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Tue 03 Mar 2009Case for freshening things up is strong
ON RUGBY:“History has also shown us that Kidney tends not to change a winning team. But that has usually been in the context of a Heineken Cup, where matches come first in blocks of two and then individually in the knock-out phase.
IRELAND DON’T tend to beat France and England in the same year, but history has shown us that when they do invariably one of our Celtic brethren succeed in dampening any thoughts of a clean sweep. The last time Ireland beat the supposed big two in the same campaign, in 2001, was a classic case in point when Scotland won the foot-and-mouth rearranged fixture in Murrayfield in the third week of September.
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