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So you want to be a rugby commentator? Try these tongue twisters first and see how you go!
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 »
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
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 »
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.
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 »
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
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 »
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...
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 »
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
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 3 June 1936
Click to show Colin Earl Meads was born in Cambridge, New Zealand.
And there's a many a Kiwi who has rung him on this day in the years since - after he grew to be one of our greatest All Blacks.
Click to show ANDURAN, JOE
ANDURAN, JOE
Universitaire de France and France
1 international for France 1910
This player is another of rugby's unusual internationals from early in the twentieth century.
Joe Anduran, an art dealer, was in his shop in Paris one day when a taxi pulled up outside and several officials of the French Rugby Federation climbed out. Apparently they had just seen the French team depart from the railway station as they headed off to play Wales in Swansea on New Year's Day, 1910. But only 14 Frenchmen had gone on the train; the 15th was held up in Bordeaux while doing his military service.
So the officials were sent on an urgent errand around Paris to find another forward for the game to be played next day. Their search eventually took them to Joe Anduran's art shop. Anduran was a useful club player in Paris but nothing more, and at first he thought it was a joke when the strangers asked him if he wanted to play for France the next day. He was persuaded to leave immediately, but he soon found his first obstacle in making the trip to Swansea was not so much the booking on the cross-channel ferry, but his wife!
Madame Anduran, it seems, did not share her husband's pride in being selected to play for France – she had made arrangements for Joe to do some family visiting with her the next day. However, soon Joe Anduran was on the train for Swansea, where the next day he ran on to St Helen's field for his debut for France.
Wales won the game by the handsome margin of 49 points to 14. Not surprisingly, Joe Anduran was one of those who was axed by the French selectors in their reshuffle of the badly beaten team and he was never seen again in the French colours.A good story for the history books though!
Why was the kickoff for the Japan v Wales in Cardiff in 1983 delayed for 15 minutes?
The TV satellite had broken down and the Japan team management asked the referee to delay kickoff until the 'live pictures were through' to Japanese viewers.