My Dad who saw Bevan throughout his pomp always told me he couldn't tackle for toffee, but his team mates did all that for him with pleasure,and then stood back in wonder as he scored try after try after try.

Another great story but lack of Aussie history would be a handicap and almost like an admission that a UK immortal is better than an Aussie...I don't think they'd stomach it.

Isn’t 740 tries in a career by far the record for a player in either code of rugby?

I think for the convenience of the Twickers Brigade ,a record like Bevan's would be airbrushed out of the history of "Rugby".

I was intrigued so I googled "most tries in rugby career".As expected the results were dominated by rugby union stats. However, fair play to them, the results related to international tries not club tries, which makes sense as the standard of club rugby union is pretty variable.

What. They scored tries in RU Internationals. Hardly correct for the kicking purists