Excess Baggage
Forty players, one check-in counter and a team manager who has planned the queue down to the kilogram.
Panel 1. Airport. 05:10.
- Check-in agent: Sir, this bag is forty kilograms over.
- Kit Manager: That one is just the scrum caps.
Panel 2. - Team Manager: Forwards, take weight from the backs. Backs, carry the snacks. Nobody leaves a bag behind.
Panel 3. - Siya: Captain’s bags are everyone’s bags.
- The Bomb Squad: Captain, that one is full of biltong.
- Siya: Then it is definitely coming.
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Panel 1
At a check-in counter the Kit Manager heaves a huge green kit bag onto the scale while the Bomb Squad wait behind him with even bigger bags.
Caption: Airport. 05:10.
Check-in agent: Sir, this bag is forty kilograms over.
Kit Manager: That one is just the scrum caps.
Panel 2
The Team Manager, clipboard in hand, calmly directs the squad swapping luggage in the departures hall while the Physio and the Kit Manager stand ready.
Team Manager: Forwards, take weight from the backs. Backs, carry the snacks. Nobody leaves a bag behind.
Panel 3
Siya walks out of the terminal smiling, carrying bags for teammates, with the Bomb Squad and a loaded luggage trolley behind him.
Siya: Captain’s bags are everyone’s bags.
The Bomb Squad: Captain, that one is full of biltong.
Siya: Then it is definitely coming.
