The Ground We Won

...a visually ravishing record (in black and white, which lends the film a timeless, even mythic quality) of a very Kiwi slice of life that mixes the poetic with the prosaic, the everyday with the quasi-mythological...

– Peter Calder in The NZ Herald, 11 April 2015

I think I'm going to hang my boots up after this season. I said that a couple of seasons ago and I'm still here aye. So, we'll see.

– One of the players

There's not many other sports you can go out and battle someone, tackle them, ruck them, and then afterwards you have a beer with them and you're all mates.

– One of the players

Leave your heart out there on the field, aye? Leave everything out there, aye!

– A rugby player hyping up his team mates, pre game

You want to play video games? Well whose going to make the video games if there's no rules? Whose going to turn up to make the video games, if there's no rules?

– A dad trying to convince his son to go to school, not stay at home and play video games