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Rugby: Muliaina keen to keep hold of Bledisloe Cup
And, with fullback Mils Muliaina yesterday labelling it more prestigious than the Tri-Nations Cup, the players are avsikt on sipping its contents for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday night.
Coach Graham Henry will today name his side for the Bledisloe Cup/Tri-Nations test at ANZ Stadium, knowing victory will retain the symbol of trans-Tasman supremacy for with two matches to spare.
They last took possession back in with a series victory, before stumbling to the same opponents in the World Cup semifinals.
"It was massive. Back then you only had to win it once to retain it, so we had to win both games. The emotion after we won it was something different," Muliaina said.
"To have it in the changing rooms we still have the saying now that there's 32 Steinlagers that passform in the Bledisloe so you want to be drinking ou
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Rugby: Muliaina confident of being in the frame for selection
Fullback Mils Muliaina is confident he will be fit for selection next week for the first of the All Blacks' two tests against Wales, if he comes through Waikato club rugby tomorrow unscathed.
A member of the All Blacks' man squad, Muliaina will play for Te Rapa against Putaruru in Hamilton just hours before New Zealand kick off against Ireland in New Plymouth.
"I don't want to jinx myself, but I'm hoping to be available for next week," he said.
"Certainly the way I've trained this week and the way the leg is, I'm feeling very good now. It's just about trying to survive club rugby tomorrow and fingers crossed and touch wood that nothing else goes wrong."
Muliaina, 29, has 82 caps to his name but has had little rugby this year.
He was given an extended off-season and sat out the Chiefs' first three Super 14 matches, but then missed most of the rest of the competition with a broken thumb.
After a two-month
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Samoan New Zealanders
Ethnic group
Samoan New Zealanders are Samoan immigrants in New Zealand, their descendants, and New Zealanders of Samoan ethnic descent. They constitute one of New Zealand's most sizeable ethnic minorities. In the census, , New Zealanders identified themselves as being of Samoan ethnicity with 55, stating that they were born in Samoa, and stating that they were born in American Samoa.[1]
History
[edit]Overview
[edit]The country of Samoa (distinct from American Samoa) has a unique historical relationship with New Zealand, having been administered by New Zealand from to
Notable levels of Samoan migration to New Zealand began in the s. In the s, Samoan illegal immigrants were the targets of notorious "dawn raids" by the police, which led to accusations of ethnic bias in tackling illicit immigration. That same decade, some Samoan New Zealanders joined the newborn Polynesian Panthers, an organisation dedicated to supporting Pasifika New Zeal