Omarama – a rugby player’s story

Sam Forsyth drives two hours to practice from the sheep farm he manages and two hours back, picking up and dropping off up to a dozen team mates on the way. The team of Mackenzie is made up of shepherds and farm workers across the Mackenzie district, who travel far for their love of the game. If anything showed it, there was the game in the middle of winter which needed a snowplough to clear the field. The ground froze and players cut knees and elbows on sharpened ice as temperatures dropped below zero.