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'''Tony Dale Woodcock''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 27 January 1981) is a New Zealand [[rugby union]] player. His position is [[Rugby union positions#1. Loosehead prop .26 3. Tighthead prop|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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10525014|title=Wynne Gray: Double cause to celebrate, and sexy to boot|last=Gray|first=Wynne|date=3 August 2008|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref> scoring eight test tries. He has been described by ''[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)|The Dominion Post]]'' as "widely regarded as the world's premier loosehead",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/518663|title=Woodcock quietly confident|date=4 July 2008|work=The Dominion Post |accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref> and by ''[[The New Zealand Herald]]'' as having the "best range of skills of any prop on the planet".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10416674&pnum=0|title=Gregor Paul: Rugby's world XV|last=Paul |first=Gregor |date=24 December 2006|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref> 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 the [[2011 Rugby World Cup|2011]] and [[2015 Rugby World Cup|2015]] Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only twenty [[List of dual Rugby Union World Cup winners|dual Rugby Union World Cup winners]].
'''Tony Dale Woodcock''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 27 January 1981) is a New Zealand former [[rugby union]] player. His position was [[Rugby union positions#1. Loosehead prop .26 3. Tighthead prop|loosehead prop]], and he played 111 tests for the New Zealand national team, the [[All Blacks]]. Woodcock played for the All Blacks from 2002 to 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10525014|title=Wynne Gray: Double cause to celebrate, and sexy to boot|last=Gray|first=Wynne|date=3 August 2008|work=The New Zealand Herald|access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref> scoring eight test tries. He was described by ''[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)|The Dominion Post]]'' as "widely regarded as the world's premier loosehead",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/518663|title=Woodcock quietly confident|date=4 July 2008|work=The Dominion Post |access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref> and by ''[[The New Zealand Herald]]'' as having the "best range of skills of any prop on the planet".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10416674&pnum=0|title=Gregor Paul: Rugby's world XV|last=Paul |first=Gregor |date=24 December 2006|work=The New Zealand Herald|access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref> 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 was a key member of the [[2011 Rugby World Cup|2011]] and [[2015 Rugby World Cup|2015]] Rugby World Cup winning squads, becoming one of only 20 [[List of winners of multiple Rugby World Cups|players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups]].


==Club rugby==
He plays for [[Blues (Super Rugby)|Blues]] in [[Super Rugby]], and also for [[North Harbour Rugby Union|North Harbour]] in the [[ITM Cup]] (when available).
He played for [[Blues (Super Rugby)|Blues]] in [[Super Rugby]], and for [[North Harbour Rugby Union|North Harbour]] in the [[ITM Cup]] (when available).


After 113 appearances for the {{Rut Blues}}, he joined the {{Rut Highlanders}} for the [[2013 Super Rugby season]].<ref name="Woodcock leaves Blues for Highlanders">{{cite web | url=http://www.theblues.co.nz/News/2012-9-9/Woodcock-leaves-Blues-for-Highlanders.aspx | title=Woodcock leaves Blues for Highlanders | publisher=Blues | date=9 Sep 2012 | accessdate=9 Sep 2012}}</ref>
After 113 appearances for the {{Rut|Blues}}, he joined the {{Rut|Highlanders}} for the [[2013 Super Rugby season]].<ref name="Woodcock leaves Blues for Highlanders">{{cite web | url=http://www.theblues.co.nz/News/2012-9-9/Woodcock-leaves-Blues-for-Highlanders.aspx | title=Woodcock leaves Blues for Highlanders | publisher=Blues | date=9 September 2012 | access-date=9 September 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912051433/http://www.theblues.co.nz/News/2012-9-9/Woodcock-leaves-Blues-for-Highlanders.aspx | archive-date=12 September 2012}}</ref>
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.
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 Rugby Union|Canterbury]], a match that North Harbour won 21–17, making them the Ranfurly Shield holders for the first time.
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.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} 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{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}, to play in North Harbour's [[Ranfurly Shield]] challenge against [[Canterbury Rugby Union|Canterbury]], a match that North Harbour won 21–17, making them the Ranfurly Shield holders for the first time.


==All Blacks==
He was the first All Black prop to score a test try against Australia in 20 years and on 2 August 2008 he became the first All Black prop to score two tries in a match (a rare feat for a prop against any side{{citation needed| date = August 2012}}) against Australia in over 50 years.
Woodcock made his international debut for New Zealand on 23 November 2002 when he started against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Woodcock was one of six debutants that day and started alongside Blues teammates [[Keven Mealamu]] and [[Daniel Braid]], the former of whom would go on to become a long-serving front-row partner to Woodcock. Woodcock played the full 80 minutes, something rare for a prop and the All Blacks beat Wales 43–17.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}


Woodcock did not play for the All Blacks again until 2004, a year when he started three times. Woodcock became a regular starter for New Zealand in 2005, starting in all three tests against the touring [[British and Irish Lions]] team, with the All Blacks failing to lose in all of those tests. Woodcock started in 10 of his 11 international appearances in 2005, and made 10 appearances for the All Blacks in 2006.
He scored New Zealand's only try in the [[2011 Rugby World Cup Final]] against [[France national rugby union team|France]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/oct/23/rugby-world-cup-final-2011-new-zealand-france | title=Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand v France – as it happened | first=Scott | last= Murray | date=23 October 2011 | work = Guardian| location=UK | accessdate=20 December 2011 }}</ref> becoming the first [[All Black]] prop to score a try in a [[Rugby World Cup]] final, and only the second prop ever to do so.{{citation needed| date = August 2012}}


He was the first All Black prop to score a test try against Australia in 20 years{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}, when he scored the first try of his international career on 30 June 2007 against Australia in a 15–20 loss and another try against Australia the following week, when the All Blacks won 26–12. After his performances through the year, Woodcock was selected for the [[2007 Rugby World Cup]]. Woodcock made started in four of his three appearances in the competition, the most notable being when he played the full 80 minutes{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} of New Zealand's shock 18–20 loss to France in the quarter-final of the World Cup, eliminating them for the competition.
He received his 100th cap for the All Blacks in a test match in Wellington against Australia on 24 August 2013.


Woodcock was retained in the All Blacks in 2008 and on 2 August 2008, he became the first All Black prop to score two tries in a match (a rare feat for a prop against any side{{citation needed| date = August 2012}}) against Australia in over 50 years. He had a heavy workload for the All Blacks in 2008, playing 12 tests for them that year.
Woodcock was named in the 31-man squad for the [[2015 Rugby World Cup]], where he scored against [[Tonga national rugby union team|Tonga]] in the final pool match. His 118 test-match career in rugby union unfortunately ended in the same match, when he was injured. Joe Moody was subsequently flown over to England from New Zealand in order to replace Woodcock, who collected his medal following New Zealand's victory in the final against Australia's Wallabies.


Woodcock celebrated his 50th test to kick off his 2009 international rugby season, but it was unfortunately spoiled by losing 22–27 on the occasion, against France in Dunedin.
Outside rugby, Woodcock has a deer farm near [[Kaukapakapa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=3570519|title=The farmers in the front row|last=Gray|first=Wynne|date=4 June 2004|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref>


He scored New Zealand's only try in the [[2011 Rugby World Cup final]] against [[France national rugby union team|France]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/oct/23/rugby-world-cup-final-2011-new-zealand-france | title=Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand v France – as it happened | first=Scott | last= Murray | date=23 October 2011 | work = The Guardian| location=UK | access-date=20 December 2011 }}</ref> becoming the first [[All Black]] prop to score a try in a [[Rugby World Cup]] final, and only the second prop ever to do so.{{citation needed| date = August 2012}}
== International tries ==

He received his 100th cap for the All Blacks in a test match in Wellington against Australia on 24 August 2013. Woodcock was not subbed off, with replacement prop [[Wyatt Crockett]] instead replacing [[Sam Whitelock]] in the 27–15 win over Australia.

Woodcock was named in the 31-man squad for the [[2015 Rugby World Cup]], where he scored a try in a 47–9 victory against [[Tonga national rugby union team|Tonga]] in the final pool match of the competition on 9 October. His 118 test-match career in rugby union unfortunately ended in the same match, when he was injured and replaced by Wyatt Crockett in the 43rd minute. Joe Moody was subsequently flown over to England from New Zealand, in order to replace Woodcock, who remained in the country and collected his winners' medal following New Zealand's 34–17 victory in the final against Australia's Wallabies.

In the [[2016 New Year Honours (New Zealand)|2016 New Year Honours]], Woodcock was appointed a [[New Zealand Order of Merit|Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]] for services to rugby.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2016 | title=New Year honours list 2016 |date=31 December 2015 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref>

=== International tries ===
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! Try !! Opposing team !! Location !! Venue !! Competition !! Date !! Result
! Try !! Opposing team !! Location !! Venue !! Competition !! Date !! Result
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| 1 || {{ru|AUS}} || [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]],|| [[Docklands Stadium]],|| [[2007 Tri Nations Series]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2007|June|30}} || Lost
| 1 || {{ru|AUS}} || [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]],|| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]],|| [[2007 Tri Nations Series]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2007|June|30}} || Lost
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| 2 || {{ru|AUS}} || [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]] || [[Eden Park]] || [[2007 Tri Nations Series]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2007|July|21}} || Won
| 2 || {{ru|AUS}} || [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]] || [[Eden Park]] || [[2007 Tri Nations Series]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2007|July|21}} || Won
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| 9 || {{ru|WAL}} || [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]] || [[Millennium Stadium]] || [[2012 end-of-year rugby union tests|2012 End of Year Tour]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2012|November|25}} || Won
| 9 || {{ru|WAL}} || [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]] || [[Millennium Stadium]] || [[2012 end-of-year rugby union tests|2012 End of Year Tour]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2012|November|25}} || Won
|-
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| 10 || {{ru|TGA}} || [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]], [[England]] || [[St. James Park]] || [[2015 Rugby World Cup]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2015|October|9}} || Won
| 10 || {{ru|TGA}} || [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]], [[England]] || [[St James' Park]] || [[2015 Rugby World Cup]] || {{dts|format=dmy|2015|October|9}} || Won


|}
|}

== Other activities ==
Outside rugby, Woodcock has a deer farm near [[Kaukapakapa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=3570519|title=The farmers in the front row|last=Gray|first=Wynne|date=4 June 2004|work=The New Zealand Herald|access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.theblues.co.nz/index.cfm?layout=playerProfile&playerID=53 Blues profile]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100522025409/http://www.theblues.co.nz/index.cfm?layout=playerProfile&playerID=53 Blues profile]
* {{All Blacks|id=1028|name=Tony Woodcock}}
* {{All Blacks|id=1028|name=Tony Woodcock}}


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Tony Woodcock
MNZM
Birth nameTony Dale Woodcock
Date of birth (1981-01-27) 27 January 1981 (age 43)
Place of birthHelensville, New Zealand
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight120 kg (265 lb)[2]
SchoolKaipara College
SpouseTracey Woodcock
Children2
Rugby union career
Position(s) Loosehead prop
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
2000–2015 North Harbour 54 (10)
Correct as of 2 August 2011
Super Rugby
Years Team Apps (Points)
2002–2015 Blues 137 (45)
2013 Highlanders 12 (5)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2002–2015 Neuseeland 118 (50)

Tony Dale Woodcock MNZM (born 27 January 1981) is a New Zealand former rugby union player. His position was loosehead prop, and he played 111 tests for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. Woodcock played for the All Blacks from 2002 to 2015,[3] scoring eight test tries. He was described by The Dominion Post as "widely regarded as the world's premier loosehead",[4] and by The New Zealand Herald as having the "best range of skills of any prop on the planet".[5] 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 was a key member of the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning squads, becoming one of only 20 players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups.

Club rugby

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He played for Blues in Super Rugby, and 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.[6] 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.[citation needed] 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[citation needed], 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.

All Blacks

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Woodcock made his international debut for New Zealand on 23 November 2002 when he started against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Woodcock was one of six debutants that day and started alongside Blues teammates Keven Mealamu and Daniel Braid, the former of whom would go on to become a long-serving front-row partner to Woodcock. Woodcock played the full 80 minutes, something rare for a prop and the All Blacks beat Wales 43–17.[citation needed]

Woodcock did not play for the All Blacks again until 2004, a year when he started three times. Woodcock became a regular starter for New Zealand in 2005, starting in all three tests against the touring British and Irish Lions team, with the All Blacks failing to lose in all of those tests. Woodcock started in 10 of his 11 international appearances in 2005, and made 10 appearances for the All Blacks in 2006.

He was the first All Black prop to score a test try against Australia in 20 years[citation needed], when he scored the first try of his international career on 30 June 2007 against Australia in a 15–20 loss and another try against Australia the following week, when the All Blacks won 26–12. After his performances through the year, Woodcock was selected for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Woodcock made started in four of his three appearances in the competition, the most notable being when he played the full 80 minutes[citation needed] of New Zealand's shock 18–20 loss to France in the quarter-final of the World Cup, eliminating them for the competition.

Woodcock was retained in the All Blacks in 2008 and on 2 August 2008, he became the first All Black prop to score two tries in a match (a rare feat for a prop against any side[citation needed]) against Australia in over 50 years. He had a heavy workload for the All Blacks in 2008, playing 12 tests for them that year.

Woodcock celebrated his 50th test to kick off his 2009 international rugby season, but it was unfortunately spoiled by losing 22–27 on the occasion, against France in Dunedin.

He scored New Zealand's only try in the 2011 Rugby World Cup final against France,[7] becoming the first All Black prop to score a try in a Rugby World Cup final, and only the second prop ever to do so.[citation needed]

He received his 100th cap for the All Blacks in a test match in Wellington against Australia on 24 August 2013. Woodcock was not subbed off, with replacement prop Wyatt Crockett instead replacing Sam Whitelock in the 27–15 win over Australia.

Woodcock was named in the 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he scored a try in a 47–9 victory against Tonga in the final pool match of the competition on 9 October. His 118 test-match career in rugby union unfortunately ended in the same match, when he was injured and replaced by Wyatt Crockett in the 43rd minute. Joe Moody was subsequently flown over to England from New Zealand, in order to replace Woodcock, who remained in the country and collected his winners' medal following New Zealand's 34–17 victory in the final against Australia's Wallabies.

In the 2016 New Year Honours, Woodcock was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to rugby.[8]

International tries

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Try Opposing team Standort Venue Competition Date Result
1  Australien Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground, 2007 Tri Nations Series 30 June 2007 Lost
2  Australien Auckland, New Zealand Eden Park 2007 Tri Nations Series 21 July 2007 Won
3  Australien Auckland, New Zealand Eden Park 2008 Tri Nations Series 2 August 2008 Won
4  Australien Auckland, New Zealand Eden Park 2008 Tri Nations Series 2 August 2008 Won
5  Australien Brisbane, Australia Lang Park 2008 Tri Nations Series 13 September 2008 Won
6  Südafrika Auckland, New Zealand Eden Park 2010 Tri Nations Series 10 July 2010 Won
7  Südafrika Johannesburg, South Africa Soccer City 2010 Tri Nations Series 21 August 2010 Won
8  Frankreich Auckland, New Zealand Eden Park 2011 Rugby World Cup 23 October 2011 Won
9  Wales Cardiff, Wales Millennium Stadium 2012 End of Year Tour 25 November 2012 Won
10  Tonga Newcastle, England St James' Park 2015 Rugby World Cup 9 October 2015 Won

Other activities

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Outside rugby, Woodcock has a deer farm near Kaukapakapa.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Stats | allblacks.com".
  2. ^ "Stats | allblacks.com".
  3. ^ Gray, Wynne (3 August 2008). "Wynne Gray: Double cause to celebrate, and sexy to boot". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Woodcock quietly confident". The Dominion Post. 4 July 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  5. ^ Paul, Gregor (24 December 2006). "Gregor Paul: Rugby's world XV". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  6. ^ "Woodcock leaves Blues for Highlanders". Blues. 9 September 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  7. ^ Murray, Scott (23 October 2011). "Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand v France – as it happened". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  8. ^ "New Year honours list 2016". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  9. ^ Gray, Wynne (4 June 2004). "The farmers in the front row". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
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