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Brendan Gallagher: Alex Goode was high class under the high ball

Brendan Gallagher:

So, almost unbelievably, it’s farewell to Alex Goode, one of the three or four best full-backs I’ve ever seen anywhere, even if England in their wisdom chose to grant “only” 21 caps to the Saracens man.
Every rugby player will have their hard luck story but to these eyes Goode was scandalously hard done by, almost to the point of national embarrassment. Questions should have been asked in the House.
His international career effectively ended on March 21, 2015, when he dropped a steepling high ball right under his posts on a filthy windy afternoon in Dublin when England were getting beaten ...

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