Scrap the TMO? The law that must change to save rugby
Rugby is in crisis but these changes would go a long way to keeping its appeal.
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Paul Lewis: Well done to South Africa, the best at not playing rugby
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Minister Grant Robertson had been representing the Government at the final in Paris.
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