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The Ground We Won
Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2015
...a visually ravishing record (in black and white, which lends the film a timeless, even mythic quality) of a very Kiwi slice of life that mixes the poetic with the prosaic, the everyday with the quasi-mythological...– Peter Calder in The NZ Herald, 11 April 2015
I think I'm going to hang my boots up after this season. I said that a couple of seasons ago and I'm still here aye. So, we'll see.– One of the players
There's not many other sports you can go out and battle someone, tackle them, ruck them, and then afterwards you have a beer with them and you're all mates.– One of the players
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