Props – they’re a funny old bunch

by Jim Webster - It was a great pleasure seeing loose-head prop Benn Robinson become the Waratahs’ most capped player, earning his 137th cap against the Queensland Reds & thus elbowing some elderly backrower aside. What is it with prop-forwards that seems to set them apart from the other 14 players? All right, I know it’s the extreme damage they can do to weighing machines, but I didn’t mean just that. They seem to possess other characteristics, abilities and personal details that other players don’t have and over the years I’ve come by some very interesting facts and indeed some fascinating people who have pulled on the Nos 1 or 3 jerseys. To this day I well remember talking to a seasoned Wallaby prop-forward who confided in me that he had never, ever handled a rugby ball out on th
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