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My Onewhero Under 17 teams and under 19 teams used to have pre season games against Waiuku first fifteen and there was some skinny kid at first five making these huge kicks and he happened to end up helping the All Blacks win the 2011 World cup
Six degrees of separation. Some of my teammates from the Pukekohe Under 17's champion team as well as my mate who was at St Stephens played in a Counties Under 16 team who included some promising players by the name of Donald, Afoa, Kaino and Rokocoko.
I played a pre season game against Otorohanga B's a couple of years ago and Liam Squire was having a run.
In my family tree I have Dave Loveridge and Arnold Palmer. If he was any good I could include Chris Eaton too.
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@mikedogz said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
I also know John Spiers quite well. I played rugby with his son and he used to buy wool of my dad.
Your Father was Wooly?
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Propped against RWC-winning Wallaby, Tony Daly, one day. That was directly when I had to play tighthead prop. In the earlier round I came on at loosehead and he was loosehead for the other side.
He is an utter shitc*nt. So I kept giving him post-match beers at our pub, hoping he'd get done DUI on the way home.
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Lyn Gunson NZ netball player & coach, who used to be married to John Parker. We still have a bat he scored a test century with at Mum & Dads place.
Ella Gunson hockey Commonwealth gold medalist
Worked with Greg Sommerville for a while after he retired from rugby.
Tim Southee - we went to Waiotira Primary School with the Southee’s. Played one t20 game with him for Maungakaramea a few years back. He scored 99* batting at 3.
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Could name drop extensively as I was lucky enough to have played club rugby in Auckland and Waikato at a time when rep players still made the odd game for their club.
So if I was able to pick from all my opposition over seven years I'd be able to field a team good enough to choke at a RWC semifinal (with some of said opposition good enough actually won the thing). I'd nearly have a backup team capable of making the quarters too. A few internationals from other countries would need to slip in to help.
I qualify the above by saying I wasn't very good at average to not quite average clubs and spent as much time in Reserves/Senior B as I did Sen A.
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@gunner said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
We still have a bat he scored a test century with at Mum & Dads place.
It's going to be hard for anyone to top you having test cricket played at your parents. Owesome!
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Had breakfast with Joseph Parker randomly in hotel in Dunedin while away for work.
Played a lot of golf with Mike Hendry and Guy Wilson (Lydias first and best coach) while we were juniors at Pupuke.
See Jerome Kaino a few times a week and often have a chat as he lives down the road from us and kids go to same school plus play rugby together.
Oh yeah - lived up the street from Buck as a kid. Use to deliver his paper and sell him our school raffle tickets. He's often down at North Shore rugby club where my lad plays and remembers me from 30 plus years ago (probably as that annoying kid)
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Played a few games of senior cricket in Dunedin with Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, and Mark Richardson.
Also got out for a duck to one-ODI Black Cap Aaron Gale. But, considering my batting, the Hunchback of Notre Dame could have got me out for a duck.
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Bill Mortimer, an England B team hockey goalkeeper that I’m sure you all remember. Well he still dines out on the story of an unfit rugby player that got roped in to a game of mixed hockey and scored against him.
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Had quite a few social encounters but playing wise , its not that great , but this all ive got that i can remember offhand ,
Played and went to school with sean Lineen whose dad Terry was an AB second five , sean went on to play test rugby with Scotland ,
Played league in Australia with and against Bruce McGuire who went on to play with Balmain , NSW origin and Australia ,
Post football days , trained at a boxing gym, young kid training there Sam Soliman , went on to win a world middleweight title
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@booboo yeah I'm in a similar boat if I include those I played against in Welly and prancing around the country playing Sevens. If I was to name a team off the top of my head...
Murray Driver
Elvis Taione
Graeme Purvis
Richard Watt
Jeremy Thrush
Jerry Collins
Chris Masoe
Sione Lauaki
Piri Weepu
Norm Broughton
Maa Nonu
Hosea Gear
Tana Umaga
Bruce Reihana
Cory JaneCoached by Steve Rennie and John Gallagher.
Celebrity referee for the match Steve Walsh. Backed up by that blonde midget from welly who's name I've forgotten.
Honourable mention to Semo Sititi, Apollo Perelini, Roy Kinikinilau. Missed out on marking Lomu due to injury 😔 actually probably a good thing with me being about 70 odd kg dripping wet at the time.
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@bones said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
@booboo yeah I'm in a similar boat if I include those I played against in Welly and prancing around the country playing Sevens. If I was to name a team off the top of my head...
Murray Driver
Elvis Taione
Graeme Purvis
Richard Watt
Jeremy Thrush
Jerry Collins
Chris Masoe
Sione Lauaki
Piri Weepu
Norm Broughton
Maa Nonu
Hosea Gear
Tana Umaga
Bruce Reihana
Cory JaneCoached by Steve Rennie and John Gallagher.
Celebrity referee for the match Steve Walsh. Backed up by that blonde midget from welly who's name I've forgotten.
Honourable mention to Semo Sititi, Apollo Perelini, Roy Kinikinilau. Missed out on marking Lomu due to injury 😔 actually probably a good thing with me being about 70 odd kg dripping wet at the time.
That Hooker is hardly a household name Bones.
Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.
