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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 1005143" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>The relevance being he won't be really appreciated until after he's retired and part of the very best backrows of the international game . I thought he was pretty amazing 2010 to 2014. I even remember him in the final of RWC 2015 and getting injured early and probably should have gone off but carried on the full 80. </p><p></p><p>I think you're doing him a disservice. Not the player of the decade but still lines up along the great number 8s to have played for the ABs. Certainly for the decade as good at and outplayed Vermeulen pre 2015. Pocock was really playing a 7 in an 8 jersey. And even Pocock and RIP Collins walked away without an RWC winners medal, let alone two. </p><p></p><p>All round top player for me could do it all - great at the line out, think ABs will miss him there. Turnovers, ball carrier, tackler. Sure he made mistakes, but who doesn't and even if his scores were overblown by NZ media, he was rarely not a 7/10 at test level and rarely had a bad game. Sure his only sins as an AB was not winning the series v the Lions and lifting the RWC. Personally I will remember him as a great player and leader of the ABs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 1005143, member: 70552"] The relevance being he won’t be really appreciated until after he‘s retired and part of the very best backrows of the international game . I thought he was pretty amazing 2010 to 2014. I even remember him in the final of RWC 2015 and getting injured early and probably should have gone off but carried on the full 80. I think you‘re doing him a disservice. Not the player of the decade but still lines up along the great number 8s to have played for the ABs. Certainly for the decade as good at and outplayed Vermeulen pre 2015. Pocock was really playing a 7 in an 8 jersey. And even Pocock and RIP Collins walked away without an RWC winners medal, let alone two. All round top player for me could do it all - great at the line out, think ABs will miss him there. Turnovers, ball carrier, tackler. Sure he made mistakes, but who doesn’t and even if his scores were overblown by NZ media, he was rarely not a 7/10 at test level and rarely had a bad game. Sure his only sins as an AB was not winning the series v the Lions and lifting the RWC. Personally I will remember him as a great player and leader of the ABs. [/QUOTE]
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