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5 Fantastic Premiership Players Who Never Quite Made the Grade for England

3. Andy Hazell

Gloucester stalwart Hazell, who made a total of 266 appearances for the Cherry and Whites over 17 years, had the unenviable task of filling the retired Neil Back’s shoes. We can assume that Andy Robinson’s thought process was, “He’s small, he’s aggressive, he’s just like Neil Back”, but unfortunately it didn’t really work out like that.  Making his international appearances exclusively through 2004-05, Hazell became known as a bit of a penalty machine.

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