Dylan Cleaver
speaker
1,233 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 31 Jul
Dylan Cleaver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Ranfurly Shield, the log of wood, it's been called the holy grail of New Zealand rugby.
The 5th Earl of Ranfurly, governor at the time, presented the inter-provincial competition in 1902.
Auckland, because they had the best playing record, were the first holders.
Holding the shield means both joy and prestige.
Nearly 500 shield matches have been played, many of them classics, but no shield rivalry rivals that of Canterbury and Auckland.
Two mighty sides came together in a match in 1985 that had been talked about for months beforehand.
It will be talked about for years to come.
It was billed as the match of the century, and it was.
Yeah, I think I do.
First name Alexander.
You sounded more Steve Hansen.
Actually, you did.
I mean, super rugby wasn't even a twinkle in Rupert Murdoch's eye.
This was well pre-Jonah and the whole revolution of professional rugby.
In fact, rugby was quite strange.
Like,
Provincial rugby was king, but the MPC, the National Provincial Championship, was actually only a relatively new construct.
This might be hard to believe, but pre-1976, provincial rugby was the thing that everyone did every Saturday afternoon.
You went along and watched your Taranakis, your Poverty Bays and that.
But it was all kind of organised in backroom deals between administrators.
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