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THE SECRET PLAYER

“People grin and bear it, and bite down on the pain”

PLAYING WITH pain is 100% a fact of life. Week to week, you are always dealing with something. You wake up on a Saturday or Sunday after a game and think ‘How the f*** am I going to be able to play in a week’s time?’

Then weirdly, by team run time, you feel alright. But normally the start of the

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