Dane Stuart Coles

Surname:

Coles

First names:

Dane Stuart

Country:

New Zealand

Player number:

1117

No of AB games:

AB years:

2012 - 2019

Clubs:

Poneke

Provincial teams:

Wellington 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018
NZ Under 21 2007
NZ Maori 2010

Super teams:

Hurricanes 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

Super captain:

Hurricanes 2016, 2017, 2019

Biography:

2006: NZ Under 21 Trial: Hooker - 1 game
2007: Sub - 9 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2007: NZ Under 21: Hooker - 1 game
2008: Hooker [9], Sub [1] - 10 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2009: Hu: Hooker [4], Sub [5] - 9 games - 1 try (5 pts)
2009: Hooker [6], Sub [9] - 15 games - 2 tries (10 pts)
2010: Hu: Sub - 9 games
2010: NZ Maori: Sub - 3 games
2010: Hooker - 13 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2011: Hu: Hooker [1], Sub [12] - 13 games - 1 try (5 pts)
2011: Hooker [8], Sub [1] - 9 games - 4 tries (20 pts)
2012: AB's: Hooker - 4 tests
2012: Nth Island: Hooker - 1 game
2012: Hu: Hooker - 16 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2012: Hooker [9], Sub [1] - 10 games - 2 tries (10 pts)
2013: AB's: Hooker - 11 tests
2013: Hu: Hooker [5], Sub [1] - 6 games
2013: Hooker - 1 game - 1 try (5 pts)
2014: AB's: Hooker - 12 tests - 2 tries (10 pts)
2014: Hu: Hooker - 15 games - 1 try (5 pts)
2015: AB's: Hooker - 9 tests - 3 tries (15 pts)
2015: Hu: Hooker [10], Sub [2] - 12 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2016: AB's: Hooker - 13 tests - 4 tries (20 pts)
2016: Hu: Hooker - 14 games - 5 tries (25 pts)
2017: AB's: Hooker - 7 tests - 1 try (5 pts)
2017: Hu: Hooker [4], Sub [2] - 6 games
2018: AB's: Hooker [2], Sub [2] - 4 tests - 1 try (5 pts)
2018: Sub - 2 games
2019: AB's: Hooker [5], Sub [4] - 9 tests
2019: Hu: Hooker [7], Sub [3] - 10 games - 4 tries (20 pts)

Sub Total: AB"s: 69 games (55 pts)
NZ Maori: 3 games:
Super: 110 games (90 pts)
Prov: 69 games (90 pts)
Others: 3 games

Total: 254 games (235 pts)

2016: Maori Player of the Year

Endorsements

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

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

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

Kerry - great website on rugby - just a comment your player information for Ken J Tarrant (brother) South Canterbury is incorrect. It says he played 29 games I think you will find it was around 69 from early 70s to late 70s.
Steve Tarrant
(170 games over 14 seasons for Sth Canterbury & Southland)

Kerry's note: Thanks Steve, this will be corrected once I go back earlier than 1975.

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

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Kerry's note: Thanks Steve, this will be corrected once I go back earlier than 1975.

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