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Article: GUIDING HAND So what can a legend of the amateur era teach Nick de Luca, a player making his way in the professional game? Quite a lot, finds Alasdair Reid
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- October 26, 2008
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ON the basis that every halfdecent Welsh fly-half of the past 30
years has been cursed by being labelled the new Barry John, no
aspiring Scottish centre of the same era would have welcomed the
suggestion he might be the reincarnation of Jim Renwick, the pocket-
sized genius from Hawick whose shimmering, sidestepping, intuitive
brilliance brought 52 Scotland caps between 1972 and 1984 and
worldwide acclaim as one of the greatest players these islands have
produced.
A combination of Scotland's mis fi ring form at the time,
Byzantine rugby politics and plain old-fashioned stupidity ensured
that Renwick never won the Lions Test cap that was, unquestionably,
his due. Yet even if his legend is ...