Jonathan joins the great 3,000 points club

WHEN the season began, the number of goalkickers still adding to a personal points total in excess of 3,000 amounted to five: a South African (Morne Steyn), a New Zealander (Jimmy Gopperth), a Welshman (Dan Biggar) and a pair of Englishmen (Stephen Myler, Owen Farrell).
The other week they were joined by a sixth, Jonathan Wisniewski. Unlike the aforementioned, he never played for his country but then neither did a few others who scored every bit as prodigiously, like Romain Teulet, Glen Jackson and Brock James.
Wisniewski is retiring at the end of the season shortly before turning 36. If th...

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