Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
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What we have had in the last few seasons...is a small group of clubs around the country who are run well enough financially to sustain payments to players
The IRFU miss the point at the sharp end of the game
Brendan Fanning - Irish Independent
Ireland, who have yet to get beyond the quarter-final stage, have to contend with France and Italy in a Six Nations-lite
Rugby World Cup 2015: the pick of intriguing and affordable match-ups
Paul Rees - The Observer
Pienaar could also now be a doubt for Ulster's European Champions Cup opener against Leicester
BBC.co.uk
“He is a quality player who has come through the schoolboy system, the New Zealand age-grade system, provincial and Super Rugby."
Andy Howell - WalesOnline
Gordon D’Arcy has smuggled the ball around the field in his beard for the last three seasons and hasn’t been blown up once for it.
The long and the short of the beard
Brian Canty - Irish Examiner
