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Lighting up the road to Twickenham

Five players who’ll stamp their class on the pool stages

Lighting up the road to Twickenham

Fri, 11 Nov, 2011 - 00:00

George North (Scarlets)

HARD to believe that George North will not celebrate his 20th birthday until after the 2012 Six Nations championship, such has been his impact in this calendar year. For a winger, he is enormous but he has the pace, feet and subtle skills of a Shane Williams. That is a lethal combination.

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Courts Rugby Place: Twickenham Place: Lansdowne Road Place: South Africa Place: New Zealand Place: Auckland Place: Aviva Stadium Place: Toulouse Person: George North Person: Shane Williams Person: Warren Gatland Person: north Person: Jamie Roberts Person: Luke Fitzgerald Person: Fitzgerald Person: Joe Schmidt Person: Brian O’Driscoll Person: Shane Horgan Person: Declan Kidney Person: Schalk Person: Schalk Brits Person: Keith Wood Person: John Smit Person: Plessis Person: Smit Person: Kahn Fotuali’i Person: Fotuali’i Person: Jimmy Cowan Person: Andy Ellis Person: Piri Weepu Person: Ellis Person: Mike Phillips Person: Luke McAlister Person: McAlister Event: 2012 Six Nations Championship Event: World Cup Event: Heineken Cup Organisation: Scarlets Organisation: Wales Organisation: Leinster Organisation: Ireland Organisation: RaboDirect Organisation: Brits Organisation: Saracens Organisation: Springbok Organisation: Bismark du Organisation: Stormers Organisation: Ospreys Organisation: Samoa Organisation: All Black Organisation: Crusaders Organisation: New Zealand Organisation: Bayonne

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