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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoIs poor coaching to blame?
JEFF PROBYN England hero: Steve Thompson playing at 2003 World Cup PICTURE: Getty Images THERE have been more sad revelations of...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoAll to play for as it begins to get serious
JAMES HARRINGTON Like any other league, the business end of the Top 14 season is played in a haze of permutations...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoWorld Rugby missed a trick by ignoring USA
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Ican’t believe that the chance to expand the game over the Atlantic...
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/ 4 years agoDanger of Planet Rugby spinning out of control
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND All of a sudden it feels as though the game of rugby is getting more...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoLeicester’s pack power has put them in the mix
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK IT is no surprise that there are four French quarter-finalists in the European Cup,...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoIt’s winner takes all on Super Saturday
ROCKY CLARK ENGLAND’S MOST CAPPED PLAYER AND WORLD CUP WINNER England and France are leading the way and it’s all set...
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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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/ 4 years agoShake up tired Six Nations fixture list
NICK CAIN THE Six Nations chief executive, Ben Morel, is not slow to pat himself on the back, over-hyping the last...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoBeauxis: Time to hang up my boots
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Arguably the most wonderfully and frustratingly French of French fly-halves, Lionel Beauxis, confirmed he will call time on...
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/ 4 years agoPivac must make bold calls to stop Welsh slide
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Since taking charge of Wales after the last World Cup, Wayne Pivac has...
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/ 4 years agoBelittling dangers of concussion is the Stone Age view
PETER JACKSON ANYONE still daft enough to belittle the dangers of concussion and parrot the Stone Age view that the game’s...
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/ 4 years agoJimmy’s on course for illustrious 4,000 club
PETER JACKSON ON a sporting stage where the landscape changes like a kaleidoscope, one constant can be found in the enduring...
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/ 4 years agoBiden keen to spread the faith
PETER JACKSON JOE Biden’s support of America’s bid to host the 2031 World Cup shows that the President’s interest in the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoStats can be misleading without proper analysis
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I read an article this week about how the game has changed...
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/ 4 years agoAlder can help make a pathway to success
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It was good to see Nigel Walker recruit John Alder last week to bolster his...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoWhy France must find right cover for Dupont
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK ANTOINE Dupont is captain of Toulouse for a reason, and as stand-in captain of...
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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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/ 4 years agoEngland job needs Eddie’s full attention
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THIS is the week that Gareth Southgate did what Eddie Jones should have...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoNo respite as the race for play-offs ramps up
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The rugby season in Europe’s top three leagues gets confused at this time of year, as we...
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/ 4 years agoSorry saga of failures that haunt Arms Park
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Rout: Liam Williams celebrates after he scores for Scarlets against Cardiff last weekend...
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/ 4 years agoChampions Cup has too many also-rans
NICK CAIN THE European Cup is being diluted by the decision to extend the qualification criteria from six teams in each...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoToulon must do their maths to avoid points deduction
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN TOULON’S end-ofseason run-in – and their points total for next season – may be complicated by JIFF...
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/ 4 years agoWRU still think they were right over Big Al
PETER JACKSON THE Welsh Rugby Union hierarchy finally got around the other day to addressing the home defeat to Italy but...
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/ 4 years agoWhy so lenient with Latu?
PETER JACKSON SILALOTU Latu, the Australian hooker who plays for Stade Francais when not in a state of suspension, will remain...
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/ 4 years agoWales must make more of age-grade production line
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND There are eight days of finals coming up at Principality Stadium this month and at...
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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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/ 4 years agoWizard Kel put blind faith in his Saints life
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Kel Coslett got home late one summer’s night from the afternoon shift at...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoToulon fans in uproar at Carbonel departure
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Even by Toulon’s unusual standards, this season has been an extraordinary tale of failure and redemption. But,...
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/ 4 years agoQuiet man Tom was fearless
PETER JACKSON OF all the tributes pouring forth from the great and the good over the death of Tom Smith, Jim...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBath bank on youth policy to bring back glory years
PAUL REES TALKS TO STUART HOOPER ABOUT BATH‘S MOVE TO NURTURE HOME GROWN PLAYERS When Bruce Craig bought Bath in 2010,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoHow the French are putting RFU to shame
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER I hopped onto the splendid dual language Top...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoSorry, but my old mate Brian is wrong
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Interesting to see my old mate Brian Moore professing in his newspaper...
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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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/ 4 years agoWelsh regions aren’t at the races this season
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Dai Young was spot on this week when he said the regions should be thinking...
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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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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoEnglish successor shows faith in coaching system
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WHEN it comes to England head coaches I used to think that it was...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoHat-trick star Marlie gets better with age
ROCKY CLARK ENGLAND’S MOST CAPPED PLAYER AND WORLD CUP WINNER Marlie Packer was outstanding for England last week in their big...
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/ 4 years agoQuins out to topple the French kingmaker
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW As befitting a billionaire at least four times over, Mohed Altrad is...
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/ 4 years agoNorth still waiting on sidelines
PETER JACKSON GEORGE North reaches another milestone this month irrespective of his fitness, one which marks the remorseless march of time....
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/ 4 years agoEddie’s gift-wrapped route to the semis
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE 2023 World Cup has the uplift of France, the hosts, having a...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoBarlot gets the better of big rival Mauvaka
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Castres Olympique hooker Gaetan Barlot scored his third Top 14 try of the season yesterday, scoring a...
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/ 4 years agoDevil is in the detail of buyback option
NICK CAIN AFTER a couple months of putting down a smokescreen the RFU has finally given an answer to what happens...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoNext coach shouldn’t be shaped by Eddie
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Era of success: Will Carling is chaired from the pitch after Geoff...
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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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/ 4 years agoGive next generation game time to develop
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Late bloomer: Alex Dombrandt starred for Cardiff Met Uni before breaking into professional rugby We’ve...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoEddie’s an easy target but he deserves to stay
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK IF we go back to The Rugby Paper round table in January, most of...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoFreddie’s the best full-back, pick him there
Supreme at 15: Freddie Steward DUSTY Hare is confused by England’s backline changes, and the failure to make the most of...
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