Sunday, October 23, 2016

Front Five - 23.10.16

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

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of Leinster A v Nottingham

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Montpellier v Leinster preview


...the rawness was of a different strain. In the most awful circumstances imaginable, it was a throwback to the best days in Limerick.


Brendan Fanning - Irish Independent

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Paddy Jackson dropped back in the pocket, kept his nerve superbly in guiding his 20-metre drop goal through the posts and handed his side redemption


John O'Sullivan - Irish Times

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Northampton Saints left the Stade Pierre-Antoine battered and bruised


Matthew Wood - Talking Rugby Union

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Although Itoje has won all his seven England caps this year in the second row, Jones was considering playing him in the back row against South Africa


Paul Rees - The Guardian

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The...horse claimed the Maiden Hurdle about an hour after...Munster Rugby Supporter’s Club Choir belted out a powerful rendition for the province's anthem.


Ben Kiely - SportsJoe.ie

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