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The 1984 New Zealand rugby league season was the 77th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. The main feature of the year was the Interdistricts Series competition that was run by the New Zealand Rugby League. Auckland won the series, defeating the other three inter-district teams. ==International competitions== The Great Britain side toured New Zealand in July. They opened the tour by defeating Northern Districts, who featured Russell Stewart before losing the first Test match against the New Zealand Kiwis 0-12. They then defeated the New Zealand Māori side 19-8 and Central Districts, who included Sam Stewart, 38-6 before losing the second Test match, and the series, 12-28. They defeated the South Island 36-14 before losing the third and final Test match 16-32. The South Island side included Glen Gibb, Robin Alfeld, Marty Crequer, David Field, Wayne Dwyer, Wayne Wallace, Ross Taylor, Barry Edkins and Adrian Shelford.〔Coffey, John. ''Canterbury XIII'', Christchurch, 1987.〕 The tour finished with a match against Auckland, which they lost 16-18 in front of 7,000 fans at Carlaw Park.〔''1984 Autex Rugby League Annual'', New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1984. p.p.18-31〕 Auckland were coached by Bob Bailey and included; Darrell Williams, Cedric Lovett, Dean Bell, captain Ron O'Regan, Joe Ropati, Shane Cooper, Clayton Friend, Kevin Tamati, Lindsay Hooker, Ricky Cowan, John Ackland, Steve Howells and Owen Wright. Bench: Afi Ah Kuoi and John Zwart.〔Coffey, John and Bernie Wood ''Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009'', 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.〕 Before the tour a Kiwis trial match was held with the sides being coached by Mike McClennan and John O'Sullivan.〔 The Kiwis were coached by Graham Lowe and for all three tests the side was: Gary Kemble, Dane O'Hara, James Leuluai, Fred Ah Kuoi, Dean Bell, Olsen Filipaina, Shane Varley, Kevin Tamati, Howard Tamati, Dane Sorensen, Owen Wright, Kurt Sorensen, Hugh McGahan. Bench: Clayton Friend and Riki Cowan. In June, before the Great Britain tour, a home based New Zealand side lost to Queensland 18-14 in Brisbane. The side for the Brisbane match was: Nick Wright, Joe Ropati, Dean Bell, Ron O'Regan, Marty Crequer, David Field, Clayton Friend, Riki Cowan, Wayne Wallace, Vern Wilson, Owen Wright, Russell Tuuta, Hugh McGahan. Bench: Robin Alfeld and Chappie Pine. A Queensland Country side had earlier toured the country in May–June, the side defeated the South Island and Northern Districts but lost to Auckland 2-28. Auckland had earlier lost a Panasonic Cup match 18-25 to Queensland Country to be eliminated from the tournament. A New Zealand Universities side toured Great Britain and France, defeating English University Students 24-4 but losing to French Universities 8-0.〔 During the season a match between Europe and Oceania was held in France to celebrate the French Rugby League's 50th year. Graham Lowe was appointed the Oceania coach with Robin Alfeld, Dean Bell, Howie Tamati, Kevin Tamati, Mark Graham, Shane Varley and Hugh McGahan all invited to play in the side.〔''1984 Autex Rugby League Annual'', New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1984. p.p.61〕 Kevin Tamati won the New Zealand Rugby League's Player of the Year award.〔''1984 Autex Rugby League Annual'', New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1984. p.6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1984 New Zealand rugby league season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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