Thread: This gets flagged a lot to justify depowering the scrum. It's a great bit of data collection by the guys at the Times.
However, how concerned should we be by 18mins 28secs of the game being taken up by waiting for scrums?
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Interview with Gavin Henson who is now running the pub over the road from where he grew up and playing for the village Sunday league football team. Really enjoyed meeting him; not what I expected.
https://t.co/okUnZ6bkrQ
Thread: Welsh Individualism
I'm going to assume vids will get taken down so I'll use screenshots for this. This is focusing on one attack in the second half from a Welsh lineout.
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It’s 6 Nations Eve and many of you out there will be watching Rugby Union with friends or family who haven’t watched rugby since the last Six Nations so here’s a quick cheat sheet you can give them to help them fit in🧵
(With apologies to @SoozUK Annual Eastenders Xmas Update)
🧵 @EnglandRugby please read.
I’m devastated by the proposed law change by the RFU to the community game regarding tackle height, which will come into effect in July this year. /1
So Quins have (temporarily) lost their attack coach to England.
Sale’s defence coach off to Scotland.
Leicester’s head coach and defence coach (and general hero) rescuing England.
Er…can Sarries have their staff raided too by any chance?! Just to even things up…
If you want to see the result of the poison that Rassie Erasmus’ video injected into the veins of rugby discourse, just take a look at rugby twitter now.
Wanna talk about disappearing media? HIS HOUSE, a great Netflix Original horror movie, is leaving the service next weekend. It has no physical release. Where's it going? Why is it leaving?
It's airing on BBC Two the day after it leaves Netflix, but what happens to it after that?
Thread: The Worcester Warrior Free Agent Thread
I had really hoped this would be a thread I wouldn't have to write. Sadly it's come to that point though. I've included some explanation about why I'm writing this below and hope people understand the rationale.
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If you want your team to win a RWC but you want them to do it by playing fun-for-you-to-watch rugby that may easily cost them the game rather than playing a boring, winning, tried-and-tested formula, well then, buddy, you are living in dreamland.