Monday, October 06, 2014

Front Five - 06.10.14

Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.

Later today here on HarpinOnRugby...this week's Leinster match writeup is titled "Expectations"


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"a load of soccer moms at home watching it makes it very, very hard to deal with illegal play at the breakdown"

O'Connor: 'Soft' Leinster must find grit after Munster defeat

Ruaidhri O'Connor - Irish Independent




The 42-year-old, Lisburn-born former Ulster scrumhalf played 76 games for the province before retiring in April 2005,

Neil Doak set to be named new Ulster coach in succession to Mark Anscombe

Gerry Thornley - Irish Times




When I first went over to Ireland to cover a Leinster match in the mid-1990s, they were playing in front of no more than 1,500 hard-core rugby fans at Donnybrook. 
Simon Thomas - WalesOnline




The...first Pumas win in the Rugby Championship has once again showed the ugly side of some...idiots...using a laser pen to distract the kickers. 
22Metri - Green & Gold Rugby




It is counter-attacking rugby at its best.

Magnificent Offload-Tastic Length Of The Pitch Try From Racing Metro

PJ Browne - Balls.ie
 



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Taken by JLP from RDS press box on Nov 16, 2019