✍🏻Journalist @guardian, @RugbyPass, @WisdenCricket, etc. 👨🏻🏫Lecturer @YourStMarys & @UEL_News. 🎤 Cricket Cliches natterer, @Short_Fine_Legs pappa.
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Wrote about the 15-year-old who is 1,900% better than all the world's top batters.
Is he guaranteed to become a superstar? Not quite. But also probably.
theguardian.com/sport/2026/a…
Joe Marler, Ox Nche, Trevor Nyakane, Max Lahiff, David Flatman, Phil Vickery, Ellis Genge - when it comes to rugby players who shine beyond the boundary, props are over represented.
Why is that?
Here's a love letter to the big fellas for @RugbyPass:
rugbypass.com/news/a-love-le…
Love this! Hope they stick the landing.
🇿🇦, 🇿🇼 and 🇳🇦 plus who else?
According to ICC rankings it'll be 🇺🇬, 🇰🇪 and 🇹🇿
🇳🇬 not far behind and this would give plenty of incentive for other countries like 🇧🇼 and 🇲🇼 to invest in grassroots.
A 6-team T20 Africa Cup - featuring South Africa and Zimbabwe - is in the works.
As a soft launch, a T20 tri-series between South Africa, Zimbabwe & Namibia is set for August in Namibia.
Plus an update on the proposed Afro-Asia Cup reboot
cricketfj.com/p/exclusive-ne…
Daniel Gallan retweeted
For me, the big takeaways were:
👉60% support aligning TRC with @SixNationsRugby
👉69% support adding @fijirugby & @JRFURugby into TRC
👉 78% support an ANZAC Day #BledisloeCup
👉 71% say @SuperRugby is now more enjoyable to watch
Plenty for the game’s leaders to consider.
I'm a fan of this. Allows for some flexibility. You're suddenly defending a total where dew will be a factor? Tweak your team.
Would love to see this in Tests too where an extra spinner/batter might be a shout depending on the toss.
For those who missed it (like me) captains submit 2 starting XIs before toss in the #PSL then choose their preferred XI after toss. Haven’t thought it through but… good concept! No?
Cricket writer writes a moany piece about the amount of cricket he gets to write about:
theguardian.com/sport/2026/m…
Let's hear it for the southern hemisphere lads who lift the standard of European rugby and put their bodies on the line for every top team in France, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Italy.
For the G:
theguardian.com/sport/2026/m…
There are 257 players from the southern hemisphere playing in every top-flight club in 🇫🇷 (127)🏴 (71)🇮🇹(23)🏴 (16)🇮🇪 (12)🏴(8)
🇿🇦 63
🇦🇷 56
🇦🇺 37
🇳🇿 32
🇫🇯 31
🇹🇴 15
🇼🇸 14
🇿🇼 4
🇳🇦 2
🇨🇱 1
🇺🇾 1
🇨🇰 1
Benetton the most reliant with 16, Cardiff making do with just 1 Saffa.
The Six Nations is a better competition than the Rugby Championship despite having worse teams.
Here's how to fix that.
OPINION: The Southern Hemisphere needs a special Six Nations of its own, argues @danielgallan
#TheRugbyChampionship | #SixNationsRugby
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Totally performative post. Gail's is OK generally but their challahs are rubbish. Basically just bread pretending to be challah. Lacks the trademark pull and chew of a proper challah.
Why attack has dominated defence in this year's Six Nations with @Jamiehuwroberts and Northampton's skills coach, @jake_sharp.
For @RugbyPass
rugbypass.com/plus/why-attac…
Daniel Gallan retweeted
'England’s journalists, fans and former players often see themselves as watchdogs of the national team...'
Borthwick must change the narrative, but it will take a nation-wide effort, writes @danielgallan 👨💻
#EnglandRugby | #GuinnessM6N | #Springboks
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I never liked T20 cricket anyway
I never liked T20 cricket anyway
I never liked T20 cricket anyway
I never liked T20 cricket anyway
i never Liked T2) cricket anwyahf
I never liked T20 cricket anwaygv
I nervver slikesf t20 cricket awnay
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Daniel Gallan retweeted
I console myself thinking about all the young men in my country, powerful in their youth and confident in their immortality, who are encountering a Proteas semi-final for the first time. Good. Look upon the void and join us in it.
Zimbabwean cricket has turned a corner. How can we tell? By sound.
Thanks to @dean_plessis for his views on this:
theguardian.com/sport/2026/f…
Daniel Gallan retweeted
If Ireland's first two results/performances in the 2026 Six Nations were Jacques Nienaber's fault, surely this masterclass at Twickenham is too?😉
Questioning his credentials is not a dog whistle or some attempt to defend local development. It is racism. Pure and simple. If rugby has any values left, there can be no ambiguity on this matter.
The only people on trial here are those who would deny him.
For @RugbyPass
'Like Roy Keane, boxer Jack Doyle, Olympic runner Sonia O’Sullivan... Edogbo was born in Cobh, County Cork. He attended Colaiste Muire, before enrolling at University College Cork. He has a brother named Seàn'
@danielgallan 👨💻
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But now Nasser Hussein has called Adil Rashid a 'mystery' spinner.
Surely he's just a leg/wrist spinner?
