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I talk a lot. Probably too much...

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4 years
Thought you’d be interested to hear what we hear in our headphones during a game. The voices belong to match director Steve & production assistant Sara. When the match kicks off we also get the producer, our statistician Adrian & the referee ⁦ @btsportrugby
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2 years
I hear @Nigelrefowens has offered to referee one of your games Alfie. If you need a commentator you know where I am. I’d love to watch you and your mates play.
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3 years
To everyone who’s made sure my best mate Sonja’s driving home from Cardiff with tears in her eyes tonight: Look back at your Tweet and ask if you’d say that to your mum, wife, girlfriend or daughter. She’s world class and you need to have a look at yourselves.
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5 years
I’m told 8.2 million people tuned in for Ireland V England. 8.2 million reasons to keep the Six Nations on terrestrial TV.
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3 years
Nigel Owens retired. Wayne Barnes now the best ref in the world. Luke Pearce on course to be the next. Brilliant communicator under intense pressure & scrutiny.
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2 years
A word for Huw Edwards. Wouldn’t want to be listening to anyone else’s voice right now. Peerless.
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2 years
And in a quieter corner of Twickenham, two brothers & their family.
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4 years
Richie Benaud would’ve been 90 today. Here are the broadcasting rules he tried to live by. More relevant than ever.
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1 year
Thinking particularly of Eddie & Doddie this morning. Whatever happens over the next seven weeks, I hope we can shout about this daft sport and enjoy each other’s company in their memory. It’s going to be fun, as it always is.
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2 years
Total class from Josh Adams. High time we stop feeling obliged as broadcasters to pick a player from the winning side.
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2 years
What a lovely gesture. Welsh try-scorer Josh Adams was given the man of the match award just before Italy's incredible comeback. He handed the honour over to Ange Capuozzo at the final whistle 👏 #WALITA reaction: #BBCRugby #SixNations
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5 years
Hearing over 10 million watched England V New Zealand with us yesterday. How many more reasons do you need to keep the moments that bring a nation together on terrestrial TV?
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1 year
For Eddie, for Doddie and for the wonderful @ScottHastings13 who’s been fighting & winning his own battles. A game that didn’t let any of them down.
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7 months
Ireland supporters will be waking up feeling rubbish. A couple of thoughts. This is the best Irish team I’ve ever seen. And it’s no coincidence the most compelling games over the last few years have involved them. So hats off to all the coaches & players who’ve built this.
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1 year
News of Doddie Weir at half-time punched the air out of Twickenham. We’ll all gather there again for the Calcutta Cup in February to celebrate a man who made life better.
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5 years
A thought after a night sleeping on it...how classy have the All Blacks been? From the immediate aftermath on the pitch to Steve Hansen & Keiran Read this morning. Grace in defeat is such a quality. They won’t be down long.
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2 years
Thank you for tolerating us through another season. Let’s get together again in September.
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7 months
The man who turned down a Lions tour to be with brother Tom & his wife Tiff as she fought cancer. A record-breaking England career ends on Friday night. Ben Youngs’ 127th cap will be his last. Devoted himself to rugby, while always knowing it’s only sport.
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5 years
Forget the 98 second try. This is when England took the lead...
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ITV Rugby
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🎥 All Access 🎥 See every angle as @EnglandRugby face the Haka 😶😏 #RWC2019 #ITVRugby
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Siya Kolisi on a one-man lap of the stadium, jumping the hoardings, having selfies, saying thank you. He’ll be South Africa’s president one day. Extraordinary man.
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5 years
Incidentally, with New Zealand V Italy also cancelled, this is no way for Sergio Parise’s monumental Test career to end. Deserved his lap of honour & standing ovation.
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5 years
Jack Leach. The greatest 1 not out in Test match history.
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6 years
Just like the Cipriani pass, you might want to watch this more than once. Federer in New York. Witchcraft.
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1 year
Plans to mark Wayne Barnes’ record-breaking career as a referee at half-time have been shelved. With his family & children here, there are worries about how some in the crowd might react. This is why and where it must end.
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6 years
Before every match Vichai leaves a bottle of whisky and glasses in the King Power’s memorial garden for families to toast lost ones. The helicopter arrived as we were leaving. The best owner a club could hope for.
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2 years
While the rest of us fumbled around in the dark to add anything worthwhile, Eddie made it all seem so simple. His genius, delivering effortless poetry and storytelling. We’ve all lost a unique voice.
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11 months
Anger. Disbelief. Utter sadness. To all of you who’ve played for, worked for, shouted for, loved, this wonderful club.
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7 months
Manu Tuilagi doing what we’d all love to do to Sam Matavesi and his family right now. After all that, there’s only one thing that really matters.
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5 years
Matt Toomua on the weaknesses of his former Leicester team-mates: Ford: Never pays for beers. Tuilagi: Terrible at snooker. May: A bit weird. Youngs: Second best player in family. Cole: No personality. England V Australia @ITVRugby
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2 years
I just don’t know what to say. 150 years of history wound up in 22 High Court seconds? How can that pair (and perhaps others elsewhere) look at themselves in the mirror tonight? Amongst the most shameful episodes in English rugby.
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4 years
Had to be Ben Stokes. But Doddie stole the show. What strength and what a human being. Live every day.
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4 years
European Chiefs. Might just be the greatest English rugby story ever. And a seismic blow to those who’d scrap promotion & snuff out the ambition of clubs who share Exeter’s dream.
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2 years
Even those of us who don’t support Worcester will feel like we’ve been punched in the stomach this evening. I’d better keep my deeper thoughts on the scandalous mismanagement of a wonderful club off this platform otherwise I might be getting a Twitter ban. Hideous.
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7 months
You know about Courtney Lawes on the pitch. You may not have seen so much of him off it. Unfailingly polite. Unfailingly thoughtful. No matter how silly the question, he always cared enough to find an interesting answer. A smile rarely far away. The very best of blokes.
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9 months
Thrilled for Fiji, what this means for them & the world game. A glorious story. As for England, I’ve honestly run out of words. Thousands of empty green seats today speaks plenty.
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3 years
And whenever anybody says you’re not good/big/strong/clever enough, be like Sam. Never give up. Simmonds’ Law. The selection that made me smile most.
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7 months
The best World Cup ever. Not even prepared to debate this. Thanks to all of you who enjoyed our coverage. Apologies if you didn’t. We weren’t trying to annoy you on purpose, I promise. See you back in the Prem next weekend @rugbyontnt
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4 months
JPR Williams & Franz Beckenbauer on the same day. Sporting gods for so many of us growing up in the 1970s. Nobody’s getting though Heaven’s defence tonight.
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1 year
And when England & Scotland meet in February, how about we give the man of the match the Doddie Weir medal? Keep his name and the fight to beat MND alive.
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5 years
Thank you, Japan. You’ve been a blast. Now let’s get this team into the Six Nations or Rugby Championship. On we go... Saturday - England V New Zealand Sunday - Wales V South Africa @ITVRugby
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2 years
Right now I’m thinking of Joe & the players, Lee & his coaches, Ali & the medical team, Kev & his academy team, kit man Pudsey, team manager Dave, Sam in the front office, chef Abbi, everyone who pays their bills working for a fabulous club & those trying to save it.
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4 years
And here’s the shot of the season. Rob Baxter, the beating heart of Exeter.
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Rugby on TNT Sports
4 years
Rob Baxter absolutely beaming while watching his @ExeterChiefs players celebrate is everything 😍 #ChampionsCupFinal
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6 years
How good is this? Stuart Lancaster in the arms of his family, in love with rugby and smiling from ear to ear. He really is the best of men.
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9 months
Been a while since I last borrowed Eddie’s seat for a couple of hours. Thinking of him more than ever right now. Crikey we miss him.
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4 years
@JNETTEKWAKYE @btsportrugby “Fall asleep in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...”
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4 months
Worth shouting about… Bristol V Exeter - 24,257. Saracens V Newcastle - Sold out. Northampton V Sale - Sold out. Harlequins V Gloucester - 76,813. Leicester V Bath - Sold out. Enjoying the Premiership this weekend, maybe even for the first time? Please come back again.
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3 years
And I’ve re-watched this almost as much as I’ve re-watched the goal. Beautiful.
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Football on TNT Sports
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"You won't see another owner come on the pitch like that and be LOVED!" This is special 💙 @LCFC players present chairman Top Srivaddhanaprabha with the #EmiratesFACup
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5 years
Wondering where to watch the final on Saturday? You won’t go wrong with your local rugby club. They’d love to see you & their bars are the best. If you’re a club opening your doors, let me know & I’ll retweet @ITVRugby
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7 months
I hope somebody’s putting an arm around every England player tonight because they bloody deserve it. At a time when others doubted them, they never stopped believing. A new era ahead, but maybe an exciting one.
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1 year
One final thought this weekend. If only the world was full of a million @FreddieBurns we’d be alright. Good luck on your travels Fred, we’ll miss you.
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2 years
My goodness. Va’aiga Tuigamala has died. He was 52. Before Jonah there was Inga the Winger. A giant in league & union, a phenomenal player.
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2 years
Freddie, Freddie, Freddie. You’ll struggle to find a better bloke in the game.
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6 years
Newcastle win in Toulon. Repeat, Newcastle win in Toulon. Only Saracens have done that in Europe. A famous day for the Falcons.
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2 years
All set.
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2 years
There are so many things you could say about Dan Biggar. In the week of the biggest game of Northampton’s season, the semi-final at Leicester, his first thought was for Tom Youngs and his family after Tiff’s death. That sums him up for me.
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2 years
Extrabloodyordinary. Nobody beats Italy 37 times in a row. So pleased for everybody in & around the Italian game who’ve never stopped believing.
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3 years
I’ve been journalist for a while now. I get the “bad news sells” idea. But after the year we’ve had I think we crave some positivity and that was the theme of Kyle’s story. You’d forgive him for thinking twice next time he’s asked a question. That’s why I reacted so strongly.
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2 years
77 days away. The Six Nations is going to be very, very tasty.
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2 years
Do you know the best thing about this? I can only see one bloke living this through his phone. Everybody else is doing it the old-fashioned way with their own eyes. Not life through a lens.
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4 years
Been thinking about this for a couple of days. Coaches come & go, it’s the nature of the business. But when they write the history of Wasps, Dai Young deserves a chapter, maybe two, all to himself. The best of men, who threw his life into the club.
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2 years
Wanted to mention Max Woosey yesterday but never got the chance. England’s mascot from Barnstable U12s has raised £600k for the North Devon hospice by camping out in his tent for the last 600 nights. He even had a sleepover pitchside at Twickenham last week @TheBoyInTheTent
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2 years
We gatecrashed Sue’s studio to tell her how brilliant she is & how much we’ll miss her. All of us who’ve worked/still work for the BBC know its faults, but its legacy is unmatched.
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5 years
Watching Wayne Barnes with his flag on the touch line in Yokohama. Nailed-on for the final if England hadn’t won. Sincerely hope this isn’t the last we see of him. Top bloke at the top of his game.
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3 years
It’s time for everybody to up their game. Including whoever came up with this headline. Not good enough.
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Ugo Monye
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Sinklers interview yesterday was raw, emotional & inspirational. How is this the headline today....?! Do better The Rugby paper.
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Had the air taken out of me with news of Tom Smith’s death. The quiet man who got things done. Earned even greater respect with the way he fought & talked about his cancer with such dignity.
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4 months
Owen Farrell to Racing. Confirmed. Three-year deal. And who can blame him? Hard to imagine he’ll play for England again. Goes out as their greatest ever gatherer of Test points.
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2 years
Feeling pretty chipper about rugby again after a night in Newcastle. Then read the latest from Worcester’s owners. You people. Shameless.
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2 years
I’m devastated for England - as will everyone who knows how much of their lives they’ve invested in this. But you’ve got to love the Black Ferns & more importantly you’ve got to love where the women’s game’s going as we look to the next World Cup here.
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2 years
The saddest picture in Premiership history. Come back soon Worcester. Come back soon Wasps. It won’t be the same until you do.
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5 years
Still shaking... @ITVRugby
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3 years
Dai Young: Josh Turnbull covers 6 & 8. Me: What’s the difference these days between 6 & 8? DY: It’s still two. Missed our chats. Irish V Cardiff, Good Friday @btsportrugby .
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A word for Tom Youngs. Always there for wife Tiff during her scrap with cancer. Always a classy voice during testing times with Leicester. 200th game V Alex Sanderson’s Sale tomorrow. Julian Montoya on the bench @btsportrugby
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2 years
Plenty of nuggets in the Prem’s first salary cap report. The best-paid position is fly-half, averaging £175k/year. Hookers are the worst paid at 110k. The average wage for a Premiership player is 145k/year. (The average wage for a Premier League footballer is £245k/month.)
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2 years
Been thinking of Eddie plenty today. Remember how we’d chuckle together after being thrown the impossible task of filling a chasm left by Bill & Starmers - and what a poor job we were making of it. Little makes sense in this strange old world right now.
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4 years
I’m not an impartial observer because I love Sonje and admire Eddie. But this is the art of pursuing an answer. Gold.
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BBC Sport
4 years
Interviewing the England coach done right. @Sonjamclaughlan 👏👏
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5 years
The strength this would’ve taken. I hope we’re all putting an arm around Alfie right now.
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4 years
Quins paid tribute to Peter Woodruff today. England’s oldest international was 99 and died wearing his club tie on the way to a former players lunch. He flew paratroopers into France on D-Day and was still playing for Stroud 4ths at 56. They don’t make many like Peter anymore.
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The audience for last night's Women's World Cup final on ITV peaked at 2.6m. Record numbers in this country.
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Q: Hello Dan, welcome back. What can you still bring to this team? Dan Cole: Goal-kicking, good looks, that kind of stuff. The man should stand for Prime Minister. I’d vote for him. England V Scotland, tomorrow @ITVRugby
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2 years
It’s Tony Spreadbury’s final day at the RFU in charge of the Premiership’s referees. If you think Top Gun then Spreaders is Viper, making sure the best of the best get even better. He’s off to look after Europe’s elite refs. You can never have too many people like Spreaders.
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3 years
For the bulk of us who wonder if our club will ever win the FA Cup. That was for us. Little Leicester. My club. The People’s Club.
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Every time Kelly Brown chats to us mid-match I’m lost in admiration. His determination to make sure a stammer doesn’t define him or get in the way of talking so much sense is fabulous.
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So that’s the Six Nations for another year. Well done England. But man alive I long for full, raucous stadiums again with pure, natural human voices as the soundtrack. That day cannot come soon enough.
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I’ve loved watching South Africa play with such heart this year. Siya Kolisi has been a statesman, colossal. But my goodness, this England. This new England. Exciting times ahead.
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The overriding image of my weekend - 12 empty seats at the Gardens, for the 12 men who take their lives each week in the UK @MovemberUK
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And at the end of it all, all that really matters. Gloucester & Leicester together to make sure Ed Slater knows how we all feel.
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2 years
How it started. How it’s ending. Been a long season if you’re a pencil or rubber. Let us not speak of the sharpener. Didn’t make it to the end. The final, tomorrow @btsportrugby
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The Stormers’ travel plan over the next fortnight. Heathrow ✈️ Doha ✈️ Jo’Burg ✈️ Cape Town. Play Clermont. Cape Town ✈️ Jo’Burg ✈️ Doha ✈️ Dublin 🚌 Belfast. Play Ulster. Belfast 🚌 Dublin ✈️ Doha ✈️ Jo’Burg ✈️ Cape Town. Admirable, bonkers, unsustainable.
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Anyone got this bloke’s number? Can you call & tell him he’s retired from Test rugby about ten years too soon. Thanks.
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1 year
Freddie Steward red overturned. By trying to do the right thing the game’s got itself into a bit of a pickle. It’s not what Jaco, Wayne, Ben or Luke would do anymore, but what they’re being told to do. If that’s “the current climate”, we need climate change. Let refs ref.
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Half a million tuned in to our coverage yesterday. I know lots of you would rather have been at Twickenham, but thanks for sitting next to us instead @btsportrugby
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1.7 million of you set your alarms to watch a women’s game of rugby this weekend. Thanks for your middle-of-the-night & early-morning company all tournament @ITVRugby
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2 years
Bring Your Kids To Work Day. One of them didn’t get the jacket & tie email @btsportrugby
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2 years
“For Tiff, for Tom & for Maisie.” All three of them were here with us today. Can’t remember a more emotional Welford Road.
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Now, more terrifying than ever. Sound AND vision.
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Rugby on TNT Sports
2 years
Commentary that will live with @FreddieBurns and @LeicesterTigers supporters for the rest of their lives. 🎙 Watch @andNickMullins narrate the dramatic ending to the #GallagherPremFinal . #NoFilter
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Siya Kolisi has been in touch with Tom Curry to offer his support & is appalled by the online abuse he’s received. “I feel for him & I feel for his family.” World Rugby says there’s insufficient evidence to proceed with charges. The RFU’s response is as angry as I can remember.
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If Andy Murray isn't Britain's greatest ever sportsman, I'm not sure who is. Growing up, the idea of a home player winning Wimbledon was beyond ludicrous.
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1 year
I assume everybody who lives within 100 miles of The Rec has already bought their season next season? Finn Russell, holy cow.
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2 years
Final thought from a weekend that’ll live longer in the memory. The chat between ref & TMO - or at least the final decision - has to be relayed to those in the stadium. Silly those at home on their sofas know more than the ones who’ve paid a lot of money to be there.
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My football team. Arrived this morning. They really should be the template for every professional club in the country. They just get it...
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