24 Jun 2025

Father of new All Black proud as punch

From Morning Report, 7:56 am on 24 June 2025

New All Black flanker Du Plessis Kirifi almost gave up on his All Blacks dream but decided at the start of this year to give it one more big shot. Kirifi's father Jack played flanker for Auckland club Ponsonby for years and made a wider Manu Samoa squad in the 1980s. He spoke to RNZ rugby reporter Joe Porter about what it means for his son to finally achieve his All Blacks dream and how he reacted when Du Plessis gave him the good news.