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Rugby In The Mud

Conditions could hardly have been worse when Nelson College and Hutt Valley High Schools' First Fifteens took the field at Broads last month. The field, already sodden, became more waterlogged as the game and the rain progressed, and by half-time the term "muddied oafs" certainly applied to most of the 30 players. For all that, there were many exciting passages and some good rugby, The result, a draw 8-all, was a very fair one.

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A lineout in the rain

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It was mostly a case of kick and chase

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A Hutt player clears

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A fend did not stop this tackle

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Good jumping in the lineout

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Nelson clears near its own goal-line

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Grim determination not to yield the ball as this ruck develops