Call to cut the subs will cull land of the giants

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PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

The first substitution at Test level took place 50 years ago next summer and involved one all-time great replacing another – Mike Gibson for an injured Barry John. What began at Loftus Versfeld during the South Africa-Lions series of 1968 as a trickle has long since turned into a flood of biblical proportion. Nobody could have envisaged the devastation that would be unleashed by the human equivalent of a buffalo herd stampeding through every Test match.
The game had created a monster and the wreckage wrought on a weekly basis takes some cleari...

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