George Whitelock and Adam Whitelock of the Crusaders. Photo / Getty Images
The four Whitelock brothers played plenty of rugby on the family farm so it was appropriate the setting for their first game together since 2003 was a farm in the annual Super Rugby pre-season game at Mangatainoka.
The siblings helped the Crusaders beat the Hurricanes 19-8 in front of 8000
Hurricanes fans on a paddock converted into a rugby pitch. Sam, George, Luke and Adam grew up on a dairy farm about 30 minutes from Mangatainoka and attended Feilding Area High School.
"It was good to come back and get a bit of stick from the crowd and from friends and family," Sam said.
"It was cool to be out there with all of them (brothers). The game was going pretty quickly so I didn't really have a lot of time to look around see what they were doing but it was cool to have them out there as well."
The Crusaders deserved their win on the back of dominance in the set-pieces and scored tries to lock Ross Kennedy, wing Patrick Osbourne and replacement first five-eighths Tyler Bleyendaal. They led 12-3 at the break and maintained control even as both coaches rung the changes.
