Super Rugby 10 best players countdown

@Machpants said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@MiketheSnow said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

Is it the best player to play for [Insert team] or the player who played the best for [Insert team]

That's where the discussion will divide the room

We asked our writers to do their top 10 based on how players have performed for their Super Rugby club,

Still baffles me why Lomu doesn’t appear. I get that he played for 3 franchises but the Vidiri/Lomu combination for the Blues was a big part of their early success.
At the Canes he performed well enough to help fill the caketin week after week.

Lomu has to be the most influential rugby play of all time.
They even made a video game after him.
He needs to fit in somewhere.

The Cullen, Lomu, Umaga back three for the Canes had 30k through the gates every game. Franchises would kill for that now.

@Crucial watching those three t the Tin on almost a weekly basis with the old man will be memories I will cherish forever.

If only we had a good forward pack in those days.

@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@Crucial watching those three t the Tin on almost a weekly basis with the old man will be memories I will cherish forever.

If only we had a good forward pack in those days.

The boy used to beg to go whenever there was a home game.
I remember taking him and his mate one night and the only tickets we could get were at the screen end of the ground. Those only get sold at ABs games now days.

@Crucial yea I don't think we realised how good we had it back then! Even though we were a bit average overall the excitement was through the roof.

I remember having to line up for tickets during the week lol.

I can remember random NPC games against teams like Northland where 20K plus would rock up.

@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@Crucial watching those three t the Tin on almost a weekly basis with the old man will be memories I will cherish forever.

If only we had a good forward pack in those days.

Saw Cullen playing before his breakout HK 7s in 96. I think it was against the Cheetahs; he couldn't be tackled, the swerve at pace was insane. Just a precocious talent that the knee injury robbed. Still one of my favourite players of all time.

Watching him from the Millard stand at Athletic Park; elevated watching, a glorious Wellington day (for a change) - just great fun, rugby as it was.

@foobaNZ even when Northland was in the old 2nd div, we'd get >10k every week, but back then, ABs still played NPC too.

I mean the Northland v Central Vikings (@Nepia ) games had plenty of star power, none less than Cully!

@MiketheSnow said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

Is it the best player to play for [Insert team] or the player who played the best for [Insert team]

That's where the discussion will divide the room

im not sure they know if im honest...seems to change from selection to selection

@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@foobaNZ even when Northland was in the old 2nd div, we'd get >10k every week, but back then, ABs still played NPC too.

I mean the Northland v Central Vikings (@Nepia ) games had plenty of star power, none less than Cully!

That first year Vikings team was pretty star studded. Although the second year was the better team (when they got rid of most of the Poo riff raff ). Your Northland teams also had some stars back then too like Norm Berryman and Glen Taylor.

The top dog

So Nonu and Lomu miss out. Lomu I can sort of understand because he played for 3 teams. Even so I had him in my Canes top 10. Along with Nonu

Nick Evans is a really weird one. Can hardly even recall him playing, looks to me to be there off his overseas reputation. John Leslie please.

@Canes4life

22 apps and 13 tries

@Bones Lima or Jimmy Cowan over Evans for me

@Bones @FakatavaAllBlack i think the list of players who deserve it over evans is....long

edit: did a google....maybe lima is a good shout

@FakatavaAllBlack @Kiwiwomble yeah I hadn't really thought about it, was just plucking a random name I was sure I hadn't seen! Almost went barracuda...

i struggle to take any Highlanders list without Brendan Laney on it seriously

i want to hate heaps of that Chiefs list

SBW can do one for a start.

Mine would have more glorious failure type chiefs. Local heroes

Jonno Gibbes was the heart and soul of the place. Marty Holah is better than Sam Cane too.

Beaver, Lauaki and DMac are all definites. And Messam was the easiest choice.

@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@Crucial Nonu played 126 games for the Canes scoring 48 tries. I call that a pretty handy contribution.

If we won in 2015 he would be near the top of this list but to not have him in the top 10 is crazy.

Nonu being poor at Super level is a myth when it comes to the Canes! He was only poor for the Blues and Landers, he was absolutely phenomenal for the Canes, I'd have him in the top 3.

@No-Quarter said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 10 best players countdown:

@Crucial Nonu played 126 games for the Canes scoring 48 tries. I call that a pretty handy contribution.

If we won in 2015 he would be near the top of this list but to not have him in the top 10 is crazy.

Nonu being poor at Super level is a myth when it comes to the Canes! He was only poor for the Blues and Landers, he was absolutely phenomenal for the Canes, I'd have him in the top 3.

in the early years when he was just a physical beast, before he became Nonu 2.0, he was awesome in Super Rugby.