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Call to cut the subs will cull land of the giants

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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