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By 1983, Brown had established himself as a first choice player in the Pontypool team. That year Pontypool won their first Schweppes Cup , with an 18-6 victory over Swansea RFC in the final. After a successful season, Brown was selected in the Welsh squad to play against Romania in Bucharest in November 1983; [ 2 ] this ended in a 24-6 defeat ...
He burst onto the international rugby scene during the 1994 Hong Kong Sevens tournament, the same year he made his fifteen-a-side debut. He was acknowledged as the top player at the 1995 World Cup for his acclaimed 4-try performance in the semi-final against England, even though New Zealand lost the final to the host South Africa.
He retired from first-class rugby in 1978, but continued his involvement with the game, coaching Northland secondary school teams from 1988 to 1992, and being selector–coach of the first-class side from 1993 to 1996. In 1978, Bob Howitt wrote a biography of Going entitled Super Sid – The Story of a Great All Black.
List of England national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the England national rugby union team. The list only includes players who have played in a Test match . Note that the "position" column lists the position at which the player made his Test debut, not necessarily the position for which he is best known.
In 1978 he was reserve All Black halfback for the three-match series against the Wallabies in New Zealand, but didn’t get on the field. He finally got the chance to don the black jersey in the tour to Great Britain at the end of the year, and on 21 October 1978 made his debut against Cardiff at Cardiff Arms Park .
George Nēpia (Māori: Hōri Nēpia; [1] 25 April 1905 – 27 August 1986) [2] was a New Zealand Māori rugby union and rugby league player. He is remembered as an exceptional full-back and one of the most famous Māori rugby players. He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. [3]
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Pierre Johan Spies (born 8 June 1985 in Pretoria) is a retired South African rugby union player. He usually played as a Number 8, but could also play as a flanker and at times was deployed on the wing.