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Phew! We get off to a winning start …

And so to the Stoop for Harlequins’ first match of the 2015/2016 Aviva Premiership season, against Wasps. In days gone by this would have been one of the keenest London derby matches but – with London Irish down in Reading, Saracens now at Allianz Park and ‘London Wasps’ having moved from [...]

October 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Probably not the answer

I recently promised Rusters that I would do my best to hold my tongue on Rugby World Cup issues, and most particularly the fall-out consequent upon England’s early departure from the tournament, and therefore today feel it necessary to begin with an apology and explanation as to why I am breaking [...]

October 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sport going the way of all flesh

It is a fact of life that everything keeps evolving. In sport the elite sporting participants constantly get fitter and their core skills better, time-honoured strategic and tactical shibboleths get shredded and replaced with new ones, the global balance of power shifts. Sometimes these changes [...]

October 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

We Rusters have been talking amongst ourselves about our differing attitudes to our posts uploaded to the website, partly because of the editorial directive that there is no editorial directive upon any party ‘common line or approach’ – in other words, we are given complete freedom to operate [...]

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around (again)

After a slew of circumstances which seemingly justified me not going – a business trip plus various social and domestic commitments from which I could not escape all featured – yesterday I returned to my local health club for a ‘session’ for the first time in at least a month. The immediate [...]

October 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Putting the world to rights

Yesterday, almost before dawn, I set off to play in what – if memory serves which it probably doesn’t – my brother’s thirty-first annual golf tournament in the wilds of southern England at one of my all-time favourite golf courses. There’s no doubt this is a unique event. For the most [...]

October 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

The EU conundrum

This morning in the Daily Telegraph – and on this subject (pardon me for this) I do not know the paper’s official editorial stance – there is a feature article claiming that a significant group of Tory donors, business leaders and senior politicians are now backing the campaign to leave the [...]

October 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Going back and learning stuff

Last night I attended a firm’s annual dinner with my father. It was a fun evening and ended up with several speakers in succession paying tribute to him on their hind legs, which was a somewhat surreal but welcome circumstance for me as a family member. Why? Well, because these were tales and [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

A rain-affected rugby outing

Being a one-eyed Quins supporter who hates Twickenham Stadium as a venue with a vengeance, I deliberately bought no tickets for the Rugby World Cup on the basis that I would far prefer to watch the unfolding tournament – or such of it as was attractive to me – on the television, free from the [...]

October 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Such is life …

One of the aspects about modern life that most often irritates me is the sheer numbers of people that exist and then on top, of course, the knock-on effects thereof. [Having opened with that sweeping statement, I perhaps need to qualify myself. I am not addressing the issues of the global size of [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

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