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Solid units: watching them play is more fun than catching a plane with the Crusaders. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Plane scrum The Crusader squad has clearly bulked up before this weekend’s much anticipated Super Rugby final against the Blues at Eden Park. So much so, that the Air New Zealand crew were forced to shuffle the team and other passengers around for their 3pm flight from Christchurch on Thursday. That ‘rebalancing’ started with kicking off a female passenger from row 28. That was despite her protests that she’d been dieting and “wasn’t that heavy”. Amazingly, she eventually complied,...

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