Former All Blacks first-five Robin Archer diesROBYN EDIE/STUFF Former All Black Robin Archer shares a joke during the Pioneer Rugby Club's 100 year jubilee. Former All Blacks first five-eighth Robin Archer, who captained Southland to one of its great Ranfurly Shield victories, has died, aged 87. JOHN HAWKINS/STUFF Robin Archer, fourth from left, at a reunion with members of his Southland team who won the Ranfurly Shield in 1959. It was to be 51 years before Southland won the shield again, against Canterbury in 2009, and Archer was on hand to hail their effort. He also took over the family firm, Archer Building Contractors Ltd, and later chaired the private property and bloodstock company Archer Corporation Ltd.

Source: Stuff March 14, 2018 00:11 UTC