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Zac Guildford faced the media before his All Blacks debut against Wales in Cardiff in 2009, but not everyone has the tools to cope with the spotlight.
OPINION: Zac Guildford was brilliant. When he burst onto the national scene in 2009, as a try-hungry wing in the world-beating New Zealand under-20 team that also featured Aaron Cruden, he was everything coaches want in their outside backs. He was fast, skilful and had a great work rate. The baby-faced youngster from Hawke’s Bay could play, and he made the All Blacks in the same year. He had the sort of talent that gives you a lot of lifelines in professional rugby, a lot of second chances.
Rugby: All Blacks legend Sir John Kirwan calls for leadership change at NZRPA amid Silver Lake deal mediation
6 Apr, 2021 03:30 AM
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Sky Sport s The Breakdown explain the possible outcomes from the Silver Lake deal. Video / Sky Sport
Sky Sport s The Breakdown explain the possible outcomes from the Silver Lake deal. Video / Sky Sport
NZ Herald
All Blacks legend Sir John Kirwan has called for a change in leadership at the New Zealand Rugby Players Association amid the continued standoff over a potential $465 million private equity investment into NZ Rugby.
NZR and the players union, which is led by chief executive Rob Nichol and includes several All Blacks on the board, are currently in mediation over concerns that an injection of private equity from US tech giants Silver Lake into the sport s governing body – to the tune of around $465 million for a 15 per cent stake in NZR s commercial rights – could negatively impact certain aspects of the sport in New
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Timing, as they say, is everything. Rugby union got its World Cup out of the way in late 2019, and World Rugby and Japan banked the financial and emotional spoils from what was a hugely successful tournament.
But with the COIVD-19 pandemic now into its second year, sport continues to compromise significant extremes. Japan’s Olympic Games is limping along like Monty Python’s black knight, games chief Yoshiro Mori seemingly too preoccupied with women who “talk too much” to notice the health, logistical and public opinion elephants crowding his and the IOC’s boardroom.