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2019 Rugby World Cup: 'Shit-scared and star-struck' - How Kieran Read transformed the new breed of All Black stars

Gregor Paul
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Rugby analyst·NZ Herald·
15 mins to read


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There are many All Blacks who have found their opposition to be significantly less intimidating than their teammates.

Plenty, particularly in the distant past, discovered that the hardest part of being an All Black was surviving a hierarchical culture that was effectively institutionalised bullying on a scale that the author of 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days, Thomas Hughes, may have found fanciful.

Even tough men such as Richard Loe came into the team as nobodies, with no rights and

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