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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a team at home one year and away next so they didn't get a chance to challenge in 84 but auckland were utterly ridiculous that year they were so good they were 1910 games i think they they lost to wellington down in wellington 1822 as jeremy mentions they probably got a howling athletic park but how was the athletic park allowed to stand i know that millard millard stand was like a spinnaker
But, yeah, as I said, Auckland were just so good in 84.
They put 50 points on Waikato.
They put 53 on Manawatu.
And these were good teams.
Four-point tries.
Yeah.
65 points on both the bays, Plenty and Hawks.
That's almost 100, isn't it, these days?
Yeah.
But most staggeringly of all, they beat Canterbury 32-3 at Eden Park.
And...
You know, at that stage, I think rugby fans around the country, all they could think about was, like, not even the All Blacks.
All anyone was waiting for in 84, at the end of 84, was for the Ranford East Shield Challenge the next year, in 85, when they knew this Auckland team with ridiculous swagger was going down in the...
Rural New Zealand all adopted Canterbury as their team.
Aucklanders adopted Auckland as their team.
So it was a real them and us thing that was pitched as the match of the century.
And for once, the hype absolutely lived up to the hype.
Well, the game absolutely lifted up to the height.
Yeah, so the team that had the shield in those days, that was when they started to tour the shield as their pre-season.
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