#premiership rugby

[giantsorcowboys]

Saturday's Scrum 🏉🏃🏻‍♂️

The Wills...Ya Gotta Love Rugby, Baby! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙌🏻🙌🏻

Woof!🌶🌶🌶🌶

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see u later i guess

what do i wearr 😭😭😭

[slut4nuggets]

For my rugby girlies:

Dan Cole is such a little slay.

He goes on the field and j serves cunt.

And Steve Borthwick knows it.

This is what I hear every time Dan Cole walks on the pitch.

[valentin10]

Premiership Rugby Cup Highlights : Harlequins make it two from two in the Cup vs Ealing Trailfinders

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2024 NRL Hall of Fame Inductee #124 Cooper Cronk

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Premiership / URC : Steele (Edinburgh) prend sa retraite, McNally quitte Bath et l'Ulster annonce sept départs dont la légende Luke Marshall

Scott Steele a annoncé son départ à la retraite, à 30 ans – SNS Edinburgh Rugby a récemment dévoilé la liste des joueurs seniors qui prendront leur envol loin de la capitale écossaise à la fin de cette saison de rugby. Parmi ces départs, celui du demi de mêlée international écossais Scott Steele a particulièrement retenu l’attention. Agé de 30 ans, Steele a dû faire face à une série de…

[oldgrowthcedar]

no matter what rugby i’m arching alex corbisiero show up to commentate it’s literally such a jumpscare

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There’s an alternate universe where Nicholas galitzine did not injure his rotator cuff as a teenager and did in fact become a professional rugby player and maybe in this universe English rugby would not slowly be going bankrupt bc we’d have one conventionally attractive man to keep the lights on

[thegoosiestlucy]

sladeyyyyyy i love you

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CHRISTOPHER WARD the OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER OF PREMIERSHIP RUGBY LEAGUE

Feature photo Mark Brittain, Premiership Rugby Chief Commercial Officer and Joe Keech, Christopher Ward’s Finance Director Premiership Rugby and Christopher Ward – the UK’s leading mechanical watchmaker – have announced a partnership, making Christopher Ward the Official Timekeeper of the league. The Christopher Ward name will be visible across all Premiership Rugby stadiums – specifically…

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Поглед към плана за възобновяване на професионалното ръгби. Главният изпълнителен директор на Premiership Rugby Limited Саймън Маси-Тейлър очертава визията си за оздравяване на Премиършип и отвъд.

Главният изпълнителен директор на Premiership Rugby Limited (PRL) очерта стратегията си за възобновяване на професионалния ръгби съюз в Англия преди началото на сезон 2024-25. Саймън Маси-Тейлър призна, че системата е била “подложена на стрес тест и разбита” от съдбата на Wasps и Worcester Warriors, и вярва, че има “импулс и желание” да поправи нещата. В краткосрочен и средносрочен план той ще…

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Scottish Rugby Player Doddie Weir was born on July 4th in Edinburgh.

Born George Wilson Weir, Doddie was educated at Daniel Stewart’s and Melville College and given the school’s heritage with the sport, and Doddie’s size, it was only natural he would take up the rugby.

After his education finished he played for Stewart’s Melville FP, the FP stands for former pupil, he then went on to play for Melrose in the Scottish Borders, and was part of the team that won six Scottish club championships.

He was brought uup on Cortleferry Farm, near the village of Stow in the Scottish Borders. horses were a big part of his early life and he competed at local gymkhanas along with his sister Kirsty. Later he went on to represent Scotland at national equestrian events. Once, at the Scottish Horse Trials, he competed against Princess Anne.

As his rugby career progressed he moved to England in 1995 to join the Newcastle Falcons, helping them win the Premiership in 1998.

Lock Weir was capped 61 times by Scotland, and was part of the victorious Lions tour to South Africa in 1997.

He moved back to Scotland to join the newly reformed Borders team in 2002 where he remained until his retirement from professional rugby. He finished his playing career together with Gary Armstrong at Borders Reivers in 2004.

In 2016 Doddie was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in 2016 and made his diagnosis public the following summer. Although the average life expectancy is between one and three years, he has defied the odds to keep battling and his charity, the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, has raised more than £4million for research into a cure. Doddie was also told that a year later he would not be able to walk, he defied what the doctors said still walked in up to the final months of his life a testament to the determination and fighting spirit of this remarkable man.

A big favourite with the Murrayfield crowd, the 6ft 6in lock was famously described by the late commentator Bill McLaren as as being “on the charge like a mad giraffe”.

Doddie spoke of his MND

“As a bloke you just think ‘I’m fine’, but with this that’s not quite the case. Basically it’s a muscle wasting disease and that’s how in the later life of MND it’s horrific because you need help everywhere.

"Basically your muscles in your legs disappear so you can’t walk; you can’t really eat, and then your muscles within your speech disappear so you can’t speak; you can’t swallow and can’t breath so it’s horrific what happens.

”….“But it’s such a debilitating condition and there’s nothing out there that can help any patient with MND.

He has signed a “Do not resuscitate” (DNR) IN 2020.

In February 2020 Doddie said his decision to refuse potentially lifesaving CPR came after a tough chat with his sons Hamish, Angus, and Ben, "I’ve had to talk to them about DNR. We’ve just signed a document for that at the moment, which isn’t easy.”

He added: “You just have to be honest and open and they took it really well.”

Weir set up a charity called My Name's Doddie Foundation to help fund treatments for motor neurone disease.

In 2018 The Doddie Weir Cup was inaugurated, a perputual Rugby Union trophy to be played between Scotland and Wales, the first match in Cardiff in November that year was won by Wales, Scotland are the current holders.

Neither the Welsh Rugby Union nor the Scottish Rugby Union originally intended to contribute any of the gate receipts from the inaugural match to the charity, but pressure from fans and in the media resulted in them eventually donating a six-figure sum

On the evening of 26 November 2022, his family announced that he had died of motor neuron disease, aged 52. A memorial service was held at Melrose Parish Church on 19 December, with audio from the service relayed to Melrose RFC's ground The Greenyards.

Clinical trials into motor neurone disease (MND) have received a £500,000 boost from the My Name's Doddie Foundation to mark what would have been his 54th birthday.

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The premiership rugby social media team seems to have liked the joke because they are posting about it - Congratulations and here's the participation medal for him 🏅 He loves collecting participation medals doesn't he Megameg?

Ah yes a retweet is totally going to help them pay their bills

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Stephen Leigh Halfpenny (born 22 December 1988) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays as a fullback or wing for Harlequins in the English Premiership. Halfpenny is the third highest points scorer for Wales.

[chaos-footy]

more insane afl facts? sure why not

a match in 1993 was stopped because there was a pig on the grounds

the fact "it was created to keep cricketers fit in winter" is actually a bit of a stretch. Tom Wills - known menace to cricket admin despite being an absolute gun of a player - and his mates were bored and wanted something to play. the distinction between "rugby" and "soccer" didn't really exist yet so when people talked about "football" you could've been talking about anything. Cricket clubs legitimately hated it because football on the hallowed cricket grounds is a recipe for ruin, but then they saw the (metric) shit-ton of money that ticket sales made and decided to cop some of the profit for fixing the turf.

in 1916 due to a quirk of a shortened season (thanks to world war I), Fitzroy Football Club managed to win both the Wooden Spoon (came in last for the home and away season) and the grand final

the macadamia nut was named after john macadam, one of the very first umpires of afl (who to be clear did a bunch of other stuff too in his short 38 years)

it has been 7128 days and counting since Essendon has won a final (4th september 2004).

the collingwood-carlton rivalry is over 125 years old

only three clubs have yet to win the premiership in a league that is both 35 and 127 years old. fremantle dockers, gws giants, and the gold coast suns. of these three, one (the suns) haven't even made finals - the other two have both made it to the grand final, even if they didn't win.

11 of the 18 clubs in the league are member-owned. all 10 victorian clubs + the brisbane lions. In the broadest sense, it means these clubs are owned by their fans. 5 clubs are owned by the afl, and the last 2 are owned by the terrifying Western Australian Football Commission. none of these clubs are owned by an individual, and nor can they be bought.

[thegoosiestlucy]

us exeter chiefs x england girlies are winning today