Rugby Union: World Wayne's ; Rugby Welcomes a Famous Player with Ambitions to Coach at the Highest Level, Writes Brian Dick Clubs Like This Are the Nuts and Bolts of Rugby. There Are More of Them Than There Are Professional Rugby Clubs and I Think That They're All Playing for the Right Reason --Because They Love the Game Wayne Shelford

Birmingham Post › January 10, 2004

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During his playing days, New Zealand legend Wayne Shelford had a reputation as an abrasive back-row forward hewn from rock with a silver fern running right through his mighty body.

Stories abound about how, in 1986 in only his second match for the Land of the Long White Cloud, Shelford was the subject of some over--zealous French rucking and found himself needing pitch--side surgery on his scrotum to ensure one of his testicles did not get kicked into touch.

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Rugby Union: World Wayne's ; Rugby Welcomes a Famous Player with Ambitions to Coach at the Highest Level, Writes Brian Dick Clubs Like This Are the Nuts and Bolts of Rugby. There Are More of Them Than There Are Professional Rugby Clubs and I Think That They're All Playing for the Right Reason --Because They Love the Game Wayne Shelford

In returning to the fray and rejoining 'The Battle of Nantes' he etched his name in rugby history and the whole world suddenly knew about the man from Rotorua. Throughout the next four years, he became known as one of the hardest men to play the game, leading an All Blacks side that took the sport to a new level.

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