Rugby: Brad Thorn considering comeback with Reds; NZ Herald

Forty-plus former All Black lock Brad Thorn could make an extraordinary comeback for the ailing Queensland Reds.

The Reds have just sacked coach Richard Graham after only two rounds of the 2016 Super Rugby competition, with assistants Nick Stiles and Matt O'Connor set to take charge.

Thorn, unwanted by the Highlanders in 2015, retired last year, but has kept training. He is in charge of the Reds under-20s whose final game is on March 19.

"I'm tempted, I'll always be tempted, but if it happens it won't happen until the end of the Under 20 tournament," Thorn told the Brisbane Courier-Mail.

But Reds head of rugby Daniel Herbert would like to have him available earlier.

"If he changes his mind, our door is open," Herbert said.

Thorn, the Mosgiel-born, dual-code internaitonal, turned 41 in February. He was part of the All Blacks' 2011 World Cup triumph, played 59 tests for New Zealand, and represented Australia and Queensland in league.

 Mozart, he's one of those blokes that can sing "forever young" convincingly, much like your mate Vic

 That would be just another flop.  He was not up to standard for the Highlanders and his comeback would be meaningless for the Reds.   These comebacks of has-beens are always jokes - so what would be the difference with Thorn?    

 Like a few other 'unmentionables', like red wine, getting better with age .

 He'd still be faster than Sharks centre Grant "Snail" Esterhuizen.

"He'd still be faster than Sharks centre Grant "Snail" Esterhuizen."

Wehe . . . Dense just proving again that he'll repeat anything his master says even if he doesn't know who the player in question is.

"Grant Esterhuizen"?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!

I'd suggest Dense sticks to cricket but he appears to know even less about cricket than he knows about rugby . . . assuming that's actually possible!

LMAO!

 Denny got it wrong this time and so did Mozart.  The slowest center is not Esterhuizen - the slowest was and remains Fat Fransie.   But his identification of the center is way of the mark and I agree that he follows Mozart in all he writes on the site - and Mozart is always wrong when it comes to performance evaluation of players because of prejudice.