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The pain of the 2019 World Cup will never leave the Scotland players who experienced it, but Grant Gilchrist is one of the lucky few with the chance to write a whole new chapter.
The 65-cap lock, who turned 33 last month, started both the big-match defeats (against Ireland and Japan) which led to the Scots dropping out at the pool stage four years ago, but is still at the heart of the pack that will seek to withstand a blast of Springbok power in Marseille on Sunday.
Highly rated by his peers and by a succession of coaches with both club and country, the Edinburgh second-rower is under no illusions about this World Cup being his last, and there was a clear thirst for
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