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What’s not to like?

We sports lovers live in a golden age. There is a surfeit of sport going on in the world and modern technology renders it available to viewers and listeners in a manner of which previous generations can only have dreamed. When it comes to presentation, things have changed much in the last seventy [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Tribute to a rugby great

The news broke yesterday morning that Jerry Collins, the former All Black, and his wife had been killed  in an horrific motor accident in southern France and their young baby girl is still fighting for her life. Collins, 34, was a larger-than-life sporting character, respected and admired by fans [...]

June 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Pretty vacant, really

Yesterday a young England team beat the Barbarians at Twickenham by the embarrassing margin of 73-12 in front of a crowd of barely 30,000. As a contest it was little more than a training run-out. Danny Cipriani deservedly won the man-of-the-match award for kicking 11 out of 11 and in all scoring [...]

June 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

You can’t always get what you want

Yesterday at Twickenham Stadium Saracens defeated Bath 28-16 to win rugby’s Premiership. It was not the result that romantics like me were hoping for but – fair play to the victors – they ran out to a 25-3 lead by half time and dug deep to retain control after Bath’s second half efforts [...]

May 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to win

Last night Worcester Warriors drew 30-30 to win rugby’s Championship (59-58 on aggregate over two matches, home and away) and gain promotion to the Premiership. I have only read reports of the game, in which Bristol led 30-16 with ten minutes to go to the final whistle, but by all accounts it was [...]

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby’s the poorer …

The Aviva Premiership season ground on at the weekend: Leicester Tigers 22 Northampton Saints 14; Exeter Chiefs 44 Sales Sharks 16; London Irish 40 Wasps 40; London Welsh 17 Saracens 68; Bath 50 Gloucester 30; Newcastle Falcons 37 Harlequins 21. These results leave the play-off semi-finals as [...]

May 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

And hopefully, goodbye to all that …

This, my last blog post of the 2014/2015 season, follows Quins’ 26-27 defeat to Bath last Friday night at the Stoop – a slightly atypical loss amongst our many this term in that it followed an exciting ding-dong battle in which the lead changed six times and the outcome could have gone either [...]

May 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Please pardon me – as a Scot, woman and occasional Rust correspondent – for unburdening myself twice in three days, but today I have been moved to do so by an ‘exclusive’ article by John Westerby that appears on the back page of The Times (continued inside) on the vexed subject of the [...]

April 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

English rugby at the crossroads

Whether we like the consequences or not – given that from time to time there’s a natural tendency in all of us to indulge in nostalgia – deep down most of us acknowledge that, for good or ill, human society is involved in a headlong rush to the future. In such circumstances ‘Stop the [...]

April 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Only two more to go now …

Yesterday I was unable to watch the Harlequins’ away Premiership match against Sale (a 23-25 victory). This was because, although I’ve been to see Quins play away against Sale twice before [at their old ground, a bit of an ordeal because it was in a pretty primitive state], I wasn’t in the [...]

April 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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