James Harrington
@Jamesonrugby
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Cheese-eating, wine-drinking, France-living freelance sports journalist. Mostly rugby. Three kids. Knackered #TOP14 #ChampionsCup #PROD2 #ChallengeCupRugby
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The great French Rugby Budgets Misconception is back, I see
Jake: 'Salary cap' becomes SA teams' new swear phrase, but Bulls 'will deal with it'
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La Rochelle has a population of 75,000 or so. Some 20,000 were in Marseille yesterday for the
#HeinekenChampionsCup
final. Looks like most of the rest of them were here...
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This lineout drive in France's
#ProD2
match between Beziers and Biarrits does not quite go how you think it will
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@realDonaldTrump
It was renamed "climate change" so idiots like you wouldn't mistake weather for climate and post stupid messages like this.
Didn't you get the memo?
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Shithousery level complete
Ça me fait de la peine de le voir comme ça, vulnérable, essayant désespérément d’atteindre son casque comme un collégien harcelé à qui on aurait piqué la trousse. 🙁
(Et puis je me souviens qu'il fait 2m, qu’il est anglais et qu’il nous a cassé les couilles tout le match).
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Want to reduce the impact of red cards? Keep the contest 15-v-15?
There's a really simple trick that all players can use.
Tackle legally. Don't get sent off.
Rugby doesn't need hare-brained, dangerous nonsense like 20-minute red cards. Bin it
TRC LAW TRIAL
SANZAAR will apply the 20-min Red Card law trial for the 2022 Championship - a sent off player can be replaced after 20 min. This trial will be a continuation of trial conducted in Super Rugby 2022 and TRC in 2021.
#trc2022
Full details:
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But... why do two matches clash?
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Virimi Vakatawa has been forced to stop playing rugby "for cardiological reasons", Racing 92's club doctor confirms at a press conference
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You've gone two points down in a crucial end-of-season
#PROD2
match; it's honking down; and you're 50m from the try line... What are you going to do?
Rouen's Peter Lydon:
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Mont-de-Marsan backrow Leo Banos's try against Colomiers in France's
#PROD2
is worth watching several times
He and up-and-underer Willie Du Plessis both insist it's straight outa the training ground
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I try to stay dispassionate but, bugger me, Castres got the shitty end of the refereeing, there
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The long sigh, the slight smile, the line "The United Kingdom is a friendly nation regardless of its leaders, sometimes in spite of its leaders"
A diplomatic response. With teeth.
🔴🗣 Liz Truss, successeure annoncée de B. Johnson au Royaume-Uni refuse de dire si E. Macron est un ami ou un ennemi ➡️ "Ce n’est jamais bon de ne trop perdre ces repères. Le Royaume-Uni est une nation amie, quel que soit ses dirigeants, parfois malgré ses dirigeants.”
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It's fair to say that Ronan O'Gara has the backing of the La Rochelle crowd
Ronan O’Gara est descendu sur la pelouse à la fin du match, pour prendre l’ovation du public rochelais qui a plusieurs fois scandé son nom. Du « soutien » après sa suspension de dix semaines, pour des critiques envoyées au patron des arbitres.
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Yes, that's Henry Tuilagi's boy making his France u20 debut at 5 against England on Friday
And, yes, he's bigger than his dad was
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We've waxed lyrical about Antoine Dupont's 50:22 against Lyon, but this - in the 79th minute of the match, from Colomiers, the side 6 points down at the time - was pretty special.
And what happened next was ... quite dramatic
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#TOP14
crowds for 'derby' weekend
Castres-Toulouse: 12,300
Perpignan-Montpellier: 14,158
Stade Francais-Racing 92: 15,210
Clermont-Brive: 17,764
Lyon-Toulon: 20,801
Bayonne-Pau: 38,645
Bordeaux-La Rochelle: 42,115
Total: 160,993
Average: 22,999
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There are retirements at the end of every season, but this is one worth noting.
Sergio Parisse will hang up his boots at the end of the
#TOP14
season - and he insists he means it this time.
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Quietly pleased to report the first 50:22 in French pro rugby occurred more by accident than design and surprised both sides
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We'll, that was shit.
Said goodbye to my Dad today.
Going to miss you, Dad. Catch you on the flipside
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Zach Mercer to Gloucester on a three/four-season contract a done-deal, regional newspaper Midi Libre reports. Unsurprisingly,
#TOP14
side Montpellier fought to keep him
PSA: "It's a shame the English realised how good he is when he's at Montpellier"
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The try wot won it for Bordeaux at Clermont. And, yes, Raka was carded
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GOOD NEWS - Sergio Parisse's red card has been rescinded in light of an additional report from match referee Laurent Cardona, which stated that - in hindsight - a red was not warranted. Parisse free to play at weekend
And you've all, no doubt, seen Sergio Parisse's red card - for blatantly letting an opponent's face hit his shoulder. I'll watch out for the disciplinary committee's ruling this week, but they'll surely rescind the red. Won't they? They have to. Right?
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It's highly likely Yoann Huget's rugby career is over a few matches early. A few minutes after he scored Toulouse's opening try against Racing 92, he was helped off the pitch with a leg injury
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I know you're all obsessing about the Rugby World Cup (I am too) but France's
#TOP14
kicks off on Friday, and it's my duty to tell you about it.
This is quite long - it's got player moves n'everything - but please read, like and share, and all that
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Player sent home from the World Cup with a tournament-ending injury picked up v Tonga last weekend starts for Toulouse this weekend
🚨Découvrez sans tarder le XV de départ désigné par le staff toulousain pour affronter l'équipe du
@CastresRugby
, samedi à 17h30 au stade Ernest-Wallon !
#STCO
#J7
#GoST
🔴⚫️
🎟
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France's new Justice Minister has an air of a Georgian prop just before a 5m scrum
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Darren Sweetnam's first try for La Rochelle since joining the club from Munster
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Luke Cowan-Dickie's Montpellier move is off after an 'inconclusive' medical on a neck injury, according to Midi Olympique.
Club now targeting Talu Latu
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He's sharp, is Camille Chat
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Thread on journalism and Ben Stokes' heroics...
What journalists wrote after the 67 all out was correct.
What journalists wrote after Ben Stokes' remarkable innings two days later was also correct.
The latter does not discount the accuracy of the former
Ok this is winding me up. Rant incoming. ...... getting a lot of tweets to say journalists should be eating humble pie after our pieces on Saturday following 67 all out.
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This is magnificent - though I think Ntamack senior had the easier job, 18 years ago...
#ChampionsCup
2003 ➡️ 2021
Romain Ntamack et son papa Emile ont inversé les rôles pour la photo souvenir après le sacre du
@StadeToulousain
en Champions Cup 😁⭐️🏆
📸 :
@RomainNtamack
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#Top14
rugby kicks off on
@PremierSportsTV
in UK and Ireland this weekend. Opening weekend televised matches are:
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Stade Francais v Racing 92 (PS1, 5.15pm)
Toulon v Montpellier (PS1, 8pm)
Sun
Lyon v Clermont (PS1, 4.45pm)
La Rochelle v Toulouse (PS1, 8pm)
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The five best tries from the
#TOP14
this weekend. Racing's Antoine Gibert absolutely, positively, genuinely intended that kick-pass for Christian Wade's try
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#PROD2
side Agen have beaten Aurillac 25-21, finally ending a 34-match losing streak dating to February 2020... The relief is palpable
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Crowds in French rugby's third-tier Nationale
🏉Bilan à mi-saison des affluences en
#Nationale
🥇Bourg, 4292
🥈Bourgoin, 4152
🥉Narbonne, 3583
4⃣VRDR, 3214
5⃣Dax, 2614
6⃣Albi, 1557
7⃣Tarbes, 1429
8⃣Chambéry, 1408
9⃣Rennes, 1350
🔟Blagnac, 1050
🔢UCS, 792
🔢Nice, 786
🔢Suresnes, 706
🔢RCHCC, 568
Moyenne générale : 1964
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You can't do that. You very can't do that
#TOP14
- J18
Flament nous la joue comme en NFL avec ce saut spectaculaire au-dessus des défenseurs 😍
@StadeToulousain
Merci
@philousports
pour ce clin d’œil avisé
#Philouterie
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French rugby has introduced the blue card system to permanently remove players suspected of concussion, and an enhanced substitution system to allow for players with injuries to be treated. Cardona believes - after just 1wk - clubs have flouted the subs' rule
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Nothing to see here ... just club Finn Russell doing international Finn Russell things
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35-year-old Steffon Armitage - after playing two hours of rugby under a hot Biarritz sun, at the end of a season in which he has played 32 times, with 28 starts - kicks the penalty to take the
#ProD2
side into the
#Top14
As the cool folks say... Scenes
#TOP14AccessMatch
@BOPBweb
(✅✅✅✅✅/✅)
@avironrugbypro
(✅✅✅✅✅/❌)
🚨C'est terminé à Aguiléra le
@BOPBweb
s'impose à l'issue de la séance de tirs au but et retrouvera le
#TOP14
la saison prochaine 🔝
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@KemiBadenoch
Why not just answer the question? It was a valid question and your answer - outlined in your thread - is equally valid. You'd have got a positive line in a positive story. As it is you're overshadowing an important message with an unnecessary row
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I've been saying for a while, Castres are a better side than you like to think. Will you believe me, now?
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#PROD2
side Montauban confirm Scotland international and former Worcester Warriors prop Murray McCallum is on a 10-day trial at the club, with a view to a contract to the end of the season
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#TOP14
side Bordeaux interested in bringing Munster's Joey Carbery to France, as cover for Matthieu Jalibert, Rugbyrama reports... And they're not the only French club looking his way, it claims
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Looks like Vannes are going to need a bigger stadium...
The newly promoted
#TOP14
club has stopped selling season tickets after passing 9,000 so that there are nearly 3,000 tickets still available for matchdays
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No crowd limits in France for the
#SixNations
- restrictions currently in place will be lifted from February 2.
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A little Champions Cup reminder: Baptiste Jauneau, Clermont's starting scrumhalf against Leicester on Friday, is 19
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The closing seconds of Vannes-Biarritz in the
#ProD2
semi-final. The Basque side are down six. Vannes' fans are starting to celebrate. Then, Biarritz get the ball to
#IronBiarrot
Gavin Stark, who, a week after running in a second-half hat-trick, does this
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Good News! You're increasingly less likely see my tweets about French rugby from April 15 ... unless you follow me, in which case you still might. You fools
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Wait, what?
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How to turn aggressive defence into try-scoring attack 101
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Sod it ... I'm retweeting this in a shameless act of self-publicity
James is not only great, but you can read his stuff and instantly be a French rugby expert. Which, in terms of time taken to knowledge acquired, is probably the best education you can have!
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It was inevitable, but I wondered when it would happen, and who would do it...
In its Monday edition, Midol raises the ghost of Clermont past in a piece on Leinster's ongoing final woes
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Nope. No excuses.
🏉 Propos racistes. Ludovic Radosavljevic (Provence Rugby) présente ses excuses publiquement au joueur de Nevers ▶
#ProD2
#PRUSON
@ProvenceRugby
@usonneversrugby
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No
#TOP14
this weekend, so it seemed the ideal time to write up the latest player transfer rumours...
Please read, like, share, etc...
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Dupont, stop it... Stop it, now... This is getting silly...
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In which ROG explains why he's up for a disciplinary hearing with the LNR beaks next week
His
@ExaminerSport
column is one of my weekly must-reads. It's never less-than fascinating
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Wesley Fofana announces his retirement. Such a delightful player to watch on the pitch.
Go well on the next stage
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Point of order. Yes, he faced a three-games-per-player limit, but Galthie wasn't 'forced' to field an inexperienced squad in the final. He chose to front load his squad selections this autumn. Nobody made him
England showdown against France thrown into farce after Fabien Galthie names inexperienced squad
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Samoa captain and Leinster prop Michael Ala'alatoa to
#TOP14
side Clermont on a two-year contract is a done deal, L'Equipe reports
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Oh no...
Virimi Vakatawa's playing career in France is on hold following a decision by the LNR's medical commission not to allow him to play,
#TOP14
side Racing 92 has just announced
There's a press conference tomorrow at 12noon
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2022 has been an intriguing and, despite some battles with myself, decent year on the whole.
And I have a plan for 2023. In short, it involves me writing a lot about French rugby, covering more matches, interviewing players and coaches. You know, doing more of something I enjoy
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Canal+ to pay €454.4m (a record €113.6m a year) for
#Top14
TV rights for the four seasons from 2023/24 to 2026/27
Les droits audiovisuels du TOP 14 sont attribués à Canal+ pour les saisons 2023-2024 à 2026-2027, pour un montant total record de 454,4 millions d’euros sur 4 ans, soit 113,6 millions d’euros par saison, en progression de 17%.
Toutes les infos ➡️
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Agen have stolen Owen Farrell
💁♂️ ABONNEMENT ETUDIANT/-25 ans = - 40% !
🆗 C'est 7.5€ le match en tribune, on fait des économies, il y a de l'ambiance, on se retrouve à
@agen_rugby
entre amis...N'attends plus !
🎟 + d'infos >
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Such a simple yet effective initiative - and a powerful reminder that elderly people can be lonely and vulnerable.
Similar awareness events at every Top 14 game this weekend
#BoxingDaysRugby
Les aînés entrent main dans la main avec les joueurs de la
@SectionPaloise
et de l’
@UBBrugby
🤝
Une expérience rendue possible par les
@PFPauvres
👏
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Record crowds totalling 748,914 reported at 56 matches in the
#Top14
so far this season, at an average of 13,373 per game - rising above 14k for rounds 1, 5 and 8
Canal Plus also reports its coverage attracts over 2 million viewers a weekend (up 12% on last season)
Le TOP 14 est plus attractif que jamais. Après 8 journées, le championnat affiche des affluences records en hausse de 10% par rapport à une saison dernière déjà en progrès, tandis que les audiences de CANAL + progressent également. (+12% vs 2021/2022) 📄➡️
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Now, that's a sidestep
Esto de
@santicordero15
a Baptiste Chouzenoux en la jugada que termina con el ensayo de Cameron Woki...
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L'Equipe gets creative with its Saturday splash ahead of the
#GuinnessSixNations
clash between England and France
"Galthie's Blues and the Temple of Doom"
Part of me hopes he digs out a fedora for the mid- or post-match interview on France 2
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Oi,
@andymcgeady
, what have you done?
WTF - Le ''Drop Goal Conga'', la technique imparable pour réussir tous ses drops ?😁🤔➡
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So... Turns out La Rochelle were just giving everyone else in the
#ChampionsCup
a head start, which I think we can all agree was jolly sporting of them
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Thomas Casteignede's 'not French enough' trope here is plain lazy - and wrong
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With five regular season rounds to go in French rugby's
#TOP14
, I take a look at every side's great - and not so great - expectations.
Please do read, like, share, etc...
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6 clubs in France's Top 14 and ProD2 - Toulon, Montpellier, Biarritz, Massy, Colomiers & Bourg-en-Bresse - have been summoned by the Disciplinary and Regulatory Commission over possible breaches of concussion monitoring protocols
#Discipline
Voici le Communiqué de Presse informant des convocations et des décisions de la Commission de discipline et des règlements... ➡️📄
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I... I just can't... I mean... Really? That's your take on this shitshow?
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I don't necessarily hold with the France-need-Dupont theory. They have a new attack coach (it didn't work) and a new scrum coach (it did) bedding in
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Everyone's a fucking critic - I've only written two words
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Teddy Thomas to leave
#TOP14
side Racing 92 and join La Rochelle on a 3yr deal, Sud Ouest report
🔴 Info Sud Ouest : Teddy Thomas va s'engager avec le Stade Rochelais
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Love the image that goes with the "Kings of England" headline on Midi Olympique's front page after Saturday's
#GuinnessSixNations
win over England
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It's here, ready or not. I've only gone and published it...
It's the non-awaited
#TOP14
season preview - along the lines of last week's ProD2 one...
Thousands of words. Long lists of many, many, names.
Please feel free to read, like, share, etc
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