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Surely Bok reserves don’t merit cap status

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The Rugby Paper Team
10 June 2018

PETER JACKSON

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Made to wait for his cap: Wales prop Charlie Faulkner
PICTURE: Getty Images

Charlie Faulkner will never forget his international debut, how he stood toe-totoe against the All Blacks and slugged it out for the full 80 minutes.
The Newport steelworker had taken time off from the blast furnace to make the Wednesday afternoon appointment and the Welsh Rugby Union showed their appreciation by ensuring that the uncapped prop went home in the same bareheaded state as he arrived.
New Zealand, then as now, represented the acid Test. The appearance of a te...

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