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Brendan Gallagher: In my book, you’re a beauty, Beauden Barrett

I nearly choked on my coffee the other morning when watching the All Blacks against South Africa at Eden Park.

Beauden Barrett

I nearly choked on my coffee the other morning when watching the All Blacks against South Africa at Eden Park.

Not once but twice Beauden Barrett, preparing to kick a penalty to touch, asked Karl Dickson for the mark, dug a heel in the mud to mark the spot and then walked BACK three or four paces to ensure he actually executed the kick legally, kicking the ball through the mark.
It’s the first time I can ever remember such honesty and adherence to regulations in Test history.
For decades the modus operandi has been to first stand on the mark, then wander absently mindedly two or three paces...

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