Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
Happy St Patrick's Day
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"We were eager to get out there and put in a performance. Unfortunately, it didn't work out today."
Micil Glennon - RTÉ Rugby
"The team will perform in Japan...We haven't been catastrophic but we haven't been as good as we needed to be."
Brendan Fanning - Irish Independent
Lindsay Peat delivered a passionate plea for the IRFU to take action...by introducing the necessary structures during the week
Ryan Bailey - The42.ie
Italy's losing streak in the Six Nations stretches to 22 games now.
Talking Rugby Union
“He was telling us to kick and I said, ‘every time we kick they run it back at us and cut us open’. We were tackling them behind the gainline so we had to fix that."
Iain Morrison - The Scotsman
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