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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThe Boks are here, there and everywhere
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Some things in rugby are so difficult to find, they drive astrophysicists to drink. Scientists operating the Giant...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoNow’s the time for the French revolution
CHRIS HEWETT AS a rule of thumb, English teams good enough to fight their way into a Champions Cup final eventually...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoPoints do not always deliver the top prizes
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rugby followers who decided long ago that the sport’s various governing bodies shared a factory setting of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoCueto was Ashton but without all the fanfare
CHRIS HEWETT CLOSE members of Chris Ashton’s own family would hesitate to describe him as “the complete wing”, but his attacking...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoVery few now could master art of Joggie
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The way the old-timers tell it, the Springboks were so petrified by the majesty of the All...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoAll eyes on Leinster’s honorary All Black
CHRIS HEWETT WHEN it comes to openside flankers, New Zealand’s grand tradition has long been grander than everyone else’s. Nathan, Mourie, Jones,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoStreamline Champions Cup -don’t just dilute it
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST What bright spark invented this game of ours? The creation myth tells us it was a hoity-toity...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSheeran’s show is hindering Munster’s advance
CHRIS HEWETT EVEN in a world of surprises, it would be quite something for an Ipswich Town football nut to drive...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoHigh time Bath hung up their silk pyjamas
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Marvin Hagler had it right – not that there were too many people queuing up to tell...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSeeing is no longer believing in rugby
CHRIS HEWETT BACK in the day, when England were at the cutting edge of sports science and spending eye-watering amounts of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoMastermind Boyd ought to be top of the RFU list
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Few of the people charged with running English rugby are blessed with a sense of direction. If...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoDundee classroom served Tom well
CHRIS HEWETT TOM Smith was the best Scottish rugby player of the professional era. No question. We can also describe him...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoCatt’s made his mark by doing it the Ashton way
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It does no violence to the truth to state that Italy are half as good a rugby...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoHigh price to pay for switching to satellite
CHRIS HEWETT IT WAS just a little discombobulating, listening to a sports presenter on BBC R4’s flagship Today programme talking about...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoHome has not been a comfort at most RWCs
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Way back in the early 1950s – another moment when it was difficult to decide if English...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWales’ fall from grace could hit an all-time low
CHRIS HEWETT ALL things considered, the world rankings do not feature highly on Wayne Pivac’s current agenda. The Wales coach would...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWoodward versus Jones is box office sideshow
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Fierce rivalries may lose their heat over time, but they always leave a scorch mark on the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoLet’s hope Leicester can afford Pollard
CHRIS HEWETT THE Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, the Pandora Papers. Three massive data leaks exposing dodgy dealing in the financial...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoBorthwick’s only duty is to his team, get over it!
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Steve Borthwick had enough on his plate during Leicester’s defeat at Saracens in North London last weekend...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoDupont is heading for greatness like Gareth
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It has been reported with a high degree of certainty that Aaron Smith, an undeniably brilliant New...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoAustralian rules must have Boon crying into his beer
CHRIS HEWETT BACK in the day, when men were men and Australians considered themselves more masculine than the rest of the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoF-bomb was careless but Deano had a case
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Some of the things Ron Atkinson said during a long and lavishly rewarded career as a football...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoGood on Diamond for telling it like it is
CHRIS HEWETT HATS off to the straight-talking Steve Diamond, “lead rugby consultant” – aka “new boss” – at Worcester. In this...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoIt’s not who you play, it’s where you play them!
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Auckland and Rome are rugby poles apart: the Arctic and Antarctic of the Union game, its top...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoRoberts adds more glitter to his CV
CHRIS HEWETT THE title “Renaissance Man” is a big one to bestow on a mere rugby player, but all things considered,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWe must make Italy offer they can’t refuse
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Hard as it is to sympathise with someone who shoots two men during dinner –a shameful waste...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoAllow me to leap to Eddie’s defence!
CHRIS HEWETT WHENEVER we talk of Edward I, which admittedly is not an everyday occurrence, we invariably refer to him as...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThese late, late shows are a test of nerve
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Funny places, rugby Press boxes. It was comedy gold, listening to the antediluvian correspondent of a middle-market...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSerendipity enhances Euro Cup’s Round of 16
CHRIS HEWETT UNINTENDED consequences? You can’t move for them in the Union game, whether the governing class is ring-fencing the Premiership...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoThe Rugby Paper’s Six Nations preview: Green giants can cast long shadow over rivals
Amid the clinking cutlery and a few chinking glasses, The Rugby Paper’s brain’s trust gathered at Jeremy Guscott’s favourite Bath watering...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoIt’s time to rethink a British and Irish League
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The best we can say for the United Rugby Championship is that the revamped tournament is having...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoRugby needs this new ITV audience
CHRIS HEWETT WHO out there remembers what occurred immediately after the great Ashes series of 2005? To be clear: pretty much...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoEngland don’t know what world class means
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Will the Arctic icecap last long enough to witness another Italian victory in the Six Nations? Why...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoKeyboard warrior Hepburn hits wrong target
CHRIS HEWETT ALEC Hepburn’s energetic campaign to make today’s loosehead prop community more interesting than the majority of their forerunners continues...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWe need Wray back in black as soon as possible
CHRIS HEWETT PLENTY of words have been written about Jackson Wray in this corner of the paper but, in light of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThe game is nothing without jeopardy
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Apips-and-core Australian with vast experience of top-end rugby on both sides of the Equator sends his season’s...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSteward can succeed where Billy Whizz failed
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Famous try: Jason Robinson celebrates his try for the Lions against the Wallabies at the Gabba in...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoMarquee players are licence to bend cap
CHRIS HEWETT LEAVING aside Chris Whitty’s festive slideshows – ho ho ho – is there anything less amusing on the planet...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSuddenly, stability is in fashion for coaches
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It would be stretching things just a little to describe rugby’s pre-World Cup era as an age...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoGriffiths brings fun and games to The Rec
CHRIS HEWETT IT IS not yet a mathematical certainty that Bruce Craig will end his long spell of chairmanship at Bath...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoPerpetual underdogs Connacht do still bite
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Is there anything funnier in team sport – or in any other walk of life, come to...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThis rugby vote is just game for a laugh
CHRIS HEWETT THE right to vote is a deadly serious matter, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good for a laugh:...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoOh, for those refreshing Heineken Cup years!
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Heineken Cup rugby was once so vibrant and exhilarating – so spellbindingly good, year after year –...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWhy doesn’t Curry cut mustard for best XV?
CHRIS HEWETT THIS column does not make a habit of agreeing with World Rugby, but this being the season of goodwill,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSoaked in the stands, rinsed in the wallet
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Bath have not won a competitive match at the Recreation Ground since early June. As they are...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoVirtuoso Slade may have done for Farrell
CHRIS HEWETT THERE’S a question out there that dare not speak its name, but we’ll ask it anyway: is Owen Farrell...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWoki leads new breed of French super locks
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST You always knew where you stood with French second row forwards of a certain vintage, even if...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoKolisi was fall guy in the great jump-off
CHRIS HEWETT THE Springboks are “poison of the month” as far as the referees are concerned. There’s a shock. When your...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoIreland v All Blacks is rugby’s new rivalry
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rugby is defined by its great rivalries: Bath- Leicester and Llanelli-Swansea back in the amateur days; Martyn...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWorld Rugby should be in the dock alongside Erasmus
CHRIS HEWETT WE HAVE spent more time talking about Rassie Erasmus and his antics during the Lions tour of South Africa...
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