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THURSDAY, DECEMBER <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Alex Todd: League player of the decade<br />
• By Will Evans<br />
LINWOOD KEAS and<br />
Canterbury Bulls stalwart<br />
Alex Todd’s naming as the<br />
Canterbury Rugby League<br />
player of the decade is a<br />
reminder there will always<br />
be a place for hard-working,<br />
consistent, tough grafters in the<br />
code.<br />
Following in the footsteps<br />
of Jonny Limmer, the<br />
CRL’s player of the 2000-10<br />
decade, the prop was judged<br />
Canterbury’s standout player of<br />
the 2010s by a panel comprising<br />
the Bulls’ coaches over that<br />
time frame – Brent Stuart,<br />
Mike Dorreen, Darrell Coad<br />
and Andrew Auimatagi.<br />
The judges voted for their<br />
three top players of the decade<br />
on a 3-2-1 basis – Todd was the<br />
resounding winner with 10 of a<br />
possible 12 votes.<br />
Hornby duo James<br />
Baxendale and Corey<br />
Lawrie, Celebration great Kyle<br />
Leka, Riccarton icon Shane<br />
Tamatea and Linwood veteran<br />
Erwin Sauni also received<br />
votes.<br />
“It means bloody heaps,”<br />
said Todd.<br />
“Considering the players<br />
I’ve played alongside, to be<br />
receiving this award is pretty<br />
unbelievable.”<br />
Todd grew up in Redcliffs<br />
and developed through<br />
Linwood’s junior ranks.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
STANDOUT: Rugby league stalwart Alex Todd combines his club and provincial career<br />
with construction work.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
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He Puna Taimoana manager<br />
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“Our visitors<br />
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“Amazingly, we<br />
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cent of our ticket sales are from<br />
the wider Christchurch area, with<br />
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New Brighton.”<br />
Five per cent of visitors were<br />
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EVEN THOUGH Lesley O’Neill<br />
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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 5<br />
Success credited to simple league principles<br />
• From page 1<br />
After dabbling in rugby union<br />
with Sumner, he returned to the<br />
Keas as a teenager and made his<br />
senior debut as the club took out<br />
the 2007 premier reserves title.<br />
A year later he helped the Keas<br />
lift the Pat Smith Trophy by beating<br />
Papanui in the grand final<br />
and in 2009 he made his debut<br />
as a 19-year-old in the Stuartcoached<br />
Bartercard Premiershipwinning<br />
side.<br />
Todd briefly returned to the<br />
15-a-side game with Sumner in<br />
2014, but he was back on Linwood’s<br />
roster the following<br />
season and immediately regained<br />
his representative spot.<br />
“I definitely missed the league<br />
environment, but going to rugby<br />
was something I wanted to do –<br />
go back to my junior club where I<br />
played rugby as a kid, give it a go<br />
and see what it was about,” Todd<br />
said.<br />
The durable Todd has been at<br />
the forefront during the Keas’<br />
run of five straight CRL grand<br />
final triumphs from 2016-20.<br />
Incredibly, he has won the Mel<br />
Cooke Trophy as the standout<br />
player in the decider an unprecedented<br />
three times – in 20<strong>17</strong>-18<br />
and again this season.<br />
He has also been a fixture for<br />
his province over the past six<br />
seasons, again captaining an<br />
experienced Bulls squad in the<br />
NZRL National Premiership<br />
campaign.<br />
The 31-year-old credits his<br />
individual success to some simple<br />
rugby league principles.<br />
“My fitness, and just turning<br />
up and helping my mate out on<br />
the field. I’m not the flashest of<br />
players, but I try and get in and<br />
do my job,” he said.<br />
“A lot of it’s to do with our<br />
culture at Linwood as well. You<br />
always want to be there for your<br />
mate and not let them down.”<br />
A regular skipper for Linwood<br />
and Canterbury, the battle-hardened<br />
Todd has slipped seamlessly<br />
into a leadership role in recent<br />
seasons.<br />
“It’s something I’ve slowly<br />
moved into. I’d been at Linwood<br />
for a wee while and when Aga<br />
(Fiso) stepped away from the<br />
leadership group (he retired in<br />
20<strong>17</strong>) it was a natural progression<br />
to move into that role with Paul<br />
(Sauni).<br />
“I’m probably not the biggest<br />
talker but I do try to lead through<br />
my actions.”<br />
If there has been one constant<br />
HARD YARDS:<br />
Linwood<br />
Keas and<br />
Canterbury<br />
Bulls veteran<br />
Alex Todd has<br />
been named<br />
Canterbury<br />
Rugby League<br />
player of<br />
the 2010-20<br />
decade.<br />
in Todd’s career, it’s the guidance<br />
of Auimatagi.<br />
He was Todd’s first premier<br />
reserves coach, while the pair<br />
played together in the Keas’ 2008<br />
grand final win and the Bulls’<br />
successful Bartercard Premiership<br />
campaign a year later.<br />
Auimatagi and Todd then<br />
teamed up as coach and frontrow<br />
anchor in five straight grand<br />
finals (2015-19) for four wins, and<br />
in every Bulls campaign since<br />
2016.<br />
“Andrew’s had a huge influence<br />
on my career,” Todd said.<br />
“When I started playing premier<br />
Bs in 2007 he was my coach,<br />
and I came through and played<br />
alongside him at club and rep<br />
level, now he’s coached me for a<br />
long time. But he’s a really good<br />
bloke and really knows the game.<br />
“Another guy is (former<br />
teammate and current Keas<br />
coach) Aga, he’s a pretty amazing<br />
leader and someone I’ve always<br />
looked up to,” he said, adding he<br />
was in no rush to hang up the<br />
boots.<br />
“As long as the body keeps<br />
holding up alright I’ll keep playing<br />
for as long as I can. You’re a<br />
long time retired.”<br />
The 150-game milestone for<br />
the Keas is the next achievement<br />
on Todd’s horizon in 2021 after<br />
he brought up three figures in<br />
20<strong>17</strong>.<br />
CRL chief executive Duane<br />
Fyfe praised Todd’s contribution<br />
when the award was presented.<br />
“‘Toddy is a great ambassador<br />
when representing his club and<br />
province, and has a reputation<br />
for doing his talking on the field<br />
with his direct style of play.<br />
“This is an outstanding<br />
accolade based on his<br />
commitment, perseverance and<br />
achievement over the previous<br />
decade.”<br />
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• By Matt Slaughter<br />
SYLVIA WILSON and her<br />
nine friends celebrated their<br />
combined age of 872 years and<br />
about 30 years of friendship<br />
last week.<br />
Sylvia, who is 80, said they<br />
met about 30 years ago at<br />
Waimairi Beach Golf Club,<br />
where they used to play golf.<br />
She, Ruth Lawson, Moira<br />
Curtin, Shirley Smith, Neroli<br />
Paterson, Margaret Underhay,<br />
Leoni Bolton, Margaret<br />
Paterson and Jean Norton<br />
have been friends ever since.<br />
On Friday, the friends, who<br />
all live in the eastern suburbs,<br />
celebrated their friendship and<br />
combined age with a cake at<br />
the golf club.<br />
Joan Moore has also been a<br />
part of the group but could not<br />
attend the celebration, Sylvia<br />
said.<br />
In spite of none of them<br />
playing golf anymore, four of<br />
them including Sylvia still play<br />
indoor bowls at North New<br />
Brighton Indoor Bowls Club.<br />
She said they meet a couple<br />
of times a year at the golf club<br />
to catch up.<br />
“It’s just something that<br />
we’ve done, basically, since we<br />
gave it [golf] up. We still keep<br />
in touch and four of us still<br />
play indoor bowls,” Sylvia said.<br />
Sylvia said the group played<br />
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celebrated about 30 years of friendship and their combined age of 872 at Waimairi<br />
Beach Golf Club on Friday.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
golf for a total of 242 years<br />
between them before retiring<br />
from the sport.<br />
She said she wasn’t much of<br />
a golfer but enjoyed her playing<br />
days.<br />
Sylvia said another special<br />
thing about the friend group is<br />
they all still live independently.<br />
“Everyone is still living by<br />
themselves, seven of them are<br />
still driving and one of them<br />
has just given up, one of the<br />
92-year-olds, and she’s got<br />
a wee motorised [mobility]<br />
scooter.”<br />
She said “keeping in<br />
touch with people and just<br />
taking an interest in things”<br />
has been part of her secret<br />
to staying healthy for all of<br />
these years.<br />
Sylvia said all of the friends<br />
come from different backgrounds<br />
making them great<br />
company.<br />
“They’re just an interesting<br />
lot and, you know, old friends<br />
are good friends, they really<br />
are.<br />
“It’s just lovely that there<br />
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THE earthquake-damaged<br />
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announced more<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
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GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said the community are “somewhat<br />
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GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora<br />
Baxendale said any request to<br />
her achieve her dreams.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
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thankful for a reprieve of the<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
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next month, designed She was shocked to hear the<br />
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next month, designed She was shocked to hear the Main South Rd, has been a source<br />
and maths.<br />
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