 All right you guys what is up welcome back to another video and to another edition of the top 10 greatest New Zealand all blacks of all time today's video is about a man named Wayne Shelford Wayne Buck Shelford as he was more commonly known Wayne Shelford was born 13th of December 1957 in Rotorua New Zealand he was listed at 189 centimetres tall or six foot two and a half 107 kgs 235 pounds and was all black number 860. Wayne Buck Shelford played at the number eight position which is at the back of a scrum the number eight in fact all loose forwards need to be a hybrid of a forward and a back they need to be mobile they need to have skill they need to be big enough powerful enough they need to be able to tackle and he could most probably kick too but he played before my time I didn't actually get to see him play unfortunately. Wayne Shelford's All Blacks career began in 1986 it continued into 1987 when the inaugural Rugby World Cup was on New Zealand actually won that tournament and Buck Shelford was a massive part of that. This series I've brought out and you know coinciding with the 2019 Rugby World Cup which is just started last week and so I really hope you're enjoying this series and if you do want to see some of the current All Blacks play you most likely can within this tournament. I don't know when this video is going to come out but the final of the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be played on the 2nd of November 2019. Now Wayne Shelford became All Blacks captain throughout his early into his All Blacks career actually in total he played 48 games for the All Blacks including 22 test matches so back before the professional era of Rugby came along a lot of matches that the All Blacks played were not actually considered test matches which is international you know proper games that are recorded they may have been exhibition matches they may have been against lesser nations that didn't actually have a you know a recognized international team could have been anything of those 48 games 22 were test matches he also scored 22 tries in total of those 48 total matches so 22 tries as a forward in 48 matches is nothing to be scoffed at that's actually an amazing strike rate so Wayne Shelford I never got to see him play but I'll tell you what he was he could probably play today you know that's the kind of skill the kind of skill set that he brought into the team now there are two main things two things that will go down in folklore about this man okay number one is the fact that he had an incident in 1987 against France sorry 1986 one of his I think it was a second second test ever against France we had an incident that happened on the field that will always give him the reputation of being one of the toughest motherfuckers to ever play the game secondly and almost just as importantly well actually a lot more importantly um was the fact that when Wayne Shelford came into the team at the time there hadn't been a huge Maori influence on the game the New Zealanders had always done the traditional war dance before each match called the Haka but before Wayne Shelford came into the team it was very very white should we say it wasn't done properly it was not done properly and it was actually an embarrassment so Wayne Shelford came into the team and he thought that you know it needed revamping he thought there's no way I'm going to come in here as a proud Maori man and do a Haka like this so what he did he actually took the team to go and see a high school performance or a school performance of some Maori students doing the Haka and that is the grounds of the Haka that you see today that is what sort of changed the way that New Zealand saw the Haka and the way that they performed it but with that being said I am going to read word for word these two stories these two story lines because they are definitely worth hearing okay so the first one the first one comes from the uh the story that that created his reputation as being one of the hardest guys in the uh the game of rugby okay 1986 set the scene second test ever against France okay roughly 20 minutes into the match he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck and an errant french boot found its way into Shelford's groin somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free he also lost four teeth in the process incredibly after discovering the injury to his scrotum he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and return to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed he was substituted and watched the remainder of the game from the grandstand where he witnessed the all blacks lose 16 to 3 to this day Shelford has no memory of the game okay so he had his his scrotum ripped open his testicle was hanging out he ran to the side of the field got the physio to stitch it up went back on the field still didn't win got knocked to the head had to come off anyway and uh and still has no recollection recollection of the game now after me looking into the world of american football recently there was one incident that is very similar to that but not as not as hardcore no way there was a guy Ronnie Lott he had his finger crushed in an incident on the field he went off they said no your finger stuffed he said right take it off and i'm going to back i'm going back on the field so he literally had part of his finger amputated just so he could get back on the field now i don't know which injury is going to be worse you guys make up your own mind but that was the story about buck Wayne Shelford in his second test ever okay this guy went on to captain the all blacks after that and i'm not surprised the second thing that i was going to mention was the uh the hucker okay so upon becoming captain in 1987 which he also did not lose a game as the all blacks went from 1987 to 1990 without losing one game and buck Shelford was the captain throughout the entire reign okay upon becoming captain Shelford brought his teammates to te te ote te ote college a Māori school to see the students perform a traditional hucker and thank god thank god he did seriously thank god although the all blacks had been performing the hucker at the start of their matches since the team's inception it was Shelford who taught them the proper way to perform the kama te hucker and uh you know the hucker is is something that it doesn't matter where i am doesn't matter who i'm watching it with when i hear it or see it it gives me chills and i am such a proud new zealander and every time i watch the game of rugby every time i watch a game of all blacks rugby the hucker is is almost certainly going to be my favorite part after retiring from the all blacks well he actually didn't retire he got dropped and the whole nation went up in arms about it in 1990 but after retiring the year after he was appointed a member of the order of the british empire for services to rugby which would now be called a member of the new zealand order of merit Shelford moved to england after that to play for north hampton he finally retired from all rugby in 1985 uh 1995 and coached for some time in britain including spells at the saracens and lions he returned to new zealand was the assistant coach of the north harbour team in 97 and 98 and he's currently coaching in some way shape or form at his former club north shore in devonport so that was a little bit about wane buck Shelford this video is about chronicling his uh his career his short career in the all blacks jumper but very very very very effective career and uh the video excerpts you're going to see after this part of me talking is from this dvd right here called the legends of all blacks rugby is he on the front no he's not he's on the back if you can see him there i don't know if you can see that but that is wane buck Shelford so with all that being said i say sit back relax enjoy enjoy those two stories they will go down in in rugby folklore and i've got to say you know wane buck Shelford i wish i was alive to see you play i think you would have affected me in some kind of way as a young kid and you probably did that to a whole generation of kids coming through and so i want to say thank you for your services to rugby and good night peace out everybody wane buck Shelford made his test debut for the all blacks in an infamous series against france his almost reckless bravery in those games ensured that Shelford became a byword for courage and commitment to the cause in the 1987 world cup Shelford played in five of the six all black games scoring twice against the welts so here's david kirk the all black all black awesome powers go for the second push over Shelford took over as captain of the all blacks immediately after the 1987 world cup during his captaincy from 1987 to 1990 the all blacks were undefeated in 1990 when the selectors decided to leave him out of the team Shelford had played in 48 all black games including 22 tests and has scored a total of 22 tries can ireland keep it to that until the end smith's throw knocked down by pierce bash up to fox the feed in there to ennis ennis coming through like an express train that was might brew her on there the drive over by Shelford the try is given the new zealand captain has scored it sanding that new was very well positioned and it's the giant man from north harbour who's finally clinched the match 21 points to six new zealand lead marie pierce was the man who won the ball bash up had a little second go at it and then watch how ennis came in here like a runaway train from the right wing he made a lot of ground was caught nearby manion then he was taken on further by brewer and there was the big 16 and a half stone number eight a good try