After the break, there they went dutifully back for an endless second half of a match that in some cases, can last up to four days.
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Gatland's team talk is likely to be loud and powerful to wake up his side, who seem to spend the first half of a match in a daze, content to allow opponents to race into a lead before playing a frantic game of catch-up.
In a well-rehearsed line-out routine, number eight Filo Tiatia fed fellow Kiwi Justin Marshall and the scrum-half ran through for a match-winning try.
But Bolton created the first real opening as a corner found Gary Cahill unmarked, only for the England centre-half, returning from a three-match suspension, to head wastefully over.
Alun Wyn Jones, who assumed the role of captain after coming on as a substitute for O'Connell in the second half, rounded off the match with a try in the final minute.
The Ferrari driver set a benchmark of one minute 12.368 seconds but Hamilton could not match it and finished almost half a second behind in fourth.
Jones will partner scrum-half Richie Rees for a second consecutive match and he has no qualms about the Blues number nine starting ahead of his former Scarlets team-mate Dwayne Peel.
The absences forced coach Mick Potter to name rookie debutant Lee Gaskell, 19, at stand-off, with Jon Wilkin back in the side at scrum-half alongside him after a 12-match injury absence.
Having been second best for much of the first half, Motherwell needed a massive lift at the start of the second half and Rangers gifted them a route back into the match.
The Russian raced out to a 4-1 lead in the breaker, but the world number 21 was not to be denied as she saved a set-point before closing out the match in just under an hour and a half.
The 22-year-old England fly-half played 40 minutes in the A League match in Henley, which Wasps lost 27-13.
But after half time the match petered out into a dire affair with neither side seeming able to produce anything more.
As the half wore on the match settled into a stalemate and when Rodallega and Johnson suddenly clashed it came out of the blue.
With two-and-a-half days remaining in the match, Australia needed to bat at least six sessions if they were to stand any chance of keeping the series alive for the final Test in Sydney on 2 January.
Arsenal had earlier taken a first-half lead in the match courtesy of an Andriy Arshavin goal, only to see United hit back to take the lead through a Wayne Rooney penalty and an own goal from Abou Diaby.
Taylor closed in on his 50 when Broad let his drive to deep backward point slip through his fingers for four, and the 24-year-old notched his second half-ton of the match with a stunning drive square of the wicket.
But after a solid first-half display, the visitors allowed Italy back into the match and were grimly clinging onto a slender lead in the final minutes of the game.
McCarthy played in the 1-1 draw at the Estadio da Luz on Sunday but was taken off in the second-half, marking the third successive match without a goal after a run of free scoring form.
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Kyle Coetzer needed four more deliveries to reach his half century and when he thrashed Ervine, a match-winner at Lord's in the 2005 final, into the top tier of the grandstand, it looked grim for Hampshire.
In her first broadcast interview about the break-up of her marriage, Ms Pryce, 59, revealed that Mr Huhne told her their marriage was over during the half-time break of a televised World Cup match in June 2010.
Baita, 19, on loan at Belgian side Ghent last season from Paris Saint Germain, had to be replaced in the second half after a late tackle during a Group Four match in Luanda which the hosts won with a late goal.
The Pole had been on court for three and a half hours in winning her final group match on Friday, and it showed as U.S. Open champion Williams -- who had a rest day -- needed just 61 minutes to complete victory.
They will be rueing the fact that they played Quins on the day that Evans was making his first start since suffering a knee ligament injury on the opening day of the season - the fly-half producing a man-of-the-match display despite playing in the unaccustomed role of full-back.
She defeated third seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-2 as the match stretched to two and a half hours.
There were five tries in each half as the Lions banished memories of a poor opening match on their rugby union tour.
The League of Ireland side were a match for Sofia in the first half but came under more pressure in the second.
Although Bayer Leverkusen handed back half of their allocation, the match will be a sell-out as locals quickly snapped up the spare tickets.
Roman Pavlyuchenko scored in the first half and Andrei Arshavin, coming off a two-match suspension, made it 2-0 right after the break to set up a match against the Netherlands on Saturday in Basel.
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