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Mr Angry: All Black Grant Batty
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BACK in the day it became almost a cliché that All Blacks forwards were all rugged frontiersmen and farmers – world champion sheep shearers and woodchoppers – who worked up a thirst on their day off by knocking the bejus out of lily livered British and Irish Lions. Think Colin Meads, Brian Lochore, Keith Murdoch, Ian Kirkpatrick, Tane Norton and many others.
Now there was more than a grain of truth in some cases ȁ...

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