Player nicknames - central depository here

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Kawazaki
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Add player nicknames here. Can be well known or your own personal references. Players can have more than one...

I'll start the ball rolling;



Jason Leonard - The Funbus
Wade Dooley - The Blackpool Tower
Mike Harrison - Burglar Bill
Cheslin Kolbe - The Messi of Rugby
Martin Johnson - Ferengi
Eddie Jones - Eddiot Jones
Ben Youngs - Ben Jesus Wept Youngs
Tendai Mtawarira - The Beast
John Eales - Nobody
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Lobby
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Some welsh friends of mine always referred to Neil Jenkins as dodgy bollocks because of his habit of fiddling with his shorts when lining up a goal kick.

Victor Ubogu was known as thrush.
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Jonny Wilkinson - Wilko
Chris Robshaw - Robbo
Tom Wood - Woody
Chris Jack, 67 test All Black - "I was voted most useless and laziest cunt in the English Premiership two years on the trot"
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Lobby wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:35 pm
Victor Ubogu was known as thrush.


I met him at a corporate gig once. I can see why he has that nickname.
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Location: Over there somewhere

Steve Hansen - Shag (no idea!)
Graham Henry - Ted (no idea!)
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Our fullback was Martin ‘cunt’ Ellis. Somehow this got to the local paper as Martin C Hunt-Ellis and as he took our place kicks , had his erroneous name printed most weeks.
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This is where the bored misses HP - he used to have all his own nicknames for the Scottish players

To add a few:

Shane Horgan - Shaggy
Dan Parks - Turnstile
Peter Wright - Teapot
Yeeb wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:13 pm Our fullback was Martin ‘cunt’ Ellis. Somehow this got to the local paper as Martin C Hunt-Ellis and as he took our place kicks , had his erroneous name printed most weeks.
:lol: :lol:

We had a prop called Vinnie - his real name was Nick but when he first turned up to training as a 19 year old one of the old guys told him that we already had too many guys called Nick and that from then on he would known as Vinnie.

Even his Mum calls him Vinnie now.
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Location: In Die Baai in.

Frans "Domkrag" Erasmus
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Nick (F)easter - 'Minty'

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Chilli wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:27 pm Frans "Domkrag" Erasmus
Piston van Wyk
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Brian Lima - the Chiropractor
Willem Alberts - the Bone Collector
Jon Philip Botha - Bakkies
Jacobus Petrus du Randt - Os
John Smit - Barnie
Stephen Larkham - Bernie
Jaque Fourie - Mossie
Franco Mostert - Sous
Mamuka Gorgodze - Gorgodzilla
Sebastien Chabal - Caveman
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Keith Wood - Uncle Fester
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Matt Dawson and Paul Grayson - Les and Larry.
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Banahan was Stickers

Still like the PR given one for Barclay, Testicle, which may not count!
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shaggy wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 6:21 pm Banahan was Stickers

Still like the PR given one for Barclay, Testicle, which may not count!


Will Greenwood - Shaggy :wave:
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The original
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We'd a kid at my old school who was a prodigy; first outing for the school, he scored 6 tries; & so "Flukey" was born.
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boere wors wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:47 pm Brian Lima - the Chiropractor
Willem Alberts - the Bone Collector
Jon Philip Botha - Bakkies
Jacobus Petrus du Randt - Os
John Smit - Barnie
Stephen Larkham - Bernie
Jaque Fourie - Mossie
Franco Mostert - Sous
Mamuka Gorgodze - Gorgodzilla
Sebastien Chabal - Caveman
When Chabal was at Sale, he was known as Seabass

Francois Pienarr was Frankie Peanuts at Saracens
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boere wors wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:47 pm Brian Lima - the Chiropractor
Willem Alberts - the Bone Collector
Jon Philip Botha - Bakkies
Jacobus Petrus du Randt - Os
John Smit - Barnie
Stephen Larkham - Bernie
Jaque Fourie - Mossie
Franco Mostert - Sous
Mamuka Gorgodze - Gorgodzilla
Sebastien Chabal - Caveman
:lol: :lol: :lol: I thought his first name was Bakkies
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Is he called Bakkies coz he liked butting the back of people's heads?
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Nugget - Aaron Smith (Snecky On here)
Bender - Ben Smith
Goldie - Jeff Wilson

Certainly Otago had their share
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Snake - Conrad smith
Scooter / Lloyd (dumb and dumber) - Scott Barrett
Guzzler - BBBR
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The Claw - Peter Clohessy
Axel - Anthony Foley
Gaillimh - Mick Galwey
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Pine tree - Colin Meads
Buck - Wayne Shelford

Some oldies
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Fungus -- Fergie McCormick
Iceman -- Michael Jones
Jazz -- Brian Muller
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The hit man - Jerry Collins
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Razor -- Scott Robertson
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Chainsaw - Brendan Laney
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Rory Underwood - Rors
Tony Underwood - Tone
Chris Jack, 67 test All Black - "I was voted most useless and laziest cunt in the English Premiership two years on the trot"
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Wasn't Kevin Eveleigh from Manawatu called "grassburner" or "grasscutter"?
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"Spooky" Ian Smith, winger in the 1960s.
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The raging potato- Keith wood
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Ymx wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 5:56 am The raging potato- Keith wood
36 - Billy Twelvetrees
I love that Twelvetrees one
All the money you made will never buy back your soul
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Kiwias wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:49 am Wasn't Kevin Eveleigh from Manawatu called "grassburner" or "grasscutter"?
Hayburner.

Cowboy Shaw

Bullet Donaldson

Filthy Frank Oliver
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Ian "Nectar" Stevens
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Willie Heinz - 57
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Albertus Stephanus Smith - Kwagga
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Openside wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:11 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: I thought his first name was Bakkies
:grin:

Bakkie is the Saffer term for a Pickup truck
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fishfoodie wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:06 pm The Claw - Peter Clohessy
Axel - Anthony Foley
Gaillimh - Mick Galwey
Alan? Bateman - The clamp
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