Rugby league: Kiwis to dine in desert enroute to England

Among other things, the Kiwis will be dining in the desert during a Dubai stopover on the way to England.The team left on Monday afternoon for the Northern hemisphere, but will have a 72 hour stop in the Middle East on the way, including an evening at a Bedouin style camp in the desert.It's an initiative to break up the long trip, as the team adjusts from spring in Australasia to late autumn in England."We'll do a bit of training there," said Maguire. "[It
will] give the boys a bit of experience to look at another part of the world."It's different for a Kiwis team, and another example of the lateral thinking that Maguire has brought to the camp.On the evidence of Saturday's display, the surprise elevation of Dallin Watene-Zelezniak to captain was a masterstroke, as the fullback was a revelation.Maguire's tapped into the success of the past, by involving the likes of Stacey Jones, Nigel Vagana, Nathan Cayless and Daryl Halligan in the camp.