A fitting reward for Robshaw

BY extending Chris Robshaw’s contract to cover the remaining weeks of the suspended Premiership season, Quins have done their best to give the hardest-working flanker in Christendom a proper farewell at the Stoop.
Robshaw was targeted by battalions of critics during his time in the England back row and while a small minority of them made reasonable points, most hitched a free ride on the bandwagon.
One of rugby’s “givers”, it may be that he stymied his own Test career by agreeing to play out of position. That’s a big sacrifice in anyone’s language. It is ...

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