Bossing line-outs is still the key skill

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DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA - JUNE 20: Victor Matfield of South Africa wins a lineout ball during the first test match between South African Springboks and the British and Irish Lions at Absa Kings Park Stadium on June 20, 2009 in Durban, South Africa. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Chris Hewett
Rugby has always had its share of brass necks, but did the Wales U20 lock Dafydd Jenkins abuse the privilege by ambling into the heart of a Baby Springbok huddle and helping himself to their water?
We should cut him some slack. A chap can’t help working up a thirst – especially when he’s tangling with a pack of South African forwards who look as though they were raised on a diet of raw wildebeest for breakfast, lunch and dinner – so if there’s no water of his own available, needs must. After all, he didn’t take the field armed with a divining rod.
Of course, if Jenkins had shown s...

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