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Sale Sharks fan | Owner of | Freelance for: @rugbyworldmag & @TheRugbyPaper | Rugby World Cup 2023 Official Programme Chief Writer

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@BenNurse8

Ben Nurse

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I’m officially freelancing and open to any project big or small. I specialise in rugby, football and basketball content and can meet strict deadlines as short as 12 hours. DM me for a fast reply. I am also open to volunteer work depending on the project.

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All I’m seeing here is an embarrassing dive

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Dear TMO you are seriously not looking at this clear out to Furlong’s head? #ENGvIRE

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One more time for those who don’t know: RFU annual funding to Championship winners Jersey: £160,000 RFU wage for their CEO: £660,000

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My proudest moment :)

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If Rugby World Cup teams were Premier League football teams (just a bit of fun) England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: Manchester United Used to be good, not anymore New Zealand 🇳🇿 : Liverpool Every time you think they aren’t good anymore they are Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: Spurs Good but perennial bottle- jobs

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England are a dire international team and the culprit isn’t Eddie Jones or Steve Borthwick. It’s the man who pays himself over £700k a year from his own budget. And we should be holding him to account.

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“The pundits are boring, the commentators are frazzled, and neither of them really know anything about rugby” The Six Nations soap opera was tedious for rugby fans this year. Are we asking too much for commentators who know the player’s names?

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10 months

. @WorldRugby should spend less time finding videos to copyright strike and spend more time making half decent content. They should consider how two guys with zero resources can consistently create better content than their whole department ever has

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2 years

Rugby’s biggest problem is that it thinks it’s physicality is it’s USP when actually it will ultimately be it’s downfall. Parents don’t want their kids to play and players don’t want recurring concussion. Stop branding the sport as a one way ticket to long term brain injury…

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Unpopular opinion: This Leinster team is far stronger than the prime Toulon, Saracens, Toulouse teams of the last decade. To not win a trophy in two years makes them the most underachieving team in professional club rugby history.

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Pretty poor from Sexton not shaking Tomane’s hand The tackle was fine and it’s not Tomane’s fault he can’t play 80 minutes without getting injured

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Let’s play a game of: “I can’t believe he actually played for them”. Comment yours below 👇 (1/2)

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Rugby the sport where everyone in the stadium including all of the refereeing team can see the try has been scored but it’s against the laws to actually give the try because of the wording of a question from someone who saw absolutely nothing.

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2 years

Thread: Hips Defending/attacking in rugby is all about recognising “cues” and the biggest “cue” is hips. What do I mean by this? Well if a defender’s hips are facing a touchline then it takes a significant amount of time to change their positioning to chase out the other way.

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10 months

The irony of “disrespectful” being in the same post as “the Fiji Haka” What is actually the point of this account

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The singing was slammed as 'disrespectful' #ENGvFIJ

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Owen Farrell and George Ford are two of the best 10s of this generation and two of the best I’ve ever seen. After seeing them both appear offensively dull and stifled in this current England team… Is it possible we labelled Marcus Smith “not a test 10” far too quickly?

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My all-time XV with 1 player per nation: 1. Inagaki 🇯🇵 2. Creevy 🇦🇷 3. Tameuifuna 🇹🇴 4. Gordgodze 🇬🇪 5. JL du Preez 🇿🇦 6. Warburton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 7. Lamaro 🇮🇹 8. Botia 🇫🇯 9. Dupont 🇫🇷 10. Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 11. Storti 🇵🇹 12. Cooper 🇦🇺 13. Tuilagi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 14. M-Skudder 🇳🇿 15. N-Williams 🇼🇸

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A 13-year-old Georgian boy was looking forward to an evening of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive when his father “literally forced” him to watch Georgia v Ireland at RWC 2007. What happened next set off a bizarre sequence of events.

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From Tbilisi to Paris; The Weird and Wonderful Life of Nika Amashukeli

How the Georgian went from an under-20s international to the youngest referee at Rugby World Cup 2023. Those familiar with the ‘Butterfly Effect’ will be aware of how one tiny decision …

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10 months

Irish fans: we are quite humble, we aren’t as full of ourselves as the Kiwis and English Also Irish fans:

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6 months

People don’t talk enough about how in rugby (at least in England) the people who are paid to talk about rugby know absolutely nothing about rugby Is it it too much to ask to have experts (or at least people who attempt to exhibit some basic knowledge) like in other sports?

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There is genuinely 0 aspects of rugby that I can think of that would appeal to a large group of Americans. Not the sport itself, not the way it’s ran, not the culture. Honestly one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen.

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The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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"100%" 🇺🇸 This week's Continental Tyres Question of the Week comes from James Thomas... Do you agree with the lad's views? Should a Six Nations game be played in Vegas? @ContiUK #SixNationsRugby

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6 months

Something I’ve just been thinking about… If this current France dynasty has come to an end, it is possibly the biggest waste of talent and most underachieving team in the history of the sport. The players they have deserved more than 1 six nations title and 0 WC semi finals

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Ireland 🇮🇪: Manchester City Never used to be much good but now the best in the world Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿: Arsenal Had past glory but constantly giving their fans headaches these days South Africa 🇿🇦: Chelsea Everyone loves to hate them but sometimes it’s because they’re too good

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Ben Nurse

6 months

One day very soon people will realise it wasn’t Eddie, it was the toxic English media and it’s toxic fans

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6 months

Steve Borthwick’s squad are frustrated by the emphasis on honing the blitz defence rather than focusing on offensive skills ✍️ @danscho1 #TelegraphRugby | #SixNations

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Rugby’s problem has never been the product, the product could easily be one of the biggest sports in the UK This is the problem, 5 games at the climax of the season, all with jeopardy but they are all played at the exact same time and you can only actually watch 2 of them. Why?

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2 years

A little *harmless* fun for everyone on the timeline. Rank international teams on how likely they are to win RWC 2023 in your opinion. For me: 1. France 🇫🇷 2. South Africa 🇿🇦 3. Ireland 🇮🇪 4. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 5. New Zealand 🇳🇿 6. Australia 🇦🇺 7. Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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I’m writing about referee Nika Amashukeli and he might be the most bizarre and fascinating man in rugby. - Didn’t watch a game of rugby untill 2007 - Played and a crash-ball outside-centre for Georgia u17s, u18s and u19s before retiring at 20 due to concussions

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Me telling my Grandad about the unlimited potential of Asher Opoku Fordjour over Christmas Dinner

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Cristiano Ronaldo is thrilled to be sitting next to Conor McGregor 💀

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Rob and Dave Kearney being cousins of US President Joe Biden has to be one of the funniest obscure rugby facts. Got me thinking what else I’m missing out on. What’s your best obscure funny/interesting rugby fact?

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Australia 🇦🇺: Everton Formerly good team, spiralling out of control now Fiji 🇫🇯: Newcastle United New kids on the block and everyone’s favourite second team Georgia 🇬🇪: Wolves Often look half decent but inconsistent Portugal 🇵🇹: Luton Town Tiny nation with a big heart

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2 years

This is the problem though Stephen. Rugby has an attitude that analysis and stats are detrimental to the game and the longer we do the longer we will stay in the dark ages

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@hughgodwin_ @BenNurse8 No, especially as soon as you mention analysis and stats everyone turns off.

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Players who are playing really well right now but you won’t hear them get the credit they deserve: - GJ Van Velze 🛁 - Lewis Pearson ❌ - Ben Hammersly ❌ - Alex Moon 😇 - Sam Graham 😇 - Joe Batley 🐻 - James Williams 🐻 - James Chisholm 🃏 - Matt Rogerson 🐯 Who else?

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Gatland has never won a trophy and most likely never won a game without players in his starting team who were born in another country, why is he salty?

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"I just think that it's showing how proud you are to be Welsh. If you don't want to be Welsh then p*** off.” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales Head Coach Warren Gatland addressed rumours of any bad blood after Immanuel Feyi-Waboso declared for England. #GuinnessM6N

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1 year

Unpopular opinions time 👇 Here’s mine: - Top 14 is the best league and has been for a few years - Alex Mitchell and Ben Spencer are the two best 9s in England - Australia will play in the 2023 World Cup Final - Lowe, Penaud and LRZ are the three best wings in Europe

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8 months

I beg TNT get someone who can convey the territorial significance of kick exchanges and why it happens and why it’s important necause: “now we have some boring kicking again” has run its course

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11 months

People against 24-team World Cup are stupid because there’s three teams (USA, Canada, Russia) not at this World Cup who were at the 2019 WC. And another (Spain) who literally rightfully qualified for the tournament over Portugal and Romania before being disqualified. That’s 24

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7 months

Imagine trying to explain to a new fan that the Langdon clear-out is a red but this isn’t. Rugby’s biggest barrier is and always has been that it makes no sense. Make the laws clearer and make these decisions make sense because right now even us hardcore fans don’t have a clue.

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Strap yourself in for this finish 🍿 @SaintsRugby take the lead with less than 10 minutes to play! #InvestecChampionsCup #MUNvNOR

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2 years

THREAD: How Alex Cuthbert killed England’s attack. Alex Cuthbert divided opinion on Saturday. His plaudits cited his solid attacking performance but I noticed he was excellent defensively in killing options. To understand this first let’s look at how England attacked v Italy.

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Give us this: 1. Genge 2. George 3. Sinckler 4. Itoje 5. Chessum 6. Lawes 7. Curry 8. Mercer 9. JVP 10. Farrell 11. Freeman 12. Tuilagi 13. Northmore 14. Radwan 15. Steward 16. Mcguigan 17. Rodd 18. Stuart 19. Tizard 20. Willis 21. Quirke 22. Smith 23. Marchant

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@jaredwright17 Death taxes and SA fans posting slow-mo’s after a loss

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My analysis on @finn_russell ’s performance vs Northampton Saints. One of the best individual performances I’ve ever seen from a fly-half (1/7)

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Like clockwork 😂

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@MartinXRugby Still time to delete this mate

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That’s a shame because I really liked Gloucester, oh well, I guess I’m supporting every team who plays them from now on

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A special guest for @gloucesterrugby & @gloshartpury 👋 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited the club today ahead of Gloucester's #PremRugbyCup fixture tomorrow evening 🍒

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I fancy destroying my mentions so here is an international nine tier list (currently top 2 in national team only): S: Dupont 🇫🇷 A +: Smith 🇳🇿 A: JGP 🇮🇪 , De Klerk 🇿🇦 B +: Murray 🇮🇪, White 🇦🇺, Lucu 🇫🇷, Hendrikse 🇿🇦 B: White 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Christie 🇳🇿, McDermott 🇦🇺, Arata 🇺🇾, Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Danny Cipriani vs JB is not the rugby Twitter clash I expected to see when I woke up this morning

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England uncapped XV: 1. Rapava-Ruskin 🍒 2. Thacker 🐻 / Langdon 😇 3. Opoku-Fordjour 🦈 4. Batley 🐻 5. Clarke 🍒 6. Pepper 🦅 7. Evans 🃏 8. Barbeary 🛁 9. Warr 🦈 10. F Smith 😇 11. Murley 🃏 12. Dingwall 😇 13. Northmore 🃏 14. Roebuck 🦈 15. Carpenter 🦈

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@francisaac87 A shoulder to head so powerful that he made him spin 360 degrees like a ballerina

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In his last two seasons at Bath Watson played 14 games. In the same time frame, Finn played for Racing 36 times. Rugby is a business and numbers don’t lie.

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Anthony Watson explains his grudges that he still holds with Bath after joining Leicester in the summer. #PremRugby #BathRugby

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@Gibson_XL He takes the equivalent of 1/3 of the funding for all 12 clubs with 30 + players per club He also earns double what the IRFU CEO earns, a much more successful counterpart By all means if he’d been successful then take home your wage but he’s lost 4 clubs from financial issues

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Massive bug bear for me. It’s been over 19 hours and there’s still no highlights from Sale v Saracens @rugbyontnt @premrugby Meanwhile West Ham v Sheffield United, which took place at the same time, has nearly 500k views in 15 hours. It’s really not hard, real lack of effort.

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An important point to make on this since it’s had some exposure. As early as 2019 Championship clubs were given £550,000 each. They’re being funded around 1/5 of what they were four years ago. And yet the CEO awarded himself a bonus this year 🤯

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One more time for those who don’t know: RFU annual funding to Championship winners Jersey: £160,000 RFU wage for their CEO: £660,000

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Premiership Most Improved XV of 2023/24 (so far) 1. F Baxter 🃏 2. Riley 🃏 3. Painter ❌ 4. Tuima ❌ 5. Lamb 🃏 6. Fisilau ❌ 7. Pepper 🦅 8. S Graham 😇 9. Cairns ❌ 10. Skinner ❌ 11. Feyi-Waboso ❌ 12. Bedlow 🦈 13. Freeman 😇 14. Ibitoye 🐻 15. De Glanville 🛁

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@TightFive_Rugby No because NZ were the unanimous best team in the world for 8 years straight and rarely lost a game, SA had like a 50% win rate this cycle outside the wc

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In honour of Dave Ewers moving to Ulster here is the England “Never Capped’ XV: 1. Rapava-Ruskin 2. Yeandle/ Thacker 3. Schonert 4. Batley 5. Beaumont 6. Chisholm/Wray 7. Evans 8. Ewers 9. Chudley 10. Simmonds 11. Bassett 12. Dingwall 13. S James 14. Thorley 15. TDG/Shillcock

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These people have no shame whatsoever.

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. @WayneBarnesRef is the best ref in the world and every game he referees is infinitely better because of him

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The thing about Steve Borthwick being paid thousands of pounds to take this job is that he earned it playing this exact style of rugby with Tigers. Tigers won a title playing this kick-dominant style so those who hired him cannot expect exciting rugby with him as coach

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2 years

Been widely covered by other people but here are 5 extremely basic and easy things the RFU can do to grow the game: 1. Invest in and promote fantasy app 2. Invest in and promote the Championship 3. Invest in and promote BUCS

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@Atticus_75 And since then we lost 3 premiership clubs and the championship became unviable

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@tonykav1 Don’t see anyone else kicking off for getting tackled legally

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50% of English rugby fans can’t name the *Leicester Tigers* is both the craziest thing your brain could ever attempt to comprehend and simultaneously completely believable and fitting

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Personally think the added value being placed on logos is overstated in this research. Think it has more to do with historic success and location. Northampton not exactly an ‘iconic’ town. How many NFL and NBA logos can people remember? Wider issue is the profile of rugby.

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6,300 fans at the AJ Bell last night. Not a huge figure but our biggest attendance this season, in our first appearance on BT Sport 🤔 Can we put to bed the myth about TV games turning fans away the stadium now? @RugbyInsideLine @premrugbytweets

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- The first match he refereed was an u10s fixture - Was replaced at halftime in his test debut refereeing Montenegro v Estonia - Was stabbed in the leg by a club official while refereeing a match between Batumi and Army Now one of the best 12 referees at a Rugby World Cup

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“AJ is more efficient than any other international 10” Read my analysis on one of the form players in the Premiership right now. Do you agree?

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2 years

Going to hang this on the wall in my room

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@BenNurse8 Absolute and utter bollocks.

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Real world rankings: Tier 1: Ireland France SA Tier 2: NZ Scotland England Tier 3: Argentina Australia Tier 4: Wales Japan Italy Tier 5: Georgia Fiji Respectful constructive criticism welcome as always

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You know you are big time when Ruck are writing articles about you :)

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And instead brand it as the fluid and beautiful spectacle that it is always have been. The longer we keep the spotlight on this brain injury saga without properly dealing with it the more the sport will gain a bad reputation.

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In @SaleSharksRugby title winning season in 2006, @SamJames560 was a wide-eyed ball boy, dreaming of re-creating the heroics of Charlie Hodgson and co. 17 years later, he has the chance to do just that, and inspire a new generation.

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“We want to write our names alongside theirs in history” Sam James: The chance to re-create history

17 years ago a wide-eyed Sam James was a ball-boy at Edgeley Park, Sale Sharks former home in Stockport. As with any boy or girl who has picked up or kicked an oval or round ball, Sam dreamed of re…

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🚨 International winger tier list 🚨 (Top 3 per nation only) S: Penaud 🇫🇷, Graham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A +: Villiere 🇫🇷, Arendse 🇿🇦 Kolbe 🇿🇦, Koroibete 🇦🇺, Lowe 🇮🇪, Boffelli 🇦🇷 A: Fainga’anuku 🇳🇿, Telea 🇳🇿, Van Der Merwe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Mapimpi 🇿🇦, Watson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Rees-Zammit 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Hansen 🇮🇪, Tuisova 🇫🇯

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@James09959617 Still time to delete this mate

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If watching England play Wales for the 648th time genuinely gets you excited then power to you, for many of us the dream of having 20 + competitive rugby nations, who care about and watch our sport, may be over, but let’s pray not. #nototheworldleague

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2 years

People really doubted Finn. He’s in the top 2 10s in Europe and he’s not 2nd.

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My 2023 in Rugby 🏉 GAME OF THE YEAR: Portugal v Fiji 🇵🇹 🇫🇯 📸 TRY OF THE YEAR: Bielle-Barrey v Namibia 🇫🇷 🏃PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Antoine Dupont 🇫🇷 👬 TEAM OF THE YEAR: South Africa and La Rochelle 🇿🇦 🇫🇷 🔮 PREDICTION FOR 2024: Toulouse win the Champions Cup 🇫🇷

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The thing about this Portugal team is that in football if you are a lesser team you’d aim to score a lucky early goal and then park the bus and defend. Portugal came to this tournament fully intending to throw the ball around, have fun and put smiles on peoples faces

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This is the same man who earns more than about half the England squad? The man who probably earns more on his own than the whole Newcastle Falcons squad’s pay roll. The man who earns 6 times more on his own than the RFU find each Championship club, talking about wasting money?

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Extraordinary comments about ⁦ @Champrugby ⁩ It appears the RFU will strong arm the Champ into doing what the PRL wants. Desperate times in English rugby.

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Only rugby views any tactical innovation as cheating. Sorry your perfectly legal idea is too effective so you aren’t allowed to do it Imagine football banning inverted wing backs because they work too well and it’s no fair on teams who don’t use them

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5 months

It’s time to ban non-injury replacements ✍️ @brianmoore666 #TelegraphRugby

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2 years

He had his critics last season but Rob Du Preez has been absolutely incredible so far this year. To think we still have George Ford to come back from injury is crazy. What a club @SaleSharksRugby .

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1 year

There isn’t a single English player who wouldn’t improve exponentially from playing in France and we are about to reap the initial benefits of it at RWC 23, see: Zach Mercer, Tom Willis, Jack Willis.

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1 year

Some of this info came via this great piece from @jameswhile and Adam

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Expert Witness: Georgian referee Nika Amashukeli on his love for rugby

Expert Witness returns this week and we welcome a very special guest in Georgian referee Nika Amashukeli for a video interview with James While.

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Ben Nurse

2 years

Thread: How to/not to/ execute a out-to-in shutdown (blitz) defence. Demonstrated by Italy 🇮🇹 and Australia 🇦🇺 …… (1/7)

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Ben Nurse

2 years

I wouldn’t trust Israel Folau to make me a cup of tea

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2 years

Israel Folau will have restrictions on what he posts on social media says @officialTongaRU coach Toutai Kefu "That's probably the elephant in the room," he told Reuters. “At this point in time, (trust) is what we probably have to rely on.”

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1 year

@RichMusgrave Unfortunately the biggest blame lies with the man who financially suffocated all the prem and champ clubs while taking home 3/4s of a million pounds

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2 years

What a fantastic day to be a “jack in the loft”

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4 months

Just so everyone is aware, Alex Mitchell is the third best scrum-half in Europe.

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2 years

Whoever at @premrugby who put Tigers v Saints and Tigers v Sarries in the 6n window needs sacking, use your brain.

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2 years

This format is a shambles, we beat Ulster 39-0 and are going out because a team that lost twice to the Ospreys beat London Irish. And that team are currently losing to London Irish.

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1 year

How good to see this guy enjoying his rugby again. Future Lion silencing the critics.

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2 years

@StephenWall1985 Australia, Argentina, Wales above NZ, SA and Ireland is very brave and that’s without mentioning England at 2 😂

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1 year

@joshaw12345 Wow I’ve never hear that one before, you wonder why other people don’t know about this fact, like why don’t the Six Nations commentators read it out when he plays for France?

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10 months

Creevy playing the full 80 minutes + scoring a try after one training session with club is some performance. Gutsy showing all round from Sale who had to turn round a shaky first 20 minutes. Sam Bedlow and Van Rhyn outstanding all 80 as well and Ben Curry superb off the bench

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2 years

Antoine Dupont wears Gus Warr pyjamas

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3 years

@RugbyInsideLine 📂 RugbyInsideLine 📂 Tweets 📂 Sam Simmonds propaganda

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2 years

I’d like to formally apologise for some of the words in my recent article. While it is not an excuse for being overly-critical I never would have thought that the pundits I talked about in my article would ever read it. The likes of @JiffyRugby have given years of…

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2 years

“Italian rugby has gone through a transformation on par with 2010s Japan or Lemoine’s Chile” I analysed and broke down exactly how the Azzurri toppled the Wallabies and why they will now assert their position as a world superpower.

Why Italy can now beat anyone in the world

Italian rugby has long been, rightly or wrongly, the butt of many jokes in the rugby world. Annual 40-50 point drubbings in the Six Nations were common and expected and seven years without a Six Na…

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1 year

In the 1991/92 season, @OrrellRUFC were beaten to the Premiership title by Bath by a single point. In the 2022/23 season they were relegated to Tier 9. How did the collapse transpire? And what can modern clubs learn from the events? Read here:

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2 years

The irony of Premiership bosses saying they will take a Premiership game to Yorkshire just months after blocking Doncaster’s ascension to the Premiership.

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1 year

My first ever Sale Sharks game was a 8-20 loss to Leicester Tigers in October 2012. An 18-year-old George Ford was man of the match for Leicester. Today I watched from the press box as Sale beat Tigers in a Premiership semi final, Ford man of the match again!

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6 months

@RugbyInsideLine And the crowd goes mild!

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6 months

Six Nations pundits being asked how the game will be won:

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