Nik Simon
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Rugby Correspondent @MailSport
London/Loughborough
Joined December 2011
Luke Cowan-Dickie on top form in this exclusive @MailSport interview ⬇️ 🤣 His Lions teammate who mistakedly ended up the Wallabies hotel at 3am 🇮🇪 Furlong’s tactical masterclass 🤖 How AI is firing @SaleSharksRugby 🗣️ What the players think of R360 https://t.co/TLv0tntvSs
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Many of Cowan-Dickie's memories of the 2025 Lions tour arise from the golf course not the rugby pitch as he was concussed during the last warm-up game. But he still loved the experience.
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A look at some of the players hoping to break through with England this autumn ⬇️
The seven breakout stars ready to shine for England this autumn: The Richie McCaw clone, the fitness freak, the X-factor wing and the hooker who can finally replace Jamie George
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Exclusive: George Ford rejects R360 opportunity and signs three-year contract extension at Sale. More details, including an intervention from Eddie Jones, on @MailSport 🦈🏴 https://t.co/wvpLIZ5enV
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NIK SIMON: England fly-half George Ford is the latest player to ignore the lure of R360. Ford was the man in possession of England's No 10 jersey in Argentina.
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Last night in Paris, Jack Willis was named 🇫🇷 rugby's TOP14 player of the year. He accepted the award speaking fluent French. Chat with Willis on his impressive on and off-field development at Toulouse and 🏴 future latest. https://t.co/v4HvHFxcJX
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At 9pm French time on Monday, Jack Willis strode to the stage at the iconic Paris venue of L'Olympia to accept the TOP14 Player of the Year award with his white shirt soaked with sweat.
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Bayonne v Toulouse on @PremSportsTV Manu Tuilagi v Jack Willis 💥🏴 Feels crazy that Willis is captaining the best club in the World Cup but not eligible to play for England.
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New YouTube video uploaded 📹🏉 Getting to know NOAH CALUORI… with some help from Owen Farrell. Thanks to anyone who took my first few videos over 20k views! Watch, like, subscribe ⬇️ https://t.co/32t7XYatbO
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Thank you @Nik_Simon88! Inside Worcester Warriors' dream return: How 9,000 fans put rugby politics aside to roar club to battling comeback over Coventry | Daily Mail Online
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BY NIK SIMON AT SIXWAYS: The traffic down Warriors Way has never felt so welcome. Fans jumped out of their cars stuck in the jams and stomped along the soggy verges in time for kick-off.
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There are not many rugby clubs with a regular following from their local paper so @TheoIGardner is well worth a follow this season 🏉 #worcester
"I just spoke to Billy Twelvetrees and Tom Cruse. They felt – and I feel that same – that we needed a tight game, we needed a scrappy win, the grit, the physicality." https://t.co/NC80WISUjq
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Report from a brilliant occasion at @WorcsWarriors - featuring a tear jerker, some politics and a couple of belting tackles 🏉⬇️ https://t.co/GNdjbMwM0p
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BY NIK SIMON AT SIXWAYS: The traffic down Warriors Way has never felt so welcome. Fans jumped out of their cars stuck in the jams and stomped along the soggy verges in time for kick-off.
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The 19-year-old winger sits down with Daily Mail Sport as he looks to burst onto the scene with Saracens 🚀 Read more: https://t.co/1R8rFrWUOI
#Caluori #Saracens
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Loved meeting Noah Caluori. An eloquent, super-talented teenager with a bright future at @Saracens 💫 🇨🇭growing up in Switzerland 🇳🇬 bulking on mum’s jollof rice 🇳🇿 message from Rieko Ioane 💨 that try! Exclusive interview @MailSport ⬇️
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Meet Noah Caluori, half-Swiss and half-Nigerian, who you will see galloping down the wing for Saracens this season.
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Think R360 is rugby's only breakaway league proposal? Think again. Introducing Ultimate Sevens... a new short-form tournament for 2026 and the brainchild of a team with close links to Sunderland. 🔴⚪️ Full details in @MailSport Rugby Confidential. https://t.co/J4lbs7fFPf
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Think R360 is rugby's only proposed breakaway league with the aim of shaking up the sport's established order? Think again.
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Inside the Leicester Tigers reset ⬇️ Chessum: ‘Cheik was almost in tears. Arguments between the boys. Guys who’d been at the club a long while, like Cole and Ben Youngs, made it v clear it was nowhere near good enough. There was real change in all of us.’
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Suddenly, this summer, the clock was no longer ticking on a tranche of club legends in their 30s. It was time for the next generation to pull together as a squad overhaul was forced upon them.
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A look into the regeneration job at Tigers. 🍺 a night at the Red Lion in Harborough 🏉 Parling’s quirky lineout data 🗣️ a dressing down from club legends 🏴 how Chessum became captain Read/subscribe for detail on @MailSport
https://t.co/7cuJbpxfFf
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Suddenly, this summer, the clock was no longer ticking on a tranche of club legends in their 30s. It was time for the next generation to pull together as a squad overhaul was forced upon them.
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Inside the regeneration of Leicester Tigers: A Market Harborough pub summit that started it all, Geoff Parling's immediate impact, the new leadership core, bringing back past legends... and the unpopular magician
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Suddenly, this summer, the clock was no longer ticking on a tranche of club legends in their 30s. It was time for the next generation to pull together as a squad overhaul was forced upon them.
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A look into the regeneration job at Tigers. 🍺 a night at the Red Lion in Harborough 🏉 Parling’s quirky lineout data 🗣️ a dressing down from club legends 🏴 how Chessum became captain Read/subscribe for detail on @MailSport
https://t.co/7cuJbpxfFf
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Suddenly, this summer, the clock was no longer ticking on a tranche of club legends in their 30s. It was time for the next generation to pull together as a squad overhaul was forced upon them.
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Struggling to see much logic in Townsend appointment at Newcastle. More detail here from @_AlexBywater ⬇️
In-depth @MailSport read on Steve Diamond's Newcastle Red Bulls departure. 🥾 Zoom sacking 💻 Players told in same way 👀 The Townsend truth ❓ Questions over timing 🏴 Scottish cronies in place 👊 Who is really pulling strings https://t.co/hxWPxGG4wl
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Today marks 20 years since @Cardiff_Rugby signed the great Jonah Lomu. 🔵⚫️ Big @MailSport read on how the deal was done with previously untold stories of what Lomu was really like. Thanks to Dai Young, Bob Norster & @GetRhysWilliams for the insight. https://t.co/iUxhJDASPA
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The Ba Orient was a plush Chinese restaurant and cocktail bar in Cardiff 's bay area popular with celebrities. For one night in 2006, it added another star to its list.
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