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FREDDIE BURNS

SPOTLIGHT ON

Age 32 (13 May 1990)

Born Bath

Position Fly-half

Franchise Highlanders

Height 6ft

Weight 14st 2lb

Test caps Five (57pts)

Instagram handle @freddieburns

APPARENTLY THE contacts of coaching mentor Chris Boyd came into play when fly-half Freddie Burns was called into the Highlanders squad to replace prop Luca Inch.

You might remember the 2012 England shellacking of the All Blacks at Twickenham, when Manu Tuilagi ran riot and food poisoning is said to have laid low many of the tourists. Well, that wasBlacks in your maiden outing. Test rugby must have seemed easy.

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