For sure when I was growing up every boy played rugby and wanted to play for the All blacks our national team so some of us trained hard
I did get selected for the NZ under 16 team when I was 14 but then had a injury that put me out of sport for a year and never got back into at the level I was before
I remember watching Romania play in the World Cup on tv a couple of times and they played pretty well
You were in the NZ under 16 national team! Impressive, I think how much training you did as a youngster and of course, you were very physically fit!
Were being the keyword, far from fit these days
and strictly speaking no I wasn't in the under 16 Team, the Injury was before the first training camp and games and I never recovered enough to play in the team