Duffy Assembly | Jamie Wall

At this Duffy Assembly, we were introduced to Jamie Wall. Jamie is somebody who documents sports and writes about many different sport games and publishes them online to be read. Jamie is originally from wellington and works for Radio New Zealand, Stuff, Maori TV and News-hub.

Inspiration
At the age of 9, Jamie's father had bought 2 copies of the same book. The book was called 'Men in black'. It was a book about all and every all black's game which included the players, the scores, results and information like such. Jamie's father offered the extra book. Jamie took the book and started reading it. Once he had finished, he kept reading it over and over until he had memorised all the information.

Years later, Jamie heard that a job offering had come up which was to document sports games. Before they could accept him, they asked questions about what he knew. This is when the book came in handy. They answered questions and every single one he answered was correct. Thanks to the contents of the book 'Men in black', he has a job in which he watches from the best seat of sports games and writes about his point of view and the game.

This Inspiration led to Jamie becoming the author of a book called 'Brothers in black'. Brothers in black is a book about the brothers that play in the all blacks and the long brotherhood in NZ rugby. Originally published on 5th of August 2019.