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You pick the IRUPA Player of the Year

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  • #52
    its_phil
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭its_phil


    Nick Williams won


  • #53
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,110 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    BIG. NICK. WILLIAMS.


    Munster fans must be bewildered, flop at Munster to a hero in Ulster.


  • #54
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    awec wrote: »
    BIG. NICK. WILLIAMS.


    Munster fans must be bewildered, flop at Munster to a hero in Ulster.

    I've felt "slightly bitter" at least 10 times this season.


  • #55
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,817 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Well done to the big man, or Fat Nick Williams as legions of underwhelmed Ulster fans monikered him when he signed. What started as a slightly insulting nickname is now a term of endearment or at least the abbreviated version of FNW is.

    Word to Leinster fans, FNW's story is a cautionary tale as to why you shouldn't be writing of Zane Kirchner just yet!

    Anyway well done to the out of control head bobbing hulk machine and I hope we see some more psycho head bobbing over the next three weeks!


  • #56
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,110 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    I've felt "slightly bitter" at least 10 times this season.

    The incredible hulk in full flight is a joy to behold, a sight that should be appreciated by all.


  • #57
    the_blackstuff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭the_blackstuff


    awec wrote: »
    BIG. NICK. WILLIAMS.


    Munster fans must be bewildered, flop at Munster to a hero in Ulster.

    He just couldn't stay fit when he was with
    Munster. He looked like a good player when he available but that wasn't very often. In fairness he had a good season last year in Italy as well.


  • #58
    Zahra Wide Wrinkle
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Zahra Wide Wrinkle


    Took him about 5 months to change a branded nickname of Fat Nick to Big Nick which has become the Incredible Hulk over the course of the season. That in itself is an achievement!

    Deserves it imo, he's not the most technical rugby player, but he's great to watch with ball in hand steamrolling through groups of players.


  • #59
    Mahatma Geansai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭Mahatma Geansai


    the_blackstuff wrote: »
    He just couldn't stay fit when he was with
    Munster. He looked like a good player when he available but that wasn't very often. In fairness he had a good season last year in Italy as well.

    I think the issue was that he didn't try to stay fit at Munster. He was always talented and had some great games for Munster against lesser opposition though. Anscombe obviously knows how to get the best out of him.


  • #60
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    I criticised him during the season and I was wrong. He's not just a one dimensional bosher, He's a three dimensional bosher


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  • #61
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Although fitness was certainly an issue at Munster, he did have a significant injury free spell whilst there in his second season for a few months. As big an issue was that Munster just didn't know how to tailor the game plan to his skills (nor should they have, I don't think he was a good fit for them overall). They played a hard and fast rucking game to get them over the gain line and punch holes through the centres or pin teams back through their half backs. All of their pack were incredibly fit and filled a specific function. Munster played him as a flanker as much as they did at 8 which didn't suit him at all and completely diminished his abilities. He was never someone that's going to hit rucks all day and go through phase play.

    He's a fantastic carrier and distributor at 8. Give him the ball in one on one situations or meeting stationary defenders off the back of the scrum and there's only ever one winner. Delighted to see him get the recognition he deserves and put to bed some snide comments that have followed him around from sections of all corners of the island.


  • #62
    Zahra Wide Wrinkle
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Zahra Wide Wrinkle


    Mahatma Geansai wrote: »
    I think the issue was that he didn't try to stay fit at Munster. He was always talented and had some great games for Munster against lesser opposition though. Anscombe obviously knows how to get the best out of him.

    How on earth do you feel able to make this claim?

    Did you go to training sessions?

    No idea how you could draw that conclusion without actually spending an awful lot of time with the guy.


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