Playing for the Tall Blacks is an honour and privilege - and a hard earned one at that. "In these modern days of professional sport, playing for the Tall Blacks is a bit of a throwback, in many ways it is 'old school' in how and why sport used to be played. Tall Blacks: Tom Abercrombie, BJ Anthony, Everard Bartlett, Finn Delany, Isaac Fotu, Shea Ili, Jarrod Kenny, Rob Loe, Jordan Ngatai, Mika Vukona, Corey Webster, Tai Webster, Ethan Rusbatch, Michael Karena. The Tall Blacks have shown through the years that we don't mind playing the part of David, often in the past we have thrived on it, and we aim to bring down a Goliath or two in July." "Mika, Tom, Corey, Ike and Rob and others before have contributed so much to the rich and storied history of this special team.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 17, 2016 18:30 UTC