These and many other gems are scattered through the trusty 2017 Rugby Almanack, which has run since 1935. If you are a serious rugby fan, or indeed a serious rugby journalist, and you do not have the Almanack at your elbow, then you are missing out. Their Almanack New Zealand XV tends to follow the All Blacks selectors, though they have named Highlanders' Malakai Fekitoa and Waisake Naholo in jersey Nos 22 and 23. There are 60 pages dedicated to the growing women's game, led off by a season review by Mel Robinson. Ninth on the all-time list of tryscorers in New Zealand first-class rugby is Ron Jarden, All Blacks great of the 1950s.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 08, 2017 20:03 UTC