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Are there any top players who were late starters to rugby?
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 698996" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>hah, didn't even know that :lol: </p><p>Welcome, and interesting thread, <strong>balgyrub</strong>, I do recall French int'l prop Rabah Slimani started quite late as he was in the Parisian region and started out playing footie and eventually turned to Rugby coz they told him to try it out looking at his proppious figure and he did as a teen a believe and got good at it fast and stuck with it, which of course is an absolute benediction given the relative abyss it is in France at the TH position. French grunty props, where art thou ? :cryy:</p><p></p><p>So as a Frenchman, I'd tell you it's those stories of late bloomers outside of the South (southwest in particular), like some of the academy guys at Paris or Racing Métro, or one-offs from the North, that are more common. Southwest, kids play Rugby in the womb. So it'd be a very odd destiny for someone to avoid (probably purposely) Rugby his whole childhood before actually joining in later and succeeding to the point he's good/famous enough to be mentioned here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 698996, member: 57076"] hah, didn't even know that :lol: Welcome, and interesting thread, [B]balgyrub[/B], I do recall French int'l prop Rabah Slimani started quite late as he was in the Parisian region and started out playing footie and eventually turned to Rugby coz they told him to try it out looking at his proppious figure and he did as a teen a believe and got good at it fast and stuck with it, which of course is an absolute benediction given the relative abyss it is in France at the TH position. French grunty props, where art thou ? :cryy: So as a Frenchman, I'd tell you it's those stories of late bloomers outside of the South (southwest in particular), like some of the academy guys at Paris or Racing Métro, or one-offs from the North, that are more common. Southwest, kids play Rugby in the womb. So it'd be a very odd destiny for someone to avoid (probably purposely) Rugby his whole childhood before actually joining in later and succeeding to the point he's good/famous enough to be mentioned here. [/QUOTE]
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