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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoRonan O’Gara leads the latest list of players inducted to rugby’s Hall of Fame
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the inductees
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoDe Klerk puts mighty spring into the new South Africa
By Brendan Gallagher I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that Sale‘s Faf De Klerk could well have been the Premiership...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoGallagher column: Hero pathfinders fought the cause of black players in Apartheid-era South Africa
Brendan Gallagher looks at the trailblazers who paved the way for Siya Kolisi to become the first black Springboks captain 24...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoRugby Matters: Drugs… the stories that keep on coming
From playing through the pain with painkillers to straight up steroids, why it's worrying that players are self-medicating
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoThe magnificent seven rugby clubs in the county of Gwent
Profiling the histories behind Gwent's foremost rugby clubs
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoTurn these Dragons into Lions and watch them go on a rampage again
Brendan Gallagher looks back on the history of Gwent rugby and the county's current PRO14 side Dragons
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoEaling Trailfinders are on the long trek towards Premiership
By Brendan Gallagher Could Ealing Trailfinders be the next Exeter Chiefs? Both clubs were founded in 1871, both have long rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoRugby Matters: Hartpury production line set for more Test success
Brendan Gallagher on why the Gloucestershire college isn't just creating international players for England anymore...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoVarsity: Who was the dashing Cambridge wing in Sherlock mystery?
Brendan Gallagher investigates the man who was Conan Doyle's hero, Godfrey Staunton
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoVarsity women’s preview: Oxford will go on the attack to defend crown
Can Oxford produce another shock upset this time around?
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoVarsity: Seven-timer Briggs is Light Blues brigade history maker
Brendan Gallagher picks out the stars to watch in this week's Varsity match showpiece
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoThe Ella brothers: the pop stars of Aussie rugby
Brendan Gallagher remembers the wonderful Junior Wallaby side that boasted a fabulous trio...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoVerdict: Pumas need a re-boot starting with their selection policy
Brendan Gallagher analyses a team performing below expectations
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoDanny Hearn – 50 years on: No regrets for the man of steel who beat the odds to walk again
50 years on from breaking his neck against New Zealand, The Rugby Paper meets the England centre to see how that...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoIt’s time the RFU honoured first black international
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the distinguished moment in history set by Plymouth player Jamie Peters
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoItaly helps restore careers of stricken half-back talents
By Brendan Gallagher ITALIAN rugby can be proud of the part it has played in the rehabilitation – physically and mentally...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoDave Gallaher forged the All Blacks identity from the furnace of the Boer War
October 4 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Dave Gallaher, killed in action on the first morning of the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoRWC2023: Heart says Ireland but head screams France
By Brendan Gallagher Ireland, South Africa or France? Which country will host the 2023 World Cup? Yesterday in London all three...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Philadelphia is next stop on rugby’s world tour
Globalisation is one of the modern day buzzwords and although sometimes I’m not exactly sure what it means the fact that...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: So why has rugby just gone north in the North?
Sale entertain Newcastle on Friday night in the big northern derby – or the Sharks play the Falcons if you prefer...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Will All Blacks be fresh to go again?
New Zealand have lost only two of their 27 Rugby Championship matches to date – there was also a draw against...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher looks back at 150 years of Wasps history
Wasps’ 150th anniversary season isn’t five minutes old and already they have one trophy in the Cabinet having retained their Premiership...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher previews the Women’s World Cup
The memory of 2014 in France might still be fresh with us but women’s rugby has moved on apace and, a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: England have only two world class players in their squad
This week heralds the announcement of the 45- strong England EPS squad and it feels like a big staging post, the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoOnly world beaters will get tickets for this ride
THIS week heralds the announcement of the 45- strong England EPS squad and it feels like a big staging post, the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoAbington celebrates the life of Saints hero Mobbs
THE 100th anniversary of Edgar Mobbs’ death at the Third Battle off Ypres falls tomorrow and the town of Northampton will...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoJudgement: The Fox was simply outstanding in all three Tests
Player of the Tour: Wales‘ Jonathan Davies, below, played every minute of the Tests and was in world class form throughout....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoReview: Slow start saw Lions move from strength to strength before springing into life
Match 1, June 3: Provincial Barbarians 7 British and Irish Lions 13 Okara Park, Whangarei, 19,951 Barely 72 hours off the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: As the pressure ramped up, so cool Gatland kept his nerve
This Test was not only a compelling thriller which instantly claims its place in Lions folklore but a game which neatly...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s all-time All Blacks Maori XV
1. Billy Bush – William Kingita Te Pohe to give the Napier and Canterbury prop his full name. Wild looking, heavily...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher picks his all-time Lions XV
15. JPR Williams Ever present in 1971 and 1974 and a player who took the fight to the ‘enemy’ more than...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Exeter prove patience can be greatest virtue
It was Leo Tolstoy – who doesn’t offer appear on the sports pages – who once remarked that the two most...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Premiership final promises to be an absolute cracker
So after 22 rounds and two pulsating skin-of-your- teeth semis Wasps will play Exeter in the Aviva Premiership Final in a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Chiefs to beat Saracens but Wasps for title
There’s no guarantee a cracking regular season will produce two semi-final play-offs to remember next weekend but, frankly, it will be...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: We’re going to miss you Ashton, try scoring ace
No one individual ever wins a match for Saracens, it’s not how they go about their work, but it was slightly...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Crusading Clermont are closing in on their Holy Grail
It possibly won’t surprise you that Clermont – who took 99 years to land their first French Championship and who are...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Scots unlucky that Twickenham defeat was not considered a blip
My heart sunk a little for the Scots on Wednesday when John Spencer read out the 41- strong Lions squad and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoMunster v Saracens: Pedigree is there for a classic Euro showdown
It’s 18 years since Saracens first met Munster in Europe in a double header that still ranks alongside any clash in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Willie wasn’t a wonker – he just got it wrong
Don’t blame Willie Le Roux or Danny Cipriani for that matter. Wasps‘ humbling defeat at Leinster went much deeper than an...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoWillie wasn’t a wonker – he just got it wrong
Don’t blame Willie Le Roux or Danny Cipriani for that matter. Wasps’ humbling defeat at Leinster went much deeper than an...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoThere’s never been another like England fly-half Karen
THIS week marked the 30th anniversary of the first women’s rugby international between Wales and England which was staged at Pontypool...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoItaly should stage finals
NOBODY is keener than me to see rugby gain an even firmer foothold in Spain and I don’t doubt that next...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher remembers the 1993 Lions tour
The last truly amateur tour in Lions history ended up as just about the perfect metaphor of everything that had preceded...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Eurostars who can earn chance to make a late check-in for the Lions
European Cup quarter-final weekend is right up there with the very best rugby weekends of the season but doubly so this...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s Team of the Six Nations
15. Stuart Hogg (Scotland): One of few modern players with genuine x-factor. A try scorer and provider. Rob Kearney was in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Good riddance to record run, now Eddie can experiment
It had to happen – and in fact you could argue it might have been better for England if France had...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoJust how good is Stuart Hogg
Earlier in his career – and he’s still only 24 for heaven’s sake – the story that Stuart Hogg was distantly...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoYoung and Solomona top of the list outside bets for Lions
Is there any chance of Warren Gatland coming up with a genuine bolter for the 2017 Lions? Probably not. All four...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher on the famous Lions bolters
As far as I can determine the term “bolter” was originally an Australian equine expression used to describe a horse that...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher remembers the 1977 Lions tour
History has not been kind to the 1977 Lions and, coming after the triumphs of 1971 and 1974, they were, perhaps,...
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