Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Kirwan The problem with the Blues is the neon green NIB sign that would be in the middle of any retro jersey - urgh.
The sponsor is apt because the patient is chronically ill
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@canefan said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@shark said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@canefan said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
I seem to recall there was a jersey before this iconic one but I can't find a picture of it
This was a nice jersey and provided the inspiration for our best ever one imho which was the year we lost the final. I bought the black change strip
To which lost final do you refer?
U couldn't even see the jerseys during the fog final
So 2015, or was there another lost final?
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@shark said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@canefan said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@shark said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@canefan said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
I seem to recall there was a jersey before this iconic one but I can't find a picture of it
This was a nice jersey and provided the inspiration for our best ever one imho which was the year we lost the final. I bought the black change strip
To which lost final do you refer?
U couldn't even see the jerseys during the fog final
So 2015, or was there another lost final?
I did mention the fog final....
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@shark said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@canefan so 2015 then? I'm seriosuly asking because I can't recall if there were any other lost finals or just 2015 and 2006
I figured shark was trolling but perhaps not. We lost 2 finals. The fog final vs the Saders and the other one at home to the Landers
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@rotated said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Always had a soft spot for the first two years of addidas jerseys. Found good pic of all five.
Looks like they asked school kids to model the prop's jerseys.
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@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@rotated said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Always had a soft spot for the first two years of addidas jerseys. Found good pic of all five.
Whose the Highlanders 9? Brett McCormack (is that even a player or did I make it up?)
I assume so. And I think he's alongside the battler Aaron Flynn?
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@Smudge said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@rotated said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Always had a soft spot for the first two years of addidas jerseys. Found good pic of all five.
Whose the Highlanders 9? Brett McCormack (is that even a player or did I make it up?)
I assume so. And I think he's alongside the battler Aaron Flynn?
Yep, and Mark Robinson, Spice and Duggan.
I just had a thought, if Flynn was playing today he'd probably make the ABs - evidence Drummond and Hall!!! being called up.
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@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Smudge said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@rotated said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Always had a soft spot for the first two years of addidas jerseys. Found good pic of all five.
Whose the Highlanders 9? Brett McCormack (is that even a player or did I make it up?)
I assume so. And I think he's alongside the battler Aaron Flynn?
Yep, and Mark Robinson, Spice and Duggan.
I just had a thought, if Flynn was playing today he'd probably make the ABs - evidence Drummond and Hall!!! being called up.
Well done on not mentioning Chris Eaton.
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@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Smudge said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Basically a shout out to Wellington & Taranaki, while the rest of the provinces can get farrrrked.
Nothings changed ... despite the Naki being theoretically in the Chiefs now. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
So was Taranaki ever part of a title winning team?
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Smudge said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Basically a shout out to Wellington & Taranaki, while the rest of the provinces can get farrrrked.
Nothings changed ... despite the Naki being theoretically in the Chiefs now. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
So was Taranaki ever part of a title winning team?
Nope. Tarankai are infinity times less successful than Buller and West Coast at Super Rugby. They are also infinity times less successful than places like Nelson Bays that have simply given up already.
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@Rapido said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@Smudge said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
Basically a shout out to Wellington & Taranaki, while the rest of the provinces can get farrrrked.
Nothings changed ... despite the Naki being theoretically in the Chiefs now. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
So was Taranaki ever part of a title winning team?
Nope. Tarankai are infinity times less successful than Buller and West Coast at Super Rugby. They are also infinity times less successful than places like Nelson Bays that have simply given up already.
A work colleague tried to argue that North Harbour also has never been part of a winning Super Rugby franchise (at the franchise's time of winning). That would require the affiliation switch by North Harbour from the Chiefs to the Blues to be AFTER 2003. I'm sure it was earlier & the Blues site seems to support it:
By the end of the 1990’s, a switch of provincial unions with neighbours the Chiefs, brought players from North Harbour and Northland into the Blues, and saw Counties and Thames Valley aligned closer to home with the Chiefs.Blues Rugby
The official home of the Blues rugby team. Buy tickets and merchandise, get the latest news, view results and go behind-the-scenes with our players.
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yea, once Jonah and Joeli were gone, the Blues threw Counties away like an old drop sheet.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
yea, once Jonah and Joeli were gone, the Blues threw Counties away like an old drop sheet.
Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
I believe the Counties/North Harbour Blues change happened between the 1998 season and 1999 season (Blues played a home game vs the Reds in 1999 at North Harbour that resulted in a 12 all draw. It was an awful game that summed up the Jed Rowlands 1999 season).
Jonah played for the Chiefs in 99 when Counties were aligned to the Chiefs. Joeli continued to play for the Blues in 99, 00 and 01.
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Legacy Jerseys:
yea, once Jonah and Joeli were gone, the Blues threw Counties away like an old drop sheet.
Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
I believe the Counties/North Harbour Blues change happened between the 1998 season and 1999 season (Blues played a home game vs the Reds in 1999 at North Harbour that resulted in a 12 all draw. It was an awful game that summed up the Jed Rowlands 1999 season).
Jonah played for the Chiefs in 99 when Counties were aligned to the Chiefs. Joeli continued to play for the Blues in 99, 00 and 01.
Wasn't a straight swap. Northland were also part of the Chiefs. So the Blues swapped out Counties for NH and Northland.
