One afternoon last winter, two ships lined up side by side in a field of pack ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica.

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Young veteran quarterbacks Manning and Cutler are middle-of-the pack field leaders with top-of-the pack contracts.

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Around the field they have a pack that can deliver good ball and outside they have some dangerous runners.

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Expect that number to continue to drop, along with the Marlins position in the middle-of-the-pack concerning home field attendance.

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Yolanda Caballero of Colombia broke off from the pack and gapped the field by more than 30 seconds at the halfway point.

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And the hosts' pack also matched Richard Cockerill's men for muscle around the field in the opening period, although the visitors' knack of stealing line-outs put the hosts under pressure at times.

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The visitors had given up a penalty in the build-up and with Thomas back on the field the Blues opted to take a five-metre scrum, only for the Dragons pack to front up and disrupt their opponents.

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Croatia full-back Corluka left the field on a stretcher and was later seen on the substitutes' bench with crutches and an ice pack on his ankle.

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