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Tom Pritchard - A forgotten feat
NZ cricketers of note, No 3 - an occasional series
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Lynn McConnell
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…
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Stu Wilson - rugby's laughing cavalier
Stuart Wilson, b Gore, 22 July 1954, d Tauranga, 8 June 2025, age 70.
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Vale Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson, b.
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May 2025

Frank Mooney loved a batting crisis
New Zealand cricketers of note - an occasional series No.2
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Film of Shield win emerges after 66 years
Southland v Taranaki 1959
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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.
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Bill McCaw - a southern rugby gentleman
Obituary
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Kiwi innovator 'one of nature's gentlemen'
Southern hurdler Gerald Keddell
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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…
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NZ sport's greatest all-rounder?
Do you know your New Zealand sports history?
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Top French players want to tour NZ
Top French rugby players are kicking back against an official French Rugby Federation stance that key Test players should not be selected for the annual…
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