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Jim Greenhough profiles Colin 'Pinetree' Meads — NZ rugby’s Player of the Century — who represented his country in 133 matches from 1957 to 1971; and he spends a day with the 71-year-old All Black legend on the King Country farm he has worked all his adult life. Meads drenches sheep and muses on rugby as it was, its modern incarnation and the way new farming methods have changed the provincial game which was once the sport’s back-bone. Photographer Peter Bush recalls his years of following and shooting Meads who, he says, has aged like a fine wine.
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Television, 2010 (Full Length Episode)
Another rugby star profiled in this series
Television, 1969 (Full Length)
A 1969 doco featuring Meads musing on rough rugby
Television, 1966 (Full Length)
A rampaging Colin Meads scores in this test
Television, 1988 (Full Length Episode)
An earlier programme about Colin Meads
Television, 1999 (Excerpts)
Watch more Meads in clip five of this doco
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