By HARRY BAMFORTH
The pressure of replacing one of the world’s best rugby players could see many crack, but not Gus Warr, whose rise to stardom has been far from orthodox.
After Sale Sharks lost South Africa’s scrum-half Faf de Klerk in June of last year, the burden on his potential replacement only grew from outside critics.
The 23-year-old was handed the chance to make the No.9 spot at the Sharks his own, and with all eyes on his young number, nothing seemed to faze him.
“Faf was the best player in the world, he’s just left, everybody sees it as a big hole, but for me it wasn’t,” Warr s...
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