English Championship
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoDiamond’s dual role can’t be right
The Twickenham suits are also not averse to turning a blind eye when a conflict-of-interests is involved. Perhaps the RFU’s performance...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPirates go clear in second as Ealing heave into view
By PHIL JOSEPH Bedford Blues .................. 21pts Tries: Day 17, Adamson 49, Lennon 75 Conversions: Maisey 18, 50, 76 Cornish Pirates...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoDoncaster’s 14 men dig in after red to Margetts
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster K .....29pts Tries: McBryde 10, Davidson 18, Metcalf 20, Bedlow 35 Conversions: Bennett 10, 18, 35 Penalties:...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoStapley fires late winner for Archers in 12-try thriller
By BEN WHITE Ampthill ............36pts Tries: Harris 5, Adejimi 29, 56; Elliot 35, Strong 63, Skelcey 68 Conversions: Parks 30, 36;...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoTrailfinders show grit to weather triple yellow card storm
By TOM JOHNSON Ealing T .............36pts Tries: Conversions: Collins 2, 31; Cornish 22, 35; Hampson 46 Willis 23, Twelvetrees 32, 36,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoSuper-sub Gallagher drives over for hat-trick
By JOHN LYON Caldy ..................26pts Tries: Wilkinson 23, Gallagher 35, 60, 69 Conversions: Barker 36, 61, 70 Coventry ...........22pts Tries: Nkwocha...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Robbie Smith
The Hartpury and former Doncaster Knights centre, chooses the best XV he has played with or against... 1. Joe Wrafter –...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRams would be happy to play in RFU’s new Tier 2
By JON NEWCOMBE National One leaders Rams are among the clubs to have submitted an expression of interest to join the...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoKvesic backing Cov to push Ealing all the way
By BEN JAYCOCK Coventry went top of the Championship table last weekend following their dramatic win over London Scottish and star...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoChamp clubs look set for battle
NICK CAIN The Championship clubs appear to be in no mood for turning, typified by their stand-off with an RFU bureaucracy...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoEaling go back on top in 12-try showstopper
By RICKY WESTABY Ealing Trailfinders........ 49pts Tries: Cornish 15, 43, Smid 19, 56, Collins 24, Hardwick 40, Holmes 74 Conversions: Willis...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoBazalgette celebrates his birthday in fine style
Hartpury........... 54pts Tries: A Benz-Solomon 8, Morgan 21, 79, Lewis 27, 57, Short 47, Crane 62, Penalty 71 Conversions: Bazalgette 9,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoDawson snatches chance to down Coventry
By PAUL SMITH Coventry ........... 19pts Tries: Rigg 19, Martin 65, Lane 80 Conversions: Pellegrini 19, 80 Cornish P .......... 21pts...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoCambridge break their duck with battling show
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......33pts Tries: Merigan 1, Caven 30, Hanks 45, Veness 67, 76 Conversions: James 31, 46, 68, 77...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoAdamson redeems himself after Knights error
By BRIAN WILLIAMS Bedford .............32pts Tries: Worley 8, Le Bourgeois 26, French 31, Adamson 41, Howard 61 Conversions: Grimoldby 27, 62...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoGoosen puts the boot in to kill Lions
URC By BEN JAYCOCK Bulls .................. 30 Lions..................28 JOHAN Goosen’s monster penalty from inside his own half sent the Bulls into...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPaver: Championship a great launchpad
By MARK STEVENS Alan Paver insists the Championship still remains the ‘perfect launchpad’ for young players and coaches to reach the...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoSmith chases his American dream
By BEN JAYCOCK Wales star Louis Rees-Zammit is not the only rugby player from the English leagues set to try his...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPack power sees Pirates sail the sea of success
■ By MIKE SINCLAIR CORNISH Pirates capitalised on a dominant pack performance to register seven tries and extend their Championship winning...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoKnights cling on as Blues miss chance to steal game
■By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster K .....26pts Tries: Metcalf 2, Courtney 42, Holden 72 Conversions: Bennett 72 Penalties: Bennett: 15, 40, 60...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoBarnes on a high as Hartpury romp to victory over struggling Ravers
■ By LUKE JARMYN Caldy ..................................... 7pts Tries: Royle 45 Conversions: B Jones 46 Hartpury University....... 31pts Tries: R Smith 17,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoAgony for Scottish as Coventry snatch win at death
By TOM JOHNSON London Scots ..38pts Tries: Mehson 7, Jurevicius 16, 30, Marshall 53, 57, Trenholm 71 Conversions: Slevin 30, 53,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoAll clubs must be able to reach top
JEFF PROBYN SO it’s back to the future with the RFU CEO Bill Sweeney telling the Championship that they either don’t...
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English Championship
/ 2 years ago‘RFU deal would cut our funds by 50%’
By JON NEWCOMBE Championship clubs would be nearly 50 per cent worse off in real terms if they agree to the...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Craig Willis
Craig Willis, the Ealing Trailfinders and former Newcastle fly-half, chooses the best XV he has played with or against... 1. Mako...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRFU’s sorry failure to respond to flood
While the game in the East Midlands drowns, the RFU lifeboat is in the dry dock with the crew nowhere to...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoToo few actually want to be promoted
Iain Sharpe makes some excellent points (Letters, Jan 7) in taking issue with views on the RFU’s second-tier revamp expressed in...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoShort raring to go as he sets sights on hitting 50
By BEN JAYCOCK Hartpury University flanker Harry Short is set to reach 50 appearances against Caldy on Saturday and having already...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoTrailfinders turn up the intensity to move to top
By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON Ealing T............ 54pts Tries: Smid 3, 7; Williams 12, Holmes 19, 47; Willemse 29, Walker 51, 59 Conversions:...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoDoncaster left reeling after Ampthill go on rampage
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster Knights ........ 24pts Tries: Tait 7, Holden 35, Doughty 49 Conversions: Olver 7, Dolly 35, 49 Penalty:...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoCambridge revival is not enough to catch dashing Pirates
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......33pts Tries: Asiedu 8, Caven 49, Brownlie 61, 80; Merigan 73 Conversions: James 9, 62, 74, 80...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoNottingham launch bid to raise £50,000 after flooding
By BEN JAYCOCK It's been an unhappy new year for Nottingham as a record flood in the Lady Bay area last...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoJones delight as Caldy hit heights
By BEN JAYCOCK Three years ago Caldy players could only have dreamt of competing in the Championship, but the Merseyside club...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoLloyd making the most of life in the capital
By BEN JAYCOCK Garin Lloyd made the move from the small town of Neath, Wales to the hustle and bustle of...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoAs a coach, you are learning all the time
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill talks to Matt Cairns, the ex-England and Harlequins hooker who is head coach at...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoHalliday: No way we can agree RFU deal
By NICK CAIN Simon Halliday has condemned the threat by RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney to relegate the 11 Championship clubs...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRae: Championship has much to offer
By JON NEWCOMBE Coventry head coach Alex Rae has launched a staunch defence of the Championship in the wake of Bill...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRoberts loving life in ‘rugby mental’ Portugal
By BEN JAYCOCK Ciaran Roberts swapped life in west London for Portugal this summer to play in the promising Portuguese Top...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPellegrini on target to impress the crowds
By BEN JAYCOCK Coventry...........37pts Tries: Martin 9, 58, Pellegrini 17, Wilson 26, Poole 46 Conversions: Pellegrini 18, 27, 59 Penalties: Pellegrini...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoJersey boys happy to stay on island
By LUKE JARMYN Despite it being three months since Jersey Reds collapse and the club’s dream of climbing to the Premiership...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRayer: Our defence must be in working order
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Bedford vCoventry January 1. Kick-off 3pm, Goldington Road BEDFORD are chomping at the bit after winning their...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoAt last we are going in right direction
It is always easier to bury English rugby’s alleged leaders than to praise them, but it would run counter to the...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoI’m honoured, says Sir Dicky with NY award
Cornish Pirates owner Sir Richard ‘Dicky’ Evans says he is ‘surprised’ and ‘honoured’ to be awarded a knighthood in the New...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoSweeney’s words causing deep anger
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is something radically wrong when the chief executive of the RFU –...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoGrimoldby leads the charge on carnival day
By LUKE JARMYN Ampthill............22pts Tries: Strachan 5, Parks 35, Jackson 80 Conversions: Parks 36, Barton 80+1 Penalties: Parks 47 Bedford .............31pts...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoExceptional Caldy stun title-chasing Doncaster
By GUY WILLIAMS Caldy................. 24pts Tries: Royle 8, Dickinson 32, Hearn 75 Conversions: Jones 8, 32, 75 Penalties: Jones 66 Doncaster...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPirates put on power show to contain Hartpury rally
By MIKE SINCLAIR Cornish Pirates ...............14pts Tries: Johnson 17, Penalty 32 Cons: Houston 17 Hartpury University......... 7pts Try: Crane 40 Conversion:...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRae banking on a big Boxing Day crowd to lift Cov
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Coventry v Nottingham December 26. Kick-off 3pm, Butts Park Arena COVENTRY are expecting a record crowd of...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoBenson holds his nerve for Cambridge history boys
By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON London Scots ..26pts Tries: Ingall 7, Gjaltema 30, Bradley 37, Hyde 52 Conversions: Lloyd-Seed 8, 31, 38 Cambridge...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPirates putting their faith in youth
By BEN JAYCOCK Gavin Cattle says the influx of Cornish youth has brought increased enthusiasm at Pirates which he describes as...
International Rugby
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