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Chris Hewett: Elite will have no time for Los Pumas

Phil Kearns never played a game of Test rugby against the British and Irish Lions: a stranger-than-fiction fact that bears repeating.
So here goes. One of the half-dozen finest hookers of the modern era – many would put the Sydneysider second only to the all-time-great New Zealand front rower Sean Fitzpatrick, with whom he endured and enjoyed the most intense of rivalries – somehow spent a decade in the green-and-gold Wallaby jersey without once wearing it against the red-shirted hordes from the old country.
Simon Poidevin, one hell of a flanker, didn’t manage it either. The same goes for...

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