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MY TAKE ON SOME OF THE RUGBY NEWS STORIES WHICH COME INTO MY WORLD.
New All Black World Cup player Nehe Milner-Skudder
Facts you Might Not Know About NZ's 3 New Rugby World Cup All Blacks
17 September 2015
*THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS YEAR'S NEW ALL BLACK WORLD CUP PLAYERS* Read more »
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Offering Knighthoods and talk of him becoming PM are just not fair on Richie McCaw. Back off Kiwis - especially those on TV!!
17 August 2015
Offering Knighthoods and talk of him becoming our Prime Minister are just not fair on Richie McCaw. Back off Kiwis! And give our All Black captain room to be just that! Read more »
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Now that the All Black pre-World Cup tests are over Keith Quinn offers some conclusions as to how the All Blacks might win the big tournament.
16 August 2015
Elsewhere on this website I have offered my views on all of the very public discussion and chat about whether Richie McCaw might or might not be Knighted for his 'Services to Rugby.' But out of the final All Blacks pre-Rugby World Cup game (the 41-13 win over Australia) there were a couple of other good and bad things which also merit discussion. Read more »
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Test Match #2 of the 2015 All Black year is over; Keith Quinn reports.
20 July 2015
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE ALL BLACKS V ARGENTINA TEST MATCH 18 JULY 2015 ..... Read more »
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(To the left); The Samoan Head of State, Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi and (to the right) the Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi (thanks Ken!) But who's the Palagi in the light blue shirt clapping so keenly?
Test match #1 of the 2015 All Black year is over; Keith Quinn reports
9 July 2015
This is my summary of everything I gleaned about New Zealand v Samoa game in Apia - from the ample sofa at my place in Wellington. Weather, match report, & TV review it's all here. Read more »
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It's always fun when Manu Samoa's supporters are around!
Some stuff You never knew about the rise and rise of Samoa rugby- and New Zealand's role in its early years.
8 July 2015
A brief history of the first years of contact between NZ rugby and Samoa. And Samoa's best moments. Read more »
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Every day there is Rugby History 31 August 1971
Click to show The date of death for an AB who took his farm horse off to war in Palestine.
James 'Buster' Barrett, in his time the lightest AB forward, went to WWI in 1915 with the Auckland Mounted Rifles division. His horse was trained for war while away but never saw any action and never returned.
A-Z of Rugby
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AZZURRI, THE
The nickname for the Italian rugby team. The word translates straight from the Italian word for ‘blue’. The Italian football team originally adopted the nickname but with the rise of a national rugby prominence in Italy the rugby team also has the name attached to it. Both sports teams of Italy wear, of course, azure blue playing strip.
10 Questions to well known sporting people
Today's KQ Rugby Quiz
What was different about the British Columbian winger Denny Veitch who played against the British and Irish Lions in Vancouver in 1966?
What do you think?
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