Strong runner: Vaughan Going playing for Sale Sharks
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SUPER Sid Going did us proud as a family, all right, he and his brothers Ken and Brian really put us on the map. Sid was my uncle and his kids have now got grandad’s dairy farm in the Bay of Islands, the area where Captain Cook sailed in. As you can probably imagine, a rugby ball was always being thrown about and I started playing for the famous Mid-Northern club, from the small town of Hukerenui, to the north of Whangarei, while I was still at school. Sid and Ken were two of the five All Blacks that the club has produced but I ended up playing 34 games for Hong Kong!