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The past was a different country for rugby thrills

Classic: Philippe Bernat-Salles scores as France stun the All Blacks in 1999

I’ve watched a couple of cracking matches recently and it dawned on me why we are in danger of falling out of love with modern day rugby, or at least much of it. There are mercifully always exceptions, like Japan at RWC2019.
Brilliant crisp handling with no forward passes and fewer ‘flat’ balls; no 40-phase passages of keep ball that send you to sleep and wonderfully efficient recycling of the ball at the breakdown with no crude illegal clear outs from henchmen who are blatantly offside.
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