Saturday, November 08, 2014

Front Five - 08.11.14

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

Later today here on HarpinOnRugby...
details of our next "unriggable raffle"


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you know Schmidt would have seen enough in training to convince him (Henshaw & Payne) can handle this job against the Boks. Right?

Keep the faith in Schmidt's calculated risk-taking

Sinead Kissane - Irish Independent




"It is really helpful when there are sticky situations on the pitch that you have the camaraderie we have which can be enough to get you through."

De Villiers under no illusions

Sport24.co.za




"We have to make sure we got our own house in order first before we start looking at the guy with the whistle." * 
Richard Knowler - Stuff.co.nz




The last time Wales beat Australia, the Wallabies line-up included Matt Giteau, Stirling Mortlock, Phil Waugh and Ryan Cross. 
Chris Dutton - Sydney Morning Herald




Van der Westhuizen is suffering from Motor Neurons Disease and is working with his J9 foundation to try and raise awareness for the disease.

The Irish team met up with legendary Springboks scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen today

Will Slattery - TheScore.ie
 



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Note - views expressed in "Front Five" links do not necessarily reflect those of HarpinOnRugby

* = note - we only have the journalist's word that Richie actually said that!  We here at HoR Manor have our doubts...

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