Rua Tipoki
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Te Rua Reihana Tipoki (born 11 August 1975 in Te Puia Springs, New Zealand) is a rugby union player who has played for North Harbour in the Air New Zealand Cup and for the Auckland Blues in the Super 14. He plays for Glenfield in the North Harbour premier competition. His position is inside centre. Tipoki is holds the unique honour of skippering two different Air New Zealand Cup provinces to Ranfurly Shield victories, Bay of Plenty in 2004, and North Harbour in 2006.
He has signed to play for the Canterbury Crusaders in the 2007 Super 14 but is expected to be loaned back to North Harbour during the 2007 Air New Zealand Cup.
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Also played for the Otago Highlanders New Zealand 7s 1997 New Zealand Maori team who defeated the British Isles team for the first time ever in the history of Maori rugby 2004 Has played for his home Union East Coast Had Rua not had his Maori warior instincts he may have certainly made the All Back team at some stage
