When the new Super Rugby franchise was awarded to Melbourne, there was a healthy bout of scepticism doing the rounds in South Africa as to whether Australia's second most populous city -- with four million inhabitants -- would take to rugby union.
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It was with interest that I was invited to an Aussie Rules game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, known to us as the MCG and to the locals simply as the G (said with an Aussie twang). What I knew about Aussie Rules was that it's sort of a combination ...
