Former All Black locking maestro Colin Meads reads one of the first copies of the Otago Daily Times Bledisloe Cup special tabloid printed on August 9, 2001. His record tally of 133 games stood until former Richie McCaw superseded it in 2014 against South Africa, the younger All Black great going on to make 149 appearances for the team. "He is the purest and most ferocious All Black there has ever been,'' Donald McRae wrote in the Guardian in 2002. "Growing up in South Africa in the 1960s and '70s, I remember our terrified awe of Meads. • Was elected to the New Zealand Rugby Union Council in 1992.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 20, 2017 22:52 UTC