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But at that very early stage, I recall contacts of mine suggesting that the Hutches were an army.

Did they have the backing of the dissidents?

Was this going to, you know, were they going to be very heavily armed?

Because of that, they had contacts in the north.

It was like as if people were trying to size up how two premiership teams were going to play against one another.

That's what it felt like.

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