]

Craig Philpott count as an import?

[Nepia]

@Magpie_in_aus said in Best Magpies Import Poll (Nominations):

Craig Philpott count as an import?

Can I direct you to my other thread please?

[mariner4life]

two threads about shameless HB poaching?

For shame magpies, for shame...