Front Five - 31.08.20

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

ICYMI click here for a selection

of online comments after Ulster v Leinster

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Munster...can have rarely booked their place in the last four of any competition in such strange circumstances as this victory

Munster eyes turn back quickly to the big blue

Simon Lewis - Irish Examiner

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If the Guinness PRO14 wishes to have the elite best teams, then holding at 14 or even reducing to 12 will produce that. Expanding to 18 may just do the opposite.

Further expansion of Guinness PRO Rugby: how would that work?

Scott Hornell - Last Word On Rugby

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South Africa could plug the gap left in group two that is currently filled by Scotland, Italy and France and needs a fourth nation.

South Africa could replace Japan in Eight Nations Tournament

RTÉ.ie

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The poor financial outlook at Twickenham caused by Covid-19 has resulted in the revised amount

England rugby players to be paid reduced match fee from Autumn due to Covid impact

The42.ie (via PA)

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"He will be in Police custody and therefore it is in the hands of the law."

Fijian teen faces possible life ban for brutal punch that broke referee's nose

RugbyPass.com

(hat-tip Conor Cronin)

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