Rugby World

“Almost every international team has two or three journeymen”

WE ALL start out with dreams of Lions tours, Grand Slams, a man cave dedicated to our vast collection of Heineken Cup winner’s medals. But after a decade or so of grind, bulking up and leaning down, goal setting, visualising and honing your basics, all for the most marginal of improvements, eventually the penny drops: you are simply not the player you hoped you would become.

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