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Alan Dymock

1 year

Now online, our special report on players living with grief. Difficult at times, this, so huge thank you to all who spoke so well and who hope to keep the conversation going...

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Alan Dymock

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6 months

It's mad that France isn't a tour option for B&I Lions. Just gotta believe every midweek game would be a cracker, surely commercially would be a monster, France would go crazy for it, get a bit of Spain-Portugal in the mix, Test in Marseille too...

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

The new Stade kit looks unreal

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

How did May do that? This pic from back in 2015 may explain a bit

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

Quick out the blocks with the new headgear

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Alan Dymock

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4 years

I've lost count of how many time i've watched this from Brazil's Moisés Duque

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Alan Dymock

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1 year

"And you know what I liked... I liked that his feet were behind the line"

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Alan Dymock

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2 months

There has to be something he's bad at. Surely. His handwriting will be shoddy or something

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2 months

A very happy @Dupont9A with the winning try✌️🇫🇷 #HSBCSVNS | #HSBCSVNSVAN

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Alan Dymock

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5 years

"How did Fiji get on against the Maori?" Well...

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Dumfries and Galloway

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Alan Dymock

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4 years

"Only in rugby - our sport is so special 🤗"

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

This match needs to be sent to The Hague for crimes against entertainment

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Alan Dymock

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1 year

This was Grandmaster-level stuff at the time

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Alan Dymock

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1 year

Me, or are ITV's comms slightly ahead of the pictures for France v Wales?

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

How does Fabien Galthié like his doughnuts? With Jaminet

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

I can't be the only one who would watch a @WorldRugby streamed, structured debate between Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot?

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Alan Dymock

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5 years

Keep Ben Smith fresh for the third-place play-off...

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Alan Dymock

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5 years

If you see anyone kicking off because This Morning has been CANCELLED for #RWC2019 coverage, please point me at it. I live for those tweets

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

These are the Otago 8 boots from Le Coq Sportif. This is how they got things done in the 80s

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

This Argentina U20s kit is... different

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Rugby really treats its match officials like shite, doesn't it? Across the globe, from all sides. And it's cheered on

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

If you've ever asked why more elite props don't play on both sides, this piece looks in some detail at both roles... And why Trevor Nyakane deserves a lot more of our praise for the last few weeks

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Gatland must shave his head immediately

Rugby World

@Rugbyworldmag

3 years

Warren Gatland has named his Lions coaching team. Full story 👉

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Er, Mum, any chance you visited Georgia around the tail-end of 1986?

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

You better believe there are scenes in Madrid...

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Scotland fans seeking out Lions XVs posts

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Canada men won't play at RWC2023 - the first they've ever missed. That's big. And the rise of Chile has been something else

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Alan Dymock

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4 years

Blows my mind how many people are like CANATIGHTHEADNOTJUSTPLAYLOOSEHEAD?

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 months

Does anyone have any examples of Butterfly Effect moments in rugby – something seemingly tiny or innocuous, that has had a huge impact on the game

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Alan Dymock

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6 years

HERE IT IS! Absolutely brilliant. Top work @DamianDerrick

Damian Derrick

@DamianDerrick

6 years

@AlanDymock @hughgodwin_ My work is done. Think I might have to go home now. Can't top this.

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Folk in the UK getting their first introduction to Ruby Tui on telly. Class

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

1 year

There is no athlete more Scottish

Greg Stewart

@bordersgolfer

1 year

@thistlerugbypod Finn is at baynes tanning macaroni pies

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Sometimes, in quieter moments, I think about how this image has aged...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

What are the best nicknames you've ever heard in rugby (amateur level or elite)? In Dundee there was a huge guy known as 'Hungry'. When his much-smaller brother rocked up, he became 'Peckish'...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

Currently obsessed with 2009 Wilkinson's style choices. I'm all in

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

"Nicolás Sánchez needs to be outlawed immediately"

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

This is just good stuff. He's actually shaking

Sky Sports Rugby Union

@SkySportsRugby

3 years

"I've been told I'm not allowed to swear so I'll struggle to put it into words!" 🤐 Scotland prop forward Rory Sutherland was shaking with excitement after being named in the British and Irish Lions squad! 🦁

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Tom Curry is at the Boss level without losing a life. Hell of a game

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

2 years

This shite is why you want Scotland in the Six Nations; You need Scotland in the Six Nations

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 months

For absolutely no reason, here is a thread of rugby people giving it 👍👍

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Alan Dymock

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3 months

How many of these we gonna see on telly during Six Nations? Gotta be a big number

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

Memes don't even need to make sense anymore, tbh

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Ban this sick filth

SuperSport 🏆

@SuperSportTV

5 years

#SuperRugby - HALFTIME: Crusaders 24-0 Hurricanes The defending champions have been relentless in the opening half and have run in four tries so far. Live Vodacom #SuperRugby coverage continues on SS1 & DStv Now >>

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Alan Dymock

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5 years

I know we saw it for the 2002 Football World Cup and it's used for baseball all the time, but the Sapporo Dome is still just a mad bit of kit

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

7 years

Contender for best name in rugby: just clocked one of the New Zealand women's sevens training squad is called Crystal Mayes

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

No face-to-face celes, no problem

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Alan Dymock

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2 years

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

A few days off the pace and not a new take, but watching France-Scotland back, Andrew Cotter is great. Right tone, not seeking to coin a phrase, bang in line with the action. Just gid

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Kicks 0 from 4, then slots this to beat New Zealand? Fair ones

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

Imagine being a young, ambitious Championship player and hearing the boss of the RFU say: "We do not believe it [Champ] is the primary place where Premiership and England players are discovered and developed”

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Stuart Hogg gone full T-1000 in defence #Lionsrugby

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Alan Dymock

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Alan Dymock

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24 days

I've fallen down a massive rabbit hole in the @Rugbyworldmag archive, looking at covers – and there are some absolute crackers. Here's a thread of a few starting with a flying Johnno in 97 (you can subscribe to the archive here )

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Alan Dymock

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5 years

Doing a two-day job in six hours, people sleeping at the stadium, the Brave Blossoms watching home videos... Here's what went on behind the scenes in an emotional 24 hours in Yokohama

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Alexa, play "Scottish rugby" playlist

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

There is a glorious world out there of rugby people handling food for promo shots... A GOLDEN THREAD First, it's only Graham Henry and some leeks

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

2 months

Just the Six Nations coaches, looking impossibly young

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

"This system will fall and one day we will start a fundamentally new page in our history, as a country without a dictator” Meet the Belarus rugby captain arrested for protesting against the nation's regime

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

In that Edinburgh squad to play Munster check how many of them played sevens. Hard to fathom that that avenue was almost axed a few years back

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Argentina, bloody hell. Moment of the Olympic Sevens so far. What a performance

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

2 years

Uganda men MVPs of this Comm Sevens meet?

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Alan Dymock

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1 year

Duhan van der Merwe beat five tacklers on the way to his incredible try against England – no other player beat more than two with a single carry, at the weekend (Oval Insights). So what if we plotted those…

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

Just found this cracker of an old Heineken Cup promo shot. Just the two defunct teams and an ode to, er... departed lids...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

29 days

There's Michael Hooper, immediately after his sevens debut - a wee win over Fiji

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Alan Dymock

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11 months

Imagine a fly-on-the-wall Six Nations documentary series was all released today, as domestic leagues are over/winding down, and months before the RWC...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

8 months

She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

On this day in 1998, a truly iconic rugby shirt was first unveiled...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Please, please give a verdict on Fagerson soon so the shite patter about biscuits ends... 🙏

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

2 months

Damian Penaud makes no sense. He's like a bumblebee or double denim. It's like, no matter how he tries to mess it up, he's world class

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

When a club says 'appearances' rather than 'caps'

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Alan Dymock

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8 months

Imagine that's the first game of rugby you've ever seen. Just insane

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Alan Dymock

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1 year

Alan Dymock

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1 year

Best bit about that from Finn Russell was Brad Mooar doing a wee mime of it in the coaching box after

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Alan Dymock

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6 years

This story, about the NFL coach who was mentored by his biological father for 28 years without knowing they were related, is great

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

The team at L'Equipe deserve so much credit for the developing Galthie story

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

I reckon Eddie Jones just hasn't clocked how frustrating Edinburgh can be, generally. Has he ever tried to get a late-night feed from anywhere other than Bar Napoli or Storries bakery?

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

“That’s the difference. We’re going to be the first-ever professional Pacific Island rugby team. We’re going to get behind our Pacific Island players and support them.” Spoke to rugby manager Cam Kilgour about Kanaloa Hawaii Rugby joining MLR

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Just quickly on this: Sam Warburton also said on BBC yesterday that he got it wrong in comms at the time. Mature stuff. It's alright to change your mind, to reflect, rather than doubling down like a KFC fire sale

Hamish Watson

@hamishwatson7

3 years

@STVNews Poor comments from me, emotions were very high after losing a very tight match. Players health is paramount.

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

So you're saying that a Japan-South Africa World Cup quarter-final is on the cards, eh...?

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 months

Wainwright got the gong, but my word Reffell deserves to be carried off the park

Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 months

Atlas act from Reffell so far

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

The 100,000th punter to make the gag they too are withdrawing from the Lions gets a happy meal. Just top, top comedy lads, well done...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

One day, 20 years ago, Johnny Knoxville and 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘴 rocked up to London Irish training for a session. Here are some memories of that ridiculous day from two men involved

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Does Ntamack kick off a JML dish brush?

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Talking about the Lions squad announcement 2021

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Wait, did no one from Japan win an award last night? RWC winners and coach of RWC winners will win the trophies (to add to their gold medals) for the rest of time, but Jamie Joseph's team did something that had literally never been done before and entertained a planet. Chur

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

"You have to watch the whole competition because it’s like a series. It’s like Game of Thrones" An ode to the brilliant madness of France's ProD2

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Only one man for the job of RWC2023 draw...

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Alan Dymock

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3 years

Trying to squeeze all the players you've said "must tour" into a Lions 36

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

6 months

Hardly molten, but I could not care less whether the put-in at the scrum is straight...

Rugby World

@Rugbyworldmag

6 months

What is your HOTTEST rugby take? 🔥

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Just speaking to a guy who doesn't watch rugby but enjoying the Six Nations – his main complaint is that when a big decision is made and he doesn't understand rules, he'd like a commentator/pundit/graphic to explain. He can't be alone with this during 6N?

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

4 years

Hamish Watson and Jamie Ritchie: the most brutal double act since Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox?

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

This is not a drill: Chabal is singing – dressed as a caveman – at the Hong Kong 7s.

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Alan Dymock

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1 year

"I managed to find out that my opposition winger struggled to turn and that gave me such a competitive advantage"

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Alan Dymock

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7 years

In the age of one footballer unfollowing another on instagram being a story, give me Seán O'Brien airing his genuine view any day

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

1 year

That Jonah Lomu x Anna Kournikova shoot you didn't know existed

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

3 years

Won't do that twee red flag thing, but I see the "He's not Scottish enough for our lovely rugby team!" people are out again

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

There it is...

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Classy looking. 148 pages. Comes with a wallchart. Every single World Cup team covered in depth. All the coaches profiled. Interviews with star players from both hemispheres. Go buy it.

Rugby World

@Rugbyworldmag

5 years

GOLD STANDARD! Our ultimate Rugby World Cup guide hits shelves tomorrow – here's a look at the new cover and find out what's inside ➡️

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

2 years

New issue @Rugbyworldmag hits shops today. We've gone big on the RWC in NZ - team guides, a free wallchart and supplement... As well as guides, I've profiled Damian Willemse and gone deep on Regan Grace's conversion from league to union + more

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

5 years

Fiji team to face Canada... it's happening. Nakarawa, Yato and Mata in the pack, Sau, Radradra and Tuisova in the backs. Semtex stuff

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Alan Dymock

@AlanDymock

1 year

A thought occurred to me – could we pinpoint the safest pair of hands in the Six Nations? The player who has made the fewest errors and been turned over the least in contact this season, in the top three European leagues? So we asked Oval Insights

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