WARREN Gatland was an All Black hooker plenty of times over, but he never won a Test cap because Sean Fitzpatrick, his great front-row rival and just about the best No.2 in the whole history of the sport, didn’t do injuries. Not to himself, at least.
Remember Rob Cunningham, another member of the hooking fraternity who coached Bristol with some success at the back end of the amateur era and then did a turn at Saracens? He spent his entire international career on the Scotland bench, watching Colin Deans play.