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Chris Hewett: Time to speak with one voice

Back in the age when men were men and Willie John McBride was wearing the red shirt of the British and Irish Lions, the phrase “get your retaliation in first” – five words of survival advice, whispered in the private confines of the dressing room – was elevated into a public declaration of policy.
Full marks for honesty, nul points for subtlety.

Times have changed, to the extent that the New Zealanders, of all people, are more concerned with getting their excuses in first. According to Murray Mexted, who touched the heights as a footballing No.8 in the superior back row company of Mark “Co...

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