Paul Thiel

New phone New twitter, who knows ? So a new start.

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@SharksRugby Everyone expected this a la Doug Howlett.

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@Brendennel People can support who they want. The pickings however are much slimmer now that the Crusaders and the Chiefs will never play again in Cape Town.

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@haribaldijones @LekkerRugbyPod @MegafoonRugby It would be nice if we could catch some of those kicks and not have everyone as either a knock on, lottery, tackle in the air or some other kak.

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@penuelist_ You are correct about school sport in “black” schools. The teacher cohort here are SADTU members who do not do any extramural things, sport, music, theatre etc. And there are no consequences. This is the root cause of black players coming from old model C schools.

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@ChalynRugby We did, and as hard as it might be for our Kiwi friends to understand, it is much better. See you later in the year !

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@sin_bin_rugby That’s my pick.

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@HuwGriffinRugby @therugbyhistory The “poshest” part is that fans mix, enjoy beer and banter, without any of that low class tribal warfare where the so-called fans and ultras need to try and kill each other. Long may it last !

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@ChalynRugby On for a few minutes and gets marched off with a yellow - filthy indeed !

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@scrumming_ten NZ should not be allowed two squads to build depth.

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@ChalynRugby Is that the “competition” that only one team ever wins but for some reason the commentators think is important ? Must be the big cup.

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@ChalynRugby But will they ? Top 14 Final … C team loading ?

[A-P @rugby_ap]

As a coda to this excellent post - have a look how rugby is represented / understood outside of the rugby media ecosystem.

It’s invariably the lineouts, scrums and general physicality of the sport that is the fascination.

If you want to market the game - choose the path of least resistance…

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@shamr0ck2 @ChalynRugby Not too much sympathy from us here in Africa after Ireland indicated that they would support our 2023 bid but then took the French bribe. Would have been good though.

[Jeremy Corbin MP, Prime Ministerial Parody @CorbynSnap]

A tragedy is unfolding: aside from murdering women for showing their hair, hanging thousands for being gay, murdering their political opposition, cancelling democracy, killing thousands of their own citizens for peacefully demonstrating, plundering their nation’s wealth to line their own pockets, destroying Lebanon & Gazan society via their proxies, supporting Assad’s mass murder of his own people, murdering Jews whenever possible, supporting genocide against Jews and planning the annihilation of Israel while running an annual Holocaust-mocking cartoon competition, murdering hundreds of US servicemen, announcing it was planning the assassination of Donald Trump, making proxy wars against Sunni Arabs and relentlessly trying to build a nuclear weapon to potentially satisfy an apocalyptic religious prophecy by dropping it on Israel & generally planning the end of Western civilisation, what has the Iranian regime done to deserve this attack?

[Marcelo P. Lima @MarceloLima]

https://t.co/aqJajFruoN

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Looking forwardto this England team coming to Joburg 😎#ENGvIRE

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@ChalynRugby We don’t want a return ! Why do you keep talking about it ?

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@scrumming_ten That would be an upgrade 💥

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@scrumming_ten Sound like it’s not going to be on Dstv for much longer either, reading the Moneyweb article this morning.