Gooonnnnee too soon
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12091655
Borg was a big shock, I was a young un but old enough to have some idea of the macca Borg rivalry. The name on the list I'd forgotten was James Ryan. Amazing how time moves on the the ABs. It would be an interesting exercise to compile a top squad of NZ players that retired early or left to go to the NH far too soon. I'll start with
Hayman, Ryan, lucre (came back but left his best years up North), Nick Evans, that centre from Waikato, Charles Piatau, Mike Brewer
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@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
I think some people are confusing what the article is about - "retiring too soon" - with gone from NZ too soon.
I did specify retire or leave NZ to play elsewhere.....
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@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones Regan King? Didn't he return from Europe only last year and play in the Heartland comp for Mid-Canterbury? Pretty long career, considering he's now 37 years old.
Oh sorry TSF off topic master! I thought King was 'that centre from Waikato'.
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@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones He was. Why the name calling? I just expressed my surprise about seeing his name mentioned.
Yes, very surprising to see a rugby player who left NZ at a young age mentioned in a thread about players who left NZ at a young age.
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@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
I think some people are confusing what the article is about - "retiring too soon" - with gone from NZ too soon.
leave the country you may as well be retired. Fucking. Dead. To. Me. #deadtome #goneandforgotten
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@bones said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones Regan King? Didn't he return from Europe only last year and play in the Heartland comp for Mid-Canterbury? Pretty long career, considering he's now 37 years old.
Oh sorry TSF off topic master! I thought King was 'that centre from Waikato'.
Absolute case in point. I'm astounded to know Regan King is even alive. To me he is that young kid from Waikato who looked awesome and then disappeared off the face of the earth. a career gone too soon
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@hooroo said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
Stephen Donald of course. Left at his absolute trucking world cup winning peak!!
Nah, that's sailing off in a blaze of shirt-not-fitting-right glory. Ultimate career mic drop
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@hooroo said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
Was James Ryan that carrot top? He's a doctor now right or maybe a lawyer?
Toeava left too soon prolly.
That tall Chinese basketball player was a superstar for a brief time, what happened to him?Ryan was the ginger. Yao Ming was the NBA star whose feet were made of glass
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I never thought of Stu Wilson as one who retired early. He was an AB from 76 to 83.
Looking up on wikipedia he was 29 when he played his last test rugby and 30 when he stopped playing for Wellington.
In fact I don't actually remember him retiring from test rugby, did he do it quietly or was Kirwan simply picked ahead of him in 84?
I agree with Bjorn Borg and Mark Ella being absolute wtf?! retirements. Can't think of any others. Actually, also David Kirk as mentioned, but that wasn't shocking. So well sign-posted I guess, or easily understood and didn't seem 'final'.
Glenn Turner, before my time, but he basically put the peak of his career into backwater cricket.
Imagine if Martin Crowe had taken up that Queensland Sheffield Shield offer ......
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@mariner4life said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones Regan King? Didn't he return from Europe only last year and play in the Heartland comp for Mid-Canterbury? Pretty long career, considering he's now 37 years old.
Oh sorry TSF off topic master! I thought King was 'that centre from Waikato'.
Absolute case in point. I'm astounded to know Regan King is even alive. To me he is that young kid from Waikato who looked awesome and then disappeared off the face of the earth. a career gone too soon
King ? Pfffft.
He wasn't even the best Maori centre from Waikato in the last 16 years with the initials RK.
My old man's tennis partner Chris Laidlaw gave Rugby away at 26. Pretty young.
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@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@mariner4life said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones Regan King? Didn't he return from Europe only last year and play in the Heartland comp for Mid-Canterbury? Pretty long career, considering he's now 37 years old.
Oh sorry TSF off topic master! I thought King was 'that centre from Waikato'.
Absolute case in point. I'm astounded to know Regan King is even alive. To me he is that young kid from Waikato who looked awesome and then disappeared off the face of the earth. a career gone too soon
King ? Pfffft.
He wasn't even the best Maori centre from Waikato in the last 16 years with the initials RK.
My old man's tennis partner Chris Laidlaw gave Rugby away at 26. Pretty young.
Laidlaw and Kirk, among others, were professional men in the amateur era. They could see rugby as the well paid career it is today
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@hooroo said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
Was James Ryan that carrot top? He's a doctor now right or maybe a lawyer?
Toeava left too soon prolly.
That tall Chinese basketball player was a superstar for a brief time, what happened to him?That tall chinese basketball player got inducted into the NBA hall of fame last year (maybe the year before) with Shaq. Ming was a beast.
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@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones The article was about players ending their career early. That's how I read the subject. My bad.
I'm not sure that you really need to police thread topics anyway. The fern ebbs and flows, in and out, deep breaths when things go astray (and stay away from the "off topic" forum that will do your head in).
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@snowy said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@stargazer said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@bones The article was about players ending their career early. That's how I read the subject. My bad.
I'm not sure that you really need to police thread topics anyway. The fern ebbs and flows, in and out, deep breaths when things go astray (and stay away from the "off topic" forum that will do your head in).
Fucken @Bones always jumps in and gets triggered. I for one am sick of it.
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@majorrage said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
@mn5 said in Gooonnnnee too soon:
My old man's tennis partner Chris Laidlaw gave Rugby away at 26. Pretty young.
By tennis partner, do you mean saw him at breakfast once?
Nope. This is genuine family friendship, not one of @jegga s stories.
He was at my wedding. ( Chris Laidlaw, not jegga )
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