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Aisle be Back: The Rugby World Cup Week 2

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By Kevin McCarthy  Never open the biggest present first at Christmas. Good rule that but they broke it in the Rugby World Cup. Or at least as far as the All Blacks are concerned. So, with the first business in hand comfortably dealt with, and the Boks defeated, the All Blacks

Short Passes 23 September

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Above. The Wellington U16As after their 67-5 win over their Wairarapa Bush counterparts on Saturday. PHOTO by Andy McArthur. Full gallery of these photos here  Updated: The Rugby World Cup and climate change are the two issues dominating New Zealand at the moment. Closer to home and back in reality, there

Aisle be Back: The RWC starting – let’s go

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Above: The All Blacks in training in Japan. PHOTO credit: NZRU media release/Getty Images. By Kevin McCarthy Can someone please just kick off.Like me you’ve probably had enough of watching the build-up to the Rugby World Cup. It’s only then we will begin to sketch in a few realities and answer a

Aisle be Back: Rugby World Cup predictions

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By Kevin McCarthy Time to make predictions! Utterly useless predictions most likely, but everyone does it and it wouldn’t seem fair not to join in the fun. Are they pointless? Well no obviously not, but you can guarantee that while some assumptions will prevail, others will be ruthlessly overturned by the

Aisle be Back: Remembering past Rugby World Cups

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By Kevin McCarthy Anyone else out there remember parts of their life by what or where they were when a rugby world cup happened? There’s been eight so far. Since honestly nothing much is happening, while we wait for the last pre-cup hit outs, and for SBW to be injury hit