Roy Baldock with his waistcoat covered in badges collected at on Golden Oldies rugby trips. Roy Baldock with his waistcoat covered in badges collected at on Golden Oldies rugby trips. In a quarter of a century of playing Golden Oldies rugby, Te Puke's Roy Baldock has never been on a losing side. Roy, 86, is, by some margin, the oldest player in the Old Devils, the Golden Oldies team affiliated to Paengaroa's Eastern Districts Rugby Club. ''If they came out and played like seniors, then so did we, and if they played 'oldies' then we played 'oldies'.''

Source: New Zealand Herald April 14, 2021 19:41 UTC