The Forgotten All Black Making A Serious Push
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Coming to you from rugby's greatest fortress, New Zealand's national stadium, Eden Park, is the Aotearoa Rugby Park. Kia ora and welcome to another episode of Aotearoa Rugby Pod. The rugby on the weekend was superb, particularly that game down in Christchurch. David Haveli pulling through at the last minute. We'll talk a little bit about him. David Haveli's performance had a massive impact on what's happening one through six as we head into the final round of Super Rugby and looking forward to the playoffs. We know who one and two are, the Hurricanes and the Chiefs. Who's going to come third through sixth? And if you've got a dark horse... Are you really going to want to play the Crusaders? Difficult team to face.
Later on this week, we'll get into the open side flankers. So keep an eye out for that content. Anton Cegna took out all of the prizes at the Blues Awards. So let's see how he sits. Will he be in all black in comparison to all these other open side flankers doing the rounds? We've also got Tony Johnson in this week. Of course, he commentated that game in Christchurch. He's also the author of a new book on the Chiefs as well. And of course, if you want to catch ARP you can do so at Aotearoa Rugby Pod official channels that's on YouTube as an audio pod across socials of course you can go to stuff.co.nz and get us there as well full stories shorts and the whole podcast and also on Rugby Pass you get those wonderful stats that we use each week as well as the chance to go and watch if you're in New Zealand the Japan League One Finals that'll feature Bryn Hall so with no further ado
TJ, welcome to the show.
You've done it before in the hosting capacity, but good to have you back. Oh, thanks for having me, guys.
How did David Havili's performance impact the All Blacks selection?
It's great to be here. I always enjoy the show, and it's nice to come and talk about some footy and maybe just get a word in for the book. In fact, I bought a copy of it along for you, and so you can give it away to one of your subscribers maybe or something like that, someone who follows you regularly. But yeah, thanks very much for having me.
Perfect. Well, let's get onto that now. Go leave a comment in the comment section, Chiefs and your favorite Chiefs player of all time. And you'll be in the draw to win this book here, the Chiefs book from Tony Johnson and Lynn as well.
Lynn McConnell. Yeah. So it's called He Piko He Taniwha, which means on every bend, a Chief, literally.
What is the current status of the Super Rugby Pacific top six race?
And it goes back to the Waikato River. It's a legend of the Waikato and they adopted it as one of their catchphrases when they had this transformation at the Chiefs when Dave Rennie came in and they went on a bit of a journey of discovery. But the origins of the book was that Lynn and I had worked on a book that did pretty well about 10 years ago called Behind the Silver Fern. And it was a story of the All Blacks in the words of the players.
Which teams are likely to surge late in the Super Rugby season?
So we had to go back into archive material, diaries, old interviews, and get the words of the players to take us through the first 50 or 60 years. And then after that, we interviewed about 60 players, some very notable All Blacks, and we put it all together. And so this was the story of the All Blacks in their words, right up to, I think it was the 2019 World Cup in the end. And Kent Currie, who's a real mover and shaker at the Chiefs organisation, they were setting up for their 30th anniversary something called the Ruakura Rugby Club, which is alumni based. It's for their old players, but it's also a connection with their fans. It's set up at Ruakura, which is their training facility that they kind of built themselves out of an old abattoir and is now their headquarters.
And to mark that, he had seen the Behind the Silver Fern book, which is still available, by the way. You can do it on Mighty Ape. But they wanted a book to mark it in the style of Behind the Silver Fern. And so he asked us to write this book. We called it, as I say, He Piko He Taniwha. And we've interviewed over 60 players, some of the leading lights, um of the chief story but also some of the people behind the scenes some of the lesser-known players who've still got some fantastic stories to tell and and there it is it's a limited edition so there's not many copies available most of them have gone to ex-players or members of the rugby club um so you you can actually get a copy of it if you go to the uh rfc.co.nz but there aren't many left so i thought i'd bring one along for you to uh to give away to a chief's fan
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:39
2
How did David Havili's performance impact the All Blacks selection?
1:39–2:17
3
What is the current status of the Super Rugby Pacific top six race?
2:17–2:41
4
Which teams are likely to surge late in the Super Rugby season?
2:41–28:00
5
What makes David Havili a key player for the Crusaders?
28:00–35:55
6
How do injuries affect the Crusaders' chances in the playoffs?
35:55–1:00:07
7
What strategies are the Hurricanes using to maintain their form?
1:00:07–1:05:07
Speakers
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