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Sporting ad wouldn’t be allowed these days

OPINION: Lessons for Super Rugby from the iconic Rugby League advertising campaign starring the late Tina Turner.

NBR columnist Martin Devlin speaks with Hamish McNicol.

Martin Devlin Tue, 06 Jun 2023

What you get is what you see – but not these days, NO WAY.

That classic, brilliant NRL (then NSWRL) promotion for the 1989 Winfield Cup comp was back in the news recently following the death at 83 of R’n’R icon Tina Turner. Thirty four years ago the great grandmama of pop music was the star in

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Martin Devlin Tue, 06 Jun 2023
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