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5 Things We Learnt From Exeter’s First Defeat

4 – Cobus Reinach is one hell of a runner.

That man can seriously move when you need him two, and that’s two weeks back to back his interceptions have required a 50 plus metre sprint for the line after an hour of lung-busting rugby. His fitness and his pace is screaming for a player of the season award, and it makes you wonder if Rassie Erasmus is drifting his eyes towards Cobus. Sure he’s not at Faf de Klerk level yet, but he’s getting closer each week it seems, and if Reinach can perfect his kicking and decision making, I can’t see what’s stopping him switching from the green of Northampton to the green of South Africa some time soon.

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