Gisborne's Pirates face daunting challenge in premier club rugby heavyweights YMP
Poverty Bay co-captain Shayde Skudder is confronted by a wall of Ngati Porou East Coast sky blue in last weekend's King's Birthday derby at Ruatōria. Skudder will lead his Poverty Bay Premier side YMP into battle against Pirates on Saturday. Photo / Paul Rickard
Little beats big when little is smart – first with the head, then with the heart.
So said South African boxing coach Geel Piet to his young protege Peter Keith in Bryce Courtenay's novel The Power of One.
A nd well might Anthony Kiwara's Kevin Hollis Glass Tūranga Pirates weigh that
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