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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 395008" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>I agree that Jonah would still be a monster of a winger today, as he was in 1995 when the game was on the verge of being professional. My point about players like Cullen, Lomu, Mehrtens, Brooke, Michael Jones, Ian Jones is that they still played when the game was professional, and they has many of the same advantages even when it wasn't, as it was still their full time job (regardless of when they were legally paid). It's not so much about the latest training that makes a fullback better (and for the record Cullen is better than all of them in my mind), it's about how the game and the professional enviroment has changed, so I think Lomu (probably the richest All Black in history), would not have been disadvantaged today, as a player from the 1970's.</p><p></p><p>No one said that they have not contributed to the sport, the arguement is that they are not as good rugby players as modern athletes.</p><p> </p><p>As for your second point:</p><p></p><p>And luckily my view on this topic is not made purely by what has been mentioned before in this particular thread, I've discussed this many times both on this forum in the past, and with mates. So it's an argument that is often brought up, in fact I remember you brining it up last time you jizzed your pants over Gareth Edwards...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 395008, member: 38640"] I agree that Jonah would still be a monster of a winger today, as he was in 1995 when the game was on the verge of being professional. My point about players like Cullen, Lomu, Mehrtens, Brooke, Michael Jones, Ian Jones is that they still played when the game was professional, and they has many of the same advantages even when it wasn't, as it was still their full time job (regardless of when they were legally paid). It's not so much about the latest training that makes a fullback better (and for the record Cullen is better than all of them in my mind), it's about how the game and the professional enviroment has changed, so I think Lomu (probably the richest All Black in history), would not have been disadvantaged today, as a player from the 1970's. No one said that they have not contributed to the sport, the arguement is that they are not as good rugby players as modern athletes. As for your second point: And luckily my view on this topic is not made purely by what has been mentioned before in this particular thread, I've discussed this many times both on this forum in the past, and with mates. So it's an argument that is often brought up, in fact I remember you brining it up last time you jizzed your pants over Gareth Edwards... [/QUOTE]
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