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Like the assassins that they are, the Australian rugby league team whispered their way into the final, breathing silent, cold and ruthless words to their victims along the way.
New Zealand, playing concubine to their Mistress of (Mis)fortune, cried out in joy to make the final after Lady Luck connived to send England out of the tournament. After razzling and dazzling their way over their earlier victims, league’s court jesters were back on the grand stage.
So this was the 2013 Rugby League World Cup final, the assassins up against the court jesters. The old king versus the new.
Would this be part of some divine plan by Lady Luck? Had she made a deal with her favourite assassins as part of some courtly intrigue that required the courter jesters to be silenced once and for all?
New Zealand were woeful in the final. Australia were superb. One can only conclude that Lady Luck had conspired to teach the Kiwis a lesson.
Dropping the ball on their first set of the match, the New Zealand side did well to match the Australians for the opening exchanges.
Their much vaunted forward pack, however, failed to click into any kind of rhythm and step by tortured step, the jesters ran afoul to Lady Luck’s most recently favoured servants.
One by one, the Kiwis were being assassinated. The Kangaroos could do no wrong. Every touch was ice and sent shivers down the spin of their victims.
While any good assassin is loaded with a myriad of techniques and tools of the trade, this night, the Australians would opt for the garrotte and the long range poison blowguns.
The New Zealanders were choked into submission and then shot at from a distance. Their reign as jester kings may have been a glorious one, but regicide always has repercussions.
And so whatever deal the Kangaroos worked out with Lady Luck, it was obvious that she had stuck to her end of the bargain.
The old king is back. Well done Australia.
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