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Chris Hewett: Questions at No.3 are key for Andy Farrell’s British and Irish Lions

Prop forwards of the tighthead variety were not put on this earth to be like everyone else, and by and large – extremely large in the case of the French front rower Uini Atonio, who makes the same impact on population density as he does at the scrum – they continue to do things differently.
The rest of us may not know, or even want to know, what those things might be, but they are an essential part of rugby’s ecosystem.
The complexity of these creatures is deepened by the fact that the very best of them form a subspecies of their own – the kind of distinct grouping routinely discovered by...

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