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Tag Archives: rwc 2015
The fun in the first 48 hours
This article appeared on the Rugby Blog – feel free to read it there So there you go, the opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup. It crackled, it fizzed, it kinda meandered slowly and then came to a complete … Continue reading
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Tagged All Blacks, england rugby, fiji, georgia rugby, humour, jaco peyper, Japan Rugby, new zealand rugby, prince harry, rwc 2015, RWC'15, tmo, uruguay rugby
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The Rising Sun
Trying to write about what happened at the Brighton Community Stadium on the first Saturday of the Rugby World Cup is tricky. For the uninitiated, our sport finds it difficult to serve up upsets. The scoring processes are multiple and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brighton, Cherry Blossoms, england rugby, fiji, Japan Rugby, Rugby union, rugby world cup 2015, rwc 2015, RWC'15, South African Rugby, Springboks
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Play on…
And so we begin the Rugby World Cup. Alongside us, hope, that most dangerous of drinking partners. In front of us, the undecided. Minutes into quarters into halves into wholes, match upon match of rugby potential. That lot versus us. … Continue reading
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Tagged All Blacks, argentina rugby, australia rugby, england rugby, france, ireland rugby, rwc 2015, RWC'15, wales rugby
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How to make the Rugby World Cup betterer…
There aren’t many ways to improve our beloved sport of rugby during the World Cup. I could only think of five. Feel free to let me know your own suggested ‘improvements’. 1) Post selection draft This would allow players who … Continue reading
For better or worse
There’s a joke going around that Wales feel the World Cup Final is on 26th September 2015. The punchline being that if the Welsh beat England at Twickenham that night, anything that happens subsequently will pale into insignificance. In the valleys, … Continue reading
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Tagged matthew morgan, rugby, Rugby union, rugby world cup 2015, rwc 2015, RWC'15, sam warburton, taulupe faletau, Wales, warren gatland
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Lights Out
(The England Rugby team traipse back in after a 25-20 loss in Paris. Stuart Lancaster walks up the tunnel flanked by coaches Graham Rowntree and Andy Farrell) Lancaster: Guys…? What the… ? Rowntree: … Farrell: … The, er… (Pause) Lancaster: … Continue reading
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Tagged england, france, rugby, rwc 2015, RWC'15, Stuart Lancaster
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