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The assembled press kept asking, but the American would not give them what they wanted. Just what does San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan think of Melbourne?

“I haven’t left the hotel, except to come to this practice, for five days or however long we’ve been here,” he said at a training session on Wednesday, admitting to jet lag that has woken him at 1am all week.