Eric Rush

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413 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

Eric Rush’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And we didn't have the internet back then, so he couldn't be up there either.

But no, he was just a life of the party.

We created a bit of a monster because he was a country boy and man, was he green.

We almost convinced him he needed a passport to get to Palmerston North.

You know, that's how green he was.

We told him, you've got to have a passport, bro.

He says, I haven't even got one of those things, you know.

So we'd almost convinced him to hop out of the plane, run down the runway, hop over the fence and we'll put him up down there.

But Peter Forbin was the coach and he said, don't you bloody buggers do that to him.

But he played really well in the tour.

He was in the test team ahead of Jonah.

Jonah had a bit of a knee injury, so Oz played all the tests and Jonah played most of the mid-week games in the 96 trip.

You know, they love the All Blacks.

They love Jonah even more.

You know, so it was...

When you went out with him, you just had to accept your role.

You took all the photos.

You held all the things while he was signing it.

If you didn't want to do any of that stuff, you just let Jonah get off the bus first, then sneak off when everybody's all over him.

But he handled it pretty well because he was still only a young fellow then.

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