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    Hard knocks

    Jul 02, 2023 3 minutes

    HEAD ON: Rugby, Dementia and the Hidden Cost of Success, by Carl Hayman (HarperCollins, $39.99)

    Part-way through his 13-year stint as All Blacks team doctor, John Mayhew gave up reading players’ autobiographies because “so much of what’s in them is patently untrue”.

    I seriously doubt he’d have that problem with former All Black Carl Hayman’s memoir. You want the truth and nothing but? How about brain damage, alcoholism, rehab, relapse, spousal abuse resulting in a suspended jail sentence, marriage break-up,

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