Alan Dymock
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Dundonian. Commissioning Editor @TelegraphSport . All about features - the quirkier the better! Former SJA rugby journalist of the year. Views my own. DMs open
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After 11 great years with
@rugbyworldmag
I’m moving on
It’s been an incredible journey and I’ve been very lucky to have the experiences I’ve had. Thanks to everyone who supported us, please continue to do so – it’s a hell of a team and they have cool stuff on the horizon.
Cheers
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It's mad that France isn't a tour option for B&I Lions.
Just gotta believe every midweek game would be a cracker, surely commercially would be a monster, France would go crazy for it, get a bit of Spain-Portugal in the mix, Test in Marseille too...
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How did May do that? This pic from back in 2015 may explain a bit
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I've lost count of how many time i've watched this from Brazil's Moisés Duque
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"And you know what I liked... I liked that his feet were behind the line"
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There has to be something he's bad at. Surely. His handwriting will be shoddy or something
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This match needs to be sent to The Hague for crimes against entertainment
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Me, or are ITV's comms slightly ahead of the pictures for France v Wales?
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I can't be the only one who would watch a
@WorldRugby
streamed, structured debate between Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot?
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If you see anyone kicking off because This Morning has been CANCELLED for
#RWC2019
coverage, please point me at it. I live for those tweets
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These are the Otago 8 boots from Le Coq Sportif. This is how they got things done in the 80s
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Rugby really treats its match officials like shite, doesn't it? Across the globe, from all sides. And it's cheered on
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If you've ever asked why more elite props don't play on both sides, this piece looks in some detail at both roles... And why Trevor Nyakane deserves a lot more of our praise for the last few weeks
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Gatland must shave his head immediately
Warren Gatland has named his Lions coaching team. Full story 👉
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Er, Mum, any chance you visited Georgia around the tail-end of 1986?
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Canada men won't play at RWC2023 - the first they've ever missed. That's big.
And the rise of Chile has been something else
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Blows my mind how many people are like CANATIGHTHEADNOTJUSTPLAYLOOSEHEAD?
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Does anyone have any examples of Butterfly Effect moments in rugby – something seemingly tiny or innocuous, that has had a huge impact on the game
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HERE IT IS! Absolutely brilliant. Top work
@DamianDerrick
@AlanDymock
@hughgodwin_
My work is done. Think I might have to go home now. Can't top this.
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Folk in the UK getting their first introduction to Ruby Tui on telly. Class
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There is no athlete more Scottish
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Sometimes, in quieter moments, I think about how this image has aged...
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What are the best nicknames you've ever heard in rugby (amateur level or elite)?
In Dundee there was a huge guy known as 'Hungry'. When his much-smaller brother rocked up, he became 'Peckish'...
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Currently obsessed with 2009 Wilkinson's style choices. I'm all in
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This is just good stuff. He's actually shaking
"I've been told I'm not allowed to swear so I'll struggle to put it into words!" 🤐
Scotland prop forward Rory Sutherland was shaking with excitement after being named in the British and Irish Lions squad! 🦁
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Tom Curry is at the Boss level without losing a life. Hell of a game
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This shite is why you want Scotland in the Six Nations; You need Scotland in the Six Nations
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For absolutely no reason, here is a thread of rugby people giving it 👍👍
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How many of these we gonna see on telly during Six Nations? Gotta be a big number
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Ban this sick filth
#SuperRugby
- HALFTIME:
Crusaders 24-0 Hurricanes
The defending champions have been relentless in the opening half and have run in four tries so far.
Live Vodacom
#SuperRugby
coverage continues on SS1 & DStv Now >>
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I know we saw it for the 2002 Football World Cup and it's used for baseball all the time, but the Sapporo Dome is still just a mad bit of kit
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Contender for best name in rugby: just clocked one of the New Zealand women's sevens training squad is called Crystal Mayes
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A few days off the pace and not a new take, but watching France-Scotland back, Andrew Cotter is great. Right tone, not seeking to coin a phrase, bang in line with the action. Just gid
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Kicks 0 from 4, then slots this to beat New Zealand? Fair ones
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Imagine being a young, ambitious Championship player and hearing the boss of the RFU say: "We do not believe it [Champ] is the primary place where Premiership and England players are discovered and developed”
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I've fallen down a massive rabbit hole in the
@Rugbyworldmag
archive, looking at covers – and there are some absolute crackers.
Here's a thread of a few starting with a flying Johnno in 97 (you can subscribe to the archive here )
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Doing a two-day job in six hours, people sleeping at the stadium, the Brave Blossoms watching home videos...
Here's what went on behind the scenes in an emotional 24 hours in Yokohama
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There is a glorious world out there of rugby people handling food for promo shots...
A GOLDEN THREAD
First, it's only Graham Henry and some leeks
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"This system will fall and one day we will start a fundamentally new page in our history, as a country without a dictator”
Meet the Belarus rugby captain arrested for protesting against the nation's regime
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In that Edinburgh squad to play Munster check how many of them played sevens. Hard to fathom that that avenue was almost axed a few years back
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Duhan van der Merwe beat five tacklers on the way to his incredible try against England – no other player beat more than two with a single carry, at the weekend (Oval Insights). So what if we plotted those…
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Argentina, bloody hell. Moment of the Olympic Sevens so far. What a performance
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There's Michael Hooper, immediately after his sevens debut - a wee win over Fiji
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Just found this cracker of an old Heineken Cup promo shot. Just the two defunct teams and an ode to, er... departed lids...
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Imagine a fly-on-the-wall Six Nations documentary series was all released today, as domestic leagues are over/winding down, and months before the RWC...
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Please, please give a verdict on Fagerson soon so the shite patter about biscuits ends... 🙏
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On this day in 1998, a truly iconic rugby shirt was first unveiled...
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Damian Penaud makes no sense. He's like a bumblebee or double denim. It's like, no matter how he tries to mess it up, he's world class
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Imagine that's the first game of rugby you've ever seen. Just insane
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Best bit about that from Finn Russell was Brad Mooar doing a wee mime of it in the coaching box after
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This story, about the NFL coach who was mentored by his biological father for 28 years without knowing they were related, is great
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The team at L'Equipe deserve so much credit for the developing Galthie story
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I reckon Eddie Jones just hasn't clocked how frustrating Edinburgh can be, generally. Has he ever tried to get a late-night feed from anywhere other than Bar Napoli or Storries bakery?
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“That’s the difference. We’re going to be the first-ever professional Pacific Island rugby team. We’re going to get behind our Pacific Island players and support them.”
Spoke to rugby manager Cam Kilgour about Kanaloa Hawaii Rugby joining MLR
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Just quickly on this: Sam Warburton also said on BBC yesterday that he got it wrong in comms at the time. Mature stuff. It's alright to change your mind, to reflect, rather than doubling down like a KFC fire sale
@STVNews
Poor comments from me, emotions were very high after losing a very tight match. Players health is paramount.
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So you're saying that a Japan-South Africa World Cup quarter-final is on the cards, eh...?
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Wainwright got the gong, but my word Reffell deserves to be carried off the park
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The 100,000th punter to make the gag they too are withdrawing from the Lions gets a happy meal. Just top, top comedy lads, well done...
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One day, 20 years ago, Johnny Knoxville and 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘴 rocked up to London Irish training for a session.
Here are some memories of that ridiculous day from two men involved
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Wait, did no one from Japan win an award last night? RWC winners and coach of RWC winners will win the trophies (to add to their gold medals) for the rest of time, but Jamie Joseph's team did something that had literally never been done before and entertained a planet. Chur
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"You have to watch the whole competition because it’s like a series. It’s like Game of Thrones"
An ode to the brilliant madness of France's ProD2
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Trying to squeeze all the players you've said "must tour" into a Lions 36
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Hardly molten, but I could not care less whether the put-in at the scrum is straight...
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Just speaking to a guy who doesn't watch rugby but enjoying the Six Nations – his main complaint is that when a big decision is made and he doesn't understand rules, he'd like a commentator/pundit/graphic to explain. He can't be alone with this during 6N?
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Hamish Watson and Jamie Ritchie: the most brutal double act since Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox?
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This is not a drill: Chabal is singing – dressed as a caveman – at the Hong Kong 7s.
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"I managed to find out that my opposition winger struggled to turn and that gave me such a competitive advantage"
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In the age of one footballer unfollowing another on instagram being a story, give me Seán O'Brien airing his genuine view any day
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Won't do that twee red flag thing, but I see the "He's not Scottish enough for our lovely rugby team!" people are out again
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That Jonah Lomu x Anna Kournikova shoot you didn't know existed
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Classy looking. 148 pages. Comes with a wallchart. Every single World Cup team covered in depth. All the coaches profiled. Interviews with star players from both hemispheres.
Go buy it.
GOLD STANDARD!
Our ultimate Rugby World Cup guide hits shelves tomorrow – here's a look at the new cover and find out what's inside ➡️
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Fiji team to face Canada... it's happening. Nakarawa, Yato and Mata in the pack, Sau, Radradra and Tuisova in the backs. Semtex stuff
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New issue
@Rugbyworldmag
hits shops today. We've gone big on the RWC in NZ - team guides, a free wallchart and supplement...
As well as guides, I've profiled Damian Willemse and gone deep on Regan Grace's conversion from league to union + more
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