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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoGareth’s team start Millfield’s 7s dynasty
Brendan Gallagher begins a new series looking at rugby’s great schools Carrying the torch: Callum Sheedy lifts the 2014 Rosslyn Park...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: So who was really in charge at Gloucester?
Brendan Gallagher looks at how the director of rugby and head coach roles can appear blurred
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Can Emirati riches pump life into fallen giant Beziers?
Glory days of Beziers gave rise to region removed from French rugby's heartland of the south west, writes Brendan Gallagher
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Expected disaster story turned into a fairytale
Brendan Gallagher recalls the doom-mongering around the 1995 Rugby World Cup, as South Africa grappled with fragile identity after Apartheid's end
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby stadiums countdown: 5-1
Twickenham enters the rankings outside of the Top 3
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby stadiums countdown: 10-6
The countdown nears No.1, check out the grounds which fell short of inclusion inside the final five
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Odd-ball George Simpkin was a true rugby visionary
Brendan Gallagher pays tribute to the man who took Fiji to the quarter finals of the inaugural World Cup
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby stadiums countdown: 15-11
Southern hemisphere stadia dominate the latest countdown towards the No.1 spot
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby stadiums countdown: 20-16
Brendan Gallagher begins his countdown to No.1 with grounds in Japan, England and Argentina
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: South Sea Bubble could provide tonic for rugby
Brendan Gallagher looks at how Pacific Island countries were left behind at the turning of amateurism to professional
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoSpringboks ruled the roost in Second World War POW camp contest
Brendan Gallagher tells the fascinating story of Stalag 1VB, the prisoner of war camp housing captured soldiers from all over the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: ’57 old farts’ and one nauseous reporter
Brendan Gallagher recalls when the RFU top brass went for the jugular at Will Carling's dig at humour
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby shock wins and upsets
Brendan Gallagher recalls rugby’s biggest ever shocks, at club and internaitonal level, and ranks each for the magnitude of the upset....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Don’t mess up this crucial changeover
Brendan Gallagher points out that no-one from rugby's professional era has chaired World Rugby
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 5-1
The hard men who wouldn't take a step back on the rugby pitch
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 10-6
British & Irish Lions icon Willie John McBride enters the list, as we near revealing No.1
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Gus Pichot has visions of changing the world
Talk of revolution is in the air as Pichot's invokes Che
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 15-11
Trouble seemed to find its way to Bakkies Botha on the rugby pitch...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 20-16
Brendan Gallagher begins his countdown of rugby's hardest men
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed to the battlefront and died heroes with VCs
FOR three decades or more before 1914 the young men of Britain and its extended Empire had been fighting generally good...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 5-1
Out countdown reaches its conclusion...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 10-6
An All Blacks career derailed and the Caribbean-English trailblazer born in the wrong era
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 15-11
Brendan Gallagher rankings of talents who didn't fulfil their potential continues...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: The past was a different country for rugby thrills
Brendan Gallagher believes conservative play has etched into modern rugby
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 20-16
Brendan Gallagher ranks the players who could have achieved so much more in the game
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoDave Gallaher drilled his touring New Zealand team like a fighting machine
Brendan Gallagher recalls the early and outstanding All Blacks and Australian tours
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.10-6
An expert tackle from All Blacks great Ben Smith on Manu Tuilagi
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Rugby’s quickest ever player? Look no further than the man dubbed ‘Marlon Brando’
Brendan Gallagher pieces together rugby's fastest ever players in a 100m heat - speedster John Young features
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.15-11
Featuring Ben Cohen's crucial stop against the All Blacks in 2002
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.20-16
One of the great World Cup tackles from Japan's Ayumu Goromaru
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 tries of all time countdown: No.1-5
Our countdown of the greatest tries reaches No.1
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Kenny’s challenge taught me when to fold ’em!
You're a rugby writer in a Paris hotel room at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and you call Kenny Rogers...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 tries of all time countdown: No.6-10
A British & Irish Lions classic from 2017 features as Brendan Gallagher continues his countdown
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 tries of all time countdown: No.11-15
Part Two of our four-part special features Jonah Lomu and JPR Williams
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 tries of all time countdown: No.16-20
The de facto list of rugby's best ever tries. Part one of our four-part story drops with Christian Cullen featuring
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: All our yesterdays come gloriously alive again
Brendan Gallagher has found himself looking at the treasure trove of rugby videos on Youtube...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: High time Sale Sharks got the recognition they merit
Underappreciated in the sporting hub of greater Manchester? Brendan Gallagher looks at the unheralded success of Sale
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoWhen Fran Cotton folded Paper, England’s Grand Slam was on
Brendan Gallagher recalls England's triumphant Five Nations Grand Slam in 1980
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Llandow disaster turned triumph into tragedy
Brendan Gallagher recalls the tragedy of the Llandow Air Disaster
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: The greatest teams have had special joy of six
As Eddie Jones pilots hybrid players in his Six Nations teams, Brendan Gallagher looks at the role of a No.6
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Farewell to Garrett Fitzgerald, the man who made Munster great
The man who built Munster into a modernised giant of European rugby
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: 2020 is no comparison to the thuggery of 1980
Brendan Gallagher recalls the most brutally physical of Five Nations championships in 1980
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Game in Spain flying high after Rugby World Cup anguish
Brendan Gallagher insists Spain shouldn't be disappointed by their defeat to Georgia last weekend, as they close the gap in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoGallagher column: Small, strong – Dupont is ideal for the French way
Morgan Parra, Maxime Machenaud and Jonathan Pelissie have all come and gone – Antoine Dupont represents the real France
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Can lieutenant Andy Farrell cut it as head honcho?
Brendan Gallagher on why Andy Farrell should be wary of the trap of being labelled a No.2
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: New Broom Galthie has the leeway to go for broke with France
Brendan Gallagher writes how a new-found desire to nurture homegrown talent in the Top 14 has allowed Fabien Galthie to rewrite...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: England game provides Sergio Parisse with perfect curtain fall
Italy's talismanic No.8 can bow out on his own terms, with a stock of flourishing back rows ready to pick up...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoRugby Matters: New breed of coaches take centre stage in 2020
Only Eddie Jones and Gregor Townsend remain from the World Cup as the Six Nations nears
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoRugby Matters: Macho Makis can make their mark in Sevens
Brendan Gallagher marks Madagascar as one of rugby's growing nations who can utilise the creation of the Challenger Sevens Series
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoRugby Matters: No more false starts, cull the scrum cheats
Brendan Gallagher points to the outright disqualification for false starting in athletics as something rugby should adhere with scrum resets
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