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Listen: Highlanders Joe Wheeler and Greg Pleasants-Tate explain the 'Scarecrow Dab'

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The Country: Highlanders Joe Wheeler and Greg Pleasants-Tate talk Scarecrows and Super rugby with Dom George.

It's time for a Super Rugby catch up with Highlanders Joe Wheeler and Greg Pleasants-Tate, but more importantly - what was with the "Scarecrow Dab" from last week's game against the Rebels?

Pleasants-Tate is the mastermind behind the Scarecrow Dab and performed it after scoring his first try in Super Rugby. Greg's reason for creating this signature move was because the original dab was "getting too mainstream".

Pleasants-Tate says the embellished dab was an in-joke between himself, Wheeler and Ben Smith and that he chose the term "Scarecrow" because the Highlanders are "outstanding in their field".

Other topics in this hard-hitting interview include, what Pleasants-Tate thinks of Dunedin, Greg's general lack of verbosity, how Joey and Greg resemble an "ugly boy-band" and something about some competition called Super Rugby.

Have a listen to the full interview with The Country's Dom George in the audio clip above.

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