“ALL PIFFLE”
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TROUBLE WITH ALL BLACKS. A MEMBER’S DENIAL. MAIN LESSON OF TOUR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 9. Auckland’s five members of the All Black team returned by the Marama to-day, and were welcomed by Rugby Union officials. Asked the question “What’s all this trouble about Brownlie?” ope of the team replied: “It’s all piffle. I don’t know how anyone could suggest that there was any funny business with Maurice. Every tiling went smoothly from start to finish. This story of two camps was all rot. All the team pulled well together, and the only times arguments took place were at team talks, when the tactics were threshed out, but that was what the team talks were for.” Lucas expressed the opinion that the New Zealanders should stick to their own rules, but he certainly thought we would have to start serious' scrummaging. That was the biggest lesson the team had learned from the Springboks.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 October 1928, Page 9
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