Nov
17
2008
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"New Zealand are clinical at exposing any weakness in the opposition ranks. Murphy's Law dictated that with no specialist second row cover on the bench Paul O'Connell of all people would suffer an injury. For some unknown reason he was left on the field despite the fact that his mobility was severely impaired. Defending out wide and slightly isolated, Joe Rokocoko seized the moment and ran at O'Connell. He had no chance and the net result was a try for Nonu."
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"Yeh I'd a couple of good tackles but then again I slipped off one or two as well, so I was disappointed with that," he added, "You just can't do that with these guys. We did fight very hard. I don't think it was a physical thing but a few things just went wrong for us."
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"Ireland's back three kicked nearly every ball that came their way, which conceded possession immediately and allowed another wave of attack to build"
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28
2008
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May
13
2007
Author: Margo Lanagan
ISBN: 0575077816 DDC: 823.914
A Once Upon A Time reading challenge read.
See also: Margo Lanagan’s blog ; LibraryThing ; Scooter Chronicles ; The Merchant Princes ; The Genre Files ; Emerald City ; Infinity Plus ;
We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight.
This was an impulse purchase; my reason being the cover. It grabbed my eye and passed my usual “read a random sentence or two” test. So I bought it. And I am glad to say that I loved it. It is a collection of short stories, many told in the first person, and as usual with short stories there are some I loved and some I thought were merely okay. None were bad though.
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