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Folau looks set to cause more havoc off the pitch | Chris Hewett

Chris Hewett on Israel Folau’s return to rugby with the NTT Shining Arcs in Japan’s Top League
Israel Folau

Precious few players are described as “undroppable” a mere half an hour into their Test careers, but no one ever mistook Israel Folau for Joe Ordinary.
“We won’t be ditching this guy in a hurry,” said an Australian scribe a few seconds after the Wallaby newcomer had put a spellbinding brace of tries past the Lions in Brisbane eight years ago. “It would be like leaving ‘Genesis’ out of the Bible.”
Which was an interesting way of putting it, as things turned out. Folau has always had a closer relationship with the Good Book than with his own press cuttings – “As a Christian, I stand by the B...

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