Fascinated by these prediction models.

E.g. How do you groove in the Finn Factor for Bath? A 'significant' groin injury means his season is in the balance - and Orlando Bailey playing 10 v Exe & Sarries most likely.

Does that swing it again?!

More on Finn Times Sport later

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'If Faz wanted to take me, I'd bite his hand off.'

Will Kelleher talks to Adam Jones about his Lions coaching hopes and reviews the Champions Cup games with Alex Lowe 📰, Will Kelleher, Alan Dymock and Alfred Reynolds.

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Jordie Barrett will join Leinster in December on a six month deal.

Interesting one here in the Exeter game - each game they choose 2 non-playing players to watch the game and make notes on what they are seeing. They feed this into the attack coach before coaches meet with players. Great way to build team culture. Bernard Jackman

It’s not hard to see why Jack Willis is loving life in Toulouse. The fans chant his name and the team play some scintillating rugby.

🗣️“Before you know it he’s into it, shouting, the vein in his neck popping. Then we have a little laugh about it & he says, ‘Sorry, lads, I need to calm down a bit.’ ”

Jack Nowell takes Times Sport us into life with La ROGchelle, the Île de Ré & in 🇫🇷
thetimes.co.uk/article/6ef524…

Winning in Toulouse would be the most impressive Exeter result ever

One player is set to make Champions Cup history, Will Skelton has been an awfully-nice bloke, and which Fijian is storming the Challenge Cup?

Read my Times Sport hype piece ⬇️
thetimes.co.uk/article/64870c…

‘We’re not an after-school club. We’re there every week because what these young people don’t need are people who turn up just once then leave.

‘They’ve had that all their lives, which is why they are where they are’

I've fallen down a massive rabbit hole in the Rugby World 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 themagazinearchive.com/rugby-world-di…)

Lift the bloody oversees ban! Get a “minimum cap rule” in place and let the boys play! 🤪

Bulls book eight flights from South Africa for Northampton cup trip. EPCR can't help, as it's SA Rugby's job to book the flights, despite Qatar Airways partnership.

Plus Alex Lowe 📰 Quins likely to be without Marler & Care for Bordeaux trip

Times Sport
thetimes.co.uk/sport/rugby-un…

Perfect for the 20mph speed limits.

Excl: Every Autumn Nations Series match to be shown on TNT Sports

thetimes.co.uk/article/89d725…

Gotta admire the length the IRFU went to bury the biggest women's rugby news story in quite some time on a Friday evening during fallow week. Didn't work. Cliodhna Moloney is bossing my feed right now

Completely different position and skill set to LRZ. But an example of how the NFL’s IPP can be life changing.

Mailata was offered a AU$5k reserve grade contract by the Rabbitohs in NRL.

Ardie Savea: New Zealand must ditch overseas rule to get back to top

Cool to hear from the best player in the world from Kobe, as he tells us about his refreshing sabbatical in Japan and why the All Blacks should change their policies.

Times Sport 👇🏼
thetimes.co.uk/article/408fe9…

New Zealand 637 Tests (1903-2023), Sam Whitelock played in 24% of them

From Kingsholm to Kosovo, England 7s to Iraq, the Premiership player who went to war - and how rugby saved his life.

This is the remarkable story of Andy Dawling, former Saracens academy coach and now kit man, who was pushed to the brink by PTSD. ⬇️

thetimes.co.uk/article/andy-d…

From Kingsholm to Kosovo, England 7s to Iraq, the Premiership player who went to war - and how rugby saved his life.

This is the remarkable story of Andy Dawling, former Saracens academy coach and now kit man, who was pushed to the brink by PTSD. ⬇️

thetimes.co.uk/sport/rugby-un…