PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS

Brad Weber is used to being told he’s too small to play rugby.

He’s had it all his life and has even had professional coaches tell him he’s not big enough for the rough and tumble of elite rugby.

This is the same Weber who has played almost 200 first class games including 98 for the Chiefs and who is vying with TJ Pernara as the starting halfback for the All Blacks in the Rugby Championship.

Sure he’s only 175cm tall - 5ft 8inches in the old measure - and he tips the scales at 75kgs, which is 20kgs lighter than Justin Marshall was, but Weber is more than capable of footing it with rugby’s big boys.

And he’s not alone as a small man playing an