English Championship
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAmpthill pay price for poor discipline
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster K .....35pts Tries: Holling 6, Margetts 17, Daly 24, Holden 36, Kelly 71 Conversions: Dolly 6, 17,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHat-trick for Holmes puts Ealing on the right course
By XANDER CHEVALLIER Ealing T............ 64pts Tries: Holmes 4, 9, 17; Burns 8, 42; Bird-Tulloch 31, Uzokwe 60, 68; Grant 76,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHigh drama as Bedford stunned by Richmond
By TIMOTHY FORRESTER Richmond..........36pts Tries: Lennon 5, Graham 10, 54, Little 36, Saysell 66, Makele 72 Conversions: Johnston 11, 67, 73...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAnfield legend Fowler among Caldy fan club
By BEN JAYCOCK Caldy are ‘relishing and revelling’ in their inaugural Championship season and director of rugby Gareth Davies hopes it...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoRedpath: We have to play for the full 80 minutes
By BEN JAYCOCK London Scottish are still without a win this season but DoR Bryan Redpath believes they are not far...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoReds hold on as Olver fires wide at the death
■ By TIM PRYOR Jersey Reds..... 19pts Tries: Harris 15, Van Breda 25, Brown 40 Conversions: Bennett 15, 25 Doncaster K.........
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTurner’s blast sparks Amps second half comeback
By MO SHER Ampthill............26pts Tries: Rankin 9, Cambriani 44, Bacon 46, Parks 62 Conversions: Parks 10, 45, 47 Caldy................. 24pts Tries:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoReunited Olowofela twins put on a show
By ROB WILDMAN Nottingham...................... 45pts Tries: Poullet 12, Hollingsworth 25, Thacker 36, Slatem 45, Ryan Olowofela 53, Toby Williams 64, Hall...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHartpury done in by double French
By MICK WILSON Bedford Blues...28pts Tries: French 23, 50; Frost 28, Day 59 Conversions: Maisey 24, 29, 51, 60 Hartpury Uni.........
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHalf-backs in control as Coventry turn on the style
By DAVID LAWRENCE Coventry...........32pts Tries: Cornish 13, 47; Nayalo 19, Talbot-Davies 25 Conversions: Pellegrini 13, 19, 47 Penalties: Talbot-Davies 44; Pellegrini...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHat-trick for Malton as Trailfinders power tells
By DAVID CHALLIS L Scottish.......... 21pts Tries: Els 8, King 23, Cleaves 43 Conversions: Sheppard 9, 24, 44 Ealing T..............57pts Tries:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoFive star! Our hard work is paying off, says Biljon
By BEN JAYCOCK Jersey Reds have made a great start to the campaign, with director of rugby Harvey Biljon seeing it...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Mitch Eadie
Mitch Eadie, the Hartpury and Former Bristol and Northampton Back Row, chooses the best XV he has played with and against...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoBurton in control as Hartpury fight back
By JOHN BARNES Hartpury ............39pts Tries: Eadie 25, 53, Shipp 39, 61; Jones 47, Barton 73 Conversions: Barton 26, Williams 59,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHutler helps make it five out of five for Jersey
By LUKE JARMYN Caldy ..................19pts Tries: Royle 21, Bibby 25, Higginson 78 Conversions: Hinchcliffe 22, 79 Jersey ..............34pts Tries: Owen 12,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoDoncaster hit fifty to halt Blues in tracks
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster Knights ........50pts Tries: Cardew 8, Kelly 25, 66; Smith 34, Ehizode 39, Edgson 47, Holling 80 Conversions:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCoventry’s power shuts out Scottish
By DAVID CHALLIS L Scottish..........32pts Tries: Cleaves 2, Nutton 7, 11; Manihera 53 Conversions: Sheppard 4, 12, 54 Penalties: Sheppard 45,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTizzano finds his feet as Ealing cruise home in style
By XANDER CHEVALLIER Ealing ................56pts Tries: Smid 12, Daniels 17, Hampson 30, Tizzano 47, 54; De Wee 59, Burns 60, Penalty...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoMust-win if Pirates are to stay in title race
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Cornish Pirates v Ampthill Today. Kick-off 2.30pm, Mennaye Field GAVIN Cattle is looking for an ‘emotional reaction’...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCambriani sets his sights on try feast
By BEN JAYCOCK Ampthill's Ben Cambriani has set a clear goal of scoring at least 20 tries this season as the...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoWarriors suspended for season and relegated
Worcester Warriors’ seven-year stay in England‘s top-flight has been brought to an abrupt conclusion after their suspension from this season’s Premiership,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoPirates are all at sea as Reds obtain gritty victory
By TIM PRYOR Jersey Reds..... 21pts Tries: Penalty try 34, 40, 73 C Pirates............ 10pts Tries: Andrew 45, Penny 54 A...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoNottingham stun Knights with Boden giving credit
By ROB WILDMAN Nottingham.....30pts Tries: Olowofela 15, 33, Graham 21, 39 Conversions: Hollingsworth 21, 33 Penalties: Hollingsworth 7, Bunting 76 Doncaster............
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoQuality of Holmes is too much for Cov!
By PAUL SMITH Coventry.............................. 5pts Tries: Nayalo 50 Ealing Trailfinders....... ...50pts Tries: Bodilly 4, Holmes 13, 43, Bird-Tulloch 23, Willis 31,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAmpthill cut loose to banish the Exiles
By KEVIN MILLER Ampthill.............59pts Tries: Montgomery 4, Cambriani 6, 10, Ryan 33, Gallagher 38, White 50, Beckett 65, Finlay 77, Rankin...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoRavers are left feeling the Blues after Bedford rout
By ALEX WILKINSON Bedford.............52pts Tries: Adamson 2, 18, Tapley 10, Taylor 26, Grayson 31, Garside 35, 41, Day 57 Conversions: Maisey...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoRichmond’s comeback has Hartpury disbelieving
By TIMOTHY FORRESTER Richmond.......... 19pts Tries: Litchfield 31, Watson 71, Bright 74 Conversions: Johnston 32, 72 Hartpury Uni..... 15pts Tries: Smith...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoDay makes the most of his return to Cornwall
By MIKE SINCLAIR C Pirates ............21pts Tries: Crane 29, Tuima 37, Wedlake 53 Conversions: Robson 29, 37, 53 Bedford ..............41pts Tries:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTizzano gets into gear as Ealing canter past Hartpury
By XANDER CHEVALLIER Ealing ..............42pts Tries: Tizzano 21, 55; Roots 68, Terry 75, Johnston 79, Burns 80 Conversions: Shingler 21, 55,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHolden’s hat-trick fires up Knights
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster Knights ........48pts Tries: Holden 3, 41, 60; Roberts 13, Simpson 43, 71; Smith 69 Conversions: Olver 13,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoElliot score and Brown treble end Exiles challenge
By DAVE CHALLIS L Scottish ..........21pts Tries: Hoadley 40, McCallum 73, Clow 78 Conversions: Sheppard 40, Nutton 74, 78 Jersey ................55pts...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoPohe gives Nottingham the edge in arm wrestle
By JOHN LYON Caldy ..................19pts Tries: Aigbokhae 39, Dickinson 66 Penalties: Hinchcliffe 14,18,73 Nottingham......27pts Tries: Slatem 7, Olowofela 32, Graham 78...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCoventry power too much for Ampthill
By PAUL SMITH Coventry ..........26pts Tries: Lane 32, Rigg 35, O Betteridge 49, Talbot-Davies 55 Conversions: Mitchell 32, 49; Pellegrini 55...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoNew Knight Lloyd-Seed living the dream up north
Doncaster Knights‘ new fly-half Alec Lloyd-Seed is relishing his opportunity at the Championship club, after rounding off a whirlwind 12 months...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoArchers aim high now Sam in range
Preview Nottingham v Cornish Pirates Today, Kick-off 3pm SAM Hollingsworth is confident Nottingham can defy the critics and comfortably improve on...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoOlver pulls the strings as Knights take charge
By ANDREW BEACHAM Hartpury ............16pts Tries: Stratford 64 Conversions: Williams 68 Penalties: Williams 3, 8, 11 Doncaster ........34pts Tries: Spittle 14,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoRichmond stunned by Caldy fightback
By BEN FENTON Richmond..........32pts Tries: O’Meara 4, 23; Kiernan 14; Kaye 18 Conversions: Landray 4, 14, 23 Penalties: Landray 67, 70...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCambriani hat-trick can’t stop battling Ealing
By TOM STEVENS Ampthill ............17pts Tries: Cambriani 38, 41, 71 Conversion: Hardwick 42 Ealing ................32pts Tries: Campher 5, Montgomery 25, Uzokwe...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoBeford blast out the blocks but Scottish show fight
By RYAN ROBINSON Bedford ............49pts Tries: Day 5, Grayson 10, Worley 13, Adamson 29, 64, Garside 73 Conversions: Maisey 6, 11,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoPowerful Reds hit big six to blunt Cov
By TOM INNES Jersey ................40pts Tries: Lewis 18, 54; Harris 32, 40; Holgate 48, Clarke 73 Conversions: Bennett 18, 32, 40,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCaldy RFC establish a supporter’s club in Copenhagen
By John Lyon Caldy‘s first match in the Championship, a home fixture against Hartpury was memorable for the club and its...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoWe’ll take changes in our stride, says Paver
By MIKE SINCLAIR Cornish Pirates fought hard for an opening night win against Richmond on Friday and coach Alan Paver has...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoSchwarz’s late score wins battle for Pirates
By MIKE SINCLAIR C Pirates ............21pts Tries: Wedlake 20, Sirker 47, Schwarz 75 Conversions: Robson 20, 47, 75 Richmond ..........14pts Tries:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoNottingham dominant as Scottish go off script
By DAVID CHALLIS L Scottish ..........10pts Tries: Ferdinand 4, Wallis 75 Nottingham ......31pts Tries: Richardson 15, Williams 29, Thacker 43, Ramage...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoConfident Ealing win a game of patience
By XANDER CHEVALLIER Ealing Trailfinders ....29pts Tries: Willis 20, Smid 48, Metcalf 56, Tizzano 80 Conversions: Willis 48, 56, 80 Penalties:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAmpthill caught out as Jersey get off to a flier
By KEVIN MILLER Ampthill ............21pts Tries: Stonham 33, Ma’asi-White 48, Dan 64 Conversions: Hardwick 34, 49, 65 Jersey ................36pts Tries: Woollett...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCaldy have a lot to learn as Hartpury get in the swing
By JOHN LYON Caldy ..................22pts Tries: Bibby 18, Jones 26, Darlington 42, Caine, 79 Conversions: Jones 42 Hartpury............33pts Tries: Benz Solomon...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoBonus for Coventry as indiscipline costs Blues
By DAVID LAWRENCE Coventry ..........26pts Tries: Poole 31, 45, Penalty 40, Ma’asi 64 Conversions: Pellegrini 31, 45, 64 Bedford Blues ..18pts...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoRelton returns home to take the Pirates route
Arthur Relton is returning to his Cornwall rugby roots this season keen to follow a well-trodden path into a Premiership career....
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoRichmond back from voyage of discovery
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A famous old club sets sail from London this week on a south-westerly...
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