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Published 12:19 30 Oct 2016 GMT
They're such identifiable characters now that they're their own classic club players.
https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/792699099317428228
And they have their own generalised traits.
In fairness to free-takers though, they do a hell of a lot of work to perfect their shooting. It doesn't come by chance that they're guaranteed starters. They're guaranteed because they can make guarantees. They can promise the manager and the team certain scores in every game but, to do that, they have to work.
They have to put in the hours and the shooting practice. They have to take a bag of balls to the pitch when everyone else is skiving and they have to shoot and then shoot some more.
But they can say goodbye to having to run in behind the goals to retrieve the balls they kicked. They can forget about forcing under-12s to stand there to kick them back out. There's a new invention in the rugby world and it is bloody brilliant. A ball that can be returned with the push of a button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H61abZqTykQ
This hasn't been found in any stores as of yet so it obviously isn't available now for mass distribution. But as soon as this drops in the rugby world, someone really needs to get that into a size five O'Neill's ball.
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