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That tour was scrapped. A rebel tour was
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put together the next year because
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there's a lot of us who felt unjustly
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denied. They were thinking by going to
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play in South Africa, we were condoning
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a part. I can't think of anyone. There
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wouldn't have been in our team, but we
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just wanted to play sport against our
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foes. We didn't want to be pawns in a
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bigger game, right? Cuz I genuinely
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thought I may never get the chance to
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play against the spring box as an All
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Black, but I want to play them. We knew
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that we were likely to be banned, the
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risks involved, but for me, I just
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wanted to test myself as a rugby player
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and against the great foes who I'd
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watched growing up who we could never
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beat in their backyard because um a
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number of us were banned. You got like a
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two two test band. So, a whole new team
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had to be picked. So, a whole lot of
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players got exposed to all black test
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rugby who wouldn't have got an
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opportunity otherwise. Wasn't the
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reason, but they were the seeds of
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success.