Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
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Only two of the back-line have played at the Rugby World Cup before, scrum-half Conor Murray and out-half Jonathan Sexton featured at the 2011 and 2015 tournaments.
IrishRugby.ie
...with Ireland up next in Pool A a week tomorrow and Scotland lying in wait in the final group game, anything else but a win here would be disastrous.
Simon Lewis - Irish Examiner
(RTE will) have the opening ceremony...the opening game between Japan and Russia; all of Ireland’s pool games; the eight knockout stage matches; and, um, France v Tonga.
Gavin Cooney - The42.ie
Stuart Lancaster’s son, Dan, gets the opportunity to start at fly-half having come through the club’s academy structure.
Ruck.co.uk
"If you give them a bit of time and space they’ll do a bit of damage. We’ll look at how we want to play the game tactically and eliminate that threat."
Duncan Smith - The Scotsman
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