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Sleeping giants? We’re wide awake

Captain: Blane Scully

THE Yanks are coming! That is the message being broadcast from the USA camp ahead of their clash with England on Thursday in Kobe.
The party line in the American camp is that they have had enough of the sleeping giant label that has been attached to them since they participated in the first World Cup in 1987.
Full-back Will Hooley said the 13th-ranked team in the world wanted to shake off the Tier 2 tag. He described the sleeping giant description “as making us cringe a little bit”, and says it no longer applies because the game in the United States is o...

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