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For 20 minutes at Murrayfield last weekend, not much was going right for Damien McKenzie.
Standing 5ft 8in and 12 stone, with blond hair and a fresh face, the 30-year-old looks out of place among the masses of wind blowing anywhere else on the pitch.
Initially, after coming off the bench in the 44th minute against Scotland, he felt it too.
“Kyle Stein had just scored for them when I walked in,” he said.
“We started, they had a kick from the box in the ninth minute, so I went up to catch it and I couldn’t make it. I hit my head too.
“The blood started flowing. We were defending most of the time. We got stuffed, I kicked it out, but I didn’t cover many metres.
“Then I fouled the tackle on Darcy Graham, and fortunately Cam Roegaard saved the effort in the corner, but I cut my chin. That started bleeding and I thought, here we go, it’s going to be a long last 15 minutes.”
It was a crucial 15 minutes too.
The score at that stage was 17-17. The All Blacks were a man down due to Wallace City’s yellow card. Scotland was inhaling history.
In 120 years of trying, the first victory over New Zealand was by one point and a quarter of an hour.
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