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Andrew
1 year
@AndyGoode10 From your own clip there - 📸 - head hits ground. Even if indirect
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5 months
@Phil_Sandford @timoconnorbl Where’s the theatrics? Genge has steamed in from afar and caught a planted Furlong.
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5 months
@gallagherbren58 Genge cannons into him from a distance. Not seeing the theatrics
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11 months
@RockyClark_1 @top14rugby ROG in his box. Moves further in to try and avoid. Player goes for 2 pushes. Could’ve been red or yellow.
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9 months
@Channel4News @SangitaMyska Where’s the right of return being guaranteed here? Dolling it up as humanitarian corridors but 0 indication they’ve any interest in them returning, however land is, vis a vis future control of it.
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2 years
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4 months
@evanhill @WCKitchen Even if they thought there was one Hamas fighter among them, 7:1 would be way above the line they’ve given consistently on ratios & with it being an international aid convoy on top… Re proportionality
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9 months
@SaulStaniforth Churchill himself had great unease about it. “Are we beasts” 1943. International humanitarian law wasn’t clear on aerial warfare & was specifically updated thereafter. When she’s rehashing point of Richard Madeley, not good starting point!
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11 months
They’ve done the impossible La Marseillaise totally butchered #FRAvNZL real shame that was worst in a long while #RWC2023 #RugbyWorldCup
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2 months
@HilzFuld So you’re saying that Gaza is revenge and not self defence? 🤡
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1 year
@RucksSake You’ve put his left shoulder when he ‘tackles’ with his right.
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1 year
@glove931 Last English player to score a hat trick was Welsh.
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Andrew
3 years
@StephenFerris6 @RugbyPass Exactly what this thread doesn’t need! An ex pro weighing in providing fuel to legitimise all those who think this is a rugby collision 🤡
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5 months
@mattd1990 Ah the facetious football reply…
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5 months
@Nickjames40Nick Dive? Genge goes into the ruck at full tilt.
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Andrew
2 years
@jimhamilton4 How exactly are Leinster more rested? They’re also on a 6 day turn around with disrupted travel added in. 9 the only change in backs and 5/8 forwards started last week. That they have till the 26th after is an issue apart from point you’re making.
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6 months
Looking at him standing there you might say second row - wiry build - but he’s got serious pace and an 👁️ for the try line. If POTM really is to be the POTM, they can be on losing team w/o issue. 🇮🇹 #IREvITA #GuinnessSixNations
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5 months
@lisanandy @chrischirp Why is an offensive in Rafah the only thing worth mentioning? What about the ongoing attacks on Khan Younis, including on hospitals?
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11 months
Pablo Lemoine has transformed Chile into a serious rugby team in no time at all. How on earth did @ITVRugby think it reasonable to introduce him as a “footnote to SCWs 2003 WC win” pre match? #RWC2023 #JPNvCHI #RugbyWorldCup @SquidgeRugby
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11 months
@jaredwright17 Just awful technique. Why are they all trying to stop players dead in their tracks by going high?
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4 years
@davidjamesdj @theAliceRoberts So nothing to do with the strong decisive leadership they’ve had from the start? Zero covid and they’re still not opening borders till everyone’s vaccinated! New Zealand shows what can be achieved when you use your advantages to good effect!
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9 months
@rugby_ap And yet the line being pushed pre final was how will ABs respond to 35-7 trouncing? It was irrelevant
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1 year
Ealing Trailfinder’s & 🇬🇪 have both hit their rugby ceiling as it currently stands. Ealing being held back by 10k requirement that existing teams don’t reach unanimously. And Georgia haven’t the fixtures to advance any higher in rankings!
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2 years
@SquidgeRugby In effect
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2 years
@ProgressiveRug Highlighting these textbook tackles more often would be a good addition to your tweets
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5 months
@PaulVall17 Nah. It’s one play just in 74 minutes so far. This refs a very good upcoming ref would say
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9 months
@JamesCleverly If the day is for remembrance, why are front bench colleagues invoking events like Dresden to justify 🇮🇱 actions in Gaza in front of Cenotaph?
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9 months
@RugbyInsideLine A very stupid tweet. Argentina are as good as any on their day. This isn’t their day and that isn’t on the draw…
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1 year
“Yes two players couldn’t bend their knee for this but they’ll run it off in contact training” #RWC2023
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2 years
@mikeni77 @ProgressiveRug @wallabies The HIA should exist but should be reserved for players it’s outlined for. Cat 1 players can pass but shouldn’t be allowed to try
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2 years
@sophielouisecc Facts go out the window when there’s a narrative! Djokovic literally went to court to challenge and then appeal his removal from Australia.
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2 years
Rugby, where an international fixture has to have Tier 1 team in it to merit listing. Georgia play Uruguay (both going to WC) and Spain play Tonga (WC team). 0 visibility in sport that bills itself a global sport @BBCSport , @autumnnations
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1 year
@RugbyInsideLine By expansion only if happens. Relegation not the way.
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11 months
@rugby_ap Looking at that tweet for a second time
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1 year
@GlasgowWarriors URC: “Munster by 11”
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11 months
@AndyRoweOnline He’s gone high on a landing player when he didn’t need to make tackle Daly already had covered… look at height difference with Daly
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5 months
🇫🇷 moved twice. Before the ball fell off and when it was back on the tee… Should’ve had a penalty 10m in front of that position… #FRAvITA #GuinessSixNations
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9 months
@rugby_ap “Cheslin, you got a spare scrum cap? Novelty will wear off quick”
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11 months
@SquidgeRugby 24 teams has to be in for 2027. Not 2031. Those are the games that make RWC as much as the big ones
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11 months
@TightFive_Rugby Willemse far too high there. He’s the ultimate 23rd but ahead of far too many quality full backs in that list
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Andrew
3 years
@ZoeJardiniere It’s akin to a massive fire and hire exercise, all designed to protect the flawed premise of Brexit.
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Andrew
2 years
@siinpembs @andypowell8 What treatment are you referring to? There is literally no cure and any treatment there is has minimal impact against the depths of this horrible disease! Horrible sub tweet this
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1 year
@thepaulwilliams “We go live now to Dan Biggar’s head”.
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2 years
@thepaulwilliams Eddie Jones as a rugby coach requires a level of nuance beyond rugby twitter as a collective whole. Not many will get close to 74% win rate over equivalent period.
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1 year
@BBCSport Brit to Scot in 44 minutes…
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BBC Sport
1 year
Second set to Denis Shapovalov. It's a nerve-shredding day for the Brits in the men's singles this afternoon 😬 #BBCTennis #Wimbledon
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11 months
What a cracking try that is. Ioane giving the pass to Allan then staying in the game to get on end of eventual kick from Capuozzo way infield , is elite level wing play. #SummerNationsSeries #RWC2023 @Italian_Rugby
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Tight Five Rugby
11 months
Beautiful from the Italians. Some finish as well from Ioane. #ITAvJAP
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1 year
@thepaulwilliams Couple paracetamol & game day ready
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8 months
@muhammadshehad2 @BBCPaulAdams Article 13 (1) (d) of Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I says combatants can be in a medical facility for medical purposes w/o it necessarily entailing act harmful to enemy. Ovbiously this doesn’t exist in isolation and part of wider simultaneous considerations.
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3 years
@FranceRugby 👏🏼 de un 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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1 year
@rugby_ap Any winger would look good if their opposite man couldn’t turn!
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1 year
@T2Rugby @spkeene @TheRugbyPaper @RugbyTimes There’s top MLR teams currently playing on American football pitches too. No doubt America has capacity for a RWC but lot more building than most or every other host potentially
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11 months
@LewisMoody7 @davidflatman @TomShanklin Or why there wasn’t a yellow card when they scored off penalty advantage at the end? After already having a yellow couple minutes prior
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1 year
@T2Rugby twice in consecutive games suggests they need to emphasise tackle technique more in training. ☘️ 20s had what 3 reds and then sorted it for rest of RWC
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3 years
@smudgeacey1 @EdinburghRugby @BathRugby Scotland and England are unsurprisingly treated as separate countries for such purposes.
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2 years
@btsportrugby Why are you giving followers a free pass to use coach as their reason to dismiss clear red?
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1 year
Literally right in front of Barnes. What’s AR for if not to call that? #LEIvTOU
@AndyGoode10
Andy Goode
1 year
Where’s the TMO gone? Head in the biscuit tin or gone to the toilet?! How’s he missed this clear yellow card for Porter for the tip tackle?!
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@LinebreakRugby Marcus smith: I’ve got my lucky pants half 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 half 🇵🇭 Paul on Twitter: shut up Marcus you’re “foreign born” by my measures
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1 year
@T2Rugby ☘️ senior team also barely get cards. 🇯🇵 getting 2 in a row having had none for so long shows they can get back to that. Not dirty players But those weren’t bad luck. were poor technique that both players v capable of avoiding on return! Best left there as see your points
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2 years
Interesting to see this from Finn Russell on @RugbyPass showing how player welfare is rooted not just in health outcomes but also directly in driving high performance! 🏉
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3 months
@HilzFuld People getting a brief respite from the endless bombings and heat down at the beach… 🤡
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1 year
@SquidgeRugby “No the Michelin Man didn’t visit wales camp. That was Dewi Lake in his new permanent protection suit”
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1 year
Hooper smashed out back of ruck by shoulder to head. Holds head, stumbles onto back and down 15 seconds Thinks ref said HIA - confusion? - so goes off for ref to come over & say na no HIA Seems like 100% should have had one @ProgressiveRug 🇦🇺🏉🧠
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2 years
@MarcherMedia1 @ek_rugby @thepaulwilliams People aren’t becoming trans to play rugby though are they? Sure you know that and tweeting nonsense anyway
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9 months
@rugby_ap Rudolph the mohawked bruiser.
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3 years
@rugby_ap South America should also get it before the US. The latter have the MLR to grow game there while they get a team that can qualify. Potential for Argentina Chile at 2023 would develop interest out there.
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2 years
Rugby has a long way to go if a legend of the game is peddling this nonsense!
@VictorMatfield
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2 years
In the words of Heyneke Meyer " Dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport" . There was nothing better than seeing Bakkies Botha inflicting pain!!
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4 years
@doctor_oxford Sometimes not even difficult at that! Incoming measures at airports should have been among the first for an island nation
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11 months
@jimhamilton4 Aki has to much upper body muscle to complete the clap up top
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5 months
@will_owen9 Les Bleus didn’t become Les Blancs on the weekend… With Sco v Italy/France it’s just a given so different part of same question
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5 months
@JamesCracknell1 Well before full time that was. Nothing to do with the result! Was a great game.
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1 year
@glove931 Paddy’s stuck in traffic
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1 year
@chrisjonespress Very poor take. Getting at ball in tackle isn’t an inherent part of the tackle and collision could have been different if OF wanted it to be
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1 year
☘️ rugby twitter will no doubt revel in Finn Russell missing kicks & kicking dead to touch down usual lines of “great & poor simultaneously”. Man’s done 3 80 minute tests; pivotal in all. Opposite number Sexton’s been plugged in charging at mains all weekend! #TOP14 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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1 year
Peyper didn’t even consider the sudden drop in height from Keenan as he scrambled to regather forward pass! Not against red all in but to disregard mitigation rather than consider and reject seems little harsh! 🧠🏉 #IREvENG
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11 months
“Twickenham was an incredible experience” @jimhamilton4 : facial expression saying “you what” #RWC2023
@rugbyworldcup
Rugby World Cup
11 months
George Russell at fly-half? Join Jim Hamilton pitchside with George as he's quizzed on all things rugby, with a Formula 1 twist... 🤔 #RWC2023 | @jimhamilton4 | @GeorgeRussell63 | @F1
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10 months
For every blowout v a lower team, there’s a classic like this. Quite how anyone would advocate for fewer teams at the RWC…. #RWC2023 #RugbyWorldCup
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4 years
@bbcquestiontime How come some members of the audience are now appearing weekly?
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6 months
@RugbyInsideLine Yet there you are bashing the ref for showing some character
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1 year
@RugbyPass 12 day minimum for all 🧠 RTPs. No 7 day exceptions
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4 years
@Sacha_Lord Australia has had 28,755 cases in total since the pandemic began For weeks the UK has had more than that daily. With over 30,000 Australians stranded abroad, they've said their borders likely won't open fully in 2021. Food for thought about how far others are going to control it
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9 months
@JamesCleverly Protection of British nationals in Gaza requires protection of Palestinian civilians in Gaza… Why is that not reflected if that’s the UKs top priority?
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5 months
@OnCallPaul Agree a HIA - even on field - would have drawn attention but no HIA doesn’t necessarily mean wasn’t bad
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2 years
@thepaulwilliams He’d seen Dupont starting at 10 & said that’s nothing. Setting the bar for Dupont getting his world player title back
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9 months
@SaulStaniforth They literally realised straight after WW2 that reciprocity wasn’t the way! Totally fallible analogy. Warfare was changed thereafter
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2 years
@Gr1ngo_ @alexshawsport 2 things maybe worth saying. 1) take this for what it is. A tragic instant of a young man diagnosed with an awful disease rather than an opportunity to jump on the let’s compare with other occupations. 2) research into MND needs to be furthered massively. 1/2
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5 months
@timoconnorbl @Phil_Sandford Just not sure how Furlong exits like that if it isn’t for rampaging Genge…
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1 year
@RugbyInsideLine % of capacity the measure there. Teams don’t have a second stadium like Leinster do to not do it
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1 year
@T2Rugby Only 31? Come on now he’s been playing internationally since 19 & 100 international caps. It’s hardly “only 31”
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2 years
Victor Matfield is a rugby legend. But the game doesn’t need former players commenting on what player welfare should look like today, if their idea is stuck in time they played. For Matfield, a time when HIAs and tackle framework were non existent. 🇿🇦🏉
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1 year
@AmericasOval Bogado bench? Makes sense then to get him some minutes then. And Isgro could go well v a lesser team to consolidate debut
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9 months
@SkyNews What’s ridiculous is the way they’ve been construed here and elsewhere. He clearly said the prior situation did not give cause for this at all - which it didn’t!
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1 year
@AmericasOval Surprising Isgro doesn’t get another shot in Mallia’s absence given short time before RWC and sounding like he went well on debut
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2 years
Itoje articulating very well that embracing player welfare needn’t be viewed as reneging on rugby’s contact element! It’s just about making it manageable with modern players as big and fit as they are 🏉🧠
@ProgressiveRug
Progressive Rugby
2 years
“If someone got concussed or knocked out, it was almost seen as an act of weakness to come off the field. Now it’s almost the opposite.” Reassuring words from Maro Itoje who says since 2013-14 the culture around concussion has “shifted immeasurably.” 🤞
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8 months
@supertanskiii @Keir_Starmer If labours position is the only way, why has Scottish Labour unanimously gone for full immediate ceasefire? Senedd in Labour Wales too
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9 months
@CaolanSRugby Get a grip. As innocuous as it comes that. Simply saying “if you won’t be quiet for a kick, I’ll make a throwaway joke about hitting it anyway”.
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1 year
@ProgressiveRug TMO takes all of what 30 seconds to say red. As ref would have if he didn’t defer totally
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11 months
@rugbyandthelaw @timoconnorbl Only so far as it’s attached to shoulder so swings from shoulder contact
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1 year
@rugby_ap Lads up front, dads in behind. Coombes is cooking
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1 year
This is why the Black Lions seemingly being lined up for Challenge Cup rugby is significant. It’d be a start in providing rugby at home in 🇬🇪 for players to slow down such movements. At least a little! Creating an option for some! #WorldRugbyU20s
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Tier 2 Rugby
1 year
10 of 🇬🇪 Georgia U20s starting 15 today already have Espoirs contracts in France for next season. Plus an extra 4 on the bench, & another 4 from the wider squad. Still unsigned are the starting outside backs Kakhoidze, Aptsiauri, & Tsirekidze. All three are talented enough imo.
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