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Article: Test Rugby Lists
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- October 10, 1999
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By David Clarke, Ray Mason and Stephen Samuelson The Five Mile
Press, $29.95
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THIS is rugby couch potato season. And, hey, what just happens
along, but the ultimateCP's guide to footy.
Test Rugby Lists is no literary gem. As its name suggests, this
is one for the statsfreaks. But, let's face it, who among us has not
entered into some bar room discussionabout the merits of so and so
who scored this try or that and longed for a way toresolve it.
Well here it is. And courtesy of a trio of Australians to boot.
This book claims to offer a complete record of all international
rugby -- and throughoutits 456 pages it generally lives up to its
billing.
It's no read from cover to ...