Front Five - 28.11.18

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

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"He has an amazing eye for detail and keeps you honest as a player, and he’s a nice guy too."

Jared Payne admits attitude often irked Joe Schmidt

Jim Stokes - Irish Examiner

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Murphy has been able to lean on (Felipe Contepomi), who is a qualified doctor, for some advice.

Murphy striking balance between rugby and medicine studies

Cian Tracey - Irish Independent

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"Every national coach — or assistant coach as Farrell was — will at some time be associated with failure...But that didn’t make us bad coaches."

Nobody Is More Upset At Andy Farrell's Irish Promotion Than Clive Woodward

Gavin Cooney - Balls.ie

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"...when I was with Leinster, they said I should be sacked...The next season, we won the European Cup and Leinster have been thanking me ever since."

Inside Michael Cheika’s sales pitch to keep Wallabies job

Christy Doran - FoxSports.com.au

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"I think the general consensus would be that a penalty was probably the outcome there that should have been given"

Referee of the year admits that he should have penalised Owen Farrell's tackle

RugbyDump

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