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DOWNTIME WITH… ANDY FRIEND “He found the tooth and asked Craig Joubert to pop it in his pocket for him”

joined Connacht in 2018 having coached at the top of the game since the dawn of professionalism, with extensive experience in his native Australia, England and Japan. He has earned praise as a steady hand at the province, and earlier this year former Ireland centre Gordon D’Arcy wrote in The Irish Times that in the future “when the Irish coaching job comes up, I believe the IRFU would

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