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Chris Hewett

Sacrificial lambs who took one for the team

CHRIS HEWETT
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RUGBY being a hard old game even when things are going your way, the willingness to suffer is every bit as important as the art of fizzing a miss-pass off your weaker hand, or completing a try-saving tackle to the satisfaction of the all-seeing Television Match Official, or nailing a match-winning drop goal in the last minute of a World Cup final. The sport makes stoics of everyone who plays it.
None more so than the poor sods who are summoned to a global gathering once every four years and ordered to play the house down against opponents who are infinitely b...

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