Sacking stuns fans
PA London Welsh rugby fans were incredulous yesterday at the sacking of the goal-kicking fullback, Paul Thorburn, from their Five Nations team to meet England at Twickenham on February 6. One pundit wrote that he “would have staked the Crown Jewels against a tin of sardines” that Thorburn would be in the team. “How could we drop the man who kicked his country to third place in the World Cup?” asked the “Cardiff Western Mail” writer, John Billot. However, the selectors, building towards a New Zealand tour this year, have audaciously opted for an attacking player at fullback — a 20-year-old with no credentials in the position. They have decided to move the Swansea outside half, Tony Clement, who won his first cap as a replacement centre against the United States in November, back to the last line of defence.
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