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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoRising tide of criticism closing in on Warren Gatland
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know Warren Gatland will spend another Sunday praying for deliverance from the...
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Features
/ 1 year agoI am calm and loving my life, says Danny Cipriani
Paul Rees talks to the former England No.10 as he agrees to put his boots on one final time to help...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoChalking off White’s try was a mistake
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER No try: Ben White’s touchdown was ruled out...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoEngland still can’t hold it together
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Class act: Marcus Smith has brought a new dimension to England’s attack...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 1 year agoEngland a licence to thrill
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Key man: Ollie Lawrence should be able to inject more pace into England attacks...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoSteve Borthwick’s bench policy needs work
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week The bench miscalculations cooking England’s goose in the final quarter of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoWhen value for money is not part of the deal
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED ENGLAND’S bench strategy against New Zealand – goodbye “bomb squad”, hello “squib squad” – has been investigated,...
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoCian Healy keeps rolling the years away
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know Just when the All Blacks thought they had finally seen the...
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Features
/ 1 year agoDuty of Danny Care: How Eddie Jones rates
Paul Rees examines the record and reputation of the ex-England coach who divides opinion wherever he goes A man apart: Eddie...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoLet’s get truth on Eddie’s regime
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Trying times: Eddie Jones coaching England PICTURES: Alamy...
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Features
/ 1 year agoEngland need to be more consistent
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Man in the middle: Referee Angus Gardner seemed to be doing his...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoAnother failure to use the bench properly from England
By Paul Rees It was Groundhog Day for England as they slumped to a fourth successive narrow defeat. A difference this...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoWallabies have ability to spring a surprise
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable every week... It would be a mistake to underestimate the abilities of Joe Schmidt,...
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoAussies are hurt by own protectionism
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Whether the Wallabies emerge with a Grand Slam or a slump...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoShame that Georgia are kept out of sight
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed The most significant contest of the November international series? Take your pick. Ireland-New Zealand in...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoWales get set for big Sunday crunch…
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know One weekend five summers ago, Wales went to No.1 in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoDon’t let these tasty clashes pass you by
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S always famine or feast with international rugby...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoNew England group will cause uncertainty
By Jeff Probyn - A front-row view of game So just when we thought that everything was getting sorted between the...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoTommy Freeman can push England to victory against All Blacks
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable every week... Any analysis of England’s chances of beating New Zealand starts with the...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoSteve Borthwick needs strength in depth
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week The 17 RFU central contracts announced by Steve Borthwick on Friday...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoBath’s ‘bomb squad’ needs to be defused
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED CLOSE your eyes and imagine batting on a fiery Caribbean track in the 1980s, when West Indian...
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Features
/ 1 year agoMurray’s on a wing – and a prayer …
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW BLAIR Murray began the week ‘in a state of shock’ at having gone...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoCall time on this pantomime ploy
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS 60-second shot clock twaddle. If we must...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoWR should fund free second opinion
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IMUST admit to being a little surprised by last week’s paper where...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoAll Blacks will have to be at their best against England
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable, every week... In some ways the New Zealand system means that they are not...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoTime for England to walk the walk
By Nick Cain Right here, right now, English rugby union craves forward momentum. It needs something to knock the negatives surrounding...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoIt would be grand for Wasps to return
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Prize assets: Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and, inset from top, Tom Willis, Gabriel Oghre, Alfie Barbeary, Asher...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoFrench quick to dismiss ‘soft red’
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ONLY France could ban one of their most notorious agents provocateurs for life,...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoSteve Borthwick’s work in progress
Paul Rees takes a look at England's options, and talks to the Newcastle chief about turning things around... Steve Borthwick’s squad...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoConfused path to rules of combat
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Man in the middle: Former Wasps prop Will...
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Features
/ 1 year agoDon’t sub captain just after half-time
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In charge: Jamie George in action for England PICTURE: Getty Images WE...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoTommy Freeman can take charge of England’s defence
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable every week Tommy Freeman is one of those players who, when he gets the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoWill Collier shows what England are missing
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Will Collier’s command performance for Castres against Toulouse in the Top...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoWorldwide Springboks still get it together
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Assuming those with their ears to the ground haven’t gone deaf, Handre Pollard, the Springbok...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoMark Ella & Co were the true pass masters
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Nineteen eighty four might have been...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoHigh ticket prices for All Blacks cast dark shadow
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW WHEN the RFU finished doing their sums for the autumn series of Twickenham’s...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoSorry to say, but it’s their own fault
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME THERE is something I always admired about the RFU, it has always...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoManu Tuilagi makes mark for Bayonne
French Column, by James Harrington While the focus of French rugby attention is on Stade Ernest Wallon and the return to...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 1 year agoTime for Marcus Smith and Ben Spencer to link up
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable every week... There's speculation that Alex Mitchell and George Ford are unlikely to feature...
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoSteve Borthwick should call up these young props
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week It was surprising that neither of England’s U20 world champion props,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoWallace Sititi is following in father’s footsteps, but for how long?
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Cast your minds back, those of you who are sufficiently long in the tooth, to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoAntoine Dupont & Co need to take on the very best
Rugby Matters By Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game's other talking points I think we established long ago...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoLos Pumas have worked hard to forge own identity
Brendan Gallagher reports on how one country has built a rugby stronghold down in South America There was a time back...
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Features
/ 1 year agoI’ll play for Wales again, says Francis
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Strong man: Tomas Francis scoring for Wales against Georgia at last year’s World...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoSorry, Geoff, but let’s not de-power scrums
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME EVERY week I can’t wait for Sunday to come around so that...
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoEngland should be aiming for treble top in the Autumn Internationals
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable, every week... The autumn internationals against the traditional southern hemisphere big three, and Japan,...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoMinimum standards criteria must apply to all
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Do title-chasing Bath – and other top tier clubs – meet...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoFiji deserve to play with best in world
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Every underdog has its day, as Daniel Dubois reminded us in knocking an entire cathedral’s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoDrop group action and examine selected cases
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game's other talking points by Brendan Gallagher I was very struck the other...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 1 year agoIt’ll be tough for Steve Diamond to get Newcastle Falcons up the table
By Jeff Probyn, A front row view of the game The start of the Premiership season last week threw up, as...
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