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A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

Penalty try? Henry Slade’s kock-on prevents Matthieu Jalibert from scoring
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It’s amazing how time and circumstances can change people’s ideals and position on any number of things, even those that are supposedly ‘cast in stone’. Just around 25 years ago the RFU were removed from the Five Nations Championship on a point of principle that was agreed by the Celtic nations (Wales, Scotland and Ireland) and then after protracted discussions and negotiations, reinstated.
A few years passed and once...