Wry twist
NZPA staff correspondent
Dunedin he captain of the British Lions, Ciaran Fitzgerald, kept his sense of humour, if not a winning smile, after Saturday’s 8-15 loss which sent the Lions to a three-nii series defeat. Fitzgerald, speaking at the after-match function, recalled the first words the manager, Willie John Mcßride, had had for the touring team when it assembled in a London hotel almost eight weeks ago. “Willie John called us together and the first thing he said to us was: ‘Lads, New Zealand is a country of hot springs, boiling mud, strange geysers and volcanic eruptions’.” “Well,” Fitzgerald quipped, “we’ve certainly met some strange geezers in New Zealand, the mud at Carisbrook wasn’t exactly boiling but it certainly took the hot springs out of our feet and as for eruptions ... I think the weather just about put paid to any chance of that/’
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Press, 4 July 1983, Page 21
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