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Last week in Dublin as part of their PR duties as a flag bearer for adidas the All Blacks took part in a multi sports session featuring twenty lucky Munster fans, as well as the likes of Kieran Donaghy and Sean Og, taking time out from his banter with Gerald McCarthy.

During the ‘More Than a Game’ sessions the likes of Rodney So’oialo and Dan Carter got to have a go at hurling.

Judging by the way things panned out on Saturday evening in Croker, maybe the blazers in the IRFU should have agreed to play one half New Zealand’s national sport of rugby and one half hurling. Might have given us a chance of winning.

Or maybe not…

We all remember at school that there was always one b*****d that was good at everything. Whether it was golf, table tennis, squash this hoor would pure sicken your happiness he was that good at every sport he put his hand to.

If he was in Panama and the sport was Panamanian Donkey throwing he’d be deadly at it. Likewise the Afghan pastime of Bushkazi which is basically polo but with a headless goat as the ball.

Yes indeed, after his performance in Croker on Saturday and judging by the photos our friends in WHPR sent us for this article, Dan Carter is that hoor.

Look at the balance of the ball on the stick. Look at the thumb on the right hand controlling the hurley, which itself he has shortened for control. Looks like he was born to hurl.

If things don’t work out for him in Perpignan in January, and of course they will, maybe this Dan the Man is just what the doctor ordered for hurling.

But before you go reaching for the valium and bottle of vodka and a night’s depression at how talented these New Zealanders are, all is not lost. Carter’s teammate Rodney So’oialo was pictured in the Irish News holding the hurley upside down. In fact, he looked like someone’s ma trying to hurl. Here we show his response when asked to shorten the stick.

Maybe there only is one Dan Carter after all…