New All Blacks selectors
February 19, 2002

The New Zealand Rugby Football Union has announced that former All Blacks Kieran Crowley and Mark Shaw will join coach John Mitchell on the team's selection panel.

The trio will choose New Zealand's teams while assistant Robbie Deans will have no such influence because he is also coach of the Canterbury Crusaders in the Super 12 competition.

Shaw played 63 matches for his country including 30 Tests for the All Blacks as a blindside flanker from 1980 to 1986, and coach Hawke's Bay in the second division last year before quitting when the team missed promotion to the top division.

He was also the assistant to John Boe at the under-19 World Cup in 1999, won by New Zealand.

Crowley played 35 games and 19 Tests for the All Blacks at fullback from 1983 to 1991 and was assistant coach to Colin Cooper at Taranaki last season, while also being an unsuccessful bidder for the post of Hurricanes assistant for this year's Super 12.

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