Moz's famous young Springbok side.

15 To be decided

14 Ditto

13 Ditto

12 Serfontein

11 To be decided

10 Morne

9   To be decided

1   Ditto  

2   Ditto

3   Ditto

4   Etzebeth

5   Stephanie  

6   To be decided 

7   Ditto

8   Arnold

Young - the ditto sextuplets have been borne 43 years ago  - and Morne is 29 - 30 next year.   Arnold probably refers to Schwarzennegar - he has been to SA a number of times - and has some connections here.

Mozart has a weird idea about age of player anything Under 30 is young and the over 30's are experienced and hence compulsory selections.

Sorry duplication

Just_win

It would really have bothered me if the response  came up six times.   

Whitelock set record for three All Black brothers

Canterbury's three new All Blacks all have special claims to fame.

The Whitelock family will be the first to field three All Black brothers when loose forward Luke takes the field on the Northern Hemisphere tour.

Loosehead prop Joe Moody is poised to becomes a double international after representing New Zealand at wrestling and towering lock Dominic Bird will be the tallest All Black yet at 2.06m (6ft 9in).

Whitelock still has to sit a university commerce exam on Thursday and Bird may have to postpone his Lincoln University environmental management exams next week because he "might be in Japan" with the All Blacks.

The tyro trio, who will play in Canterbury's sixth successive national provincial final on Saturday, gathered at Rugby Park yesterday afternoon to reflect on their selection for the All Blacks' four-match end-of-season tour.

Whitelock, 22, wasn't aware of the history behind sibling selection but was "very stoked" to hear it. Forty-two pairs of brothers have represented the All Blacks, but no family has had three All Black sons appear at test level before.

He will tour with older brother, Sam, 25, who won his 48th cap against Australia on Saturday night. Oldest brother George, 27, played one test in 2009.

The Whitelocks hail from Feilding, in the Manawatu, and Luke said, like all Kiwi kids, they were "always re-enacting" All Blacks' scenarios at play on the family farm. "Things like, 'this is the drop goal to win the World Cup final'."

"I guess it's always been a dream growing up."

Whitelock, who can play blindside flanker and No 8, has been in the All Blacks training squad all year. He said the coaches gave him "feedback to go and work on around being more physical and getting my hands on the ball a bit more".

He learned he was an All Black "at university [yesterday] in the library", while cramming for a commerce exam.

"I started to get some texts, then an aunty rang me and my grandparents, and it started to hit then. Mum and Dad [Braeden and Caroline] were flying back from the test in Dunedin , so they got in touch when they landed."

Brothers Sam and George also lobbed in texts to congratulate the third member of the family's select club. Mum, Caroline, is used to having All Blacks in the family - her dad, Nelson Dalzell, was an All Black lock in 1953-54.

But there's no chance of Luke Whitelock getting too distracted by his new-found rugby status.

He's got his exam on Thursday - "and then will just have one summer course paper to go" to complete his degree - and there's also the NPC final in Wellington on Saturday night.

"They played very well on Friday night [to beat Counties Manukau], so we've got a huge task there".

Moody, 25, was a New Zealand senior wrestling representative in the under-96kg division at the Oceania Championships in 2006 and 2007, winning the senior title twice.

"I've put on a few kilos since then, I'm sitting around 118kg at the moment."

The top weight class in wrestling is 120kg.

"If I get too much heavier I won't be able to go back," Moody quipped.

He returned from the world junior wrestling championships in China and decided "to start getting serious" with rugby. Now, he has no regrets. "It's obviously all worked out for me really well."

His sister texted him around midday yesterday to say "congratulations". "I wasn't sure if she was a bit late on the congratulations for the win [over Auckland on Saturday] or what was going on. But it was followed up by another couple of texts from friends, so I got the gist of it then and there."

"This is a really proud moment for both me and my family," said Moody, who hails "out Woodend-Kaiapoi way" in North Canterbury.

"I've been out home today to see Mum and Dad, my nana and my sisters are all really proud of me."

Bird isn't getting too carried away with his new-found fame as the tallest All Black. At 2.06m, he's 1cm taller than the previous titleholder, 1990s lock Mark Cooksley.

But his height resulted in a quip from Canterbury coach Scott Robertson, who was impressed by Bird's impact off the bench against Auckland on Saturday in his first game since pectoral muscle surgery in June.

Robertson reckoned big Bird had "gone from Sesame St to AMI [Stadium]" and hailed his hit on an Auckland forward that led to a turnover.

"I'll have to give him one, eh," Bird chuckled yesterday.

The 22-year-old got a phone call from his father John, a former Hawke's Bay representative, to tell him he was now an All Black.

"He was stoked; he'd been listening on the radio. I was just trying to keep relaxed and go about the day."

Bird grew up in Waipukurau in central Hawke's Bay and said he "always wanted to be an All Black" from the time he first played in bare feet on muddy fields.

"I always loved my footy but it wasn't till high school that I started to gather control of these long limbs. I'm really loving it now."

12 Serfontein

10 Morne

4   Etzebeth

5   Stephanie  

8   Arnold (Although your explanation almost convinced me)

It is hard to argue with your other selection although some might, lol