Front Five - 05.08.19

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

Tick tock tick tock

Just a few days left

and we're back in the

thick of rugby season 

🎉🎉🎉

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Winning all four matches is not imperative, in the grander scheme, but Ireland would like some winning momentum on their way to Japan

An exciting Ireland XV that would offer World Cup hope to outside bets

Patrick McCarry - SportsJoe.ie

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"It's only the days and the weeks after it that you (realise you) can't win everything, things can go poorly and that individually I can play badly."

Ringrose counting on painful memories of final defeat to drive him on at the World Cup

Rúaidhrí O'Connor - Irish Independent

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For Cheika, it’s about...working out who his best 23 is and bedding in his new attacking and defensive structures after swiftly sacking his assistant coach Stephen Larkham

Bledisloe Cup: Michael Cheika’s big Wallabies conundrum ahead of Rugby World Cup

Christy Doran - FoxSports.com.au

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“If you start thinking [about] not getting injured, then that is when you tend to get injured, stuff doesn’t seem to go as you would wish."

England star fires warning to Wales ahead of Rugby World Cup warm-up matches

Anthony Woolford - WalesOnline

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He’s small but deadly.

Ireland/Scotland beware: 83kg Kenki Fukuoka steals two Tongans’ souls

Rugby Onslaught

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Front Five - 04.08.19

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

Cranking things up a notch 

here at Harpin Manor for the coming week

as the RWC2019 warmups get near

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"Last-minute try against England - it was probably something you dreamed of when you were younger."

Shane Horgan on breaking English hearts and World Cup warm-ups

Patrick McCarry - SportsJoe.ie

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Far gone are the days when a player was told that if he exchanged his Scotland jersey with an opponent after an international he would have to pay for a new one to be worn in the next match

Scotland can go to Rugby World Cup with optimism

Allan Massie - The Scotsman

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“We were able to achieve what we wanted to do so I would give eight out of 10 for tonight” - Japan skipper Michael Leitch

Japan thrash Tonga to set up PNC decider

RugbyPass

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There are strong suggestions Read will be shunted to No. 6, with Ardie Savea taking his long-held spot at No. 8.

World Cup worry? All Black boss says Kieran Read still on comeback from operation

NZ Herald

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Happily, he is symptom-free these days and in good health, relishing his role as forwards coach at Bristol.

The double Grand Slam winner who was left with epilepsy but refuses to blame the game

Simon Thomas - WalesOnline

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Front Five - 03.08.19

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...were a World Cup quarter-final against New Zealand or South Africa to come to pass, Ireland will most likely be underdogs to reach their first semi-final ever at the ninth attempt.

Hemispheres take different routes to global collision in Japan

Gerry Thornley - Irish Times

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Byrne has played at latter stages of European competition...but what Carty brings is...unpredictability to the play

Ross Byrne v Jack Carty – Who Goes to World Cup?

Jordan Norris - SportsNews Ireland

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Training accounts for approximately 89-95 per cent of total elite player workload and research demonstrates a strong correlation between poor individual player load management and injuries

World Rugby and International Rugby Players launch new load guidance as key injury-prevention initiative

WorldRugby.org

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Pocock...has recovered sufficiently to make the 36-man squad for the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Perth on 10 August.

Major boost for Wallabies as Pocock returns for All Blacks clash

The42.ie (via AFP)

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The Barrett family shifted to Meath in Ireland in 2000, where (Beauden, Scott & Jordie's father) worked as a farm manager and the oldest boys played Gaelic football.

Barrett boys: The brotherhood in black

Jamie Wall - NZ Herald

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