Liam

European Cup 🏉 🏆 Top 5 from each of URC, Top 14 & Prem plus previous season’s winner = 16 Straight knockout Home & Away legs in each round, back to back weekends, aggregate score 6-8 weeks between rounds to allow fans to book ✈️ 🚊 🏨 🎫

It’s good that it only took England Rugby 5 years, 50 caps, 2 world cups and a Lions tour of tearing it up to realise there is an exact genetic replica of Tom Curry just chilling about waiting to get picked #ENGvNZL

Like Earl but Curry. Only took 18 months.

I’ve banged on to anyone that will listen that Tom Curry has all the skills of a 12. Just pick him there. Imagine having all of Curry, Earl, Willis on the field at the same time, plus 3 L/O forwards. Tackle/jackal, kick chase etc

All Blacks 6/2 split on the bench, Springboks 7/1 …. Curious to know when the first time we’ll see a 9/6 split START on the field The 8/7 split has been around as long as the game, but it’s fair to say the modern pro game looks a lot different to what it used to, even recently

England persevere with a defensive system that belongs to a coach who no longer coaches the team, with a defensive captain from the club that sits 11th in the league, because that club runs that system, only their defence coach was also sacked because it didn’t work. Righto.

x.com/premrugby/stat… NB Just pick him (or Tom) at centre

@CharlieFelix If he’s good enough to captain the A side and win a Prem title, he’s good enough for a look in the national side on current form!! England’s Conrad Smith in the making…

Fraser Dingwall having an understatedly sharp game for England A in attack, linking things together nicely on the gain-line.

@CharlieFelix Massive win

Report on that England U20 win here. If you're a prospective Test forward, being able to put 'beat South Africa in South Africa with a driving maul at the death' on your CV is pretty fly. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

@MartinWebdale @CharlieFelix @BUCSSuperRugby Should be the future of the performance pathway in English rugby. Regular, pressured, appropriate competition for the best & brightest aged 18-23. Would also go a decent way to solving some of the financial problems of professional rugby

@CharlieFelix Big shoutout to @BUCSSuperRugby Charlie. Lots of that group playing regular student rugby

Even without it being a safer alternative to rushing/whacking the BC, it 1. actively creates space for teams to attack through and if it comes off as an intercept 2. looks box office … both of which benefit the game as an entertainment spectacle 🤷‍♂️

@WorldRugby @EnglandRugby @premrugby If you want to make the game safer by removing dangerous tackle events* continuing to YC players for a perfectly safe alternative behaviour is a pretty idiotic way to do it 👍 *the in vogue rushing outside back defenders going hard to whack

Be kicking off in Pontypandy tonight #WALvITA #SixNationsRugby

@russellearnshaw 3 receivers to keep the oppo guessing. Smart, very smart.

love a dummy peel… 😍

@BudgeNorris No you’re right that’s a fair point. He should have let DVM keep the ball instead and gone lower, cheek-to-cheek, ring of steel etc. for a proper tackle. Thanks 👍

@Sinjington Not saying he can or can't but that's a rip not a tackle!

“GeORgE FoRd cAn’T taCklE” 🤡

@Sinjington He’s been awful since

@bkwammo @ilovenostalgia

@ilovenostalgia @Sinjington

Most younger generations will not know what this is. Do you?

@TelegraphRugby @danscho1 Willing to take a stab Wales had done their homework on this one and tee’d the referee up in advance

England's George Ford has spoken out on the controversy surrounding his charged down conversion against Wales ✍️ @danscho1 #TelegraphRugby

@thedeadballarea I’m not sure “simple solution” and “kickers pre-record their setup for referees to study and learn” quite belong in the same sentence. It’s a daft law and daft application, like many that seem to end up being the talking point of games rather than the quality of open play

There seems such a simple solution to this in kickers record their setup and approach and deviation from that constitutes an early approach. This feels like a failure on the refs' behalf to not be briefed/have knowledge on the kicker approach.