Sports reporter for The Times. Rugby, cricket, numbers, niche. Really busy with choir. The artist formerly known as @WelshMinor 🏴 🏉🏏📊🎼
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Joined March 2012
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🎙️ The Ruck! 🎙️
🇪🇸 Could Spain host the World Cup? @ferugby President explains how…
👀 Plus! their bid to join the URC, Challenge Cup & 6 Nations!
🏆 England’s Euro struggles
🌹 Roses lose…!
@TimesSport @ElganTimes @AlfredReynolds5
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Canada 24 England 21
A record crowd turned up to see Canada beat England for the first time in ten years, and end the world champions’ unbeaten run of 41 Tests
✍️ @ElganTimes
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✍️ Prem leaders can summon spirit of ‘Stade Gloucester’ before Bordeaux test
French invasion helped Prem side challenge for honours routinely in 2000s and @ElganTimes says visit of European champions will evoke memories of that team thetimes.com/sport/rugby-uni…
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The British & Irish Lions Women will host France at Principality Stadium in Cardiff in their first ever match next year
✍️ @ElganTimes
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Want the full Ruck in vision on YouTube?
Come on down 👇🏼
🃏 The state of Harlequins
🍷 Why Saracens’ jokes fell flat
🏴 Would the Welsh Prem XV beat the Welsh URC XV?
@TimesSport @ElganTimes @CharlieFelix @AlfredReynolds5
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Fitness-mad former England lock Steve Bainbridge, 69, can still deadlift 225kg and says he never regrets choosing rugby over athletics after revelling in off-field antics of amateur era | ✍️ @ElganTimes thetimes.com/sport/rugby-uni…
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Proud of The Ruck @TimesSport and our mates @AlfredReynolds5 @ElganTimes @AlexMLowe @SBarnesRugby @MarkPalmerST @petersuntimes @CharlieFelix - nominated for the @britpodawards!
No win, no pink carpet, but for a pod curated, presented & produced by a handful of journos we do ok🫡
Elgan Evan Alderman retweeted
🇫🇷 The Rugbyman
Iconic drop-goals, violence and faded grandeur — welcome to Languedoc derby
Béziers, who still carry "arrogance" of their most successful era, welcome age-old enemies Narbonne, who are back in D2 for the latest chapter in a storied rivalry | ✍️ @ElganTimes
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Mega numbers for the YouTube version of The Ruck last week.
Can anyone beat the Boks? Why does Borthwick have a new contract?
What shirt is @ElganTimes rocking now?
All the big Qs with @AlexMLowe @CharlieFelix @AlfredReynolds5 too
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A lovely afternoon spent with @Middlesex_CCC scorer Don Shelley, now in his 22nd & final season with @ElganTimes @TimesSport
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Putting my party trick to the test: my day as a County Championship scorer.
Bill ‘Bearders’ Frindall famously made the art sexy and I got my chance to do the same, with the help of Middlesex’s legendary scorer Don Shelley, 78.
✍️ @ElganTimes
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The Ruck on YouTube — and in a new studio!
You’re flocking to our latest pod with @AlfredReynolds5 @ElganTimes & @CharlieFelix. Huge viewing figs already!
Can anyone stop NZ or SA winning the next World Cup?
➕ Prem Cup, WXV chats
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I spent a day with Don Shelley, Middlesex's scorer in his 22nd and final season, engaging in the therapeutic art of putting dots on a sheet ✒️📓
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Top pod from the boys @AlfredReynolds5 @CharlieFelix @ElganTimes in the sexy new studio!
The full whack will be on @TimesSport YouTube, where we’re gathering a nice army, 🔜
On there, and the usual spots, all season!
Specials coming out our ears before the Prem starts too 🫡
New Zealand now mathmatically cannot win the series against South Africa, but Charlie Morgan says there are reasons for the All Blacks and other nations to feel positive before next year’s World Cup.
🗣️ @AlfredReynolds5, @CharlieFelix
🔗 pod.fo/e/5e3209
Elgan Evan Alderman retweeted
New Zealand now mathmatically cannot win the series against South Africa, but Charlie Morgan says there are reasons for the All Blacks and other nations to feel positive before next year’s World Cup.
🗣️ @AlfredReynolds5, @CharlieFelix
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Elgan Evan Alderman retweeted
🇫🇷 Amid intense pre-season, Nice had to scrabble for extra funding to remain in pro game and are recruiting Canadian youngsters (and Louis Bielle-Biarrey's brother) to stay up
⬇️ Read more from @ElganTimes
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Enjoying the Greatest Rivalry series?
Listen to our 6️⃣ parter Ruck retrospective, delving into the history between South Africa and New Zealand NOW!
Binge from ep 1 here 👉🏼 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
@TimesSport @AlexMLowe @ElganTimes @JamieWall2 @AlfredReynolds5
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🇿🇦 The Ruck podcast 🇳🇿
In part six of our series on rugby's greatest rivalry, we find the sport hurtling in to the professional era. South Africa are world champions after 1995 but New Zealand are on the verge of one of their greatest moments
Listen here: podfollow.com/the-ruck/view
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This is legit one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. If you liked my book The Hundred Years’ War, this is basically it in podcast form:
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This week we published 6️⃣ episodes of The Ruck telling the story of the 105 year rivalry between the All Blacks & Springboks.
All pods & @ElganTimes write ups here!
Enjoy, share & tell us what you think @TimesSport @AlexMLowe @JamieWall2 @AlfredReynolds5
Series preview 🔜