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Twist facts how you like, Tests still reign supreme

JEFF PROBYN

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

Full house: Twickenham can hold 82,000
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AS THE old saying goes: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The inference, of course, is that statistics can be used to defend a weak argument by the use of numbers, not facts.
The long debate in the rugby world as to whether professionalism has delivered a better game has again been opened up to fill the space left by the lack of games.
A number of stats are used to show how different the game is now compared to the amateur era by comparing ...

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