Kevin Grant Boroevich

Surname:

Boroevich

First names:

Kevin Grant

All Black Player No:

838

All Black games played:

All Black years:

1983 - 1988

Clubs:

Waitete
College OB, Upper Hutt
Silverdale, Takapuna

Provincial teams:

King Country 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985
Wellington 1986, 1987
North Harbour 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
NZ Colts 1978, 1979
NZ Juniors 1980
NZ XV 1993
NZ Maori 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1993

Provincial captain:

King Country 1984, 1985
Wellington 1986, 1987
Centurions 1987
Nthn Zone Maori 1993

Country captain:

NZ Maori 1986
NZ XV 1993

Biography:

1978: Prop - 11 games
1978: NZ Colts Trial: Prop - 1 game
1978: NZ Colts: Prop - 5 games
1979: Prop (9), Lock (1) - 10 games
1979: NZ Colts Trial: Prop - 1 game
1979: NZ Colts: Prop - 2 games
1979: Wasps: Prop - 1 game
1979: Harlequins: Prop - 1 game
1980: Prop (7), Lock (1) - 8 games - 1 try (4 pts)
1980: NZ Maori: Prop - 2 games
1980: Prince of Wales Cup: Prop - 1 game
1980: NZ Juniors Trial: Prop - 1 game
1980: NZ Juniors: Prop [4], Lock [1] - 5 games
1980: Congress XV: Prop - 1 game
1981: Prop - 13 games
1981: Prince of Wales Cup: Prop - 1 game
1981: Barbarians: Prop - 1 game
1981: NZ Maori Invitation XV: Prop - 1 game
1982: Prop - 11 games - 1 try (4 pts)
1982: NZ Maori: Prop [3], Lock [1], No 8 [1] - 5 games
1983: AB's: Prop - 3 tour games
1983: Prop [6], Lock [2] - 8 games - 1 try (4 pts)
1983: NZ Probables: Prop - 1 game
1983: Nth Island: Prop - 1 game
1983: Ak Centenary VP XV: Prop - 1 game
1983: Prince of Wales Cup: Prop - 1 game
1983: NZ Maori: Prop - 2 games
1983: Wasps: Prop - 1 game
1983: Harlequins: Prop - 1 game
1984: AB's: Prop [9], Lock [1] - 10 tour games
1984: Prop [6], Lock [2] - 8 games - 2 tries (8 pts)
1984: Possibles: Prop - 1 game
1984: Barbarians: Prop - 3 games - 1 try (4 pts)
1985: Prop - 14 games - 3 tries (12 pts)
1985: NZ Maori: Prop - 1 game
1985: Barbarians: Prop - 3 games
1986: AB's: Prop - 2 tests, 4 tour games: No 8 - 1 test
1986: Prop - 16 games - 3 tries (12 pts)
1986: Nth island: Prop - 1 game - 1 try (4 pts)
1986: Prince of Wales Cup: Prop - 1 game
1986: NZ Maori: Prop [2], Lock [1] - 3 games
1986: Manawatu Centennila XV: Prop - 1 game
1987: Prop - 15 games - 3 tries (12 pts)
1987: Central Zone: Prop - 2 games
1987: Centurions: Prop - 1 game
1988: AB's: Prop - 6 tour games
1988: Lock - 1 game
1988: Nth Zone: Prop - 1 game
1988: Possibles: Prop - 1 game
1989: Prop - 11 games
1989: Prince of Wales Cup: Prop - 1 game
1989: NZ Maori: Prop - 1 game
1990: Prop - 4 games
1991: Prop - 3 games
1993: Prop - 3 games - 1 try (5 pts)
1993: Possibles: 2nd game: Prop - 1 game
1993: NZ XV: Prop - 2 games - 1 try (5 pts)
1993: Prince of Wales Cup: Prop - 1 game
1993: NZ Maori: Prop - 1 game
1995: Prop - 7 games

Sub Total: AB's: 3 tests, 23 tour games:
NZ Maori: 15 games:
Prov: KC: 83 games (32 pts): NH: 29 games (5 pts): We: 31 games (24 pts):
Others: 48 games (13 pts)

Total: 232 games (74 pts)

Born: 4 Oct 1960

Endorsement

When the battle scars have faded
And the truth becomes a lie
And the weekend smell of liniment
Could almost make you cry.
When the last rucks well behind you
And the man that ran now walks
It doesn’t matter who you are
The mirror sometimes talks
Have a good hard look old son!
The melons not that great
The snoz that takes a sharp turn sideways
Used to be dead straight
You’re an advert for arthritis
You’re a thoroughbred gone lame
Then you ask yourself the question
Why the hell you played the game?
Was there logic in the head knocks?
In the corks and in the cuts?
Did common sense get pushed aside?
By manliness and guts?
Do you sometimes sit and wonder
Why your time would often pass
In a tangled mess of bodies
With your head up someone’s......?
With a thumb hooked up your nostril
Scratching gently on your brain
And an overgrown Neanderthal
Rejoicing in your pain!
Mate – you must recall the jersey
That was shredded into rags
Then the soothing sting of Dettol
On a back engraved with tags!
It’s almost worth admitting
Though with some degree of shame
That your wife was right in asking
Why the hell you played the game?
Why you’d always rock home legless
Like a cow on roller skates
After drinking at the clubhouse
With your low down drunken mates
Then you’d wake up – check your wallet
Not a solitary coin
Drink Berocca by the bucket
Throw an ice pack on your groin
Copping Sunday morning sermons
About boozers being losers
While you limped like Quasimodo
With a half a thousand bruises!
Yes – an urge to hug the porcelain
And curse Sambuca’s name
Would always pose the question
Why the hell you played the game!
And yet with every wound re-opened
As you grimly reminisce it
Comes the most compelling feeling yet
God, you bloody miss it!
From the first time that you laced a boot
And tightened every stud
That virus known as rugby
Has been living in your blood
When you dreamt it when you played it
All the rest took second fiddle
Now you’re standing on the sideline
But your hearts still in the middle
And no matter where you travel
You can take it as expected
There will always be a breed of people
Hopelessly infected
If there’s a teammate, then you’ll find him
Like a gravitating force
With a common understanding
And a beer or three, of course
And as you stand there telling lies
Like it was yesterday old friend
You’ll know that if you had the chance
You’d do it all again
You see – that’s the thing with rugby
It will always be the same
And that, I guarantee
Is why the hell you played the game!

By Rupert McCall

Credit: Sutton & Epsom Bs

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