New Zealand Team Squad Rugby World Cup 2011 – All Blacks Rugby World Cup Team.
Nickname : All Blacks
Coach : Graham Henry
Coach : Graham Henry
Best Performance : Winners (1987)
Captain : Benji Marshall
Most caps : Ruben Wiki (55)
Top try-scorer : Nigel Vagana (19)
Top point-scorer : Des White (467)
RLIF ranking : 2nd
History:
Rugby football was introduced into New Zealand by Charles John Monro, son of the then speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, Sir David Monro. He had been sent to Christ's College, East Finchley in north London, where he became an enthusiastic convert to the new code. He brought the game back to his native Nelson, and arranged the first rugby match between Nelson College and Nelson Football Club, played on 14 May 1870. When New Zealand's national rugby team (the All Blacks) toured Britain in 1905 they witnessed the growing popularity of the breakaway non-amateur Northern Union's games. On his return in 1906, All Black George William Smith met the Australian entrepreneur J J Giltinan to discuss the potential of professional rugby in Australasia. The first New Zealand team to play professional rugby was known as the All Blacks. To avoid confusion, the terms professional All Blacks or All Golds are used. All blacks are a team known as the supreme under achiever and they have only won the Rugby World Cup for just 1 time so far and that was back in the first ever World Cup in 1987 when they went on to become the Champions. But since than they have been going into every World Cup as favorites but never really won the big thing. This time around though they are the favorites but with the likes of England and Australia are tough competitions. And the Tri Series 2011 will have the best possible scenario for us before the all blacks announce their team for the World Cup.
In the intervening time, a lesser known New Zealand rugby player, Albert Henry Baskerville (or Baskiville) was ready to recruit a group of players for a trained tour of Great Britain. It is believed that Baskerville became aware of the profits to be made from such a venture while he was working at the Wellington Post Office in 1906. A colleague had a coughing fit and dropped a British newspaper. Baskerville picked it up and noticed a report about a Northern Union (NU) match that over 40,000 people had attended. Baskerville wrote to the NRFU asking if they would host a New Zealand |touring party. The 1905 All Blacks tour were still fresh in English minds, thus the NU saw a competitive New Zealand tour as exceptional opportunity to raise the profile and finances of the NU game. The NU agreed to the tour provided that some of those original All Blacks were included in the New Zealand team. George Smith arrived back in New Zealand and after learning of Baskerville's plans, the two teamed up and began signing players. The New Zealand Rugby Union became aware of the tour and promptly applied pressure to any All Black or New Zealand representative player it suspected of involvement. They had the New Zealand Government's Agent General in London deliver a statement to the British press in an effort to undermine the tour's credibility. This had little effect and by that time the professional All Blacks were already sailing across the Tasman to give Australia its first taste of professional rugby.
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In July 2007 Leeds Rhinos announced that Brian McClennan would be joining the club as Head Coach on a two year contract from 1 December 2007. McClennan subsequently resigned as national coach, his position was taken up by Gary Kemble in August 2007.
First team squad:
* 1 New Zealand colours.svg Lance Hohaia - FB
* 2 St. George colours.svg Jason Nightingale - WG
* 3 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Shaun Kenny-Dowall - CE
* 4 Newcastle colours.svg Junior Sa'u - CE
* 5 New Zealand colours.svg Manu Vatuvei - WG
* 6 Wests Tigers colours.svg Benji Marshall (c) - FE
* 7 Wigancolours.svg Thomas Leuluai - HB
* 8 Rhinoscolours.svg Greg Eastwood - PR
* 9 South Sydney colours.svg Issac Luke - HK
* 10 Melbourne colours.svg Adam Blair - PR
* 11 Panthers colours.svg Frank Pritchard - SR
* 12 Canberra colours.svg Bronson Harrison - SR
* 13 St. George colours.svg Jeremy Smith - LK
Interchange:
* 1 St. George colours.svg Nathan Fien - HK
* 2 New Zealand colours.svg Ben Matulino - SR
* 3 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Frank-Paul Nu'uausala - PR
* 4 New Zealand colours.svg Simon Mannering - SR
* 5 Melbourne colours.svg Sika Manu - CE
* 6 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Jared Waerea-Hargreaves - PR
* 7 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sam Perrett - WG
* 8 Brisbane colours.svg Antonio Winterstein - WG
* 9 Panthers colours.svg Sam McKendry - PR
* 10 New Zealand colours.svg Lewis Brown - SR
Current squad of 10 July 2011:
Current squad is build with 30 player named on 10 July 2011 for the Tri-Nations and the Test againstFiji included uncapped lock Jarrad Hoeata. Wyatt Crockett, Cory Jane, Sitiveni Sivivatu and Ben Smith also join the squad as injury cover. Due to the definition and role of All Blacks coach varying so much prior to the 1949 All Blacks tour of South Africa, coaches appointed since "Alex McDonald-1949 to 6 August 2011 Graham Henry".
Head Coach: Graham Henry
List of the player:
Name Position Birth Date (Age) Club/province
1. Corey Flynn Hooker 5 January 1981 (age 30) Canterbury
2. Andrew Hore Hooker 13 September 1978 (age 32) Taranaki
3. Keven Mealamu Hooker 20 March 1978 (age 33) Auckland
4. John Afoa Prop 16 October 1983 (age 27) Auckland
5. Wyatt Crockett Prop 24 January 1983 (age 28) Canterbury
6. Owen Franks Prop 23 December 1987 (age 23) Canterbury
7. Ben Franks Prop 27 March 1984 (age 27) Tasman
8. Tony Woodcock Prop 27 January 1981 (age 30) North Harbour
9. Jarrad Hoeata Lock 12 December 1983 (age 27) Taranaki
10. Brad Thorn Lock 3 February 1975 (age 36) Canterbury
11. Sam Whitelock Lock 12 October 1988 (age 22) Canterbury
12. Ali Williams Lock 30 April 1981 (age 30) Auckland
13. Jerome Kaino Flanker 6 April 1983 (age 28) Auckland
14. Richie McCaw (c) Flanker 31 December 1980 (age 30) Canterbury
15. Adam Thomson Flanker 13 March 1982 (age 29) Otago
16. Liam Messam Number 8 25 March 1984 (age 27) Waikato
17. Kieran Read Number 8 26 October 1985 (age 25) Canterbury
18. Jimmy Cowan Scrum-half 6 March 1982 (age 29) Southland
19. Andy Ellis Scrum-half 21 February 1984 (age 27) Canterbury
20. Piri Weepu Scrum-half 7 September 1983 (age 27) Wellington
21. Dan Carter Fly-half 5 March 1982 (age 29) Canterbury
22. Colin Slade Fly-half 10 October 1987 (age 23) Canterbury
23. Richard Kahui Centre 9 June 1985 (age 26) Waikato
24. Ma'a Nonu Centre 21 May 1982 (age 29) Wellington
25. Conrad Smith Centre 12 October 1981 (age 29) Wellington
26. Sonny Bill Williams Centre 3 August 1985 (age 26) Canterbury
27. Hosea Gear Wing 16 March 1984 (age 27) Wellington
28. Zac Guildford Wing 8 February 1989 (age 22) Hawke's Bay
29. Sitiveni Sivivatu Wing 19 April 1982 (age 29) Waikato
30. Ben Smith Wing 1 June 1986 (age 25) Otago
31. Isaia Toeava Wing 15 January 1986 (age 25) Auckland
32. Israel Dagg Fullback 6 June 1988 (age 23) Hawke's Bay
33. Cory Jane Fullback 8 February 1983 (age 28) Wellington
34. Mils Muliaina Fullback 31 July 1980 (age 31) Waikato
The team's early uniforms consisted of a black jersey with a silver fern and white knickerbockers. By their 1905 tour New Zealand were wearing all black, except for the silver fern, and their All Black name dates from this time. New Zealand traditionally perform a haka (Maori challenge) before each match. Traditionally, the haka performed is Te Rauparaha's Ka Mate, though since 2005, Kapa o Pango, a modified version of the 1924 All Blacks haka, Kia Whaka-ngawari, has occasionally been performed.
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