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Aussie Player Exodus

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Riviera274

Peter Burge (5)
Highlander35 said:
I dunno. Maybe one Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop?

A bloke called Ewen McKenzie wasn't too bad either.

Mr Digby Ioane is a Vuc too.


Nice wee collection currently in Soup too. Tapuai, Lilo, Siliva, Gray.
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Thanks for that. Sat next to 'Weary Dunlop ' on a flight once. Very interesting character indeed.
 
Lee Grant

Lee Grant

John Eales (66)
Riviera274 said:
What I do know is that the Giteau of 2014 is twice the player of 2010 and I see him do things perhaps only Cooper on ah good day can replicate.and Cooper is very good on his day ( say Wales in February)
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Giteau has certainly been in good form in the last couple of years; in fact I thought he was one of the best players in the Top 14 last year. It will be interesting to see how he plays at flyhalf (mainly) this season after playing 12 (mainly) outside of Wilko since he arrived.

I still can't abide your opinion of Brock James playing for Clermont: I don't think Joe Schmidt or Vern Cotter would agree with his being just "competent" - they'd be more likely to say "influential" and why wouldn't they, because he started in a majority of the 77 home games they won in a row?
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Riviera274

Peter Burge (5)
Lee Grant said:
Giteau has certainly been in good form in the last couple of years; in fact I thought he was one of the best players in the Top 14 last year. It will be interesting to see how he plays at flyhalf (mainly) this season after playing 12 (mainly) outside of Wilko since he arrived.

I still can't abide your opinion of Brock James playing for Clermont: I don't think Joe Schmidt or Vern Cotter would agree with his being just "competent" - they'd be more likely to say "influential" and why wouldn't they, because he started in a majority of the 77 home games they won in a row?
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I bow to your argument.......trouble is I've never seen James make a line break
.....mind you Wilkinson didn't make many either....so are they just kicking machines of the highest quality.

Trouble is when you've played against Barry John all other fly halves pale into insignificance.
 
Lee Grant

Lee Grant

John Eales (66)
Well, the laid back Barry John was something else wasn't he? I at least saw the great man play; sometimes he seemed fast asleep like Bernie Larkham, but the mind was always ticking.

On James - he is a facilitator, not a runner, and is certainly more than a kicking machine. French rugby lacks players of his type—especially those who are eligible to play for France.
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Riviera274

Peter Burge (5)
Lee Grant said:
Well, the laid back Barry John was something else wasn't he? I at least saw the great man play; sometimes he seemed fast asleep like Bernie Larkham, but the mind was always ticking.

On James - he is a facilitator, not a runner, and is certainly more than a kicking machine. French rugby lacks players of his type—especially those who are eligible to play for France.
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You're right.

Lark ham did remind me of the King,
 
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Train Without a Station

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Clearly was just on career best form. Stupid fucking Aussies should have picked him.
 
Pfitzy

Pfitzy

Nathan Sharpe (72)
We did. Once. Against Tonga. In Canberra.

So yeah, nah, we pretty much didn't pick him I guess.

Hang on: he did come off the bench against the Boks in Pretoria and kicked a penalty, too.
 
Lee Grant

Lee Grant

John Eales (66)
One Aussie I liked playing in Europe was Jim Williams.

They loved him in Munster and called him "Daddy Seamus". When he stopped playing they gave him an assistant coach's job because the players responded so well to him.

He was a gladiator for them and in their conditions a few months of the year you had to be.

Someone mentioned Julian Salvi before. When he went on his first trip to play in the EP I said the conditions and the way they played the game over there would suit his scrapping play. So it proved.

He is another gladiator type; it is not only backs who go over there and find a niche: some forwards, like Salvi, do better there too.

Matt Hodgson would be a legend in some club now had he gone there young.
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Riviera274

Peter Burge (5)
Lee Grant said:
One Aussie I liked playing in Europe was Jim Williams.

They loved him in Munster and called him "Daddy Seamus". When he stopped playing they gave him an assistant coaches job because the players responded so well to him.

He was a gladiator for them and in their conditions a few months of the year you had to be.

Someone mentioned Julian Salvi before. When he went on his first trip to play in the EP I said the conditions and the way they played the game over there would suit his scrapping play. So it proved.

He is another gladiator type; it is not only backs who go over there and find a niche: some forwards, like Salvi, do better there too.

Matt Hodgson would be a legend in some club now had he gone there young.
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Probably the most popular Australian ever in Ireland. Every publican in the land
from Connacht to Munster to Leinster wanted to talk to you about Big Jim
Williams
 
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