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<blockquote data-quote="nam97" data-source="post: 186177"><p>Yeah that 99 RWC backline was a f***ing joke. Hmmm....... let's put our best center (Umaga) on the wing, our best fullback (Cullen) at center, and our best wing (Wilson) at fullback.</p><p></p><p>What should have been 13. Umaga, 14. Wilson, 15. Cullen (whom were all regarded the best in the world at their main positions at the time), was TOTALLY reversed.</p><p></p><p>I mean, wtf was going through John Hart's scummy little head?!?! [/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Well Umaga only seriously took up playing centre in 2000.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>from wiki... "The first Bledisloe match in 2000 would go down as arguably the greatest game of all time, indeed it was dubbed "the game played in heaven".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tana_Umaga#cite_note-Matheson41-11" target="_blank">[12]</a> He signed a new four year contract with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZRU" target="_blank">NZRU</a>, and when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alama_Ieremia" target="_blank">Alama Ieremia</a> took up a contract in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" target="_blank">Japan</a> Tana Umaga decided to shift his focus to centre, despite scoring 9 tries in just 7 tests on the wing that year."</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>Well ok, but that's not the really the wider picture. What justifies playing Cullen at center and Wilson at fullback?</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="nam97, post: 186177"] Yeah that 99 RWC backline was a f***ing joke. Hmmm....... let's put our best center (Umaga) on the wing, our best fullback (Cullen) at center, and our best wing (Wilson) at fullback. What should have been 13. Umaga, 14. Wilson, 15. Cullen (whom were all regarded the best in the world at their main positions at the time), was TOTALLY reversed. I mean, wtf was going through John Hart's scummy little head?!?! [/b][/quote] Well Umaga only seriously took up playing centre in 2000. from wiki... "The first Bledisloe match in 2000 would go down as arguably the greatest game of all time, indeed it was dubbed "the game played in heaven".[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tana_Umaga#cite_note-Matheson41-11"][12][/url] He signed a new four year contract with the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZRU"]NZRU[/url], and when [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alama_Ieremia"]Alama Ieremia[/url] took up a contract in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan"]Japan[/url] Tana Umaga decided to shift his focus to centre, despite scoring 9 tries in just 7 tests on the wing that year." [/b][/quote] Well ok, but that's not the really the wider picture. What justifies playing Cullen at center and Wilson at fullback? [/QUOTE]
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