Rugby Union - England Training - Pennyhill Park Hotel, Bagshot, Surrey - 1/9/15 Sam Burgess of England during training Action Images via Reuters / Henry Browne Livepic
LONDON (Reuters) - Chris Robshaw is not many people's idea of a star man, least of all the England captain himself, yet game after game and year after year when the analysis is done, it is the flanker whose numbers routinely come out on top.
From the day he was appointed as coach Stuart Lancaster's first captain four years ago -- reputedly only because Tom Wood was injured -- Robshaw has been relentlessly written off as a "natural openside", not to be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Richie McCaw, David Pocock and Sam Warburton.
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