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The concept of "substitutions" was only introduced to rugby in 1969. Up until then if you were too injured to play your team was down to 14 men. Rugby players who grew up before the seventies basically had it ingrained in them that leaving the field for any reason was letting the team down, because there was no such thing as a replacement. Even after 1969 you could only come off the field because of injury - none of this tactical substitution faggotry where a player can be subbed off if he's having a bad day or if the coach wants some fresh legs out there in the second half. That only became legal in 1996.
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