This means a huge amount of work often around the clock by teams of people with nothing to show for it for years at a time, if ever.

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But with Martyn Williams' influence increasingly important and the defensive work of Shanklin and Roberts regularly thwarting the Ospreys the clock was against them and Norton-Knight's drop-goal put the contest beyond doubt.

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