- New Zealand Cavaliers
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The Cavaliers was the name given to an unofficial New Zealand rugby union team which toured South Africa in 1986.
The rebel tour occurred after the official All Black tour planned for 1985 was cancelled due to a legal ruling that it would be incompatible with the NZRFU's legally stated purpose: "...the fostering and encouragement of the game of rugby..."[1]. It was widely condemned for touring apartheid South Africa.
The team included 28 of the 30 players who had been selected for the All Black tour, and they were widely believed to have received large secret payments—a controversial issue at a time when rugby union was still supposedly an amateur sport[2].
The Cavaliers were coached by Colin Meads, managed by Ian Kirkpatrick and captained by Andy Dalton and won just one of the four matches against South Africa, although they won seven of their eight other games on the tour. Dalton, however suffered a broken jaw in the second match of the tour against Northern Transvaal and played no more rugby that season, Jock Hobbs assumed the captaincy duties for the test matches against the Springboks while Andy Haden did the same for the midweek matches.
On their return, the NZRFU barred all the players from participating in the next two All Black tests, and instead selected a new group of players. Most of these replacement players were younger, and were quickly dubbed the "Baby Blacks".
Contents
Management
- Colin Meads (King Country) (coach)
- Ian Kirkpatrick (Poverty Bay) (manager)
Backs
- Robbie Deans (Canterbury)
- Kieran Crowley (Taranaki)
- Bernie Fraser (Wellington)
- Mike Clamp (Wellington)
- Craig Green (Canterbury)
- John Kirwan (Auckland)≈
- Bill Osborne (Wanganui)
- Steven Pokere (Auckland)
- Bryce Robins (Taranaki)
- Victor Simpson (Canterbury)
- Warwick Taylor (Canterbury)
- Wayne Smith (Canterbury)
- Grant Fox (Auckland)
- Dave Loveridge (Taranaki)
- Andrew Donald (Wanganui)
- David Kirk (Auckland)≈
Forwards
- Murray Mexted (Wellington)
- Wayne Shelford (North Harbour)
- Jock Hobbs (Canterbury)
- Mark Shaw (Hawkes Bay)
- Frank Shelford (Bay Of Plenty)
- Alan Whetton (Auckland)
- Andy Haden (Auckland)
- Albert Anderson (Canterbury)
- Gary Whetton (Auckland)
- Murray Pierce (Wellington)
- John Ashworth (Hawkes Bay)
- Gary Knight (Manawatu)
- Steve McDowell (Auckland)
- Scott Crichton (Wellington)
- Andy Dalton (Counties) (Captain)
- John Mills (Canterbury)†
- Hika Reid (Bay Of Plenty)
† replacement player on tour
≈ originally selected for the tour but declined to join the team
Matches
- Scores and results list New Zealand's points tally first.
Date Opponent Location Result Score 23 April Junior Springboks (Griquas Invitational XV) Johannesburg Won 22-21 26 April Northern Transvaal Pretoria Won 10-9 30 April Orange Free State Bloemfontein Won 31-9 3 May Transvaal Johannesburg Lost 19-24 6 May Western Province Cape Town Won 26-15 10 May South Africa (1) Newlands, Cape Town Lost 15-21 13 May Natal Durban Won 37-24 17 May South Africa (2) Kings Park, Durban Won 19-18 20 May South African Barbarians Johannesburg Won 42-13 24 May South Africa (3) Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria Lost 18-33 27 May Western Transvaal Potchefstroom Won 26-18 31 May South Africa (4) Ellis Park, Johannesburg Lost 10-23 See also
Backs Coach Categories:- New Zealand rugby union teams
- Rugby union tours of South Africa
- 1986 in rugby union
- Events associated with apartheid
- Sport and Apartheid in South Africa
- 1986 in South Africa
- Rugby union team stubs
- New Zealand sports team stubs
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