Contents

 

Writer’s Note

 

Prologue: First

 

1) Playing Until the Night Stopped Us

2) Teenage Kicks

FINAL YEAR DIARY: London, 4 November 2014

3) A Short Walk on the Wild Side

 

Picture Section 1

 

4 ) The Canterbury Dressing-room

FINAL YEAR DIARY: London, 11 November 2014

Auckland, 1 December 2014

5) Walking with Giants

6) Road To Nowhere

FINAL YEAR DIARY: Christchurch, 26 January 2015

Christchurch, 15 February 2015

Christchurch, 22 February 2015

7) Triumph and Near Disaster

8) World Cup Dreaming

FINAL YEAR DIARY: Christchurch, 21 May 2015

Auckland, 3 June 2015

 

Picture Section 2

 

9) Learning Business the Hard Way

10) Bitter-sweet Sabbatical

FINAL YEAR DIARY: Auckland, 6 July 2015

11) The All Blacks Falter and Recover

12) February 22, 2011

FINAL YEAR DIARY: Auckland, 5 August 2015

13) Watching History from the Stands

14) Marriage, a Peak and a Body Breaking Down

FINAL YEAR DIARY: Wellington, 30 August 2015

15) I Wish I Could Retire

 

Picture Section 3

 

16) Patriot Games

FINAL YEAR DIARY: Swansea, 12 October 2015

Surrey, 26 October 2015

 

Acknowledgements

About the Writer