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This is the Big One. Round 9 of the Aviva Premiership and we are hosting Saracens at a sold-out Stoop this afternoon. I love the atmosphere that gradually builds up all week before one of these crunch games and, with Sarries the runaway league leaders (unbeaten in all competitions so far this term) [...]

January 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stepping gingerly through the minefield

The issues of nostalgia, political-correctness and modern, ‘let it all hang out’, right-on, ‘any-old-how-will-do’ latitude are – quite rightly in my view – recurring themes on the Rust and I’m not the only contributor to put forward his or her viewpoint upon them. At my age, one [...]

January 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

A job half done

The weather (specifically strong winds and lashing rain) affected most UK sporting fixtures over the weekend and yesterday’s Harlequins 24-20 away victory over Worcester Warriors, taking them above Leicester Tigers to third in the Premiership, was no exception. [As your Quins correspondent, with [...]

January 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Struggling to keep up

Many years ago [I just looked it up on Google and saw it was launched in 1999] there was a futuristic science fiction film called The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves, which was very cleverly produced and featured new special effects, including ‘bullet time’, in which – via mixing footage [...]

January 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

A rewarding family gathering

Since Tuesday 29th December I have been staying with my ancient father at his home on the south coast. On Wednesday evening my cousin Patrick – who is over from America with his wife – rang to announce that, having spent Christmas north of London with family, they had just returned to the [...]

January 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nobless oblige on film

Yesterday afternoon – because there was nothing else on television – I sat down with my 90 year-old father to watch the drama-documentary film The Queen [2006 – starring Helen Mirren, script by Peter Morgan, directed by Stephen Frears] on ITV1, with Martin Sheen in the main supporting [...]

December 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Resuming normal service

Monday 28th December 2015, The Stoop, kick-off 1500 hours: Harlequins ‘A’ 34 London Irish ‘A’ 7. New festive day, Bank Holiday Monday, new Quins rugby game. And after the on and off-pitch excesses of Big Game 8, also some time for reflection. Fans are wonderful specimens and come in various [...]

December 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ding-dong madness in south-west London

Aviva Premiership Round 7 – Twickenham Stadium, Sunday 27th December 2015 – Harlequins 39 Gloucester 39 [3 league points each: 2 for the draw, 1 each for scoring 4 tries]. Today – whilst leaving Rust readers who have either watched the game live on BT Sport and/or who read newspaper reports [...]

December 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Living in annual festive limbo

By this time of year, like most of the population, I tend to have abandoned all restraint and am ‘going for it’ on the basis that all diets, exercise campaigns, New Year resolutions and vague goals to do better in every aspect of life can and should always begin again with renewed vigour and [...]

December 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

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