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Featured
/ 11 years agoJon Fisher: Alex Corbisiero can prove doubters wrong, like me
Saints loosehead Corbisiero will leave no stone unturned in his bid to make the World Cup team.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain’ column: George Ford still gets my England vote over Owen Farrell
Ford or Farrell? It was predictable that the meeting of two fly-halves who have been close friends since schooldays, and are...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: Gentle giant Jerry Collins made Ospreys into true Galacticos
Jerry Collins was a typical south-sea islander – a monster on the pitch but a gentle giant off it. I remember...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: Get the scrum sorted or risk damaging our great product
This season as a whole has been very positive, and the attitude of teams in the Premiership will, hopefully, help to...
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English Championship
/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: BT Sport set to showcase Championship rugby
By JON NEWCOMBE BT Sport are ready to add the Championship to their growing rugby portfolio. The broadcaster is said to...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoClown prince Joe Marler plays it seriously now
TRP sits down with the one and only Joe Marler.
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Featured
/ 11 years agoSix Nations TV deal set to rocket past £50m a season
The next Six Nations television deal is expected to increase by 25 per cent.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoDave Ward: Our new guys will put Harlequins back on top
Harlequins hooker has backed star signings Roberts, Jones and Horwill to kick-start a revival at the Stoop.
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English Championship
/ 11 years agoKeep promotion, it gives clubs hope, says RPA boss Damian Hopley
Championship clubs must continue to have access to the top-flight and says the RFU should think carefully before endorsing Premiership plans.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Sam Burgess is different, but does he have the time to deliver
How do you make 50 into one? That was the question most occupying the mind of Stuart Lancaster as he announced...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Such a pity Gavin Henson never graced a World Cup
Gavin Henson’s place among the footnotes of rugby history can now be found hidden away beneath a sub-section reserved for the...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoCourtney Lawes and Joe Launchbury ‘top locks for England’
Pair must be England’s World Cup starting locks according to Nick Kennedy.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain’s view on England’s World Cup training squad
One of the enduring conundrums of Stuart Lancaster‘s tenure, and that of many England coaching regimes before his, is whether Red...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: Chris Ashton will lift England but Wales won’t be worried
Stuart Lancaster‘s die is cast, but this Dai certainly isn’t downcast! England’s 50-man squad won’t hold many fears for Warren Gatland...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: No Steffon Armitage means no exile will ever get in
The exclusion of Steffon Armitage and Nick Abendanon had been well documented before the selection of England’s 50 man World Cup...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain’s column: Sir Clive Woodward could make France great again
Sacre bleu! Could Sir Clive Woodward, knight of the realm, England‘s only World Cup winning coach, be about to do a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: USA Eagles leave rugby’s old world order at Sixes and Sevens
Last Tuesday evening, when Madison Hughes and his American Sevens squad arrived back at the USA Olympic training centre in Chula...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoJames Haskell won’t be giving up to Sam Burgess without a fight
James Haskell will not give up his England No.6 jersey lightly and has warned Sam Burgess he faces a major battle...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years ago“I’m lucky to have had supportive clubs,” says Samoa star Kahn Fotuali’i
Kahn Fotuali’i admits Polynesian players are under pressure to quit international rugby in order to secure lucrative overseas contracts. But Northampton‘s...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn’s column: World Cup wage cap would promote level playing field
With the domestic season more or less over and sights set firmly on the World Cup, we are once again forced...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoDean Mumm on mission to prove he’s World Cup ready
Exeter skipper Dean Mumm insists he will have no qualms over returning to England as ‘public enemy No.1′ if he achieves...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s Premiership play-offs preview
Northampton (1) Story of the season The reigning champions may have wobbled badly in Europe with those big defeats against Racing...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: If ‘Gatland’s Law’ is not upheld there’s no point in being loyal to Wales
Warren Gatland‘s eponymous law has been further exposed by his refusal to rule Jamie Roberts out when the good doctor lines...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoHarlequins prop Matt Shields now ready for his crack in big league
Rookie Harlequins tighthead Matt Shields has endured a baptism of fire since joining from Darlington Mowden Park in February and emerged...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Why Manu Tuilagi deserves just a little sympathy
If any England player was likely to stray off the straight-and-narrow then Manu Tuilagi was always a prime candidate. That was...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: This Bath side has the ability, now they must finish the job
Bath have arrived as true Premiership contenders again, and with a home semi-final already secured I would bet on them at...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoGlenn Delaney: The salary cap cheats must be hammered
London Irish coach insists there can be no second chances for Premiership salary cap cheats beyond the end of this season.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain looks at the likely composition of Stuart Lancaster’s World Cup squad
There’s a spaghetti of conflicting views surrounding the long-squad of around 50 players – initially billed as 45 – that Stuart...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: World-class Matthew Morgan needs to play in Premiership
I don’t say this lightly but Matthew Morgan is one of the most naturally gifted players in the world. Yes, I...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoManu Tuilagi ‘will be worried about his big brother’
Leicester Tigers are to ask Tuilagi’s elder brother Freddie to keep a closer eye on their young star and ensure he...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoAlex Corbisiero set to miss World Cup – Trevor Woodman
Lions prop set for World Cup heartbreak according to former England prop who believes Joe Marler and Mako Vunipola will be...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoManu Tuilagi kicked out of England squad for assaulting police officer
Leicester centre convicted this week of three charges of assault and one of criminal damage.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Poachers at work on both sides of Severn
One day long ago during a break from curing toothache at his dental practice in Newbridge, Derek Morgan found himself asked...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: Why a Scarlets victory is vital for Wales cause
Scarlets face two ‘cup finals’ in the next seven days and for the sake of Welsh rugby, it is vital they...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: What’s the money on Toulon making it four on the spin?
As the dust settles on the first ever Champions Cup and the remarkable but unsurprising success of Toulon in winning their...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoEngland shouldn’t pension off old guard says Ugo Monye
Ugo Monye believes England‘s World Cup wing selections are potentially set in stone but has urged boss Stuart Lancaster not to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: How the RAF revived spirit of Bader and Cooler King
Through adversity to the stars, as the RAF motto proclaims. Taking on the might of the Army and Navy has always...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Saracens wing Chris Ashton about England and the Premiership title race
Chris Ashton has spent all season looking-in at the England squad from the outside, and the Saracens wing yearns to be...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoTom Varndell: I won’t quit England until I beat Mark Cueto’s record
Tom Varndell wants to end his career abroad but he will not leave English rugby until he is the most prolific...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Contract blackmail harms World Cup
The parlous state of the Tier Two nations was emphasised this week by Dan Leo, the Samoa and London Irish lock....
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Marland Yarde and Christian Wade deserve another look by Stuart Lancaster
The England back three is still a work in progress, and with Manu Tuilagi not back from injury until just before...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoCharlie Sharples blasts Euro bosses for play-off grind
Gloucester wing Charlie Sharples has slammed European Cup chiefs for plunging the Cherry & Whites into play-offs at the expense of...
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English Championship
/ 11 years agoMartin Haag: Don’t stop clubs from daring to dream
No clubs should be denied the chance of ‘doing a Bournemouth’.
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International Rugby
/ 11 years agoVIDEO: Interview with TV broadcaster John Inverdale
The latest Killik Rugby interview is with the broadcaster John Inverdale, who will front ITV’s coverage of this year’s World Cup....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Sorry, but is all this legislation making the game any safer?
There are times when I worry for the future of our great sport with all the accusations and promises banded about...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams: Outstanding Liam Williams deserves run at No.15
Liam Williams is playing so well right now that he could do the unimaginable and grab the Wales No.15 jersey off...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Regions feel the love at last from Team Wales
Six months after his installation as chairman, Gareth Davies has succeeded in putting the Union back into Welsh rugby. His is...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoLong-shot Joe Simpson looking to close gap on No.9 rivals
Wasps scrum-half believes his ability to be a game-changing ‘super sub’ is the point of difference that will propel him into...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Clear the air? No, Fartgate only left a very nasty smell!
It was 20 years ago today – the Sunday of the early May Bank Holiday – that one of the strangest...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Let’s unhitch this truck and trailer for good
The truck-and-trailer maul has been the scourge of the modern game. In a nutshell, it allows a wedge of offside players...
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