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Playing the Ball
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Silver Lake lacks silver lining

OPINION: This whole NZ Rugby deal looks to me like the Emperor’s new clothes.

Martin Devlin Tue, 22 Feb 2022

“Transformational” is how chief executive Mark Robinson described the deal struck between New Zealand Rugby and Silver Lake. Defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “able to produce a big change or improvement in something”, Robinson clearly uses transformational to mean: ‘This is a

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