HoR highlights Aug 27-Sep 2

Just a few links to show what rugby we’ve been harpin on for the past seven days…

• The week started with a guest writeup of Leinster's final preseason game at Sale Sharks.

• Tim Cronin looked at Round 2 of The Rugby Championship “Ends don’t justify the Deans”

• Felix McCabe was busy writing on the Premiership with two posts : “Premiership’s Preseason–Part 2” and “Premiership Round 1 Preview”

• Twitter follower count is up to 3325 – one of the top tweets was this observation of the Ansboro injury

• John O'Sullivan looked ahead to his beloved Connacht's campaign : “Nearly show-time at the Sportsground!”

• Even the IRFU player management programme couldn't stop Jonathan Sexton appearing in “Around The Fringes #68”

• I got into trouble for calling this post an “Andrew Goodman scouting report”

• Liam Sinclair looked ahead to the weekend's “Welsh-Italian Pro12 clashes”

• “Women leading the way for Ireland in 7’s” says Sarah Lennon

• The Midweek Quiz found its first champion on Wednesday evening though it was a close-run thing!

• Roots & All started for real this week, with “Claremorris RFC–update #1” and “Naas RFC-Update #1”

• My column on BlueMagic.ie was another mini-feature on a Leinster player waiting in the wings for greatness.

• Every Thursday at 2pm this feature lists the week's rugby on Irish telly > “BOX-KIX Aug 30 - Sep 6”

• “Lions Selector Panel : Preseason selection 4” saw our Irish panellist complete our first round of selections.

• On Fridays at 11:30am the boys at DropKickRugby.com will give us their “Rugby bets of the week”

• I was more than happy to resume my Friday preview of the Irish provinces on SportsNewsIreland.

• “Keego on Concussion & Concussion” - the title speaks for itself

• The Facebook page now has 855 Likes and not surprisingly the biggest topic was the post-mortem of Leinster's opening day Welsh woes.

• And finally yet another new feature “The View From The Laighin Pit” launched yesterday with “The 11th Hour”.

As you can see, things are getting busy here at HoR Manor…stay tuned for more this week!  There’s a new Midweek Quiz game, a reluctant writeup of Leinster’s opening Pro12 debacle, a “special guest” team for Roots & All to introduce and loads more! JLP