By Adrian Warren
November 17th 2009 @ 2:22am
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Waugh insists his Wallabies career is not over
A defiant Phil Waugh insists his Test rugby career is far from finished and is priming himself for a huge 2010 campaign in which he could re-write the Waratahs record books.
The 79-times capped back rower missed out on the current Wallabies tour of Japan and the United Kingdom after suffering a quadriceps injury in the [...]
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Campbell Watts said | November 17th 2009 @ 1:06pm | Report comment
Yes well thats the problem with old war horses:
They just never seem to know when to quit