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Mitchell Drummond​
long standing member of the
Canterbury rugby team & the Crusaders
Mitchell David Drummond During his school years, he represented his province at both rugby and cricket before focusing solely on rugby after graduation.
Drummond made the New Zealand Barbarians secondary schools team in 2012 and was also a member of the New Zealand Under-20 team which finished 3rd in the 2014 IRB Junior World Championship scoring 2 tries in 4 matches during the tournament.
Drummond was first named in Canterbury's 2013 ITM Cup squad then 19 year old. As a 21 year old Drummond went on to play all 12 of Canterbury's games during their 2015 title winning season.
He has played over 100 games for Canterbury and 150 for the Crusaders.
In 2015, Drummond played 15 times, including 7 starts and scoring 2 tries. In 2016 Drummond as a half back, scored an impressive 4 tries in 13 games of which he started in 5 games as the Crusaders reached the competition's quarter finals before losing 42-25 to the Lions in Johannesburg.
Drummond travelled to the Northern Hemisphere for the 2018 end-of-year tour. As a member of the wider training squad, Drummond remained in Japan after the first choice team travelled to Europe. He played his first test for New Zealand during the wider training squad's time in Japan.
arren Shand the highly regarded member of the All Blacks Management group has enjoyed a long career spanning four Rugby W
Friday 31st October 2025
Show Gate Lounge
Riccarton Park RSVP by 17th October 2025
Note: Ensure your guests are aware of the dress code "tie and jacket'
A $15.00 additional payment will apply for luncheon payments not received within 2 days of the date of each luncheon.
Our last Event
Darren Shand was undoubtedly one of the best speakers to speak at a Lancaster Club Luncheon. He can rightfully be proud that over 20 years, 360 matches are due to his management.
Enthusiasm and pride in having your own haka. Something you work for comes down to a single moment practice, practice. Very rarely does a game follow the game plan
Tools of a captain is to lead and be a capable leader of other players, when a team stands together everyone achieves more. It’s about having something everyone buys into.
Understand People Crucially, don’t talk at them, communicate and understand the differences in a multi-cultural team. Some players value a family room sleeping environment. It’s part of their culture. Others prefer their own space.
Getting players to contribute at team meetings became a problem until it was understood that once the captain speaks the meeting is over. So, to get participation we changed the meeting format to the captain hearing what others had to say and then he would speak last.
Control what you can control. When playing South Africa during the line outs their players would speak in Africaans so to know what they were saying team members learnt to speak Africans. Imagine their shock when Sam Whitelock starts yelling in Africaans during a line out.
An excellent speaker.
Darren Shand