✍🏻Journalist @guardian, @RugbyPass, @WisdenCricket, etc. 👨🏻🏫Lecturer @YourStMarys & @UEL_News. 🎤 Cricket Cliches natterer, @Short_Fine_Legs pappa.
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Apr 15
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.
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Apr 10
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…
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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
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Daniel Gallan retweeted
Apr 1
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.
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Mar 27
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.
Mar 27
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?
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Mar 25
Cricket writer writes a moany piece about the amount of cricket he gets to write about:
theguardian.com/sport/2026/m…
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Mar 24
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…
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Mar 23
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
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Benetton the most reliant with 16, Cardiff making do with just 1 Saffa.
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Mar 17
The Six Nations is a better competition than the Rugby Championship despite having worse teams.
Here's how to fix that.
Mar 17
OPINION: The Southern Hemisphere needs a special Six Nations of its own, argues @danielgallan
#TheRugbyChampionship | #SixNationsRugby
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Mar 16
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.
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Mar 12
Why attack has dominated defence in this year's Six Nations with @Jamiehuwroberts and Northampton's skills coach, @jake_sharp.
For @RugbyPass
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Daniel Gallan retweeted
Mar 4
'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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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.
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Feb 25
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…
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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?😉
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Feb 16
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
Feb 16
'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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Feb 16
But now Nasser Hussein has called Adil Rashid a 'mystery' spinner.
Surely he's just a leg/wrist spinner?
Feb 16
Not to argue with a Proteas legend, but doesn't 'finger spinner' mean those who bowl off-spin by turning their fingers over the ball?
If he means mystery spinners becasue they bowl with fingers, then surely any bowler applies. Rabada/Bumrah bowl with his fingers, don't they?
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