Ireland Ireland together standing strong, shoulder to shoulderrrrr, we'll answer Ireland's call.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLnyyQbgnHM
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THis. Yeah, would love to see someone like "The Beast" from the Springboks in the defensive line, or Pierre Spies at TE, Manu Tuilagi at FB as a short distance runner, or Israel Dagg at Wing. Dagg at wing, with a screen and BLOCKERS in front of him would be SICK! Heck even without blockers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeHBcQEv5vg
RE Lomu: Really? It was sure fun to watch for me... :p
It's the Lion's call come this June. Aussie forward pack should be a pushover. Just as much as the Eagles' run defense was. :p
Pretty much Lomu Part 2 (Julian Savea):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzSXLKVdPw
I've drooled over the prospect of him being in the NFL - The kid is 6'4" 240 - the guy he smashed at 1:04 is Robbie Fruean - a similar player to him is 6'3" 230. Could be a TE but his strength is getting the ball early.
So he'd be Brandon Jacobs but actually effective and not scared to run AT defenders and faster (around Lomu's speed).
That when he was under 14 years of age; and considering many of the records are 8m (for long jump) and 70m for discus, who's to say that he doesn't improve at those at Olympic level given a little more training and not even reaching his physical peak - aren't too far off.Quote:
Many of his Rongotai College athletics records still stand – 12.92m in the under-14 shot put in 2004, 5.86m a year later in the under-15 long jump and 43.92m for discus.
Too bad the All Blacks have him (or is it, good thing that they do? :D)
admartin you bloody kiwi, I respect the hell out of the All Blacks, but you have to put your self in my shoes after all the years of NZ owning England year after year lol. We had a good win against you guys back in November, I was really disappointed we couldn't get the job done and beat the sheep shaggers (what we call the Welsh for any yanks interested!) to win the 6 nations.
One of the best matches I ever watched was back in 2003 when we were in New Zealand in a pre world cup game, and had both our flankers (Neil Back and Richard Hill) dismissed from the game, and we had a 6 man scrum vs your 8 man scrum for the 2nd half of the game. Martin Johnson told everyone to get down and just "shove", and we ended up closing the game out to win. I really think this game was the one that propelled us to go on to win that world cup in the end, we had such a good/loaded team then and it completely dwarfs our current team haha. Martin Johnson was a great captain, shame he turned out to be a terrible coach!
Martin Johnson hell of a captain. But yeah that scrum is still talked about throughout rugby forums world over.
Lol @sheep shaggers. Refreshing to see that term not aimed at us for once. Though there aren't any Aussies in sight... :-)
Re Okoye: it seems more and more that he's gaining steam with the press. Will be interesting to see how the draft plays out and where he ends up.
Leach don't even get started, Ireland got bloody tanked the last time they played nz. 60 odd nil iirc
It looks like the 49ers are interested in Okoye. What round do you think he will go in? If he is still around in the 4th round, I wouldn't be opposed to the Ravens spending a comp pick on him.