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This article gives a very unbalanced representation of Small. He is a rugby player that made 47 appearances for the national team, scoring 20 tries and made several appearances at domestic and Super Rugby level. Yet, the "Career" talks about him working as a model, crying about the apartheid era, stopping Jonah Lomu from scoring and being a bad boy. There is almost no mention of any of his rugby achievements contained in the article at all, except mentioning in the lead that he was the top try scorer in the 1996 Super 12 season. For an article about someone who was notable as a rugby player, it says precious little about the rugby he actually played... TheMightyPeanut (talk) 05:10, 5 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
I've just added the detail that he was SA's leading try scorer when he retired, and moved the bit about being a model out of the Rugby Career Section. I think the bit about him being so moved by singing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, and seeing Mandela's prison cell humanizes him, rather than mocking him. Yes, more details should be added about his rugby career, especially at the provincial and Super 12 levels, but at this point, I think the article gives a pretty balanced picture of the man. Paulgush (talk) 19:06, 10 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
