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Never the twain shall meet

We can all agree on one thing about rugby: we do not like how the other lot play, PLUS: a quick and incomplete wrap of a big weekend.

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Inconceivably dramatic action shot from second semifinal. Getty Images

Oh, North is North, and South is South, and never the twain shall meet...

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, whose compass points I have bastardised for my own ends, there was something of The Ballad of North and South1 about the long weekend’s semifinals.

That Kipling was a noted Imperi…

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