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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So if you didn't have specialists, you couldn't have scrums.
And Auckland found this very strange that this Phil Cropper character, who's a very interesting character in his own right, was claiming not to be a specialist hooker because he had actually been the backup hooker in a New Zealand age group team for which Sean Fitzpatrick was the leading hooker.
But anyway, they didn't...
didn't play scrums, so you had this really weird game from then on where every scrum was instead a free kick.
And it was kind of, it looked like this weird mashup of touch.
So it was a freak, they didn't even put down the old golden oldies, they just tapped the ball.
No golden oldies, tap the ball and run.
it made the game a little bit farcical and Auckland Auckland still won you know easily yeah but they didn't take it well they thought the game had been dishonoured and a little bit of bit of afters as well back in the changing rooms potentially after that game
Yeah, well, evidently, and again, this is taken from books, contemporary books of the time.
I have to check notes here, but I think it was Gary Whitten said that the only thing that you'd never say about Canterbury was that they weren't manly.
Yeah.
Or something to the effect, he basically questioned their manhood.
He said he was amazed that a Canterbury team would come to Auckland.
Yeah, so that kind of dissatisfaction spilled into the after-match faction at Eden Park.
And the coach actually said to one of his players, you'd better watch your back here.
Frank Jack, I think, was the coach.
You'd better watch your back here.
Things are going to blow up.
The nude baths?
Well, the nude baths were a scandal, particularly in Twickenham, I believe.
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