Calm under pressure: AJ MacGinty playing for Bristol
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IT IS the age-old dilemma in sport: when is the optimum time to retire? The late world featherweight champion Willie Pep summed up the danger for boxers who hung on too long when he saidz: “First your legs go, then your reflexes go. Then your friends go.”
When rugby union was amateur, players had careers outside the game that needed cultivating. To take three outside-halves: Richard Sharp retired at the age of 26, although he made a short-lived comeback, Barry John was a year older when he tired o...