Haden knew how to make rugby pay

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PETER JACKSON

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
THERE was far more to Andy Haden than his theatrics at Cardiff Arms Park on Armistice Day 1978, an act so embarrassingly amateurish that it would probably have cost him his Equity card. Yet he still managed to end up the following season on a stage of sorts in the West End.
Haden played eleven matches for Harlequins, the first against Richmond at the Stoop on the Saturday before Christmas, the last a losing John Player Cup semi-final against Leicester a few months later. It must have cost Quins a small fortune in air fares alone.
The New Zealander, ...

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