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Recent Articles – take a look
- The individual versus the collective – Ryder Cup
- The Ultimate Care Package
- On their side – Fred Tuilagi
- Rory, the master
- Turning displeasure into pleasure. Quins v Saracens
- New – The Whiteboard Rugby Podcast
- The Eulogy of Gareth Davies
- Extraordinary Saints douse a familiar Saracens flame
- Bristol vanquish Quins for an unwanted 5th place in the Prem
- The Rugby Inheritance Podcast – All The Episodes
- The Really Hard Rugby Quiz – Week 2
- Rugby Quiz Show Podcast Pilot
- Accepting and moving on
- As good as it gets
- As Latin as they come
Category Archives: Sport
Taking the stage
Please click on this link before reading below On a sun-kissed South American morning, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a man in a baseball cap sits in his garden, against the base of a tree. Like all of us, … Continue reading
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Nothing is off the table
Read my piece on the plight of English top tier rugby here
Marler and mirth
The 26th of September 2018 was the date he tried to sort this all out. He would step away from international rugby. He was young enough to still be incredibly useful as an international prop forward, but he’d had enough. … Continue reading
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Tagged AWJ, england rugby, England v Wales, joe marler, Rugby union, six nations, Wales
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Exeter’s Excellence
click here for the article on Rugby Pass You can usually find out a little bit more about your club side during the Six Nations. Shorn of key men, clubs can either step up or wilt. There are a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged exeter chiefs, Gallagher Premiership, rugby, Rugby union, Saracens
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The spectral sceptre
Please click this link to read this piece on RugbyPass It was telling that two individual moments of brilliance were all that England could proffer in Paris. Against a defence fatigued by work already done, England’s Jonny May jinked forth … Continue reading
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Tagged eddie jones, england rugby, nigel owens, owen farrell, rfu, Rugby union, six nations, twickenham
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Money is a terrible master
Saracens. A bastard child of rugby and business. Born from an ugly coming together. Now shamed, shunned and spat out into the wilderness. It was a partnership that had us all a little bit worried. Rugby with its need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Gallagher Premiership, premiership rugby, rugby, Rugby union, salary cap, Saracens
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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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A thing with feathers
Just past eight o’clock on Sunday evening, the heat abating from a day that has burnt itself into the memory; I am at the local park. About one hundred yards away, out to my right, two young lads walk home. … Continue reading
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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Double Dummy Scissors 