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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 Iβm 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 π 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 π 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.
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@bones said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
@mn5 yeah I don't expect you to follow Tongan rugby bro.
Best I could think of for now. English Premiership winner. I like how you didn't baulk at Broughton. He's probably the one you best remember eh?
Good player. He was no Marty Berry though...
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Met a lot of politicians business people GG's etc - some minor royalty, sports people, film stars and muso's but that's more a result of age and getting to go to dinners etc or through work - none of them would remember me I'm sure
Only played with one (moderately) famous sportsman. England fast medium bowler of the 70's (and now Guardian journo) Mike Selvey. Way too fast for me.
My abiding memory though is Joanna Lumley - 35 years ago - opening her door clad only in her nightwear with the sun behind her....
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@bones said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
Completely forgot the Waldroms. They can go into honourable mentions though.
Which brings me to Mo Schwalger. Guess he can take Elvis' spot.
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@dogmeat said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
My abiding memory though is Joanna Lumley - 35 years ago - opening her door clad only in her nightwear with the sun behind her....
PLease elaborate on why she was opening her door for you? Spare no details
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I see Matt Todd most mornings on the school run.
Chris Harris gratuitously took the piss out of me for about 90 straight minutes at a poker game once after I went large on the first hand.
Ben Blair scored the chick I took to my 7th form ball (that night), she's now married to another former All Black whose name would dox her and she's a lovely girl and doesn't deserve that.
My brother-in-law was the one who told Mark Hammett to quit soccer and take up rugby in 4th form.
Daryl Gibson was my peer support leader in 3rd form, on peer support day in the first week, him and Andrew Mehrtens took their big bunch of turds down to the river to eat Raro out of our hands and try to scone ducks with acorns. In 7th form, when we did the same, little did I know that a young Dan Carter was in the group, so I'm the direct link there.
I hung out and drove round with Shane Bond for a few days at Queenstown Winter Festival when he was still the fastest bowler in the world with a legal action.
Have dealt with cricket and rugby teams quite a few times working in hotels, there was the time Shoaib Aktar "wasn't right in the head" (- Pakistan team doctor) and used a vivid to sign his name hundreds of times on the wallpaper of his hotel room.
Helped Pedro de la Rosa get a rental car to go to Kaikoura, he wrote that Suzuki Ignis off in the Hundalees.
There'll be more...
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@bones said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
Plus having lived in London ten years now my best celebrity encounter dates back to my very first weekend sitting next to a table with Rebecca Loos on it. Rolling out the big names now.
In my London days I played tennis with Hugh Grant. I also used to drink at a pub with a Croatian actor who you'd know if you saw Rade Ε erbedΕΎija but probably don't recognise his name. He was a funny guy who'd made a movie in NZ.
The only semi famous rugby people I played with were Danny Lee and Roger Randle. I've played touch rugby with Ihaia West.
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@bones said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
@nepia that guy with the beard? For some reason I thought he lived in NZ. Some movie with Tem or something wasn't it?
I think it was with the guy who played Nig in Once Were Warriors, IIRC Nig and the guy with the beard's daughter hook up and he doesn't like it.
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@hooroo said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
@dogmeat said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
My abiding memory though is Joanna Lumley - 35 years ago - opening her door clad only in her nightwear with the sun behind her....
PLease elaborate on why she was opening her door for you? Spare no details
He was a package delivery man - I've heard this story before!
Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.
