Thursday, January 28, 2016

Front Five - 28.01.16

Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
 
Many thanks to Sony Pictures Ireland for last night’s special screening of “Concussion” starring Will Smith. It is a powerful, compelling movie on a topic which of course has much relevance to rugby and it is on general release from Feb 12
 
 
"Have you seen the schedule? He can have it," joked Gatland.
 
 
Nick Purewal - Irish Independent
“The word ‘exodus’ has been bandied around in some of the media and by the very definition of the word it’s a mass movement of population and I don’t really see that happening."
 
 
Simon Lewis - Irish Examiner
We'd hope that people are very excited by what we have coming up. We think it's exciting. So, watch this space.
 
 
PJ Browne - Balls.ie
Reigning champions Cistercian Roscrea could call upon seven of the team that claimed the historic victory last year
 
 
Irish Times
England captain Dylan Hartley's only been in the job 24 hours and he's giving answers like this
 
 
Rugby Onslaught
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Strike a pose - #RBS6Nations Launch Day

6N launch women
 
Gaëlle Mignot, Rachel Taylor, Sarah Hunter, Lisa Martin, Sara Barattin and Niamh Briggs at the 2016 RBS 6 Nations media launch in Chelsea, London
 
6 nations launch men

Dylan Hartley, Sam Warburton, Greig Laidlaw, Rory Best, Guilhem Guirado and Sergio Parisse at the 2016 RBS 6 Nations media launch in Chelsea, London

Players wanna play, coaches wanna coach, fans wanna watch & cheer.  So I have to assume these media launch days can be remarkably tedious for all involved, even the media covering them.

Going by the feedback on twitter the focus around the Irish contingent has been welcoming Rory Best as captain and quizzing over Johnny Sexton's well being and Joe Schmidt's Lions aspirations.

Not to say there's no room for a bit of banter on the day...





But at least it's a reminder to us all that the Six Nations 2016 is imminent, and this could well be one of the most competitive tournaments ever. 

We'll be harpin on this a lot more from next week...a round of Pro12 matches to keep us occupied this weekend.  JLP

IrlvsWales

Suck in that gut!!!

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Front Five - 27.01.16

Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
 
There are equal amounts of home truths and schadenfreude
in the Simon Thomas piece…though it is clearly clickbait
designed to tease out some indignant Irish reaction
(not to mention as counter to Neil Francis’ latest buffoonery)
it is still worth a read – never any harm to get some
perspective from outside the Irish bubble
 
 
...there are undoubted challenges facing Schmidt in what is a challenging time overall for Irish rugby.
 
 
Simon Thomas - WalesOnline
"Johnny Sexton didn't have any issue getting selected when he was out in Paris. So if you are good enough, if you are playing well enough they will pick you"
 
 
Declan Rooney - Irish Independent
He has youth on his side, but Olding will be hoping for a decent run of games from now until the end of the season.
 
 
Richard Mulligan - Belfast Newsletter
The worthwhile exercise will leave both camps with a number of areas to focus on ahead of Saturday, February 6 when they meet again in the first round of the Six Nations at Donnybrook.
 
 
SportsWomen.ie
The one book in Heaslip's essentials is 'The Chimp Paradox' by Steve Peters, a sports psychiatrist who has worked with the England football team, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Team Sky and Padraig Harrington.
 
 
PJ Browne - Balls.ie
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