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So you want to be a rugby commentator? Try these tongue twisters first and see how you go!
10 May 2017
One of the first things people say to any rugby commentator is - 'Just how DO you pronounce all those names from all the different countries?' Read more »
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Rieko Ioane; proudly Ponsonby and now an All Black test player (aged 19 years and 239 days) Photo; Keith Quinn
Ponsonby Club in the lead again; for producing most All Blacks
17 November 2016
KeithQuinnRugby.com wrote to the eminent New Zealand rugby statistician Paul Neazor in an attempt to clarify the records set by the appearance of Rieko Ioane as an All Blacks test player in the game v Italy. In true style Paul has come up with a definitive list and also a comparison for the Ponsonby Club with the club with the ‘second-most’ All Blacks. Read more »
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It has 840pps, weighs a bloody tonne and if you or anyone in your family played 1st class rugby in New Zealand their name is in this new book.
Huge New Zealand Rugby book reviewed.
14 September 2016
This message below is from John Lea of the Association of New Zealand Rugby Historians and Statisticians; A message to all followers of New Zealand rugby; Read more »
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This is the pic to prove I was a Wimbledon commentator! - only problem was; this was taken the day before the Olympic tennis started.
London 2012 - This is the ninth of the nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
29 July 2016
The words ‘Living the Dream’ made up the official slogan of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The catchphrase certainly applied for me – AGAIN! – as here I was packing up and setting off for my ninth summer Olympic Games. Read more »
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Soon the Excitement and Crowds of the World's Sevens tours will be see at the Summer Olympic Games.
The New Zealand Olympic Mens Rugby 7s team. The Who's who...
16 July 2016
By Keith Quinn; The omission of Kurt Baker from the 2016 New Zealand men’s Olympic 7s team was a very big surprise to me. Quite amazing in fact... Read more »
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Your 2008 Opening Ceremony commentary team; John McBeth, Sophie Zheng and Keith Quinn
Beijing 2008 - This is the eighth of nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
16 July 2016
More and more in the last weeks before I flew to Beijing for my eighth Summer Olympic Games, in 2008, I was asked two questions. The first one was, ‘are you looking forward to going to that place, Keith?’ The second one was, ‘how many ‘golds’ will we Kiwis win?” Read more »
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Every day there is Rugby History 27 November 2010
Click to show Richie McCaw's All Blacks clinch NZs fourth UK Grand Slam.
Yet again the ABs win 4 Home Union tests in 4 Saturdays. On this day Wales are beaten 37-25.
A-Z of Rugby
Click to show CAMBERABERO, GUY, LILIAN and DIDIER
CAMBERABERO, GUY
La Voulte and France
14 internationals for France 1961–68
CAMBERABERO, LILIAN
La Voulte and France
13 internationals for France 1964–68
CAMBERABERO, DIDIER
La Voulte, Beziers and France
36 internationals for France 1982–93
As uncapped brothers Guy and Lilian surfaced in international rugby when both toured New Zealand with France in 1961.
Poor Lilian, one of the victims of the heavy early-tour loss to Waikato, was one of the three halfbacks for the 13-match tour and, though he was never injured, that was his only match.
He went on to play 13 internationals between 1964 and 1968, only once on a losing French side.
Flyhalf Guy played one test on the 1961 tour, the first of his 14 internationals, of which France won 10 and drew one. He scored 113 international points, including the France Five Nations championship’s record of 32 in 1967. He dropped a record five goals (in three matches) that season.
Guy’s son, Didier, also reached international level as a flyhalf, in 1982, 14 years after his father’s career had finished. Didier was a brilliant goal-kicker, setting a world record of 30 points in one game, in France’s World Cup match with Zimbabwe at Auckland in 1987. He was something of a curiosity – he played most of his internationals wearing a full hair-piece.
Didier was France’s vital goal-kicking and tactical flyhalf in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, appearing in three of France’s four games. An injury prevented him playing in the important quarter final with England. France, missing Camberabero’s authority in the number ten jersey, tumbled to defeat.
Didier Camberabero at that point in time, became the highest scorer in French test history and the first Frenchman to pass 300 points in tests.
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?
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