We're Going to Come Out Fighting and Hit the Top, Insists Care ; the Quins and England Scrum-Half Says His Club Are Desperate to Prove the Critics Wrong and Win Titles This Season Following the Bloodgate Controversy. [Edition 2]

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COUNTDOWN TO THE NEW RUGBY UNION SEASON ... HARLEQUINS DANNY CARE is remarkably upbeat for a member of the most reviled club in the professional rugby world. The Harlequins and England scrum-half has seen one of the most famous names in the game left discredited and humiliated by the Bloodgate scandal, which revealed Quins, under ex- director of rugby Dean Richards, had faked blood injuries on five separate occasions.

With Richards banned for three years, physio Steph Brennan out of the game for two years and full-back Tom Williams serving a four- month ban for his part in the faked injury against Leinster last season, Quins find themselves under intense pressure going into tomorrow's Twickenham clash with London Wasps.

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We're Going to Come Out Fighting and Hit the Top, Insists Care ; the Quins and England Scrum-Half Says His Club Are Desperate to Prove the Critics Wrong and Win Titles This Season Following the Bloodgate Controversy. [Edition 2]

The "Double Header" also sees London Irish take on Saracens at the home of English rugby which is only a short walk away from the Twickenham Stoop, scene of the Leinster incident, and the Rugby Football Union are determined to put clear water between the rest of the game and Quins.

A Task Group has been set up to try and ensure the faked injury scenario can never be played out again under their jurisdiction and the boos and catcalls will be waiting at Twickenham for the first Quins player to need treatment against Wasps. Care is a bubbly character and a key player in a Quins team that fin...

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