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telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Schofield
When the Premiership was reduced to ten teams, many people thought the lack of club v country clashes would be a panacea to many of the league's problems. However, it also meant that a club like Leicester can go nearly two whole months without a home league game which can make it hard for a neutral supporter to grasp the flow of the season. "The league is tight, intense and competitive, so the more we can captivate new people, the better - that's the key," Youngs said.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Schofield
"At that point, I could not play anymore but it was actually quite a relief because I was playing with so much pain," Abbott said. "That last season, I was playing at 50-60 per cent. You strap it up and do what you think is right for the team, but actually I should have just got it [the knee] sorted at the time. That was a tough year. When it came to an end, I wasn't unhappy because I had not been playing well for so long.
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2 weeks ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Daniel Schofield
When Stuart Abbott recalls his memories of the immediate aftermath of England’s 2003 World Cup victory, it sounds something like a fever dream. There was meeting the Pope at the Vatican, popping into 10 Downing Street, a parade in front of an estimated one million supporters and sharing a bottle of Jack Daniel’s with Wasps hooker Trevor Leota on the bus back from Kingston Park. “When Trevor says drink, you drink,” Abbott recalls with a hearty chuckle on the phone from Cape Town.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Schofield
England and Quins prop's emergence is rooted in respect for club's legacy - in particular triple Grand Slam winner William Wavell WakefieldWhen profiling a player, you will ask a coach or family member at what point they realised the player was special and you are typically told a story about a length-of-the-field try or a match-saving tackle in the 80th minute of their school's cup final. At Harlequins, they tell a slightly different tale about prop Fin Baxter and a PowerPoint presentation.
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Daniel Schofield
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