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“Someone running away with your jersey is hard to take”

IT’S REALLY naive to suggest that there aren’t rivalries within teams.

At every single club, national team, British & Irish Lions, there are rivalries the whole way up. You are competing for your spot and that spot means more game time, it means a pay increase and access to a different wage structure and bonuses. That rivalry exists because if you’re driven and you want to do well in professional rugby, you

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