Straight Up

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Overall though really liked the sections on her growth in the game and LOVED the reflection at the end re. She is key player who said refused to let the old boys club tell her that women’s ruby doesn’t matter, that they would never win any tournaments, medal or world cups and especially she wasn’t not listening when they told her that women’s rugby wouldn’t sell out Eden Park. One thing tho - she once pretended she was okay when she had mumps and it became so bad she was hospitalised. She has such a positive outlook of life, her epencierencaes and how we should all treat people with kindness because we don’t know what they are going through behind closed doors or in their head. At the Singapore Sevens earlier this month, one of the competing team’s liaison officers came running up to Tui at the stadium, embracing her.

We never see or hear the filmmakers Christopher Pryor and Miriam Smith but the care of their subjects is obvious. My biggest takeaway from this book is loving people who are a little hard to love, and recognising that many people are doing the best with the tools they have been given. The least she can do, she says, is talk to the workers, and take some selfies with her Rugby World Cup medal.We can put on a World Cup that makes the rest of the world go 'whoa, New Zealand truly is the home of rugby'. I just disliked the fact my parents were going to stay together because of me and not change anything. In a sign of her enduring popularity, this month she launched her debut children’s book, Little Ruby and Friends. Men’s and women’s teams from each conference will qualify for the championship tournament, at Audi Field in Washington DC on 6 August. At one point during lunch, I put it to her that we’re now seeing the transformation of Ruby Tui, sportswoman, to Ruby Tui, businesswoman.

I think it’s being in tune with yourself, looking after your mental health, and asking yourself honest questions every day and not being afraid to do that.Ruby is known to most New Zealanders for her exuberant larger than life personality and huge talent. We shared so much of the World Cup with the country that it was really niggly trying to get a moment as a team after we won. And this is reflected throughout the book: there are conversations about love, about the ways the women had to change their own game and stand up to inequities in the system, about a huge shift in the team culture that led to their ultimate successes personally and on the field.

Hunter lives with her boyfriend, Nathan Smith, near Loughborough He is a coach at Doncaster Knights rugby club. No sooner has the camera switched on than she talks up the wonders of the Elon Musk Starlink satellite dish installed at her home to improve broadband connection (“It’s a full-on thing that moves on its own, it’s scary”) and avidly talks about enduring eight hours of pain for her Malu, a Samoan tattoo that she recently had inked onto her left thigh (Tui is half Samoan). Creating change through speaking out on public issues, and demonstrating motivation and gratitude to her peers, is how she would like to leave her mark.A clearly very intelligent, empathetic, determined young woman, Ruby’s story is absolutely in her own words and her personal voice. Grandad and his wife Sani helped me out sometimes when I got hungover, they would be rolling their eyes but they were real loving to me.

She’s spoken to some players who think they have given up too early; others perhaps held on for too long. I marked the pages that made me well up, that triggered my fight or flight response, that worked my heart up into my mouth, that made me want to punch the air in triumph, that tucked a nugget of wisdom into my sport-shy little heart. Her pathway to day has been rocky, its interesting reading about the complication of being 'not white enough, or not brown enough'. She just started bawling her eyes out and said, ‘I’ve just gone through the hardest time of my life and if it wasn’t for your book, I wouldn’t have got through it’.England had lost four previous finals to New Zealand and their hearts were broken once again as Ayesha Leti-I’iga’s try regained a three-point lead for the hosts with nine minutes remaining. While she’s had a nomadic existence around New Zealand, her roots are firmly, proudly, planted and shared in her Samoan heritage on Dad’s side, and in her mother’s palagi – European – side. I didn’t even know we were live on TV, I was just giving her – and then she started asking me questions.