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Nude Blacks organiser Ralph Davies, of Bottom Bus, said the team’s next game was likely to be about the time of Dunedin’s opening Rugby World Cup match, between England and Argentina on September 10.
Tourism Dunedin chief executive Hamish Saxton said nude rugby added to the city’s “quirky” reputation. Stories such as lesbian albatrosses, Baldwin St (the world’s steepest street) and a recent report on the cheese roll had captured interest overseas.
The lede of the Western Australian’s story about yesterday’s 8th annual nude rugby tournament match between the Nude Blacks and a Fijian International side states, “Ball skills and a lot of tackle were the order of the day as New Zealand clashed with Fiji in a game of nude rugby in Dunedin.”
The nude rugby team will play their next match in 2017, when the Lions take on the Highlanders, and the All Blacks play Australia at Dunedin’s rooftop stadium.
A member of the Nude Blacks attacks during the rugby match between the Nude Blacks and a Fijian Invitational side at Logan Park in Dunedin yesterday. Photo by Gregor Richardson.
