Brian McClennan

But the likes of Francis, Davey Watson, Neville Ramsey, Shane Hansen.

Bluey was playing then.

So we had a great team.

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And they're counting down, and Brian McClennan is dancing all over Ellen Road.

And New Zealand have won the Tri-Nations of 2004.

Yeah.

Okay.

We had Brian McClennan, who'd come from Super League.

Yeah.

So that was-

Yeah, it was.

We had, you know, Bluey McLennan came on board as coach that year and we actually beat Australia in Sydney for the first time in like 50 years and I did syndesmosis and broke my ankle basically and in a small way I fractured a piece of my ankle.

So I didn't end up playing much part in the back end of that when we obviously ended up beating Australia 24-0 over in England.

So I think it was just, you know, Stacey was at the peak of his powers.

Stephen Kearney was in the team and playing, you know, peak of his powers as well.

And so we just had we had all these, you know, superstars in the team.

And, you know, Bluey McLennan was a bit of an old school coach and he was pretty big on culture.

And, you know, we had a theme and it was burn the boats.

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What has Bluey said to the team after the game? You had a little chat out there before? Oh yeah,

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