u/shorthevix

Made a comment on his retirement post about how he played in every possible big game for England and won most of them, will go down as a great in a white shirt....yet elsewhere his career was very low key.

Never played for the Lions and barely played a big club game.

But on looking further, did he just never play a single play-off game and only played one Champions Cup knockout game (unused sub for the 2nd).

16 years, 2nd top try scorer in England history, 6th top try scorer in Premiership history. 200+ appearances in England.....zero play-off games?

He had made his debut but wasn't in the Gloucester squad for the Saracens game in 2011, he was at Leicester when Gloucester next made the play-offs, which coincided with Leicester's 4 year spell outside the play-offs for the first time in their history, before he returned to Glocuester.

Hard to get historical information anywhere - something Rugby needs to fix - but this feels like a crazy anomaly.

Is there anything else comparable?

if you squint you can see Austin Abrams

Always funny how the media and narrative works.

A few years ago when Favreau did the rounds, it'd be to praise him about the volume and how it was a great development that had changed the future of film-making for the better and he took his applause.

Now he's doing the rounds to reassure people he's not using the volume, cause it's not good and it's just for cheap TV, because people hate it and think it makes everything look crap and is ageing stunningly quickly.