By BRENDAN GALLGHER
GGEORGIA
Coach: Levan Maisashvili
Captain: Merab Sharikadze
Georgia have become a permanent fixture at the Rugby World Cup with this their sixth straight appearance in the finals since they first qualified in 2003.
Initially they were almost a novelty act, a newly independent country that had freed itself from the Soviet yoke packed with big, strong, but very raw forwards. Gradually though they have developed with many of those big units up front fine tuning and
polishing their games in the professional French leagues where they were welcomed with open arms as reliable...
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