Rugby World

THE SECRET PLAYER

“It was almost funny to see how Jerry Collins dismantled us”

HAVE I ever been skinned by a modern great? Oh yeah, by lots of them and in different ways. By people that you’ve grown up watching on TV. You’ve been impressed by them as a youngster, but on the field they are even better than they look on TV. And they’ve just made me look like an average Joe.

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