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One of the players in your team in Japan is Aaron Smith. When the big scandal happened in 2016, we don't need to get
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into it all because that's on the internet if anyone wants to read it. But he said something like after that you
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called him like once a week. Why didn't you throw him to the wolves at the time?
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>> I look at the rugby boy, our rugby family as a family. And sometimes you
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don't like the behavior, but you still love them, still care about them. And if
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it was your son, what would you want to do? I mean, I knew that he was suffering, and I knew that he and Tegan
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were going through a really tough time. And you know, you can't pretend to care
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about people. You've actually got to act in a way that shows them that you do
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care about them. And I wanted to make sure that he was okay. I knew he was struggling a lot. Just checking in to
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make sure he's right. I'd do that with anybody that I knew and cared about.