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Recent Articles – take a look
- Letting Billy know
- The heartbreakingly simple truth
- Villainy so virtuoso
- Everybody thinks I am
- Not what we want
- A thing with feathers
- Nothing like it
- More important than rugby
- You just can’t beat them
- Team of the Season – Gallagher Premiership 2018/19
- Getting stronger the more you hate them
- From Twickenham, with love
- Alacritous England end Ireland’s reign
- 53-52
- The debt we owe
Category Archives: rugby
Letting Billy know
RugbyPass article here (please click) Original below Along the London Road in Charlton Kings, just east of Cheltenham, a group of people are sitting around a table in The Langton Pub and Restaurant. Mid-conversation, one of them stops and stoops … Continue reading
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The heartbreakingly simple truth
Read my words on the heartbreaking Rugby World Cup final for RugbyPass
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Tagged eddie jones, england, england rugby, Rugby union, Rugby World Cup 2019, rugby world cup final, South African Rugby
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More important than rugby
Amongst the thrashings of a penultimate week of Super Rugby, an old favourite is limbering up. If Saracens are unbeatable in Northern Hemisphere club rugby, their equal and opposite are the Canterbury Crusaders. Many have wondered who would win if … Continue reading
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Tagged Brive, Canterbury Crusaders, ireland rugby, london irish, new zealand, Paddy Jackson, rugby, Rugby union, Sevu Reece, Stuart Olding
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You just can’t beat them
The word being used was boring. Saracens and Exeter were both called it. Curious, if you’ve ever really watched them play. Watched them do their stuff without the pull of club loyalty shutting one of your eyes. For boring, you … Continue reading
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Tagged england rugby, exeter chiefs, Gallagher Premiership, rugby, Rugby union, Saracens
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Getting stronger the more you hate them
The meek shall inherit the earth. But $4 million is a lot of money, isn’t it? You can be meek and rich, right? It is a case set to run further than any of Folau’s incisive breaks, so I thought … Continue reading
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Tagged billy vunipola, christianity, european champions cup, god, israel folau, munster, rugby australia, Rugby union, Saracens
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From Twickenham, with love
So, there we go. The World Cup is on. England are a very good team and they can go to Japan full of hope and expectation. God help them. These things are always better when they sneak up on you. … Continue reading
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Tagged eddie jones, england, england rugby, france rugby, guinness six nations, Japan, Rugby World Cup 2019, six nations
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Alacritous England end Ireland’s reign
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly…” Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII. Alacrity is a lovely word. And few better sum up the way England set about Ireland in the opening round of … Continue reading
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Tagged eddie jones, england rugby, ireland rugby, rugby, Rugby union, six nations
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