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MOST DECORATED SUBSTITUTE:

Sean Cronin (Ireland)

During the 11 years when Sir Gareth Edwards never missed a match for Wales, a number of very fine scrum-halves played out their careers without a glimmer of international recognition. Two who got near enough to act as official reserves managed roughly half a game between them.
In the days when ‘replacements’ were limited, Ray ‘Chicko’ Hopkins saw his Wales career start and finish on the same afternoon, at Twickenham in 1970 when he turned a lost cause into a winning one. They never picked him again.
Hopkins was lucky, not that he would agree. Hi...

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