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Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:12 pm
by Armchair_Superstar
When was the last time a Test player from a Tier 1 nation was allowed to get himself into that kind of state?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:14 pm
by Diego
Andy Goode or Weepu?

And ROG wasn't much better in a different kind of way.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:15 pm
by tc27

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:17 pm
by ManInTheBar
Diego wrote:Andy Goode or Weepu?

And ROG wasn't much better in a different kind of way.
Inspiring fatties the world over

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:44 pm
by happyhooker
Was it really necessary to post a life size picture of Goode?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:52 pm
by inactionman
Spare a thought for Jack Nowell

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:54 pm
by ManInTheBar
:lol: 8) :lol:

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:13 pm
by Armchair_Superstar
Goode sprung to mind but I didn't mention him because he wasn't playing Test rugby. He was actually meant to be retired when he signed for Newcastle so he could be forgiven a bit of middle aged spread. In addition, his podcast is good craic and everyone knows if you're a good laugh you can get away with an extra pound or two.

Basta was captain at one stage and he has put on even more weight since.

Weepu is a good shout.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:47 pm
by Hawk97
Well, Mako has a gunt, as does Jamie George. Remember Fatt Dunning?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:04 pm
by eugenefraxby
Technically it’s a gock

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:51 pm
by jimmy speights
Tbf to Weepu it wasn’t until after the 2011 RWC that he let himself get into Bastard/Goode territory.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:59 pm
by Jeff the Bear
I don't know whether anyone should be thanking Wales, or cursing us, but I can't help but feel that is debut performance (against Wales) led France to believe that he was a good shout as an international, and maybe contributed on a wider level to their love of big unfit fatties.

The ultimate irony being that his defence was pretty shit if you analyse his gameplay on that day. He was lauded at the time for stopping Jamie Roberts several time (which he did), but he did it by flying up out of the line leaving huge doglegs. Had Wales had a bit more about them (this was 2009, so Gatland was still very much in bosh mode with his centres), then one or two tip passes to a man on Roberts' shoulder would have shredded France that day.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:53 am
by Brumby_in_Vic
Rodney Blake, Uini Atonio, Will Skelton.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:55 am
by Keith
Brumby_in_Vic wrote:Rodney Blake, Uini Atonio, Will Skelton.
To be fair to Skelton, now he's at a professional club he's in pretty good shape

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:57 am
by UncleFB
jimmy speights wrote:Tbf to Weepu it wasn’t until after the 2011 RWC that he let himself get into Bastard/Goode territory.
And that pic is effectively from his retirement from proper pro rugby, he got fat in the ABs, but not that fat.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:16 am
by Nieghorn
Hawk97 wrote:Well, Mako has a gunt, as does Jamie George. Remember Fatt Dunning?
Matt Dunning wasn't any worse than the other two. Had one of those fat heads but was reasonably trim for a modern prop. Given the way he looks now, I imagine he was eating a ton just to maintain professional prop size ...

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Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:28 pm
by Bradwall Boy
Nieghorn wrote:
Hawk97 wrote:Well, Mako has a gunt, as does Jamie George. Remember Fatt Dunning?
Matt Dunning wasn't any worse than the other two. Had one of those fat heads but was reasonably trim for a modern prop. Given the way he looks now, I imagine he was eating a ton just to maintain professional prop size ...

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Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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All that military training

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:54 pm
by Fenman
Wasn't it Micky Quinn about whom they used to say that the Irish team warm up was to run around him? Lovely bloke, but rather corpulent when I first saw him.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:29 pm
by grubberkick
Armchair_Superstar wrote:When was the last time a Test player from a Tier 1 nation was allowed to get himself into that kind of state?

Who was that Welsh prop with the hair of a Roman god?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:36 pm
by fishfoodie
Bradwall Boy wrote: Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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All that military training
Did he get his kit from a Marquee company ?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:44 pm
by Nolanator
Someone post the clip of Ricky Janurie making a break for a lower League French team.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:04 pm
by paddyor
Jeff the Bear wrote:I don't know whether anyone should be thanking Wales, or cursing us, but I can't help but feel that is debut performance (against Wales) led France to believe that he was a good shout as an international, and maybe contributed on a wider level to their love of big unfit fatties.

The ultimate irony being that his defence was pretty shit if you analyse his gameplay on that day. He was lauded at the time for stopping Jamie Roberts several time (which he did), but he did it by flying up out of the line leaving huge doglegs. Had Wales had a bit more about them (this was 2009, so Gatland was still very much in bosh mode with his centres), then one or two tip passes to a man on Roberts' shoulder would have shredded France that day.
But they didn't which would've been fairly obvious so he knew what he was doing.

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:42 pm
by Uncle Fester
fishfoodie wrote:
Bradwall Boy wrote: Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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All that military training
Did he get his kit from a Marquee company ?
Looks like he swapped lower body with a smaller lad.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:16 pm
by fishfoodie
Uncle Fester wrote:
fishfoodie wrote:
Bradwall Boy wrote: Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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All that military training
Did he get his kit from a Marquee company ?
Looks like he swapped lower body with a smaller lad.
He used to be 6ft tall; but weight+gravity ......

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:27 pm
by happyhooker
He's ludicrously strong and wide. He propped for me in one game. Initially I tried to bind properly but realised that my hand barely reached his neck, so left it to him.

Nice bloke as well

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:36 pm
by Scrumhead
I do wonder whether Bastareaud should have played in a different position.

Had he been trained as a prop or hooker early in his career, he could have potentially have been a top player.

As it is, I think he is a better player than he gets credit for, but was always going to be limited to being one dimensional by his size/lack of pace/fitness.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:41 am
by Brumby_in_Vic
Bastareaud plays well around the right players. After the 2015 RWC I was watching Top 14 highlights and the voiceover bloke said he passed more in this Toulon match than he did in the whole RWC. That’s an indictment. Giteau or Mermoz at 12 got him in to space. Teams that went wide in attack got swallowed up out wide as he will isolate them and win a penalty. This forced teams to attack narrower or have a wide forward to get him off his feet. I don’t see this from France.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:56 am
by Mog The Almighty
fishfoodie wrote:
Bradwall Boy wrote: Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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All that military training
Did he get his kit from a Marquee company ?
I was going to say ... that bloke looks like he's about 48 ... and I looked him. 46 and still playing high level rugby. FFS fair go to the big man.

Edit ... okay I see he's not playing anymore. Retired at about 40, which is still pretty good. But he looks older than that.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:16 am
by Mog The Almighty
Nieghorn wrote:
Hawk97 wrote:Well, Mako has a gunt, as does Jamie George. Remember Fatt Dunning?
Matt Dunning wasn't any worse than the other two. Had one of those fat heads but was reasonably trim for a modern prop. Given the way he looks now, I imagine he was eating a ton just to maintain professional prop size ...
You're right. Dunning really wasn't any fatter than your average International prop at the time, hejust has a big head and (when he was fat) had massive jowls and a chubby baby face that made him look fatter than he really was. If you substituted a normal looking head on this photo he would look just like a stocky, strong bloke, not a big fatso.

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:35 am
by Dougie
Mog The Almighty wrote:
fishfoodie wrote:
Bradwall Boy wrote: Chris Budgen on the other hand ...

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All that military training
Did he get his kit from a Marquee company ?
I was going to say ... that bloke looks like he's about 48 ... and I looked him. 46 and still playing high level rugby. FFS fair go to the big man.

Edit ... okay I see he's not playing anymore. Retired at about 40, which is still pretty good. But he looks older than that.
You were correct the first time. I saw him playing for Bedwas in a televised game in the Welsh Principality Premiership a few weeks ago. :thumbup: Still going strong...

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:46 am
by Yourmother
Mog The Almighty wrote:
Nieghorn wrote:
Hawk97 wrote:Well, Mako has a gunt, as does Jamie George. Remember Fatt Dunning?
Matt Dunning wasn't any worse than the other two. Had one of those fat heads but was reasonably trim for a modern prop. Given the way he looks now, I imagine he was eating a ton just to maintain professional prop size ...
You're right. Dunning really wasn't any fatter than your average International prop at the time, hejust has a big head and (when he was fat) had massive jowls and a chubby baby face that made him look fatter than he really was. If you substituted a normal looking head on this photo he would look just like a stocky, strong bloke, not a big fatso.

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Are we looking at the same picture?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:54 am
by Steamin Beamin
Cant have a thread about fatties without Chunk.

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:10 pm
by ManInTheBar
grubberkick wrote:
Armchair_Superstar wrote:When was the last time a Test player from a Tier 1 nation was allowed to get himself into that kind of state?

Who was that Welsh prop with the hair of a Roman god?
Adam Jones, provided you mean Roman Gods who like pies

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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:50 pm
by Average Joe
Nolanator wrote:Someone post the clip of Ricky Janurie making a break for a lower League French team.
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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:55 pm
by Brumby_in_Vic
Did Dunning get his stomach stapled?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:42 pm
by kiap
Brumby_in_Vic wrote:Did Dunning get his stomach stapled?
I would guess not.

It has some bad, permanent downsides that go with the upside of shedding weight. Unless genuinely morbid (which he was not) that's not really a path you'd want to be taking.

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:43 pm
by Torquemada 1420
French sporting prowess
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Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:43 pm
by happyhooker
Didn't dunning have quite serious mental health issues?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:46 pm
by kiap
happyhooker wrote:Didn't dunning have quite serious mental health issues?
Dunno.

Maybe you are thinking of Clyde Rathbone?

Re: Bastareud

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:00 pm
by 4071
Jeff the Bear wrote:I don't know whether anyone should be thanking Wales, or cursing us, but I can't help but feel that is debut performance (against Wales) led France to believe that he was a good shout as an international, and maybe contributed on a wider level to their love of big unfit fatties.

The ultimate irony being that his defence was pretty shit if you analyse his gameplay on that day. He was lauded at the time for stopping Jamie Roberts several time (which he did), but he did it by flying up out of the line leaving huge doglegs. Had Wales had a bit more about them (this was 2009, so Gatland was still very much in bosh mode with his centres), then one or two tip passes to a man on Roberts' shoulder would have shredded France that day.
It wasn't just Wales. He was a very effective young player with a massive amount of power and impact that just needed those rough edges - including defensively - smoothing out to be a top class international centre.

The shame is that instead of developing, he just relied on his size. As he gets less effective the answer has not been to work on his all-round game, it's been to keep getting bigger.

He's still effective enough as a bosher to keep getting away with it, but it's a shame that he's so far short of the player he could have been if the size had been in addition to rather than instead of an all-round game.