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A rugby-heavy Week That Was and the #Wahs are ruined in The Weekend That Will Be

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Dylan Cleaver
Aug 25, 2023
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Former Feilding HS halfback Aaron Smith did not get the memo about never covering up the sponsor’s name. Getty Images/ Henry Nicholls (not that one)

With every passing international the sheer imbalance of the Rugby World Cup - just 14 days away! - becomes impossible to ignore and more and more improbable.

As an extremely basic thought exercise I took the …

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