Ultimate NPC: - BOP
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Who can claim the title of 'Bay'?
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- Wayne Ormond
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Colin Bourke at 8.
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2 Hika Reid
10 Glen "Try, conversions, penalties, and a drop goal to gloriously take the Ranfurly Shield off Auckland" Jackson
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Cashmore
Do we get Rico Gear? -
tupai
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I'm going to have to dig in to.my memories
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Claim Steve McDowall first.
Gary Braid
Frank ShelfordCane or Latimer?
Jackson or Delany? -
Starting to frame something up...
- Steve McDowall
- Hika Reid
- Culum Retallick
- Wayne Ormond
- Sam Cane
- Bourke/Tupai
- Kevin Senio
- Glen Jackson
- Caleb Ralph?
- Adrian Cashmore/Greg Rowlands
Reserves:
16. Nathan Harris
17. Aidan Ross
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20. Tanerau Latimer/Gary Braid
21. Joe Tauiwi?
22. Mike Delany/Andy Miller
23. Damon KauiHere is a handy list for those with 50+ games for us to start working through: https://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/uploads/npc/statistics/No_of_games_for_Bay_of_Plenty.pdf
Also top try scorers: https://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/uploads/npc/statistics/No_of_tries_scored_for_Bay_of_Plenty.pdf -
Pior has to go on a wing
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Perhaps Caleb Ralph and Keith Prior on the wings, Rua Tipoki at centre?
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Did Tipoki get more caps for BOP or NH?
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As I mention above Gary Braid would have to be one of the locks.
Eddie Stokes at centre?
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Taking the straw man team further for discussion, changes, and any more obvious misses?
- Steve McDowall
- Hika Reid
- Ben Castle
- Culum Retallick
- Gary Braid
- Wayne Ormond
- Sam Cane
- Colin Bourke
- Kevin Senio
- Glen Jackson
- Caleb Ralph
- Rua Tipoki
- Eddie Stokes
- Keith Pryor
- Adrian Cashmore/Greg Rowlands/Damon Kaui
Reserves:
16. Nathan Harris
17. Aidan Ross
18. Warwick Morehu
19. Bernie Upton/Paul Tupai
20. Tanerau Latimer/Frank Shelford
21. Joe Tauiwi
22. Mike Delany/Andy Miller
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Any thoughts about Damon Kaui v Caleb Ralph for a wing spot?
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@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Any thoughts about Damon Kaui v Caleb Ralph for a wing spot?
I think that you already know the thoughts about Caleb Ralph for a wing spot.
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Am disappointed Mark Basham didn't get a mention. If only for the hair.
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@Snowy said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Any thoughts about Damon Kaui v Caleb Ralph for a wing spot?
I think that you already know the thoughts about Caleb Ralph for a wing spot.
That was the Christchurch effect later on
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@booboo said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Am disappointed Mark Basham didn't get a mention. If only foe the hair.
And one of the great surnames for a rugby player
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@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Andy Miller
That’s a name I haven’t heard for a while. He was a decent player and left NZ too early IMO. Could’ve pushed for higher honours.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Andy Miller
That’s a name I haven’t heard for a while. He was a decent player and left NZ too early IMO. Could’ve pushed for higher honours.
Did he play for the Crusaders? I don't think he was ever threatening higher honours but he was a decent 10.
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Miller played ten tests for Japan in the end. Graham Henry apparently was a fan of his All Black chances
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@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Miller played ten tests for Japan in the end. Graham Henry apparently was a fan of his All Black chances
Damn you and your facts. I was actually at a BBQ with him in Papamoa a few years back but didn't speak to him as I didn't recognise him and my mate only let me know after we'd left.
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@Nepia said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
@ACT-Crusader said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Andy Miller
That’s a name I haven’t heard for a while. He was a decent player and left NZ too early IMO. Could’ve pushed for higher honours.
Did he play for the Crusaders? I don't think he was ever threatening higher honours but he was a decent 10.
Yeah played for the good guys back in 96.
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@Donsteppa said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Starting to frame something up...
- Steve McDowall
- Hika Reid
- Morehu (i don't remember which side he played on)
- Culum Retallick
- Braid
- Wayne Ormond
- Sam Cane
- Bourke/Tupai
- Kevin Senio
- Glen Jackson
- Prior
- Caleb Ralph?
- Tahana
Adrian Cashmore/Greg RowlandsDamon Kaui
Reserves:
16. Nathan Harris
17. Aidan Ross
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20. Tanerau Latimer/Gary Braid
21. Joe Tauiwi?
22.Mike Delany/Andy MillerRon Preston
23.Damon KauiHere is a handy list for those with 50+ games for us to start working through: https://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/uploads/npc/statistics/No_of_games_for_Bay_of_Plenty.pdf
Also top try scorers: https://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/uploads/npc/statistics/No_of_tries_scored_for_Bay_of_Plenty.pdftried to fill in a couple. Battling for a 12?
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@mariner4life I tried Rua Tipoki slightly out of position in the updated list. Grant McQuiod being the other one who springs to mind?
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So now we're at...
- Steve McDowall
- Hika Reid
- Warwick Morehu
- Culum Retallick
- Gary Braid
- Wayne Ormond
- Sam Cane
- Colin Bourke
- Kevin Senio
- Glen Jackson
- Caleb Ralph
- Rua Tipoki
- Eddie Stokes
- Keith Pryor
- Damon Kaui
Reserves:
16. Nathan Harris
17. Aidan Ross
18. Ben Castle
19. Paul Tupai/Bernie Upton
20. Frank Shelford/Tanerau Latimer
21. Joe Tauiwi
22. Ron Preston
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@Donsteppa Can i have Lutui ahead of Harris?
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@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
@Donsteppa Can i have Lutui ahead of Harris?
I wondered about him as well.... there's the All Black experience of Nathan Harris, vs a charging Aleki Lutui 5m out from the opposition tryline.
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the list you had earlier of the most games was a trip down memory lane. I don't remember what position most played, but i remember hearing their names called listening to games on te radio with my dad
Fuck, Arthur Stone at 12!!!
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@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
the list you had earlier of the most games was a trip down memory lane. I don't remember what position most played, but i remember hearing their names called listening to games on te radio with my dad
Fuck, Arthur Stone at 12!!!
Tipoki to the wing, or stick with 13 test Caleb Ralph?
Am also wondering about Jamie Nutbrown v Kevin Senio... nodding to Senio because of the All Black cap and combination with Jackson?
Was looking up Joe Tauiwi and spotted this in an article about Ralph leaving the Cantab squad against us for Tauiwi's funeral:
New Zealand Colts flanker Richard McCaw replaces Johnny Leo'o on the openside, and Canterbury's two Pacific Island wings, Marika Vunibaka and Afato So'oalo, return after injury to replace Ralph and Joe Naufahu.
The highly-regarded McCaw will play his second NPC match after making his debut against North Harbour last year.
"Richie is a player we think a lot of and he's been working very hard," Hansen said.
We must have played that McCaw bloke into contention for the 2001 EOYT.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=212713
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As @booboo mentioned this is the dude for halfback.
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@mariner4life said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
Fuck, Arthur Stone at 12!!!
I told you pricks not to mention him!
Just "fuck Arthur Stone" would have done. That intercept damaged me for life. People wonder how serial killers are created. It's intercept tries in a shield match at an impressionable age.
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@Donsteppa my halfbacks would be Tauiwi and Rameka Poihipi based purely on nostalgia
I don't really consider Tipoki to be a Bay player.
I'm sort of in the same camp with Cashmore. Even though he's a Bay boy (i played cricket with his brother. And Jacko's actually) he is really an Auckland player. Cashmore at least racked up a few games at the end there.
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BOP gets first dibs on Cashmore and McDowall ahead of Auckland. If you don't select them Auckland probably will.
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@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
BOP gets first dibs on Cashmore and McDowall ahead of Auckland. If you don't select them Auckland probably will.
it's like a draft!
Done. BOP legend Kaui back to the bench.
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@Bovidae said in Ultimate NPC: - BOP:
If you don't select them Auckland probably will.
I'm comfortable having Mils.
In a shameless name drop I did meet Adrian's dad in a pub at the world cup in 2007. Nice guy, and I was a big fan of his son.
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Tahana was a solid enough wing, and was in the Chiefs for a few years.
Andrew Miller (rugby union) - Wikipedia