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NEWSFLASH: All Black Squad Announced
Coming off the plane yesterday Rugby Union president Andy Dalton broke the news to Todd Blackadder. Canterbury's Captain Courageous was the new All Black captain. Ten more of his fellow Crusaders were in the squad announced yesterday.
FULL ALL BLACK SQUAD:
Backs: Leon McDonald,
Christian Cullen, Tana Umaga, Doug Howlett, Jonah Lomu, Mark
Robinson, Andrew Mehrtens, Tony Brown, Pita Alatini, Alama
Ieremia, Byron Kelleher and Justin Marshall.
Forwards:
Ron Cribb, Taine Randell, Scott Robinson, Josh Kronfeld,
Reuben Thorne, Todd Blackadder, Norm Maxwell, Troy Flavell,
Craig Dowd, Carl Hoeft, Kees Meeuws, Greg Sommerville, Anton
Oliver and Mark Hammett.
Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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