Was Jock Hobbs really a great New Zealander?
Would you mention him in the same breath as Hillary , Blake, Jackson,Savage and Rutherford?
Hobbs was a very good provincial flanker who made the All Blacks because he played for a winning team, Canterbury. ,Bruce Middleton from Wanganui was probably a better player..
Outside of sport he was an unremarkable barrister and a Rugby administrator. judging by the collapse of Strategic Finance and the problems of NZRFU and ORFU he wasnot not particularly good with money.
Its another example of how the media get completely carried away.