Major teams: Leicester Country: England Test span: 1975-84 England caps: 48 (48 starts) Lions caps: 7 (7 starts) Test points: 0 Adopting the role of chief executive at Leicester…
The Greatest Players
The greatest second-rows of all time: Gordon Brown
Major teams: West of Scotland Country: Scotland Test span: 1969-77 Scotland caps: 30 (28 starts) Lions caps: 8 (8 starts) Test points: 8 (2T) And there were few personalities…
The greatest second-rows of all time: Frik du Preez
Major teams: Northern Transvaal Country: South Africa Test span: 1961-71 Test caps: 38 (38 starts) Test points: 11 (1T 1C 2P) When Frik du Preez and the All Black…
The greatest second-rows of all time: Colin Meads
Major teams: King Country Country: New Zealand Test span: 1957-71 Test caps: 55 (55 starts) Test points: 21 (7T) Between 1957 and 1971 he set a world cap record by…
The greatest second-rows of all time: Walter Spanghero
Major teams: Narbonne Country: France Test span: 1964-73 Test caps: 51 (51 starts) Test points: 14 (4T) “Cometh the hour, cometh the man,” said French critics when Walter Spanghero made…
The greatest second-rows of all time: Paul O’Connell
Major teams: Munster Country: Ireland Test span: 2002-2015 Ireland caps: 108 (99 starts) Lions caps: 7 (7 starts) Test points: 40 (8T) Superman heads to bed each night wearing Paul…
Adam Jones
Adam Jones was christened ‘Bomb’ in a fond reference to 1990s American wrestler Adam Bomb, who sported similarly curly locks and an identical Christian name. However, the moniker took on…
Olo Brown
The foundation stone on which New Zealand’s great pack of the 1990s was built, Olo Brown was one of the finest props world rugby has seen, but also one of…
Patricio Noriega
Patricio Noriega cut his teeth in the toughest of propping breeding grounds – the Pumas’ front row. Born in Buenos Aires, the tighthead played for his local club, Hindu, before…
Iain Milne
In 2011, at a gala dinner in Paris, a formidable foe from bygone years was inducted into the French Hall of Fame. Iain Milne, the famous Bear of Scotland, was…