Georgian war hero Yachvili helped forge special bond

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER

FRANCE and Georgia square up on Sunday in Bordeaux, only the second time they have met in the Test arena which set me pondering a number of questions about the nature of their close rugby relationship. Some frivolous, some a little more fundamental.The slightly frivolous first. Why does Georgia, a land full of natural front row tyros, not produce more Test class hookers? By my reckoning there are at least 39 Georgian props currently playing in the Top 14 and ProD2.Yet I can find only one hooker &...

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