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A ‘money back’ deal might help

Saturday 19th March: Aviva Premiership Round 17: Harlequins 15 Worcester Warriors 21 It is not often that I have the opportunity to write the phrase ‘Words fail me …’ but this is definitely one of them. First up, a salute to the Worcester Warriors – a mix of promising young players and [...]

March 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

A fitting prelude to the Six Nations Grand Slam decider

On Thursday this week (17th March), as part of the Rugby Football Union’s Great War Commemorations, the FRU and the French Rugby Federation – together with the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and the French Commission for the Centenary – organised a ceremony at the Tomb of The Unknown [...]

March 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of the future perhaps …

Yesterday I travelled to Twickenham Stadium to watch some of the Nat West School Finals Day, the culmination of a season’s worth of rugby involving schools from all over the country. It was certainly the case in times gone by that school rugby was one of the purest form of the sport. Nobody was [...]

March 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Like Guy Fawkes Night all over again …

Aviva Premiership: Round 16: Friday 11th March 2016: Harlequins v Bath Rugby at the Stoop: Result – Harlequins 35 (5 league points, win plus bonus for 4 tries), Bath Rugby 28 (1 league point for finishing within 7 of the winner). Through force of circumstances unable to attend this [...]

March 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The evidence of our eyes

England rugby player James Haskell hit the media this week by giving an interview bemoaning the fact that that TMO video replays of incidents during a match are relayed to television viewers at home and to crowds in the stadium, apparently on the twin points that in his view this may unduly [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stop the world, I want to get off!

Aviva Premiership Round 15: Saturday 5th March – A.J. Bell Stadium – Sale Sharks 29 Harlequins 23. There are times in this life where one really does have to be thankful for small mercies and yesterday afternoon may just have been one of them. With BT Sport, having annexed the Aviva Premiership [...]

March 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sometimes life imitates art

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist best known for his iconic work The Scream, which has become a staple of Western culture for the past 120 years for symbolising not only personal depression and horror, but – in a general sense – modern man’s angst at the direction in [...]

February 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some mothers do have them

For a couple of years now, great things have been predicted of – and for – the England rugby squad’s Maro Itoje, who will make his starting debut in the second row against Ireland tomorrow in the Six Nations match at Twickenham. He is lauded for everything from his size [six feet five [...]

February 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

One that both teams needed to win

On the Rust we rarely tend to post multiple reports on a sporting fixture and here’s a first from the sport of rugby union: Aviva Premiership Round 13 – Friday 19th February 2016, kick-off 7.45pm – The Stoop – Harlequins 25 Leicester Tigers 19. (Quins 4 league points: Leicester Tigers 1). [...]

February 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just another nail in the coffin …

Saturday 13th February 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 12: Gloucester v Harlequins at Kingsholm: Gloucester 28 Harlequins 6. Regular readers of my column will know that I have been enduring having a hard time of it recently. Given Quins’ propensity to blow hot and cold – best expressed in [...]

February 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

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