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Griffin Neame: The Cowboy carrying the hopes of a former Kiwi league heartland

The three-hour trips along the winding, at times snow-flanked, roads carved through New Zealand’s Southern Alps tended to begin with Elvis Presley playing gently in the background, and gradually evolved to more obscure music from the late 1950s. While West Coast Rugby League development officer Paddy Byrne’s taste in music wasn’t popular with most of […]