Thursday, October 01, 2020

Front Five - 01.10.20

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


Had a great chat with these fine gentlemen
about Leinster Rugby matters yesterday
evening, the pod will post this afternoon


The 28-year-old, who previously represented the Maori All Blacks, is now hoping his form will be good enough to earn a first Ireland cap in the coming months.


Cian Tracey - Irish Independent

"The idea is try and get the right technique then, on game day, I don't even need to think about it and hopefully I'll get that right technique."


Patrick McCarry - SportsJoe.ie

"There's a higher rate of injury per minute in Sevens than there is 15s. The collisions... the forces are greater because people are travelling at such speed."


RTÉ Rugby

"Where a player pre-Covid would have been able to demand a contract worth £250,000-a-year, he’d be lucky to get £90,000 now..."


Neale Harvey - The Rugby Paper

...we once again have a blue away shirt to go with a blue home shirt.


Rugby Shirt Watch

Feel free to share any interesting links you spot yourself about t’internet by email, Twitter, Facebook, blog comment or carrier pigeon – whatever works for you. JLP

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