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IN CASE YOU WERE ASLEEP…

■ The Chiefs decided the Blues shouldn’t have to prop up Super Rugby all on their own and promptly went about losing their first four games.

■ One of those was against the Sunwolves.

■ At home.

■ And it wasn’t even close.

■ It led one poor columnist to declare quite hilariously – after three weeks – that the All Blacks’ World Cup bid was in trouble as a result of the Chiefs’ spectacularly bad start.

■ Apparently, according to this poor chap who obviously needed a cup of tea and a

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