Murray Mexted
Encyclopedia
Murray Graham Mexted is a New Zealand
rugby union
player who played 34 tests for the All Blacks
from 1979 to 1983. He also played 38 non-test game including 7 as captain. During his time with the All Blacks
, he wore the Number eight jersey and was considered an excellent ball winner and an effective defender. In 1986, his book, Pieces of Eight, was published, and he married Miss Universe Lorraine Downes
. The couple separated in 1999. In recent years, he has retained a high profile as a television colour commentator. Mexted's father, Graham Mexted
, was also a New Zealand rugby union international who won one full cap in 1950.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
player who played 34 tests for the All Blacks
All Blacks
The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....
from 1979 to 1983. He also played 38 non-test game including 7 as captain. During his time with the All Blacks
All Blacks
The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....
, he wore the Number eight jersey and was considered an excellent ball winner and an effective defender. In 1986, his book, Pieces of Eight, was published, and he married Miss Universe Lorraine Downes
Lorraine Downes
Lorraine Elizabeth Downes is a New Zealand former beauty queen who held the Miss Universe title in 1983 and won the New Zealand version of the reality TV show Dancing with the Stars in 2006.-Miss Universe:...
. The couple separated in 1999. In recent years, he has retained a high profile as a television colour commentator. Mexted's father, Graham Mexted
Graham Mexted
Graham George Mexted was a New Zealand rugby union player. Playing in the position of No. 8, Mexted represented Wellington at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks. He represented New Zealand in six international matches, one of them at full test...
, was also a New Zealand rugby union international who won one full cap in 1950.
Quotes
- "I just love it when MehrtensAndrew MehrtensAndrew Philip Mehrtens MNZM is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, currently playing in France for Béziers, a club in the third-level Fédérale 1 league...
comes on the inside of MarshallJustin MarshallJustin Warren Marshall, MNZM is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He was born in Mataura and educated in Gore before settling in Christchurch. Marshall played 81 games for the New Zealand All Blacks between 1995 and 2005...
" - "As you know, I've been pumping Marty Leslie for a couple of years now."
- "You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that."
- A Sky TV producer was conducting a sound test before the last Springbok test at Carisbrook. "Murray can you hear me?....Murray can you hear me?" Murray: "No."
- "Paul Tito looked like a blind man in a brothel, just left groping."
- "The lineouts of course are a great artform, I've always fantisised about lineouts, even in my sleep sometimes..."
- "Well it was a great kick. We know Matthew Cooper's got tremendous rhythm now, he's smooth, smooth as a baby's bum... By Joves, that didn't slip out did it?"
- "It's very easy to be exposed as an open side (flanker) if you don't have your mate up your backside"
- "Well it still does it for me, the tingle up the spine, the tingle in the loins"
- "Isn't that an interesting scene, the two coaches, Nick MallettNick MallettNicholas Vivian Howard Mallett is a former South African rugby union player who was until recently the head coach of the Italian national team, previously replacing Pierre Berbizier on 3 October 2007...
and John HartJohn Hart (rugby coach)John Bernard Hart, ONZM was a New Zealand rugby union coach, mainly for Auckland and the All Blacks. After many years in business, during which he rose to become Group Employee Relations Director for Fletcher Challenge, then New Zealand's largest company, John Hart began his first class coaching...
. By Joves times have changed haven't they. In the old days they'd be punching each other in that position." - (The two former coaches of the respective South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n and New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
rugby teams were shown seated together in a grandstand).
External links
- Hewitson, Michele, "The incorrigible Murray Mexted", NZ Herald, 2006-05-27. Retrieved on 2008-08-23.