Tony Woodcock (rugby player)
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| Full name | Tony Dale Woodcock | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Woody | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 January 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Helensville, Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (260 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Kaipara College | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Tracey Woodcock | ||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Loosehead Prop | ||||||||||||||||
| New Zealand No. | 1025 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2000–2015 | North Harbour | 54 | (10)2t |
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Correct as of 2 August 2011
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2002–2015 2013 |
Blues Highlanders |
137 12 |
(45)9t (5)1t |
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Correct as of 8 July 2015
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2002–2015 | New Zealand | 118 | (50) |
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Correct as of 9 October 2015
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Tony Dale Woodcock MNZM (born 27 January 1981) is a New Zealand rugby union player. His position is loosehead prop, and he has played 111 tests for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. Woodcock has played for the All Blacks since 2002, scoring eight test tries. He has been described by The Dominion Post as "widely regarded as the world's premier loosehead", and by The New Zealand Herald as having the "best range of skills of any prop on the planet". He is now the most capped All Black prop of all time, and is the second most capped player in Blues history, behind Keven Mealamu. He is a key member of 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only twenty dual Rugby Union World Cup winners.
He plays for Blues in Super Rugby, and also for North Harbour in the ITM Cup (when available).
After 113 appearances for the Blues, he joined the Highlanders for the 2013 Super Rugby season. However about a year later, after spending a year with the Highlanders who came 2nd to last in Super Rugby, Woodcock decided to return to the Blues where he would be closer to his family. He signed a 1-year contract. Woodcock has a reputation for playing as much rugby as possible. In 2005 he played in the first eleven of the twelve All Black test matches that year. From 2001 to 2004, he played in every match for North Harbour, except for the first two matches of 2004 due to being on All Black duty, and in 2002 and 2003, he played the full eighty minutes of every game for North Harbour. In 2006, he requested and received permission from the All Black coaching staff to return a week early from his enforced rest due to All Black duty, to play in North Harbour's Ranfurly Shield challenge against Canterbury, a match that North Harbour won 21–17, making them the Ranfurly Shield holders for the first time.
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