-
Recent Articles – take a look
- The spectral sceptre
- Money is a terrible master
- 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
Tag Archives: Rugby union
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
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged eddie jones, england rugby, nigel owens, owen farrell, rfu, Rugby union, six nations, twickenham
1 Comment
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
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged Gallagher Premiership, premiership rugby, rugby, Rugby union, salary cap, Saracens
1 Comment
The heartbreakingly simple truth
Read my words on the heartbreaking Rugby World Cup final for RugbyPass
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged eddie jones, england, england rugby, Rugby union, Rugby World Cup 2019, rugby world cup final, South African Rugby
1 Comment
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
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged Brive, Canterbury Crusaders, ireland rugby, london irish, new zealand, Paddy Jackson, rugby, Rugby union, Sevu Reece, Stuart Olding
3 Comments
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
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged england rugby, exeter chiefs, Gallagher Premiership, rugby, Rugby union, Saracens
4 Comments
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
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged billy vunipola, christianity, european champions cup, god, israel folau, munster, rugby australia, Rugby union, Saracens
Leave a comment
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
Posted in rugby, Sport
Tagged eddie jones, england rugby, ireland rugby, rugby, Rugby union, six nations
Leave a comment
