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Friday 4 May 2012 | Published in Regional

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It’s been six months since the All Blacks won the 2011 Rugby World Cup and laid hands on the Webb Ellis Trophy, sending their many black-clad Cook Islander fans into fits of hysteria. But that feeling was coming back to the 300 or so people who gathered in town on Wednesday to catch a glimpse of rugby’s Holy Grail.