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Cov help Ryan cope with loss of brother

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The Rugby Paper Team
17 November 2019

By NEALE HARVEY

Power surge: Ryan Burrows, playing for Newcastle last season, bashes through Brive in the European Challenge Cup quarter-final
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BATTLING back rower Ryan Burrows has spoken about how being a key player in Coventry’s charge back towards the top of English rugby is helping him overcome personal tragedy.
Last March, Burrows’ cricket-loving older brother Matt – a player-coach at Wath CC – died suddenly of a heart attack aged 35, leaving the family bereft and forcing then-Newcastle man Ryan to seek temporary refuge at Doncaster to be...

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