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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
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The individual versus the collective – Ryder Cup
And so, the greatest sporting contest delivers once again. The Ryder Cup tells stories like no other sporting sophist. The individual collective versus the collection of individuals. Villains versus heroes, triumph versus despair, generous sportsmanship versus selfish morons. What’s not … Continue reading
The Ultimate Care Package
Rugby doesn’t do sympathy. In many ways, it is a sport as cutthroat as any. The physical load carried by bodies on a week-by-week basis means that if you’re still standing at the end of each season, you’ve probably earned … Continue reading
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Rory, the master
It has taken me a while to work out what happened. Because there was just so much to it. At one stage, it felt almost like a fever dream: like we were seeing different parts of different rounds from down … Continue reading
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Turning displeasure into pleasure. Quins v Saracens
You know who you are. Perhaps for clicks, for the infamous hot take, perhaps driven by the ubiquitous dislike that is routinely sent Barnet’s way, you pegged Saracens low on the predicted Premiership table. Predicting anything in sport is a … Continue reading
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Extraordinary Saints douse a familiar Saracens flame
Lots of niggle. Back and forth. Chat whenever possible; players stood over the prone, nose to nose should the situation arise, wagging a finger if the chance allowed. It was chopsy at the Gardens for a Gallagher Premiership semi-final that had … Continue reading
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The Really Hard Rugby Quiz – Week 2
Here’s the second episode of The Really Hard Rugby Quiz. My huge thanks to Elgan Evan Alderman (The Times) and Charles Richardson (The Telegraph) for coming on and doing battle. In truth, they were extraordinary, and this was a very … Continue reading
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As good as it gets
Please click this link – https://t.co/9yTBM7yAit Stack all the chairs and put away the bunting. Close all the doors and turn off the lights. Even though this Rugby World Cup tournament has just over a month to run, we should … Continue reading
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Why not?
63 minutes and 47 seconds on the clock; Marcus Smith beats the floor with his fist. He has knocked the ball on attempting to keep a move alive. A move that had swept towards the All Blacks’ try line like … Continue reading
Got it bad
England fans have got it bad. There is so much to fall in love with. If you want heart, courage, desire: England players have it. Depleted in record time, Twickenham’s white knights rose to meet the badge. And yet, as … Continue reading
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To Protect and Serve
“I had Simon Devereux and Andy Deacon say it to me after the game, that they’d never heard Kingsholm like that for over ten years. In the 73rd minute, I remember looking at the clock and thinking, they’re singing the … Continue reading
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Tagged england rugby, Gallagher Premiership, gloucester rugby, lewis ludlow, premiership rugby, rugby, Rugby union
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