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Surname	First names	Known by
Abraham	John William		view
Achillies	Jackson J		view
Addenbrooke	Dean Geoffrey		view
Afeaki	Ben Tu'umoe Paul		view
Aiatu	Muteremoana		view
Ainley	Alex Nigel		view
Akuhata	Kere		view
Allan	Glen T	Darby	view
Allen	Grant Wayne		view
Allen	Mark Richard	Bull	view
Alley	Chelsea H		view
Anaha	Germaine Stacey		view
Anderson	Albert	Alby	view
Anderson	Graeme Wighton	Bunter	view
Anderson	William John	Bill	view
Anderson-Heather	Samuel George	Sam	view
Apisai	Leni Chris Antoni		view
Atiga	Benjamin Alo Charles	Ben	view
Aubrey	David Ross	Dave	view
Axtens	Stephen Roger	Steve	view
Baker	Matenga		view
Balcombe	Darin N		view
Baldwin	Cole		view
Banks	Richard M J	Richie	view
Barkle	Garry Peter		view
Barr	Dean John		view
Barrell	Robert Bruce	Bob	view
Barrett	Kane Sinclair		view
Barrett	Neesha		view
Barry	Liam John		view
Barry	Michael Patrick	Mike	view
Bateman	Timothy Edward Sullivan	Tim	view
Bates	Steven Paul		view
Beams	Ken John J		view
Bedwell-Curtis	Heiden Kahira		view
Beetham	Charles John	Charlie	view
Bell	Craig Te Whitu		view
Bennett	John Vivian		view
Bennett	Patrick James	Pat	view
Berkett	Stephen John	Steve	view

Endorsements

It gives me great pleasure to write this character reference about this website. There would not be a person in this country who doesn’t know that rugby is the national game of New Zealand. The passion runs deep and the profile and exposure of the sport is without peer. A fair chunk of our heroes come from the game and nothing affects the mental psychology of the people more than rugby. Not even politics.

Because of this rich feeling, discussions in society are often based around the game and on the players involved. Memories tend to play tricks on people. They can fade and forget and get things muddled up. For nearly 90 years New Zealand rugby enthusiasts have been superbly served by the Rugby Almanack. It remains the definitive source of information from each season despite the advancement of technology.

However, we must accept that technology has advanced and like rugby, we therefore need to embrace the good that comes with that change. www.rugbyhistory.co.nz is the best rugby history site that is available. It provides comprehensive records of the All Blacks, all the Super rugby sides and most impressively of all, places a large emphasis on the national provincial competition, which remains such a crucial part of the fabric in New Zealand.

Kery Geertson’s dedication to this growing rugby treasure can not be denied. It continues to grow, mature and impress. To paraphrase the late, great Terry McLean www.rugbyhistory.co.nz should be stored as a favourite website for every rugby lover; it provides facts and fairness and hours of one of life’s greatest pleasures – browsing.

Grant Hassall
Wannabe Rugby Historian
New Plymouth

Thanks for this great work. I hope you can soon raise the funding you need to expand these rugby records.

I have seen the development of the website http://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/ over the past 12 months and genuinely believe it has the potential to become the online portal for rugby history and statistics in New Zealand. Outside of the Rugby Almanack there is nowhere that rugby followers can go to gain such information, and there is certainly nowhere online that comes close to the level of detail that Kerry’s website provides.

With a bit of support I think http://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/ can become the most comprehensive rugby database in the country, and in the process protect the legacy of our national game.

Hamish Forsman
Waikato Rugby Union Media Executive & Historian

We are burying a good friend and ex-southland rugby player this Friday in Invercargill with many of the local rugby men that feature on your site (we have checked!) no doubt will be attending also. We just happened to be googling his name to see if any rugby info came up and your history site came up from that. It was great to see how many games he had played and when.
A wonderful source of information. Keep up the great work.

Kind regards,
Jo MacDonald

Hi, Kerry,
Your rugbyhistory website is amazing! I don't think there is a more complete source of rugby information in the world, not just on the internet. I've recommended it to several of my rugby-mad mates, who all return with glowing reviews. Have you ever thought of joining the National Rugby Museum in Palmerston North?
If I were to make a suggestion, I would like to see the match dates & venues alongside each result. It might settle a few debates on whether X fixture was on the 18th or 19th of September 1982, for instance, or whether Team Y has played in Town Z etc. If it's too much of a hassle, don't worry about it; you've already put truckloads of work into the site already!
Thanks, Samuel

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Kerry
Firstly, this is an awesome website – love all the work you’ve done. It’s a real bonus especially to those of us who never collected Rugby Almanack etc.
So awesome to see my own name in there – but you’ve missed one NZU game – I played 3 – Full 80’s against Scotland & Uruguay and as a replacement vs France in the semi final.
Every game counts when we’re old, lol!
Cheers
Pat J Stevens

New Zealand Rugby History

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