Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
Apologies for not producing the promised content yesterday
We will get to it today
Hopefully the Ben Te’o news helps vindicate
what I was trying to say in this post from early September
…the likes of Conor Murray, Cian Healy and Sean O'Brien, who are first choice for club and country, would be better off staying put.
Ireland players risk losing out if they go abroad, warns Sexton
Ruaidhri O'Connor - Irish Independent
...it would be another example of how Irish rugby cannot compete with the improved financial muscle of English and French rugby.
Ben Te’o likely to leave Leinster in the summer
Gavin Cummiskey - Irish Times
Nucifora and the IRFU will want Madigan to move south to Munster to give Ireland three starting options at outhalf
The IRFU Are Trying To Start A Provincial Merry-Go-Round Starting With Madigan
Conor O'Leary - Balls.ie
It used to be that you could enjoy a drink while watching Glasgow Warriors play at Firhill, then go back the very next day to the same ground and be denied the right to repeat the action when Partick Thistle played.
David Gunn - The Scotsman
When it all died down, the referee chose to send off just two players
Awful spear tackle sparks huge brawl in French third division
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