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From amateur to Lions, four players starring this summer after working up the leagues

#3. Finn Russell (Scotland)

After secondary school, the Scotland star pursued an apprenticeship for three years as a stonemason, in a business owned by a family friend, whilst his rugby developed.

Pocketing £300 per week, supplemented by £50 in his hand from Falkirk Rugby Club, Russell is now one of the pre-eminent stand-offs in world rugby and certainly one of the most exciting.

From the bottom to the top quite literally.

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