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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSean Fitzpatrick is talking heresy and real sense | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on Sean Fitzpatrick's comments of how rugby can lead itself to greater growth by reducing international fixtures
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoJoke isn’t on fun figure Cockerill any more | Chris Hewett
Richard Cockerill in as England's forwards coach? Chris Hewett on a bullish Midlander transitioning into coaching
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThe sterile Lions Tests are killing the game | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on how the boredom set in watching the three Lions Tests this summer
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoExodus of the props brings era to an end | Chris Hewett
THERE was a time, not so long ago, when Premiership clubs would pay tighthead props in Bitcoin, provided they were good...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoLions series needed Buzz Aldrin at full-back | Chris Hewett
There are those revered for their kicking ability over the decades, but the sport has changed its dynamics and expectations since...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoA draw can signify honour, just ask the Olympians | Chris Hewett
CONTRARY to the spirit of an age obsessed with winners and losers, there is nothing wrong with a draw. Ask Mutaz...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoDitch the tech like Anna did to strike gold | Chris Hewett
Purity and simplicity are not among the nouns most commonly associated with Rugby Union in its current state of confusion: prop...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoFarewell to Newlands, mecca of memories | Chris Hewett
Newlands was the beating heart of rugby in the Western Cape and for the Springboks for decades
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoLeaking Lions may put a plug in it now | Chris Hewett
JIM TELFER was not best pleased. “For God’s sake cut it out,” he snarled at Mark Regan and Barrie Williams, two...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoAll Blacks bucked the trend of decline | Chris Hewett
For the fifth time since 1997, the Lions face a series against the reigning world champions but have they all been...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoItaly’s aged craftsmen show art of defence | Chris Hewett
LEAVING to one side the more reprehensible followers of Ing-er-land’s footballing fortunes – but for the danger of offending countless colonies...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoFolau looks set to cause more havoc off the pitch | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on Israel Folau's return to rugby with the NTT Shining Arcs in Japan's Top League
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSenegal may come to regret the Mendy magic show
GEORGES-Pompidou Mendy? He was born to be a centre. Where else would he play with a name like that? Mendy may...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSorry, Conor it’s hard to find much to smile about
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST There is something unnatural about writing the words “British and Irish Lions” and “social distancing” in the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoIs the rash of red cards truly making game safer? | Chris Hewett
"Brave boy,” said Ugo Monye, admiringly, as he watched his beloved Harlequins close in on their famous Premiership semi-final victory over...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoCrisis time for Boks as their lock stocks dip | Chris Hewett
PITY the poor Springboks. Three years after arming themselves with the most potent quartet of second row forwards ever seen at...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSteffon Armitage still having his go in France | Chris Hewett
BACK in 2010, when one or two suckers for journalistic punishment were huddled together on a God-forsaken touchline in Hamilton...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoEuropean Boks have inside gen on the Lions | Chris Hewett
Modern Springbok coaches fall into two camps: far-sighted progressives like Kitch Christie, Jake White and Rassie Erasmus – people who...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoDave Rennie may find principles changing | Chris Hewett
DAVE RENNIE is a New Zealander from the Tana Umaga corner of Wellington’s metropolitan area and like virtually ever other Kiwi...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoMacGinty’s great – time his country caught up | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett believes AJ MacGinty is in the form of his life for Sale Sharks
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAntoine Dupont is Gareth Edwards MkII | Chris Hewett
Does Antoine Dupont remind you of anyone?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoReferees go upstairs more than Casanova | Chris Hewett
Half an hour into a bristling, bruising West Country derby in the early 1990s, the genial Bristol beanpole Andy Blackmore was...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLions 1997 – from the players themselves
WE’VE seen and heard so much of it, so many times: Ian McGeechan’s “No words, just a look” speech; Jim Telfer’s...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoTackling is important too, Quins and Wasps! | Chris Hewett
Matches of anarchy and a more balanced proportion between attack and defence can serve us two very different specatcles, equally entertaining
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThese men are the pride of All the Lions for last 20 years
Chris Hewett picks, position by position, the best Lions XV from the professional era The idea of rugby selection as an...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBall seems incidental to red-card Boklanders | Chris Hewett
Allowing aggression to set the tone for a match is something the Springboks have been notorious for
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBT Sport must stay in rugby if only for our sanity | Chris Hewett
Can BT Sport rope in more rugby rights to save rugby fans from a fragmented landscape?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoCould fan power stop Super League in rugby? | Chris Hewett
After a bitter week in football fuelled by greed, Chris Hewett considers whether fan power in rugby bears any weight against...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAlex Mitchell has that Melville quality | Chris Hewett
BACK in the early 1980s, a time when there were no arguments about ring-fencing in England because there weren’t any leagues...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoKeep politics out of rugby? You’re joking! | Chris Hewett
Rugby Union has its flaws, but a thin skin is not among them. The game has the hide of an armadillo,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLimit the poundage to reduce injuries | Chris Hewett
SO THE New Zealanders are suddenly worried about the injury fall-out from Super Rugby Aotearoa. Welcome to the 21st century. Players...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoGourdon proves big is not the best policy | Chris Hewett
Rugby's struggles with David and Goliath statures for forwards can often by a headscratcher, writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoIsrael Folau row looks set for re-run in Tonga | Chris Hewett
Folau's journey into cyberspace should inhibit any return to Test rugby, after recent comments by Tonga's head coach that he would...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThat Rome weekend puts block on Georgia | Chris Hewett
If Italy are not all washed up as a permanent member of the Six Nations elite –a sporting society so exclusive,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWayne Smith may spark new Kiwi dominance | Chris Hewett
Wayne Smith played a bigger role in the 2015 All Blacks side than you may think, writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoJohn Eales was the best | Chris Hewett
ANOTHER Wayne Smith, the highly accomplished rugby correspondent of The Australian, is calling it a day after half a century on...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoOh no, the Beast has made a twit of himself! | Chris Hewett
Rugby has a new law – as if the game needed another one – and the way things are going, it...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWallabies Rugby World Cup challenge is blooming in Brisbane sun | Chris Hewett
Success in France in two years' time for Australia will rest on the crop of young players emerging under Brad Thorn...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoStopwatch away! It’s quality time that counts | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett examines rugby's rugby tape law regulations that could do with being cut to simplify the sport for the masses
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFishermen of Cornwall | Chris Hewett
THIS is a bit of a stretch, admittedly, but if Cornish Pirates beat Saracens to promotion, just as they beat them...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThorley’s big crime? He’s just too fast!
OLLIE Thorley, the highly-watchable Gloucester wing, will be on a watching brief himself for the next month following the latest sitting...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFarrell’s red mist is black spot in captaincy traits | Chris Hewett
How many bases need to be covered in what makes a Test-level captain? Chris Hewett explores after seeing the likes of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFiji magic’s everywhere – except in World Cup | Chris Hewett
Could England hand a call-up to Bristol Bears flyer Siva Naulago?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFuture of rugby is threated by cheap shots | Chris Hewett
MIDWAY through the blizzard of red cards that carpeted the Premiership last weekend, one of the commentators was heard to say...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoShaun Edwards is just latest proof that League ideas work | Chris Hewett
The Wigan Warriors great is making an easy going of Union, Chris Hewett presents the Edwards Defence
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoNo-one got a word in when Nigel Owens was the ref, not even Farrell | Chris Hewett
As people expose Owen Farrell's vocal hounding of referee Mike Adamson, Chris Hewett says Nigel Owens was one man who wouldn't...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoNo wonder BT are miffed | Chris Hewett
Will viewers bother to watches matches, that may well be played at a high intensity, even it there are no connotations...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoEdgy, the thinking man’s super hero | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett pays a very personal tribute to Bath and England No.8 David Egerton
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoCarwyn’s words had the ring of rugby truth
by CHRIS HEWETT The Six Nations champions’ abject surrender of the Calcutta Cup unleashed a torrent of jokes, the sharpest of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoReturn of the ruck will save our game | Chris Hewett
Bring on the counter-ruck by taking out the 'ball-killers', writes Chris Hewett
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