The PRO14 can boast a dual headline act beyond compare, a pair of players born 35 years ago on opposite sides of the Irish Sea. Alun-Wyn Jones and Johnny Sexton belong to the elite, specialists in the art of winning Grand Slams and not losing a Lions’ Test series in New Zealand. Regrettably for the PRO14 and season-ticket sales, they also share an invisibility made in defiance of their towering profiles.
Sightings of either player in the domestic competition over the longest of long seasons have been rarer than Dominic Cummings going for a spin in Barnard Castle.
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