Don’t mess with scrum warns ‘old man’ Cole

■By JON NEWCOMBE

New-age prop: Kyle Sinckler

Warrior: Dan Cole gets on the ball for Leicester
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HAVING been chased around his garden while dressed as an ankylosaurus for the amusement of his kids during lockdown, Dan Cole feared he was also destined to be a dinosaur of the rugby world.
Talk of a depowered scrum and a faster, looser game left the renowned Leicester and England prop wondering where he’d fit into the post-Covid landscape.
“You’re always worried about the scrum being depowered,” he told The Rugby Paper....

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