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A MESSAGE FROM KEITH QUINN: Welcome to my world of collecting yarns, favourite stories and pictures from a lifetime of broadcasting and reporting the great game of rugby union. This photo, sent to me after the final of the 1987 Rugby World Cup, symbolises the 'Pot of Gold' opportunities the game has offered me. In my working life I've done nothing else but report sport. So please - COME IN AND HAVE A LOOK AROUND MY MEMORIES. Your comments please to kqrugby@hotmail.co.nz
The programme for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final between All Blacks and Wallabies. New Zealand won 34-17.
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From the 2015 Rugby World Cup. My reports on the early games.
9 November 2015
I travelled to the eighth Rugby World Cup in Great Britain as an Ambassador for Williment Sport Travel of Wellington, New Zealand; I made it to into Cardiff at the quarter-final stage. Before that I posted a regular Rugby World Cup blog. Read more »
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Did a young New Zealand radio presenter once influence the outcome of a Blackcaps cricket test? He thinks he did! Find out how he did it...
*By Keith Quinn (from his book Quinn's Quips)* Early in my broadcasting career by 1969 I was deemed sound enough by the bosses of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation to be the regular studio host of the Sports Roundup radio show. It was quite simple broadcasting work and therefore very good for a young bloke to be involved with. But one day I think I played a major role in New Zealand winning a cricket test match! Read on... Read more »
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Nearly 100 years after one of rugby’s greatest scandals, an old scrapbook is dusted off and opened.
By Keith Quinn Read more »
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Keith Murdoch - One More Story on the Mysterious Life and Lonely Death of the Banished All Black.
*This Story by Keith Quinn for keithquinnrugby.com:* The discussion of the end of All Black Keith Murdoch's life has recently become been a cheerless one to absorb. The beginnings of the demise of the tough prop forward's playing career is very well known. Read more »
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Colin Meads - At his last public outing.
The small New Zealand town of Te Kuiti, in the aptly-named King Country turned out in June 2017 for what was to be the last public outing for the districts legendary rugby star, the great Sir Colin Meads. I was honoured to be MC for the day and later wrote this story for 'NZTODAY.' Read more »
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Colin Meads - Where does he sit among the All-Time All Blacks? One Man's View.
I watched a lot of Colin Meads playing on the rugby field. I am of the age that can say that. Shamelessly I can say I loved the way Colin Meads changed the game for previously lumbering second row forwards, which I was myself, albeit at a club level only. Meads showed us all another way to play. Read more »
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RIP to an Old Lion - A true or tall story?
This story first appeared in the excellent *NZToday* Magazine's June-July edition. The author knows it is true as he remembers it. Some family members doubt his recall. Read more »
Quotes
The sad loss of comedian and actor Robin Williams recalls what he said when he first set eyes on Jonah Lomu
'My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!'
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Every day there is Rugby History 15 May 1975
Click to show A BIG All Black Great was Born on this Day in Auckland.
Little did the baby Jonah Lomu or his parents know that 19 years and 45 days later he would be playing for the All Blacks in a test match!
A-Z of Rugby
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ZAMBUK
A friendly and familiar nickname used, particularly in South Africa and New Zealand, for the officers of St John who attend rugby matches as ambulance or medical attendants.
The word ‘zambuk’ (or Zambuck as it is spelt in some places) is of South African derivation. It was the name of a well-known embrocation used by medical attendants in the early years of this century and in the two World Wars. Eventually those who brought it to sick soldiers (and injured army footballers!) were themselves dubbed ‘zam-buks’. The name has stuck though in these days of professional rugby when teams have their own medical staff the Zambuks are mostly seen patrolling and doing their vital work at lower grade club matches.
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What was unusual about Daniel Dubois' play in the second half of the South West France game v Australia in 1967?
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