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25 June 2016
541st All Black test
NEW ZEALAND v WALES (3rd test) at Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
Saturday 25th June 2016
Fulltime score – New Zealand 46 Wales 6
Halftime – New Zealand 18 Wales 6
Attendance; 29,000
Referee; Jerome Garces (France)
Referee’s Assistants; Andrew Lees (Australia) and Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Television Match Official; George Ayoub (Australia)
NEW ZEALAND 46 WALES 6
The scorers:
For New Zealand:
Tries: B.Barrett (2), B.Smith, D.Coles, G.Moala and I.Dagg.
Cons: B.Barrett (5)
Pen: B.Barrett (2)
For Wales:
Tries:
Cons:
Pen: D.Biggar (2)
New Zealand: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Ben Smith, 13 George Moala (rep’d Waisake Naholo 49m), 12 Ryan Crotty (rep’d by Lima Sopoaga 56m), 11 Julian Savea; 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith (rep’d by Tawera Kerr-Barlow 73m), 8 Kieran Read (c), 7 Sam Cane, 6 Elliot Dixon (debut) (rep’d by Liam Squire (debut) 56m), 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick (rep’d by Luke Romano 65m), 3 Charlie Faumuina (rep’d Ofa Tu’ungafasi (debut) 53m), 2 Dane Coles (rep’d by Codie Taylor 73m), 1 Joe Moody (rep’d by Wyatt Crockett 53m)
Wales: 15 Rhys Patchell, 14 Liam Williams (temp sub’d by Scott Williams 27-38m), 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Jamie Roberts (rep’d by Scott Williams 55m), 11 Hallam Amos, 10 Dan Biggar (rep’d by Rhys Priestland 59m), 9 Rhys Webb (rep’d by Gareth Davies 56m), 8 Taulupe Faletau, 7 Sam Warburton (c) (rep’d by Ellis Jenkins 71m), 6 Ross Moriarty, 5 Alun Wyn Jones, 4 Luke Charteris (rep’d by Jake Ball 60m), 3 Tomas Francis (rep’d by Samson Lee 47m), 2 Ken Owens (rep’d by Scott Baldwin 57m), 1 Rob Evans (sub’d by Aaron Jarvis 47m)...
Wales skipper Sam Warburton became only the 10th player to play 50 Tests as an international captain (including two for the British & Irish Lions) when he led his country for the 48th time.
With New Zealand winning the test series 3-0 it made it 63 years since Wales won a test against the All Blacks (December 19 1953) and a sequence of 29 test wins over Wales by the All Blacks.
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NEPIA, GEORGE
Hawke’s Bay, East Coast and New Zealand
9 internationals for New Zealand 1924–30
A legendary figure in a legendary team, the 1924 ‘Invincible’ All Blacks. Only 19 at the time, George Nepia played all 38 matches during that gruelling tour of Australia, Britain, Ireland, France and Canada.
British sides were unstinting in their praise of Nepia, the rock on whom so many of their attacks foundered. His courage under the high ball and in repelling foot rushes, the crunching certainty of his tackling and the strength of his spiraled line kicking – all of these combined to restrict opposition teams to no more than 180 points against the All Blacks in the 38 games.
Nepia could also run with the ball. He had started his first-class career as a wing, then a five-eighth, before outstanding fullback displays in 1924 resulted in his being chosen as the only last line of defence. Early in the tour of Britain he made a sizzling run, but the dictatorial Mark Nicholls told him to leave the running to his five-eighths and three-quarters: his job was to defend. It was not until the 37th match of the tour, in Canada, that Nepia scored his first try!
A bogus telegram which advised the selectors of Nepia’s ‘unavailability’ cost him a place with the New Zealand Maoris’ trend-setting tour to Britain in 1927, and his All Black career finished after the 1930 home series against the British Isles. After a temporary retirement, Nepia returned to bid for a place with the 1935–36 All Blacks to tour Britain but was surprisingly not selected, though then playing as well as at any time of his career.
With his financial security in tatters at the end of the Depression, Nepia readily accepted the lure of rugby league money and played two seasons in England, and then for New Zealand. Reinstated to rugby in what was then called the ‘war-time amnesty’ which allowed rugby league professionals to return without recrimination to the amateur rugby union, Nepia played for East Coast in 1947, and in 1950 captained the Olympians club in a first-class fixture against Poverty Bay. George Nepia, father and son, were the fullbacks and captains on this historic day, George senior being 45 years old at the time.
He became an active referee and many spectators went to games just to watch Nepia referee, rather than see the two teams doing battle.
When did an international rugby team play a full game and then travel to another country to play a second full game on the same day?
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