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    WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… BE A RUGBY GROUNDSMAN

    Mar 08, 2022 4 minutes
    Words Alan Pearey
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    ROWAN JENKINS will never forget the day he went toe to toe with Toulouse in a Champions Cup tie, earning a standing ovation as he left the field last December. As a semi-pro prop with Aberavon, he had been called upon in an emergency as Cardiff, deprived of 42 players mainly through quarantine issues, assembled a team to face the European champions.

    Jenkins’s other role, however, is even more important because as a club groundsman for Aberavon he is part of a profession that is struggling to match modern demands. UK research from the Grounds

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