New Zealand schools side in ’93 was the best ever

The greatest national schools team ever? That debate kicked off on Twitter recently and my mind immediately went back 30 years to 1993 and interviewing a shell-shocked Phil Greening, who had just returned from captaining England schools on their New Zealand tour.
The New Zealand schools team that year read: Christian Cullen; Karl Tenana, George Laupepe, Pita Alatini, Brad Fleming; Carlos Spencer, Scott Hansen; Carl Hoeft, Anton Oliver, Kees Meeuws, Royce Willis, Christian Davies, Duncan Blakie, Isitolo Maka, Jonah Lomu. Unsurprisingly they defeated England 51-5 and then trounced Australia 3...

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