A prerequisite of being a Grand Slam winning prop and a Champion Shot-put competitor is considerable strength and London Irish’s former Irish international prop Tom Court blew away BT Sports Smash-o-meter record this week.

Previously, Adam Jones held the record at 88, but the bespectacled Court blew away the Welshman’s record, measuring 101 on the Smash-o-meter.

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This is just terrific.

In a moving interview on BT Sport’s Rugby Tonight, former Springbok scrum half Joost van der Westhuizen, gave an insightful and moving interview, via an interpreter.

Joost, who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in May 2010, spoke at length about his work with his charitable foundation, J9, which has the explicit aim of raising awareness about Motor Neuron disease.

Speaking ahead of the Sprinboks upcoming test against England, van der Westhuizen feels that the Springboks’ shock reversal against Ireland last weekend will act as a proverbial kick in the arse for the South Africans, saying that Irish done South Africa a “big favour”

Best of all, a brilliant quote attributed to Van der Westhuizen was read out: “Life is not measured by the amount of years lived; but by the amount of memories created”

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This coming Wednesday, on BT Sport at nine o’clock, BOD-The Brian O’Driscoll storing will be broadcast.

Charting the legendary centre’s rise from School’s Rugby with Blackrock College to Lions, Leinster and Ireland captaincy, this documentary, which includes guest appearances from former team-mates such as Keith Wood & Conor O’Shea, should be a treat for any Rugby fans, not least Irish supporters.

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest referee’s of all time, Ed Morrison-the man who refereed the 1995 World Cup Final- gave an insightful on pitch demonstration, as is norm on BT’s flagship Ruby show, Rugby Tonight, on how the breakdown is officiated.

So, if you’re an aspiring referee or an armchair follower who doesn’t understand why their team concedes so many penalties at the breakdown watch this clip may be very useful to you.

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With a little bit of help from Lawrence Dallaglio and Austin Healey, Manu Tuilagi gave an insightful demonstration on the art of line running, offloads and decoy runs on last Monday night’s Rugby Tonight on BT Sports.

As teachers go, one of the best outside centres in the world is one of the best there is.

Recently, two of the most complete centres in modern Rugby, Brian O’Driscoll & Manu Tuilagi, have given demonstrations on Rugby Tonight, so we would advise any burgeoning centres, or players in general, to not miss the Craig Doyle hosted show.

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Brian O’Driscoll made his much heralded television punditry debut this Monday past on BT Sports weekly show, Rugby Tonight.

Alongside Lawrence Dallaglio and Austin Healy, among others, BOD provided insight and opinion on a range of Rugby matters, including the inevitable question of who he thinks will succeed him in the Irish 13 shirt. Diplomatically, O’Driscoll talked up the credentials of his three mooted successors, Robbie Henshaw, Luke Fitzgerald and Jared Payne, without really nailing his colours to any particular mast.

Breakdown acumen is an attribute not readily associated with centres, but, oddly, this was an area where O’Driscoll excelled during his career and BT decided to eek every bit of value from the Irishman when they asked him for a demonstration of the dark arts of the breakdown.

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