Archive - Silver Fern Sports

Great 1967 Test fails to make 'definitive' list

All Blacks v France rivalry

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Tom Pritchard - A forgotten feat

NZ cricketers of note, No 3 - an occasional series

Jun 22 •

Mark Nicholls' best pre-WWII XV

Former All Blacks five-eighths Mark Nicholls was one of the few players, Billy Stead was another, who took to rugby writing once his playing career was…

Jun 15 •

Stu Wilson - rugby's laughing cavalier

Stuart Wilson, b Gore, 22 July 1954, d Tauranga, 8 June 2025, age 70.

Jun 8 •

Vale Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson, b.

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Frank Mooney loved a batting crisis

New Zealand cricketers of note - an occasional series No.2

May 29 •

Film of Shield win emerges after 66 years

Southland v Taranaki 1959

May 26 •

Diack's had strong southern connection

'Tuppy' Diack's death last week in Dunedin, at 94, completed a connection with representative rugby in New Zealand that began in 1920.

May 19 •

Bill McCaw - a southern rugby gentleman

May 7 •

Kiwi innovator 'one of nature's gentlemen'

Southern hurdler Gerald Keddell

May 3 •

April 2025

Vale Roy Phillips, minstrel extraordinaire

It’s not sport, but on the occasion of the death of Peddlers’ maestro Roy Phillips felt it was worth posting this story written for the Evening Post in…

Apr 24 •

NZ sport's greatest all-rounder?

Do you know your New Zealand sports history?

Apr 24 •

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