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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

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.

Jonny Wilkinson - Wilko
Chris Robshaw - Robbo
Tom Wood - Woody

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.

Steve Hansen - Shag (no idea!)
Graham Henry - Ted (no idea!)

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.

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.

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.

Frans "Domkrag" Erasmus

Nick (F)easter - 'Minty'

Chilli wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:27 pm Frans "Domkrag" Erasmus

Piston van Wyk

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

Keith Wood - Uncle Fester

Matt Dawson and Paul Grayson - Les and Larry.

Banahan was Stickers

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

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

The original

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.

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

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

I thought his first name was Bakkies

Is he called Bakkies coz he liked butting the back of people's heads?

Nugget - Aaron Smith (Snecky On here)
Bender - Ben Smith
Goldie - Jeff Wilson

Certainly Otago had their share

Snake - Conrad smith
Scooter / Lloyd (dumb and dumber) - Scott Barrett
Guzzler - BBBR

The Claw - Peter Clohessy
Axel - Anthony Foley
Gaillimh - Mick Galwey

Pine tree - Colin Meads
Buck - Wayne Shelford

Some oldies

Fungus -- Fergie McCormick
Iceman -- Michael Jones
Jazz -- Brian Muller

The hit man - Jerry Collins

Razor -- Scott Robertson

Chainsaw - Brendan Laney

Rory Underwood - Rors
Tony Underwood - Tone

Wasn't Kevin Eveleigh from Manawatu called "grassburner" or "grasscutter"?

"Spooky" Ian Smith, winger in the 1960s.

The raging potato- Keith wood
36 - Billy Twelvetrees

Hempies du Tiot
Kulu Ferreira
Uli Schmidt
Faffa Knoetze
Lood Muller/Lood de Jager
Balie Swart
Hottie Louw
Toks van der Linde
Boeta Wessels
Gaffie du Toit
Draadkar de Lange
Baksteen Nel
Bullet Dolten
Avos - Andre Vos
Butch James
Niknaks man - Zane Kirchner
Poes - James Small

Ymx wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 5:56 am The raging potato- Keith wood
36 - Billy Twelvetrees

I love that Twelvetrees one

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

Ian "Nectar" Stevens

Willie Heinz - 57

Albertus Stephanus Smith - Kwagga

Openside wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:11 pm

I thought his first name was Bakkies

Bakkie is the Saffer term for a Pickup truck

fishfoodie wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:06 pm The Claw - Peter Clohessy
Axel - Anthony Foley
Gaillimh - Mick Galwey

Alan? Bateman - The clamp