Front Five - 23.10.17

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

From my admittedly not-fully-clued-in perspective

it seems an obvious solution to the ongoing crisis

in Irish Women's Rugby would be for everyone

involved, including top players past and present,

to get around a table and thrash out a realistic future

#Legacy

#ActuallyBringIt

#WomensAIL

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"We stand in unity with our with our club mates, our opponents and our national heroes beseeching the IRFU to implement a long term strategy for the development of women's rugby, domestically and internationally."

IRFU accused at a lack of respect by its women's clubs

Alison Donnelly - ScrumQueens

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Leinster will, at the very least, seek to emerge from those with, perhaps, a 5-5 split.

Leinster and Exeter set up December qualification shoot-out

David Kelly - Irish Independent

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...it was one-way traffic in the second half as the French Top 14 side powered to consecutive bonus points wins in their first taste of Champions Cup rugby.

Ulster fail to weather Atlantic storm at La Rochelle

Richard Mulligan - Belfast Newsletter

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Marty Moore played the final 22 minutes of Wasps' 41-10 bonus-point destruction of Harlequins.

Irish abroad: Paddy Butler helps Pau to pull off Italian job

RTÉ Rugby

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Alison Miller, Linda Djougang, Jenny Murphy and their team-mates were carrying the fight to ‘Rock at every opportunity and the scores racked up.

Belvo continue free-scoring form as Highfield battle back to share spoils in Galway

Michael Gallagher - The42.ie

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