Digby Ioane: A different kind of player
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Jamie Pandaram meets Digby Ioane, a player cut very much from a different cloth, in The Sydney Morning Herald.
"His eldest sister controls all of his lucrative finances, down to giving him a $500-a-week budget. He is too scared to tell his parents he drinks alcohol. And he has one friend in the world. Digby Ioane is not who you thought he was.
"The Wallabies winger lives an off-field existence so meek it's a wonder where he finds the power and aggression that makes him one of the game's most fearsome players on it.
''You need to hang out with positive people, it's hard to trust people in life, the only people I trust are my family,'' Ioane says. ''I'll be honest, I ain't got no mates. I've only got one close mate who I met at school. Mum and Dad told me there's no good in having heaps of mates in life. The backstabbing, I've seen it a lot with my brothers. They just bring you down.''
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