Daniel Gallan

✍🏻Journalist @guardian, @RugbyPass, @WisdenCricket, etc. 👨🏻‍🏫Lecturer @YourStMarys & @UEL_News. 🎤 Cricket Cliches natterer, @Short_Fine_Legs pappa.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Wrote about the 15-year-old who is 1,900% better than all the world's top batters.

Is he guaranteed to become a superstar? Not quite. But also probably.

https://t.co/ILeyhS9CgG

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Joe Marler, Ox Nche, Trevor Nyakane, Max Lahiff, David Flatman, Phil Vickery, Ellis Genge - when it comes to rugby players who shine beyond the boundary, props are over represented.

Why is that?

Here's a love letter to the big fellas for @RugbyPass:

https://t.co/8gLW4BdPAo

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Love this! Hope they stick the landing.

🇿🇦, 🇿🇼 and 🇳🇦 plus who else?

According to ICC rankings it'll be 🇺🇬, 🇰🇪 and 🇹🇿

🇳🇬 not far behind and this would give plenty of incentive for other countries like 🇧🇼 and 🇲🇼 to invest in grassroots.

[Tristan Lavalette @trislavalette]

A 6-team T20 Africa Cup - featuring South Africa and Zimbabwe - is in the works.

As a soft launch, a T20 tri-series between South Africa, Zimbabwe & Namibia is set for August in Namibia.

Plus an update on the proposed Afro-Asia Cup reboot

https://t.co/hMw8Lk9gnK

[Mitch PW @mitchell_pw]

For me, the big takeaways were:
👉60% support aligning TRC with @SixNationsRugby
👉69% support adding @fijirugby & @JRFURugby into TRC
👉 78% support an ANZAC Day #BledisloeCup
👉 71% say @SuperRugby is now more enjoyable to watch

Plenty for the game’s leaders to consider.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

I'm a fan of this. Allows for some flexibility. You're suddenly defending a total where dew will be a factor? Tweak your team.

Would love to see this in Tests too where an extra spinner/batter might be a shout depending on the toss.

[Neil Manthorp @NeilManthorp]

For those who missed it (like me) captains submit 2 starting XIs before toss in the #PSL then choose their preferred XI after toss. Haven’t thought it through but… good concept! No?

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@QaanitahHunter Upskilling is the answer but a degree is useless?

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Cricket writer writes a moany piece about the amount of cricket he gets to write about:

https://t.co/sTEyn4TMNZ

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Let's hear it for the southern hemisphere lads who lift the standard of European rugby and put their bodies on the line for every top team in France, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Italy.

For the G:

https://t.co/xm4VxQuSTR

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@Draigchwaraeon @tonycharles66 Taulupe Faletau.

But my original tweet was about players who still represent (or are still eligible to represent) their southern hemisphere nation. Didn't count guys like Duhan van ver Merwe, etc.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

There are 257 players from the southern hemisphere playing in every top-flight club in 🇫🇷 (127)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (71)🇮🇹(23)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (16)🇮🇪 (12)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿(8)

🇿🇦 63
🇦🇷 56
🇦🇺 37
🇳🇿 32
🇫🇯 31
🇹🇴 15
🇼🇸 14
🇿🇼 4
🇳🇦 2
🇨🇱 1
🇺🇾 1
🇨🇰 1

Benetton the most reliant with 16, Cardiff making do with just 1 Saffa.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@tonycharles66 Wales have also had a captain born in the southern hemisphere.

(For the record, I have absolutely no problem with players nationalising for other counties.)

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@jonathanbyn1 @RugbyPass It doesn't though.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@jonathanbyn1 @Mykuhl @RugbyPass Lighten up pal. It's a bit of craic.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

The Six Nations is a better competition than the Rugby Championship despite having worse teams.

Here's how to fix that.

[RugbyPass @RugbyPass]

OPINION: The Southern Hemisphere needs a special Six Nations of its own, argues @danielgallan

#TheRugbyChampionship | #SixNationsRugby

https://t.co/dK7CLr1kql

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@Yonibass @AmandaBRinquest Gail's make great scones.

But their challah is rubbish, which is how I know Jacob's post was performative. No one who has sat at a shabbos table and torn off a hunk of genuine, chewy, almost cake-like challah would ever promote this white bread disguised as challah.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Totally performative post. Gail's is OK generally but their challahs are rubbish. Basically just bread pretending to be challah. Lacks the trademark pull and chew of a proper challah.

[Jacob Steinberg @JacobSteinberg]

🍞

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@Mendelpol But the column didn't do this. In no way does it rationalise the attack on Gail's.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@christianjbdev Why did you cut out the bit that says Gail's parent company is a firm that funds Israeli weaponry? Bit disingenuous, no?

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@DPJHodges You left out this part:

"Campaigners point out that its parent company, Bain Capital, invests heavily in military technology, including Israeli security companies."

I think that's the symbolism you're missing Dan.

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

@olvrlstr Says the man calling a stranger rude names on the internet because he didn't like some words in an article about football.