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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He was ordered off by referee Keith Lawrence.
Can you remember Keith Lawrence?
Yeah, father of Bryce Lawrence, who also was an international referee, but a very, I don't want to say pedantic, but he was almost a showman type referee.
One of the first of those kind of referees.
Clive Norling, Nigel Irwins.
Referees that almost became pseudo-celebrities in their own right.
So Keith was kind of one of those refs.
He ordered John Buckanoff after he just kicked, blatantly kicked Gary Whetton in Iraq.
And a lot of people have wanted to kick Gary Whetton over time, but he actually did it.
He claimed that Witten had already stomped on one of their players.
Absolutely.
No, no, no.
You wanted to get the hell out of there before you got train tracks put on you.
So this was the era, and they brought on a sub, Phil Cropper.
who wasn't a specialist hooker.
He was a flanker.
And so Canterbury said, look, we can't have a scrum.
These were the days where you had to have specialist front rows.
Neck injuries were quite prevalent back in those days because scrums were a lot less regulated than they are now.
So there was a lot of fear over safety in scrums.
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