Grant Batty


Grant Bernard Batty is a former rugby union footballer. A diminutive but effective wing for the All Blacks, Batty played domestically for Wellington and Bay of Plenty. After retiring, he coached Yamaha Jubilo, a team in Japan's Top League.
Batty won the New Zealand Superstars competition three years running, 1977–1979.
“Grant Batty” a biography by Bob Howitt was published in 1977 buy Rugby Press Limited. This states Grant played 142 first class matches and scored 109 tries. He stated his 3 favourite tries out of the 45 he scored for New Zealand to be:
likened Batty to Robert Muldoon, 'small, stunted and radiating a single message to all around him: "Don't mess with me or I'll punch your lights out."'