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Cape Town – For all the tinkering and, arguably, dilution that has occurred to Super Rugby over the years, it retains the pleasing characteristic – at least until its further expansion next year -- of no outcome being able to be taken for granted.
We were reminded of that again in the last round, when the Melbourne Rebels knocked over the high-riding Chiefs, and the enormously weakened Cheetahs did potentially serious damage to the complacent Stormers’ hopes of a favourable ordinary-season finish.
Both were triumphs of sheer, unwavering grit on the day by underdogs, and there could be more of those “Houdinis” ahead of the finals series phase from mid-June.
