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It’s time to get back to shifting the piano

CHRIS HEWETT

Not long after helping the All Blacks to victory over the Lions in 1993, the formidable wing John Kirwan found himself on the wrong side of the New Zealand selectors, who omitted him from a Europe-bound tour party on the grounds of a declining strike rate.
“I’d score more often,” Kirwan is said to have muttered, sardonically, “if it wasn’t for that fat hooker pinching my tries.”
The hooker in question? He was referring to Sean Fitzpatrick, by most reckonings the finest No.2 ever to play the game and, many would argue, the best referee into the bargain. And yes, he was unusua...

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