Author: Mathew Cole

There is a Super Rugby player who at the start his career was blessed with incredible, natural talent but wasn’t born with many of the privileges that a fair few of his fellow professional rugby players were given. This player had countless meetings with all super rugby franchises and all ended with the same, shortsighted responses; too fat, lacks discipline, not serious about his rugby. Unbelievably one coach, no longer in the system, based his decision on previous players of the same ethnic background. This player had a child at a young age and was often working extremely long hours…