Home streak

Yesterday NZ recorded their 36th consecutive home victory. They last lost at home to SA in 2009 (both tests including The House of Pain and lost the other match in SA).

I read that this was a record but can't seem to find any other nations' stats in this regard. I'd imagine SA have had a healthy consecutive home streak but the fact that consecutive Grand Slams in the 6N are rarer than hens' teeth means that any such record is unlikely there.

I'd be grateful if anybody could provide me with their respective nation's best home stretch.

This website is pretty useful.
http://www.rugbydata.com/

You can get all the results for any team and display up to 100 at once.
Should be easy to work out the best home streak with a scan.

If you don't include games against the Barbarians then England is 20 games.

Starting with Ireland in Feb 2000 and ending with France in Sep 2003

Nice one! Thanks for that. No surprise to me that was England's best sequence. 20 games over five seasons though seems not many games.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:Nice one! Thanks for that. No surprise to me that was England's best sequence. 20 games over five seasons though seems not many games.

It's only 4 seasons, with 2/3 6N's and 3 AI's a year plus a WC warm up game:

06-Sep-03 England 45 - 14 France
22-Mar-03 England 40 - 9 Scotland
09-Mar-03 England 40 - 5 Italy
15-Feb-03 England 25 - 17 France
23-Nov-02 England 53 - 3 South Africa
16-Nov-02 England 32 - 31 Australia
09-Nov-02 England 31 - 28 New Zealand
23-Mar-02 England 50 - 10 Wales
16-Feb-02 England 45 - 11 Ireland
24-Nov-01 England 29- 9 South Africa
17-Nov-01 England 134 - 0 Romania
10-Nov-01 England 21 - 15 Australia
07-Apr-01 England 48 - 19 France
03-Mar-01 England 43 - 3 Scotland
17-Feb-01 England 80 - 23 Italy
02-Dec-00 England 25 - 17 South Africa
25-Nov-00 England 19 - 0 Argentina
18-Nov-00 England 22 - 19 Australia
04-Mar-00 England 46 - 12 Wales
05-Feb-00 England 50 - 18 Ireland

The burning sense of shame.

Thanks again. An impressive run no doubt with a fair measure of healthy scores thrown in there.

Hardly considering they`ve lost 38 games in 111 years [NZ]at home v all comers

emack2 wrote:Hardly considering they`ve lost 38 games in 111 years [NZ]at home v all comers

It's only taken Wales the last 6 years to lose 38 games

That does include away games too though

Is it true that the ABs have only lost one of their past 42 tests? Really? What a bunch of w@nkers!

I guess it depends on how you consider drawing with Aus.

Lost 4 out of their last 66.

Those two draws against Australia hurt more than those 4 losses.