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Brendan Gallagher: Fabian Holland poised for All Blacks debut

Fabian Holland

Is the suitably named Fabian Holland about to follow Tim Visser and Frans Ten Bos as a Dutchman playing top-level rugby for a country other than the Netherlands?
The giant Highlanders lock hails from Castricum, a small village near Amsterdam where the local club often hosted visiting sevens sides.
One week the All Blacks Seven were in residence and Holland was transfixed by what he saw and decided on the spot that rugby was going to be his sport.
He played with Castricum until he was 16, winning a place in the Netherlands U18 team two years ahead of time, before he took the brave decision to...

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