Manu

2022 - 10 - 30

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Tenor Filipe Manu wins Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award - Times (Times Online - Auckland)

The success continues for New Zealand-Tongan tenor Filipe Manu, who has been announced as this year's recipient of the prestigious Dame Heather Begg ...

Dame Heather Begg’s own long and distinguished international operatic career inspired her to make provision in her will for this award. Manu is the second New Zealander to receive this award. “We are proud that the

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'He adds a fear factor': Marcus Smith happy with Manu Tuilagi by his ... (The Guardian)

England fly-half believes renewed partnership with centre can help side in autumn campaign that starts against Argentina.

If he has been struggling this season there was a welcome return to form in [Harlequins’ impressive victory over Sale](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/23/sale-harlequins-premiership-match-report) – the fly-half’s last club outing before joining England. “As long as you stay pretty neutral in your thinking and work hard, I believe you can find a way out of anything. We’ll try at the weekend and if we make a mistake we’ll deal with it on the field because we’re that close as a group.” “He’s an absolute beast, he’s a freak ball-in-hand, he’s got brilliant hands at the line and he bangs pretty hard in defence,” says the 23-year-old Smith. That is, on the face of it, at odds with Jones’s insistence that at this stage, 13 matches out from the World Cup, England do not want to show their hand. [against South Africa](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/20/england-south-africa-autumn-international-rugby-union-match-report) at the back end of last year’s November campaign but ended abruptly when Tuilagi went off with a hamstring injury sustained after seven minutes.

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He's an absolute beast – Marcus Smith cannot wait to link up with ... (expressandstar.com)

The pair are set to be reunited in the midfield when Argentina visit Twickenham on Sunday after starting two Tests together last autumn.

We’ve all had to step up in our leadership and speak a bit more. “On the field, he’s an absolute beast. He’s a freak with the ball in hand, he’s got brilliant hands at the line and he bangs pretty hard in defence.

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'He adds a fear factor': Marcus Smith relishing chance to link up with ... (The Independent)

The pair are set to be reunited in the midfield when Argentina visit Twickenham on Sunday after starting two Tests together last autumn.

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