With seven players making their debut for the Kiwis in Denver, we asked a couple of veteran New Zealand internationals who their standout players were in the loss to England. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck Esan Marsters, the kid at centre, man he just couldn’t be tackled. It was good to see him break out, break heaps of […]
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I was Kiwi #597 – Dean Lonergan
One of the few New Zealand league players who is better-known in retirement than he was as a player. These days he’s the driving force behind Duco Events, the NRL Auckland Nines and Joseph Parker, but in the 1980s and ’90s Lonergan was a terrorising figure for opposing forwards in the Auckland competition, where he played […]
I was Kiwi # 685 – David Vaealiki
One of the best products to come out of Christchurch in recent times, Vaealiki enjoyed six seasons in the NRL with Parramatta, breaking through into the Kiwi team to appear in seven Tests between 2000 and 2003. After making a two-try international debut against the Cook Islands, subsequent success proved hard to come by in the […]
I was Kiwi #547 – James Leuluai
The head of the famous Leuluai league family, to this day James remains a revered figure in the north of England after an illustrious career where he starred for Hull FC, Leigh and Wakefield. The highlight came in the way of winning the 1981-82 Challenge Cup with Hull, doing so alongside fellow New Zealander Gary […]
