Missed opportunity for Tommy’s endgame

Tommy Bowe and Paul McGrath

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Today’s rugby is often described as gladiatorial: bodies are bigger, the hits are heavier, those on-pitch moves that don’t call for call for skill and finesse demand brute force, and sometimes a combination of both. Real gladiators, surviving five years, would be granted freedom with the gift of a rudis, a wooden sword, and might ...