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In Conversation: Craig Innes

Craig Innes playing for the All Blacks in 1989. Photo / Russell Cheyne/Allsport

Before the 2019 season kicks off and we get back into the Shortball we have a small RugbyPass podcast, In Conversation, where we take our time to chat to a few of the people who make up New Zealand’s national game.

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Today Scotty Stevenson talks to player agent and former All Black Craig Innes about his career both on and off the field.

Download the episode here or listen in the player below.  Subscribe on iTunes here so you never miss an episode.

In this podcast Innes touches on his two-try test debut as part of a stacked All Black side and his new life in the player agent game with global rugby specialist Esportif.

Innes played 17 tests for the All Blacks between 1989 and 1991 after making his international debut at the age of 20.

He also played rugby league in the UK and Australia, representing Leeds 135 times in Super League play and Manly Warringah 50 times in the ARL.

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He shifted back to New Zealand in the late 1990s to play for the Blues in Super Rugby.

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Icefarrow 3 minutes ago
'Most complacent selection decision you will ever see': Barrett benching slammed as Leinster knocked out

Pressured to manage him? The only real game management criteria was to give him a break during the 6N tournament. All his minutes outside of that have been at the discretion of Leinster. He hasn’t played a game since the quarters almost a month ago.

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jb 11 minutes ago
URC teams aren't proving Stephen Donald wrong

My my how the mighty has fallen. As a Saffa I agree that the URC is low rated rugby. I rate it in the following order.

Top14

ERC

EPL

Super rugby

URC

Japan


That being said. Who cares? Follow the rugby you like. Just interesting to note past All Black players now trying to claim best local competition because they no longer, for some time now, can claim best test team in the world.

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SK 23 minutes ago
URC teams aren't proving Stephen Donald wrong

The URC teams play poorly in Europe and that is in part because of money. They dont have the financial power that other clubs in Europe have especially the French Clubs. They also struggle to attract international talent and build squad depth. This was the case even before the SA teams arrived. The URC is weaker than the Top 14 but so is every league. The top 14 has won the Champions cup for several years in a row now and that may not change this year either. The premiership has not provided a finalist for several years except for now. I would say the URC is on a par with the Premiership at the moment but behind the top 14. Ofcourse we are only talking about the top 8 to 10 clubs in the URC here and maybe not those all the way down to 16 however nobody can deny the strides and improvements all sides across the URC has made in the last few years. This is proven by the fact that URC clubs routinely do well in the Challenge cup even winning it last year showing the improvements in standard of the bottom clubs. For the URC its a case of improving year on year and the standards are improving and the fans know it. Thats why attendences, viewership and engagement have improved massively in the last 5 years. Comparing the URC to Super Rugby and saying the standard is much lower is folly though. SR teams do not play in Europe and cannot compare themselves to European teams. They dont play in the same conditions with the same referees or in the same context. You cannot compare. SR must look at its own failings. The reality is it is a competition propped up by players from the 2nd, 8th, 9th and below ranked teams. We are not even talking about the best players from these nations as many of them are choosing deals abroad. At the end of this years comp several NZ and Aus stars will leave and its the same every year with fewer returning. How can you call yourself the best when you dont even have the best playing in your league? SR cannot gauge its standard because it does not even compete in multinational tourneys like the Champions Cup. As far as I am concerned SR and those who punt it hard like Stephen Donald and Ben Smith are just blowing their own horn shouting as loud as they can that they are the best when in fact they are just punting a second rate regional pacific tournament that thinks way more if itself than it should.

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SadersMan 35 minutes ago
URC teams aren't proving Stephen Donald wrong

Exactly!!!!

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SadersMan 3 hours ago
'Most complacent selection decision you will ever see': Barrett benching slammed as Leinster knocked out

Foreigner-itus much 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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SadersMan 3 hours ago
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Rocketman making all the difference. As I predicted. Still, too many rookie mistakes, & not just by rookies. As for semis, playing RSA rather than ARG seems a better option for our style of game. Huge opportunity to resurrect a sh*t 2025 series.

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GM 3 hours ago
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I’ve been singing Mafileo’s praises for some time. His scrummaging on both sides has always been top-drawer, but now we’re seeing the benefit of his being match fit. He’s now a real presence around the park on attack and defence, has good hands and good rugby nous about where to be. Having said that, I think his competition in the race to replace Ofa at loose head was also on the park - Ollie Norris was giving Lomax, the best tight-head in the world, plenty of curry.

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YeowNotEven 3 hours ago
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Go taste test chainsaw blades, wart flaps.

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YeowNotEven 3 hours ago
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Looks to me like they might be able to get up the enthusiasm here and there throughout the season, so they could tip over the Drua in Fiji, but I don’t expect much after that.

At best a 1/4 final exit.

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YeowNotEven 3 hours ago
'Most complacent selection decision you will ever see': Barrett benching slammed as Leinster knocked out

Ireland need their players to get playoff experience I guess.

Or they thought unleashing Jordie against tired defense would tip the balance late.

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Bob Salad II 4 hours ago
Leo Cullen defends his position after Leinster's Champions Cup exit

From the outside looking in, the governance of Irish rugby looks increasingly muddled with the convoluted politics of selection and string-pulling by the IRFU appearing to hinder and not help Leinster let alone the other three provinces.


Fans of each should feel rightly aggrieved.

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Sivan Levy 4 hours ago
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JW 4 hours ago
Leo Cullen defends his position after Leinster's Champions Cup exit

Yeah that was my immediate thought, they said the same thing about the RWC Final.


Not a Cullen thing, much harder for them to overcome than that.

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JW 4 hours ago
'Most complacent selection decision you will ever see': Barrett benching slammed as Leinster knocked out

All their backline have to be fair, he couldn’t even get a start on the wing or fullback because of how good they’ve been.


Perhaps if Leinster weren’t pressured to manage him he would have had more minutes under his belt and they would have been more comfortable to use him, to treat him as the #1.

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Utiku Old Boy 4 hours ago
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Your comments risk being identified with “count your chickens before they hatch” associated with Irish rugby. How do you account for these BS comments now?

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