Talking point: Brendan Venter with Fergus Burke and Max Malins last weekend
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IT IS just possible that Saracens feel they are in genuine need of a “head of rugby culture and wine consultant”: the Londoners have long moved in mysterious ways, their wonders to perform. What we know for sure is that English rugby needs Brendan Venter as one of its principal talking heads, rather than the Trappist version we have seen just recently.
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