‘I’ve always wanted to play for Exeter – this is a place I can really grow’: Chiefs’ Australia star TOM HOOPER on sparking the club’s revival, ‘eating my way around Devon’, his 70 per cent rule, Ashes needle and why he called Henry Slade an ‘old b*****d!’
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‘I’ve always wanted to play for Exeter – this is a place I can really grow’: Chiefs’ Australia star TOM HOOPER on sparking the club’s revival, ‘eating my way around Devon’, his 70 per cent rule, Ashes needle and why he called Henry Slade an ‘old b*****d!’

Raised in the Australian bush five hours inland from Sydney with no internet, Tom Hooper spent … ‘I’ve always wanted to play for Exeter – this is a place I can really grow’: Chiefs’ Australia star TOM HOOPER on sparking the club’s revival, ‘eating my way around Devon’, his 70 per cent rule, Ashes needle and why he called Henry Slade an ‘old b*****d!’Read more

How England’s Ollie Chessum became the lineout king: Steve Borthwick’s 12-second rule, ‘plus-one’ ploy and lifters’ trick – as insiders reveal how giant lock is like an ‘extra coach’ in the pack
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How England’s Ollie Chessum became the lineout king: Steve Borthwick’s 12-second rule, ‘plus-one’ ploy and lifters’ trick – as insiders reveal how giant lock is like an ‘extra coach’ in the pack

In his pursuit of the perfect lineout, Steve Borthwick instructed his England analysts to conduct a … How England’s Ollie Chessum became the lineout king: Steve Borthwick’s 12-second rule, ‘plus-one’ ploy and lifters’ trick – as insiders reveal how giant lock is like an ‘extra coach’ in the packRead more