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Published 19:43 26 Feb 2022 GMT
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"For your top player, your talisman [to do that], five minutes into the game. He doesn't have an injury, he's not fatigued. You look at someone like Rory Darge killing himself around the field - turning ball over, making tackles, carries, scoring a try - and then you've got your best player performing like that. "There is no way any team can win consistently if you have players doing that. It's like what France were doing in their dark ages, but that's gone out of there. You'd never see a Springbok doing that, you'd never see an All Black doing that. "If Finn Russell wants to count himself as a really top player, have a look at the best players of the last 10 years. Look at the generational players like Brian O'Driscoll, Dan Carter, Jonny Wilkinson. They were so hard working, and that [from Russell] was pathetic."https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1497614611075506176 Rob Kearney, who won two Grand Slams with Ireland, says Finn Russell's teammates would have been clearly able to see their outhalf not putting the work in, whenever they looked at replays on the big screen at Murrayfield. He added that the Monday morning review for Scotland may well be a rough watch for their No.10. "That's not good enough," said Kearney. "That's humiliating."
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