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More of the same it seems

Any Rust reader who has ever been a long-term sporting club supporter will find familiar my current state of combined anguish, dread and hope as the Harlequins enter their last few weeks of pre-season prior to the launch of the 2016/2017 Aviva Premiership season on 3rd September. I shan’t bother [...]

August 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

The long-term effects of living life to the full

Beyond the familiar issues of corruption and performance-enhancing drugs (drugs cheats) that bedevil the governing bodies of major world sports, one of the biggest coming up fast on the rail for physical contact sports and games is that of concussion and its long-term effects. Here’s an [...]

July 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

There – I did it!

Little in this life is more calculated to forcibly remind a human being of the swiftness at which time slips away than sitting down, fondly recalling something memorable from one’s past and simply working out just how long ago it occurred. In days of yore (at the dawn of the professional era in [...]

June 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Responsibility lies with the man in charge of decisions

The biggest controversy arising from yesterday’s announcement of England rugby head coach Eddie Jones’s squad for the tour of Australia next month is the selection of Harlequins’ wing threequarter Marland Yarde, apparently at the expense of Saracens’ free-scoring Chris Ashton. The argument [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast …

I’m currently staying with my elderly father, primarily engaged upon combining mowing the lawn in between the rain showers and watching sport on television. On Friday we watched an hour or two of the first cricket Test Match between England and Sri Lanka at Headingley – with eight wickets down, [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tour de Lyon

After a hard half-day’s travelling (leaving our hotel in Lyon at an eye-watering 0445 hours) I reached home yesterday and ‘flopped’ – pulling up the drawbridge, watching a bit of the Barcelona Formula One Grand Prix before retiring to my pit for a two-hour snooze. Some that sports fans [...]

May 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach

This is the Big One – at precisely 0630 hours this morning a two-man SOE unit [you’ll have to look it up] will be picked up and driven to the City airport in London to be flown into enemy-occupied France. Their do-or-die mission will be to provide support to the formerly-mighty Quins match day [...]

May 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Setting off down the runway

England rugby head coach Eddie Jones announced his training squad to go into camp between 17th and 19th May at Brighton College – see a media report here – THE GUARDIAN Jones-watching has become a fashionable pastime amongst rugby fans ever since the RFU – bending to public opinion, as it [...]

May 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

As fond send-offs go, a disaster …

Saturday 7th May 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 22: Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs at the Stoop, kick-off 1330 hours: Result – Harlequins 24 (0 league points) Exeter Chiefs 62 (5 point bonus-try win). Harlequins 3 tries (Care, Stanley and Sinkler), three conversions (Evans 1, Botica 2) and one penalty [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so we face/the final curtain …

And thus we reach the twilight of another English rugby union season – the last matches of the regular fixture list in the Aviva Premiership  this weekend, with only the semi-final play-offs and Final to come; and of course the elite European cup rugby finals, the Challenge Cup next Friday [...]

May 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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