14 in a row!
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The 2015-2016 All Blacks team, coaches, and support crew have attained the world record! Congratulations to all involved, and NZ is proud of you. What a fantastic team to watch play, and to support.
Thanks Booboo, great effort on multiple threads, your work is finally done!
Now, good luck for the rest of the year, especially Ireland and France at home (that is the one I ost worry about...). Go for 22 and the second unbeaten professional season.
Commiserations to Australia, you played well in a worthy and mostly tense match.
Bloody fantastic!
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As I have said the last couple of times we've got close and started out again to be able to achieve the record they have to go unbeaten through a Rugby Championship and Bledisloe series.
That's a significant achievement in itself.
Perhaps slightly easier now as we only play RSA twice not three times.
Now all we need to do is go unbeaten through EOYT and whitewash the Lions ..
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@No-Quarter said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
@Billy-Tell said in 17 in a row ...:
Why are the All Blacks so dominant? We travelled to New Zealand to find out
We launch a major multi-media series as Murray Kinsella journeys to the heart of a national obsession.
Awesome, will follow what they write. Some actual journalism on the ABs is pretty refreshing.
"Young Irish players now based in New Zealand helped us to appreciate the differences in the approach to rugby in the land of the long white cloud"
Fucking Kiwi poachers. I fucking knew it. All this time, they've been spoofing about taking PIs, when they were snatching Paddies.
Fucking knew that Brendan Barrett fella looked familiar. And yer man Ciaran Reid, though he probably wouldn't make the squad anyway, but still.....
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@pukunui said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
Great to tick that one off and hopefully they can extend it.
Another aspect that hasn't been talked anout much is the potential unbeaten season repeat from a few years back. Hopefully Ireland don't give us the same scare as last time though.But what have we ticked off? I don't want to regurgitate this but to me there is only one record and that is the test record.
More important for me is as you say matching the feat from 2012 and getting an unbeaten calendar year season. For what has so far been an excellent season it would be disappointing to regress at this point.
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@ACT-Crusader said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
@pukunui said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
Great to tick that one off and hopefully they can extend it.
Another aspect that hasn't been talked anout much is the potential unbeaten season repeat from a few years back. Hopefully Ireland don't give us the same scare as last time though.But what have we ticked off? I don't want to regurgitate this but to me there is only one record and that is the test record.
More important for me is as you say matching the feat from 2012 and getting an unbeaten calendar year season. For what has so far been an excellent season it would be disappointing to regress at this point.
You are right. That one has been debated. If you don't see a difference then good for you.
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@pukunui said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
Great to tick that one off and hopefully they can extend it.
I'll just leave this here. If you think it is comparable to what the ABs did, good for you.
Cyprus' run of 24 straight wins
2008
Azerbaijan 37 - 3 (away)
Monaco 24 - 3 (home)2009
Slovakia 33 - 7 (home)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 - 6 (away)
Monaco 44 - 5 (away)2010
Azerbaijan 59 - 0 (home)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 15 - 0 (home)
Greece 33 - 13 (away)2011
Bulgaria 55 - 8 (home)
Finland 70 - 10 (home)
Luxembourg 50 - 0 (away)
Luxembourg 48 - 7 (home)2012
Bulgaria 94 - 3 (away)
Greece 72 - 5 (home)
Finland 52 - 5 (away)
Austria 54 - 20 (away)
Slovenia 49 - 8 (home)2013
Bulgaria 79 - 10 (home)
Hungary 16 - 15 (away)
Slovenia 34 - 3 (away)
Austria 22 - 8 (home)2014
Bulgaria 46 - 15 (away)
Hungary 46 - 13 (home)
Andorra 30 - 10 (home) -
@nzzp said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
@pukunui said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
Great to tick that one off and hopefully they can extend it.
I'll just leave this here. If you think it is comparable to what the ABs did, good for you.
Cyprus' run of 24 straight wins
2008
Azerbaijan 37 - 3 (away)
Monaco 24 - 3 (home)2009
Slovakia 33 - 7 (home)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 - 6 (away)
Monaco 44 - 5 (away)2010
Azerbaijan 59 - 0 (home)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 15 - 0 (home)
Greece 33 - 13 (away)2011
Bulgaria 55 - 8 (home)
Finland 70 - 10 (home)
Luxembourg 50 - 0 (away)
Luxembourg 48 - 7 (home)2012
Bulgaria 94 - 3 (away)
Greece 72 - 5 (home)
Finland 52 - 5 (away)
Austria 54 - 20 (away)
Slovenia 49 - 8 (home)2013
Bulgaria 79 - 10 (home)
Hungary 16 - 15 (away)
Slovenia 34 - 3 (away)
Austria 22 - 8 (home)2014
Bulgaria 46 - 15 (away)
Hungary 46 - 13 (home)
Andorra 30 - 10 (home)Gee whiz Bosnia and Herzegovina look like plucky opponents judging from those rather close results. I guess dodging bombs in the 90s meant a lot of young men grew up to be nifty sidesteppers.
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I think everyone can agree the All Blacks have the tier one record and Cyprus has won more international games of rugby in a row than anyone else.
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Latvia 39 - 20
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@nzzp At their level, it is comparable to what the ABs did. In absolute terms, indeed, it is not. But I don't see the point in taking anything away from the Cypriot record, considering that beating these countries (which all compete in ENC 2, so 2 levels below the 6 Nations) is probably an achievement for Cyprus that is similar to the All Blacks beating Tier 1 nations.
So after ticking off the Tier 1 win record, I also hope the All Blacks will now go for that overall 24 test win record. Not because one is more meaningful than the other, but because it's nice to have another record on the list to aim for.
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If we can get past Cyprus, we'll still only have the Rugby Union record. The record for all international rugby is apparently 30 consecutive wins by the Australian Rugby League team.
If we can get past that, we can shoot for Jehangir Khan's best sporting streak of 555 consecutive squash match victories (ended by New Zealand's Ross Norman).
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@Chris-B. Kangaroos? Why not a hurling International record too ffs?
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@Chris-B. said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
If we can get past Cyprus, we'll still only have the Rugby Union record. The record for all international rugby is apparently 30 consecutive wins by the Australian Rugby League team.
If we can get past that, we can shoot for Jehangir Khan's best sporting streak of 555 consecutive squash match victories (ended by New Zealand's Ross Norman).
Jeezus! The Roos went 30 wins in a row? I actually find this hard to believe, especially given how infrequent league tests are and were. That could cover 20 odd years back in the day. Or more.
I suspect this record may be about the 82 to 86 team? And include the non-test tour matches?
Of course I could look it up, but nah.
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@antipodean said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
@Chris-B. Kangaroos? Why not a hurling International record too ffs?
I would suggest that Kerry have a better winning percentage in the final than us in RWC grand finals.
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@Bones My point is if there's no competitive international fixtures (as rugby league was for a long time) then a record run surely isn't difficult to achieve?
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@antipodean I was being facetious!
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@Stargazer said in 18 ... next stop Cyprus ...:
@nzzp At their level, it is comparable to what the ABs did.
Not really. Cyprus were in a division they were too good for.
The All Blacks can't go up a division.
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@Frye
They actually started from the very bottom, Azerbaidjan is still probably there at the bottom and don't really know what Monaco is up to.So basically they couldn't just sign up for a division suited for them and thus had to win 23 on the trot to find it 😂
Winning streak - Wikipedia
