I just hope he wins Lotto. I thought I'd got one up on him when I was asked to be on the All Black coach selection committee, but then I heard he was on the netball coach panel. All through his rugby career Penn continued with his other passion of farming and he currently runs two farms, the one at Opaki and one at Mauriceville, which he bought from his oldest son Steve, who is on a farm in in the Urewera National Park. His other son Tim sells real estate in Wellington. He also trains the odd racehorse, but Penn feels it is time now to let his wife do things she has always wanted to do.
Life is very full.
In the past four years Father Christmas, aka Lane Penn, has arrived in a different mode of transport including a Harley-Davidson, a tractor and a police car. If they do, they could be in for a shock, because this genuine rugby gentleman might just do it.