Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher: Award booming huge pens a full five points
We are losing so much from the game as World Rugby dumbs down in the professional era, which is bizarre considering the skills we are discarding were all perfected in the amateur era, when top players trained maybe once a week after work, although to be fair, most had a much more thorough grounding at school.
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