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The record amount of years that the Bledisloe Cup was held by New Zealand between 1951 and 1978.

5,670

The total number of points scored in the 2007/08 Guinness Premiership season. Leicester Tigers fly-half Andy Goode topped the shots with 207 points with his teammate Tom Varndell heading the list of top try scorers, going over 14 times.

The number of Grand Slam TriNations winners since its introduction in 1996.

New Zealand can lay claim to three of those in 1996, 1997 and 2003. South Africa interrupted the All-Blacks dominance in the late nineties beating all that went before them in 1998, making it an astonishing sequence of three undefeated champions in the first three years.