Richie McCaw - All Black 2001-2015.

Are there any more accolades coming the way of this Rugbyman? (captured here by Andy Herraud's fine cartoon in 2012)

18 August 2015

This cartoon was commissioned by Billy Graham and the Naenae Youth Charitable Trust in 2012. It was done by Lower Hutt's Andy Heraud.

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30 August 2015 (4 years ago)

Mooloomagic

Keith, did you see Ron Jarden play? His era is before my time but as I was born in 1955 out of curiosity I read the 1956 Alamanck recently and I see that Ron scored 30 tries in just 16 matches in 1955 which is amazing and no one since has achieved that in a calendar year . I would love your thoughts and impressions on Ron Jarden who must have been one hell of a footballer

Dave

Every day there is Rugby History 20 August 2014

Click to show Australia's Youth Women win an Olympic Gold Medal!

They did it in style too; beating Canada 38-10 to win a Youth Olympic Gold medal in Nanjing China. The victory saw an Olympic rugby gold medal presented for the first time in 90 years!

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HAGET, FRANCIS
Agen, Biarritz Olympique and France
40 internationals for France 1974–87

A no-nonsense French lock whose international career was spread over 14 seasons. At 37, he had the distinction of being the oldest player to appear in the first Rugby World Cup series in New Zealand in 1987.

Haget was a big man, standing 2 metres tall (6ft 6in), and he was a strong lineout jumper. His debut for France was on the tour of Argentina in 1974 and his last games for France were at the World Cup in New Zealand 13 years later. During his rugby days he was croupier at a casino in Biarritz.

10 Questions to well known sporting people

Today's KQ Rugby Quiz

In which New Zealand Rugby Province was the Ranfurly Shield resident for the longest duration of time?

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Answer; SOUTHLAND (They had the Ranfurly Shield from September 10 1938 until August 2 1947 – which was three weeks short of nine years!) That was more than when Auckland had the Shield from September 14 1985 til September 18 1993 - a total just over 8 years! [NOTE:There were no matches played in the years of WWII. The Shield stayed in the window of H.H.Geddes and son, the menswear store, on the corner of Tay and Dee Streets in Invercargill during the war years.]

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