HoR highlights Aug 19-26

Time to look back over the rugby we’ve been harpin on for the past 7 days, follow the links if you missed them…

• You still have time to enter the competition to win tickets for Leinster v NG Dragons on September 8…

• For my Monday morning Leinster match writeup I needed a bit of help…

• All Black fan Tim Cronin is looking for a bit more from his heroes

• Our esteemed rugby official RE Ferry gave his thoughts on the new scrum laws

• Facebook Likes are up to 854 – most popular post last week was this gag on the English & French clubs’ desire to change the HCup.

• Our Premiership columnist Felix McCabe had a look at the preseason so far for the 12 clubs…

• We had some keen columnists penning two pieces, first Trevor Murphy remembered his favourite Munster match then analysed the first Bledisloe Cup contest…

• And our Ulster columnist Kristian Ross is happy to see a certain player back at Ravenhill plus he told us about his favourite English club

• We launched a new slot which will feature fitness training programs

• The Midweek Quiz had the final trial night for its first game – the 15 playoff qualifiers were decided.

• The 67th Around The Fringes cartoon proved to be the most popular of all-time…

• Keego also chose to offer his two cents on the scrum dilemma this week

• Twitter following is up to 3309, unfortunately the most popular tweet was a link to news of a tragedy involving a rugby player

• The week ended with a couple of introductions – first, our Scottish Lions Selector panellist…

• …and finally the Leinster representatives in the Roots & All project.

As you can see, a busy week overall at HarpinOnRugby Manor, and with the Pro12 season about to kick off, it’s only going to get busier so stay tuned! JLP