Harlequins team-mates pay tribute to departing Robshaw who is due for MLR talks this week
Former England captain Chris Robshaw announced on Monday that he will be leaving Harlequins at the end of the season after 16 years with them.
The 33-year-old shared on a social media post that he will be “hanging up my Harlequins shirt”.
He did not specify what the next step in his career will be, but RugbyPass reported last week that he is due to meet with Rugby United New York this week with a view to playing Major League Rugby next season.
The flanker is undoubtedly a Harlequins legend, with only Mike Brown playing more games for the club.
Many of his current and former team-mates have paid tribute to him, praising the 66-cap England international for his work rate and commitment.
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These are qualities that are always on display whenever he plays as he is usually the most industrious player on the field and he remains a consistent and reliable performer.
His club’s CEO Laurie Dalrymple even described him as the “personification of Harlequins”.
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Congratulations on a amazing career. It was a pleasure to play alongside u and u always lead by example in your work rate. All the best for the next chapter u will smash it ?
— Tom Youngs (@TomYoungs87) February 3, 2020
Congratulations on a wonderful career. You were always a pleasure to referee on and off the field, a great man. Best of wishes for whatever the future holds for you on the field or off it and thanks for all you have done to support the LGBT community too.
— Nigel Owens MBE (@Nigelrefowens) February 3, 2020
Congratulations on a great career Robbo, you introduced me to new levels of commitment and dedication. #nextchapter
— Dave Ward (@Dave_Ward2) February 3, 2020
Total and utter admiration for @ChrisRobshaw. The personification of @Harlequins. 5 months for us to try and finish this off in appropriate style ?? https://t.co/RYJT2gXfNn
— Laurie Dalrymple (@LaurieDalrymple) February 3, 2020
Robshaw has been at the heart of all of Harlequins’ success in recent years, captaining them to Premiership glory in 2012 and even scoring a try in the victorious final against Leicester Tigers.
He was reinstated as captain this season by Paul Gustard and with his side in sixth place in the league, just one point behind fourth-place Gloucester, he will hope to finish his time with Quins on a high.
It hasn't taken the ex-Wallaby long to secure alternative employment following last week's TV setback, and other star names could follow him to America in 2021 https://t.co/p5YF4odhqV
— RugbyPass (@RugbyPass) January 28, 2020
While nothing has been confirmed about his future yet, a move abroad would end his hopes of playing for England again – although he has not played at Test since June 2018.
With five months remaining of his time at The Stoop, he still has plenty to give, but many of his team-mates have highlighted what a player he has been for Harlequins and England.
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Wasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
3 Go to commentsAre the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
3 Go to commentsBig difference from the Saders. Forwards really muscled up and laid a solid platform. Scooter brought some steel and I liked the loosie combination. Newell has been rather disappointing this season but stepped up big time - happy also to see Franks dot down. He should do that more often! Reihana had a good game and there seems to be more flair and invention with him in the saddle. McNicoll plays well from the back and is reliable plus inventive when he joins the line. Keep it up chaps!
3 Go to comments🤦♂️🤣 who cares who’s the best . All I know is the All Blacks have the star coach but have few star players now …
30 Go to commentsJe suis sûr que Farrell est impatient de jouer avec Lopez et Machenaud et d’être entraîné par Collazo… 🤭
1 Go to commentsAn on field red (aka a full red) in SRP must surely carry a bigger suspension than a red card given by the bunker as that carries a 20 minute team punishment. Had Damon Murphy abdicated his responsibility as a ref and issued both Drua players a yellow, which would have been upgraded to a 20 minute red by the bunker, that would have killed Australia and New Zealand’s push for the 20 minute red to be trialled globally from July this year.
11 Go to commentsEver so often you all post a Danny Care story that isn’t the announcement that he has finally re-signed for one more, victory tour season at Quins and I’m just like, “well you fooled me again!” My absolute favorite player ever, we need to make his final year at the Stoop (and Twickers) official already. I know he supposedly snubbed France but I won’t feel better until he signs.
1 Go to commentslate hit what late hit it wasn’t at all late and can clearly see he was committed before the tackle
3 Go to commentsChristian Lio -Willies 2 try perfomance was a standout. As was captain Scott Barrett. Up front was where the boys won it.They are a great team and players. Fantastic Crusaders , you can keep going.
3 Go to commentsI don't know how the locals feel about that? I guess if you call yourselves the Worcester Wasps that might be appease. But really we need more teams in the Premiership in my view so they are not padding it out as they are at the moment. It might curtail so many players going abroad as well
5 Go to commentsNZ 😭😭😭is certainly rivaling England for best whingers cup!😭😭😭 !!!
30 Go to commentsYup. New Zealand won 3 out of 10 world cups played. SA 4 out of 8 attempts 30 Vs 50 per cent.🤔🤔
30 Go to commentsShould've done this years ago. Change Saturday kick off times to around 11am. Up and off and back home before 3pm, limit travel time too. Allows players to actually do something else with their Saturday that's family oriented or being rugby fans they could ‘watch’ pro rugby. Increases crowds etc. How can anyone that enjoys grassroots and pro rugby have to choose between the two on Saturdays?
9 Go to commentsI bet he inspired those supporters just as much.
1 Go to commentsBen Smith Springboks living rent free in his head 😊😂
67 Go to commentsGood to hear he would like to play the game at the highest level, I hadn’t been to sure how much of a motivator that was before now. Sadly he’s probably chosen the rugby club to go to. Try not to worry about all the input about how you should play rugby Joey and just try to emulate what you do on the league field and have fun. You’ll limit your game too much (well not really because he’s a standard athlete like SBW and he’ll still have enough) if you’re trying to make sure you can recycle the ball back etc. On the other hard, you can totally just try and recycle by looking to offload any and everywhere if you’re going to ground 😋
1 Go to commentsThis just proves that theres always a stat and a metric to use to justify your abilities and your success. Ben did it last week by creating an imaginary competition and now you did the same to counter his argument and espouse a new yardstick for success. Why not just use the current one and lets say the Boks have won 4 world cups making them the most successful world cup team. Outside of the world cup the All Blacks are the most successful team winning countless rugby championships and dominating the rankings with high win percentages. Over the last 4 years statistically the Irish are the best having the highest win rate and also having positive records against every tier 1 side. The most successful Northern team in the game has been England with a world cup title and the most six nations titles in history. The AB’s are the most dominant team in history with the highest win rate and 3 world cups. Lets not try to reinvent the wheel. Just be honest about the actual stats and what each team has been good at doing and that will be enough to define their level of success.
30 Go to commentsHow is 7’s played there? I’m surprised 10 or 11 man rugby hasn’t taken off. 7 just doesn’t fit the 15s dynamics (rules n field etc) but these other versions do.
9 Go to commentsPick Swinton at your peril A liability just like JWH from the Roosters Skelton ??? went missing at RWC
14 Go to commentsLike tennis, who have a ranking system, and I believe rugby too, just measure over each period preceding a world cup event who was the longest number one and that would be it. In tennis the number one player frequently is not the grand slam winner. I love and adore the All Blacks since the days of Ian Kirkpatrick when I was a kid in SA. And still do because they are the masters of running rugby and are gentleman on and off the field - in general. And in my opinion they have been the majority of the time the best rugby team in the world.
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