Dylan Cleaver
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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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He just determined when the game was over and it didn't, yeah.
I mean, the crowd hung on that clock ticking to the 40.
But it didn't necessarily mean the game was going to end when it hit the 40.
It didn't necessarily mean the game wouldn't end before it hit the 40 either.
It depended how the ref felt, really.
yeah and it in some ways like i don't want to say it killed provincial rugby because it didn't because people still loved it yeah but auckland was so good wellington actually won the mpc in 86 right somehow they they fluked it but russian say that they won a fair and square but it was a surprise because auckland had been so dominant but then auckland went on this run
Teams would go to Eden Park and had lost before the game even kicked off.
Grant Fox used to say that there's sicker teams coming up here and their sole aim of the game was to keep the score down.
You had this phenomenon at Eden Park where people would stand in the eastern terraces for the half that Auckland attacked them and then at halftime they would literally decamp.
To the other end.
To the western end of the ground to watch them attack that end as well, which of course fed into this perception from the rest of the country about Jaffas and arrogant and all that.
But they were actually a magnificent team.
They were a really well-coached team, clearly.
Yeah.
I mean, the Brook brothers came off the Pūhoe farm to come and play in Auckland where normally they would have been in North Auckland.
And in fact, Auckland's dominance led to another thing, which was they just had too many good players.
So it birthed the Union North Harbour.
What happened there?
It's kind of the postscript, I reckon, to this beautiful era of provincial rugby.
Canterbury came to Auckland, and in the fourth minute of the Shield Challenge, the hooker, John Buchan, who I think was actually a grandma, old boy,
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