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Tuipulotu taking the long road to Scotland

THE All Blacks will perish the thought that their pioneering exploits extend beyond strictly come war dancing, amateur lineout theatricals (Andy Haden & Frank Oliver, Cardiff, 1978) and fashionable headwear for goalkickers (William Wallace in a trilby, 1905).
On that same tour, they also pioneered something else, appointing a captain born about as far from New Zealand as he could possibly get. Dave Gallaher, born on a faraway Donegal shore in Ramelton, led The Invincibles on a romp round Britain which has had the natives playing catch-up ever since apart from a few weeks in 1971 w...

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