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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.

Instead of trying to pick though New Zealand's defence, he twice dropped into the pocket and landed smart drop-goals inside three minutes, snipping the lead to a single point by the break.

Calder, the top flight's chief growth officer, is the man snipping the competition's name to simply 'the Prem' for next season.

"It is a little sad, isn’t it? One more quiet thread snipped in the broader unraveling of neighborhood-ness. Of the small, repetitive exchanges that used to stitch a life together."

More often than not, these were just simple ranches made with care — good buttermilk, what was probably Duke’s and a handful of punchy herbs snipped into a stainless steel mixing bowl.