Three ocker shockers

These guys rival Eddie Jones when it comes to winding up the All Blacks


1. Sam Scott-Young

Loved to get up close and personal during the haka, once blowing kisses and winking at Olo Brown and Richard Loe.

After retiring he was more than happy to advise Australian teams in the give-'em-a-bit-of-niggle mode.

In the build-up to last year's World Cup semifinal he implored the men in green and gold to go extreme by trying to mess with Carlos Spencer's faux mo' to put him off his game.

Maybe it's all best left said by one of their own.

"I'm not in Scott-Young's category," the rough-house Owen Finegan once said.

"He got a bit wild, he was a bit of a madman."

2. David Campese

He scored a ridiculously good try against the All Blacks in the World Cup semifinal in 1991 and set up another. But Campo has been more than willing to give the All Blacks a serve over the years off the field as well.

This from a 1999 column for The Australian after the All Blacks beat Scotland in the World Cup quarter-final: "The real worry for All Black coach John Hart is that a whiff of complacency within the ranks can be dangerous, because it eats away at a player's concentration.

... I wonder if the Kiwis might be kidding themselves a little."

And then we played France in the semifinal.

3. Justin Harrison

Lions wing Austin Healy labelled Harrison a "plod", "plank" and "ox" on their tour Downunder in 2001.

Pure motivation, though, to Harrison who, in the dying minutes of the third test, stole a Lions lineout throw near the Wallabies' line to help save the test and win the series.

You could say Harrison is a very confident guy.

Sizing up All Black lock Chris Jack two years ago he said: "I think in my own right I present a lot of skills and qualities that he probably doesn't have."

And last year Harrison inspired the Wallaby lineout to clean the All Blacks out in the semifinal.