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The Lions won the opening four fixtures before losing to Otago and Southland, but succeeded in holding the All Blacks to a nine-all draw.
Creevy is known as a mobile hooker with some very good ball handling skills for a hooker, his good offloading skills have led him to become called "Sonny Bill" Creevy (after the All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams who's trademark is offloading) by some Montpellier fans.
He was also qualified to play for Wales through his Welsh grandparents, but became ineligible after his All Blacks debut.
All Blacks open-side flanker Richie McCaw rated him as one of the best back rows in the game, shortly after he missed being selected for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.
Stanley is married to current medical surgeon and former Auckland and All Black rugby union player, Jeremy Stanley.
Players involved in the match included Shane Warne, Stephen Fleming, Tana Umaga, Richard Hadlee, Martin Crowe, other famous former New Zealand cricketers, current All Blacks Richie McCaw and Conrad Smith and actors Russell Crowe, Ian McKellen.
Perhaps his finest moment during the tournament came in the semifinal against the highly-fancied New Zealand All Blacks, when he snatched the ball from the grasp of opposing winger 'Lord' John Kirwan, and went on to score a try.
The last international game was expected to be the All Blacks versus South Africa Tri Nations match on 12 July 2008.
Bain maintained his innocence and began a lengthy campaign to have his case reheard, spearheaded by Joe Karam, a former member of the All Blacks.
In 2005 he joined the Auckland Blues team as a technical advisor and high performance manager, with the positions previously held by current All Blacks coach Graham Henry.
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It was well known throughout this time that Crusaders coach Robbie Deans was the favourite of ARU CEO John O'neil, however Deans made a decision to apply for the All Blacks coaching role instead.
In November 2010, he was selected by Ireland's head coach Declan Kidney to make his International debut for Ireland against Samoa on the 13th of November 2010 during the 2010 end of year rugby tests He then came off the bench against the All Blacks and Argentina.
Teachers such as Peter Ingram, Tim Stuck, Steve Simpson have taught sport to the students and there have been notable sporting students such as All Blacks Conrad Smith and Beauden Barrett
After initially being limited to mainly to substitute appearances behind All Blacks scrum half Aaron Smith, in Tanaka's second start in Super Rugby he was highly praised for his performance against the Blues which even drew praise from the IRB CEO Brett Gosper.
Selected for the World XV squad for the New Zealand All Blacks' 1992 Centenary he played in two of the three Tests.
The following week, the All Blacks, fresh off sweeping the British and Irish Lions, came to Newlands in Cape Town, where they had not lost to the Springboks since 1976.
He had a high strike rate for the All Blacks, scoring 25 tries in his first 20 tests, and breaking the All Blacks single-season record for test tries previously shared by Jonah Lomu and Christian Cullen—his 17 test tries scored in 2003 equals the world record held by Daisuke Ohata of Japan.
In 1990, Gallagher was one of the first of a succession of All Blacks to switch codes to rugby league, following from his understudy Matthew Ridge, who signed with the NSWRL's Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles only a week before.
In 1986 Lorraine Downes married Murray Mexted, a New Zealand rugby All Black, with whom she had two children (son Hilton and daughter Jasmine), before divorcing in 2001.
Following the announcement of his inclusion in the All Blacks squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, it was announced on 23 July 2007 that McAlister would be joining Guinness Premiership side Sale Sharks after the World Cup on a two-year deal.
During the following years, Mizuno signed sponsorship deals with some of the most prominent personalities in sports, such as track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the All Blacks rugby team, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, for most of his years in the NFL, the Manu Samoa rugby team, Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl, and golf player Nick Faldo.
Playing at lock, Felix made his debut for South Africa on 16 July 1949 at Newlands Stadium, Cape Town against the touring All Blacks, lead by Fred Allen.
2007 was the biggest year thus far for the club, with the naming of Vesi Rauluni (Fiji), Dwayne Sweeney (New Zealand Māori rugby union team), and Brendon Leonard (All Blacks) all in one week.
He played thirty matches for the All Blacks in the late 1970s and early 1980s; seven of these were test matches.
New Zealand national rugby union team, better known as the All Blacks, administered by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union.
The Black Ferns have used Verusco Technologies TryMaker video analysis system, as used by the All Blacks.
Nick Evans (former All Black, rumored to moved to North Harbour but moved to Auckland instead, now playing for Harlequins in England
Malan's sole cap came at the age of 30 on 17 September 1949 against the All Blacks at St George's Park in Port Elizabeth, a game the Springboks went on to win 11-8 to take the series 4-0.
He is of Ngāi Tahu descent and is related to the first captain of the All Blacks, Thomas Ellison, and current New Zealand rugby union players Jacob Ellison and Tamati Ellison.
He played for Wellington and the All Blacks, captaining the national team in the 1983 tour of Scotland and England.
The island is well visible from the Auckland Harbour Bridge, which caused it to briefly make headlines when Adidas in 2005 erected a metal crouching figure (shown doing a haka) as part of a campaign to promote the All Blacks during the Lions' rugby tour.
The All Blacks should also have played matches in Ireland, including a test match against Ireland on 16 December but they were forced to cancel this section of the tour because of the 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.
in the second test in Christchurch, with the All Blacks outscoring them five tries (Bob Burgess (2), Sid Going, Ian Kirkpatrick, pen try) to two (Davies (2)).
The 1981 New Zealand rugby union tour of Romania and France was a series of ten matches played by the New Zealand national rugby union team (the All Blacks) in Romania and France in October and November 1981.
The All Blacks won eight of the ten games, including the international match against Romania and both internationals against France.
Within the first minute of the game, All Blacks hooker Andrew Hore swung his right arm, hitting Davies hard in the jaw from behind and knocking him unconscious.
The usage, outside of the specific ethnicity of the Cocolos of San Pedro de Macorís, is vague, and at times the word can mean all blacks or all the poor of any race or those that identify with the Afro-Latino culture and music, such as Salsa and other Spanish Afro-Caribbean musical genres.
Dean's decision to apply for the All Blacks made David the front runner for the Wallabies post, however the NZRU controversial decided to keep incumbent coach Graham Henry despite the All Blacks worst ever performance at a world cup which lead to Deans successfully applying for the Wallabies job.
Felix made his debut on 16 July 1949 for South Africa as a lock in the first test match at Newlands Stadium, Cape Town against the touring All Blacks, led by Fred Allen.
In the lead up to the Rugby World Cup in 2011, flashmob hakas became a popular way of expressing support for the All Blacks.
France then scored two penalties and two drop goals to first five-eighth Christophe Lamaison to reduce the All Blacks' lead to 24–22 with 25 minutes remaining.
In the November end of year internationals, he made a further three substitute appearances against Samoa, Australia, and New Zealand; a dramatic encounter in which Ireland were denied an historic first-ever win over the All Blacks in the final minute of the Test match.
This expansion created the Super 14, adding two extra fixtures to that competition, and also added two more Tri-Nations matches for the All Blacks in non-World Cup years.
New Zealand national rugby union team, better known as the All Blacks, administered by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union.
Nancekivell started his rugby career with Launceston Rugby Football Club (The Cornish All Blacks) along with his two brothers Roly and Eddie.
Robbie Deans (born 1959), current Crusaders (Super 14) coach; former rugby union player and All Black, as well as a former All Blacks coach
When John Mitchell and Robbie Deans took over the coaching of the All Blacks from Wayne Smith and Tony Gilbert in October 2001 Randell was dropped from the All Blacks.