Success: Nick Williams celebrates after retaining the Ranfurly Shield for North Harbour in 2007
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ONE of his brothers, Tim Nanai-Williams, plays full back or wing for Samoa and Clermont. Sonny Bill is a first cousin and another cousin, Joseph Parker, is a boxer who lost the WBO heavyweight title to Anthony Joshua at the Millennium Stadium two years ago.
Nick Williams, a member of the Junior All Blacks’ world-beating squad of 2004, is hanging up his boots after 16 years blasting off the back of scrums for Auckland, North Harbour, Munster, Aironi (remember them?),...