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RISING STARS

1 FINN CARNDUFF

Age 19 (10 Mar 2004) Born Leicester Position Lock/flanker Club Leicester Country England

When did you first play rugby? At six, I went down to my local club Market Harborough. Mum and Dad took me down as I was a clumsy kid. My earliest memories are Sundays whatever the weather, rocking up at the pitch. Tag to start, then contact and then it was a hot dog afterwards with a bag of sweets and running around the clubhouse.

I played

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