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NICK CAIN TALKS TO EXETER’S SAM SKINNER ABOUT HIS TRANSFORMATION INTO AN INTERNATIONAL LOCK

Tipped off: Gregor Townsend

There are adolescent growth spurts, and then there are mighty surges like the one that launched Exeter Chiefs and Scotland lock Sam Skinner into the international stratosphere.
At 16, Skinner, who made a man-of-the-match Scotland debut against Fiji this autumn, was a 5ft 8in fly-half or centre for Topsham RFC, the Devon grassroots club he had played for since his Scottish dad, Peter, introduced him to mini rugby there when he was five.
He loved the game from the...

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