Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 11 months agoChris Hewett: Time to speak with one voice
Back in the age when men were men and Willie John McBride was wearing the red shirt of the British and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 11 months agoChris Hewett: Danny Care still shines in list of the finest 9s
On the face of it, the easiest way to get noticed in big-time rugby is to bag a contract with Harlequins,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 11 months agoChris Hewett: Dangers of pushing the profit margins
According to George Orwell, who knew a thing or two about a thing or two, the “greatest cruelty one can inflict...
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Chris Hewett
/ 12 months agoChris Hewett: Leinster need to spread the love
"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” The American author Gore Vidal was an acknowledged master of the “ouch”...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 1 year agoChris Hewett: If there is any justice, George Ford will be a British and Irish Lion
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed The difference between time and eternity? It’s all relative – get it? – but in...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoChris Hewett: Players moving north is no shock
If it takes at least seven years to train as an architect – and a minimum of 70 to negotiate the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoChris Hewett: Geoff Parling is thriving as the quiet ‘Australian’
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Whatever lights might be hidden under rugby’s bushel, precious few of them belong to Australian...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoChris Hewett: Dan Biggar’s lessons in staying strong
The last time Wales won a game of rugby against someone other than the Barbarians – those struggling to recall that...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoSorry Chris, but we’re heading up another cul-de-sac
I KNOW it has been the season of goodwill, but Chris Hewett’s comment that the RFU is pointing in the right...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWelcome to mad, mad world of modern rugby | Chris Hewett
A single English Premiership campaign is an interesting bunch of competitions. We’ve been treated to old-style fights for the title in...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoSean Fitzpatrick is talking heresy and real sense | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on Sean Fitzpatrick's comments of how rugby can lead itself to greater growth by reducing international fixtures
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoJoke isn’t on fun figure Cockerill any more | Chris Hewett
Richard Cockerill in as England's forwards coach? Chris Hewett on a bullish Midlander transitioning into coaching
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoExodus of the props brings era to an end | Chris Hewett
THERE was a time, not so long ago, when Premiership clubs would pay tighthead props in Bitcoin, provided they were good...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThe sterile Lions Tests are killing the game | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on how the boredom set in watching the three Lions Tests this summer
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLions series needed Buzz Aldrin at full-back | Chris Hewett
There are those revered for their kicking ability over the decades, but the sport has changed its dynamics and expectations since...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoA draw can signify honour, just ask the Olympians | Chris Hewett
CONTRARY to the spirit of an age obsessed with winners and losers, there is nothing wrong with a draw. Ask Mutaz...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoDitch the tech like Anna did to strike gold | Chris Hewett
Purity and simplicity are not among the nouns most commonly associated with Rugby Union in its current state of confusion: prop...
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/ 5 years agoSevens circuit is lacking top stars | Chris Hewett
After the success of sevens at the Olympics, attention now turns to whether the World Sevens Series circuit to suitable for...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLeaking Lions may put a plug in it now | Chris Hewett
JIM TELFER was not best pleased. “For God’s sake cut it out,” he snarled at Mark Regan and Barrie Williams, two...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFarewell to Newlands, mecca of memories | Chris Hewett
Newlands was the beating heart of rugby in the Western Cape and for the Springboks for decades
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoItaly’s aged craftsmen show art of defence | Chris Hewett
LEAVING to one side the more reprehensible followers of Ing-er-land’s footballing fortunes – but for the danger of offending countless colonies...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAll Blacks bucked the trend of decline | Chris Hewett
For the fifth time since 1997, the Lions face a series against the reigning world champions but have they all been...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFolau looks set to cause more havoc off the pitch | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on Israel Folau's return to rugby with the NTT Shining Arcs in Japan's Top League
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoCrisis time for Boks as their lock stocks dip | Chris Hewett
PITY the poor Springboks. Three years after arming themselves with the most potent quartet of second row forwards ever seen at...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoIs the rash of red cards truly making game safer? | Chris Hewett
"Brave boy,” said Ugo Monye, admiringly, as he watched his beloved Harlequins close in on their famous Premiership semi-final victory over...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoSteffon Armitage still having his go in France | Chris Hewett
BACK in 2010, when one or two suckers for journalistic punishment were huddled together on a God-forsaken touchline in Hamilton...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoDave Rennie may find principles changing | Chris Hewett
DAVE RENNIE is a New Zealander from the Tana Umaga corner of Wellington’s metropolitan area and like virtually ever other Kiwi...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoEuropean Boks have inside gen on the Lions | Chris Hewett
Modern Springbok coaches fall into two camps: far-sighted progressives like Kitch Christie, Jake White and Rassie Erasmus – people who...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoMacGinty’s great – time his country caught up | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett believes AJ MacGinty is in the form of his life for Sale Sharks
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/ 5 years agoShaunagh shines in captivating contest | Chris Hewett
The best rugby action was on show in last Sunday's Premier 15s final, not in the Premiership's non-contest between Exeter and...
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/ 5 years agoManu proves it’s collision not evasion that counts | Chris Hewett
THE most depressing comment of last week came from Alex Sanderson, which was counterintuitive, since the Sale director of rugby is...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAntoine Dupont is Gareth Edwards MkII | Chris Hewett
Does Antoine Dupont remind you of anyone?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoReferees go upstairs more than Casanova | Chris Hewett
Half an hour into a bristling, bruising West Country derby in the early 1990s, the genial Bristol beanpole Andy Blackmore was...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoTackling is important too, Quins and Wasps! | Chris Hewett
Matches of anarchy and a more balanced proportion between attack and defence can serve us two very different specatcles, equally entertaining
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/ 5 years agoEnd salary cap and fat cats will take cream | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett contemplates how the salary cap can be conflicted between financial fairness and rugby's narrow corridor of frequent contenders
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBall seems incidental to red-card Boklanders | Chris Hewett
Allowing aggression to set the tone for a match is something the Springboks have been notorious for
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBT Sport must stay in rugby if only for our sanity | Chris Hewett
Can BT Sport rope in more rugby rights to save rugby fans from a fragmented landscape?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAlex Mitchell has that Melville quality | Chris Hewett
BACK in the early 1980s, a time when there were no arguments about ring-fencing in England because there weren’t any leagues...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoCould fan power stop Super League in rugby? | Chris Hewett
After a bitter week in football fuelled by greed, Chris Hewett considers whether fan power in rugby bears any weight against...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoKeep politics out of rugby? You’re joking! | Chris Hewett
Rugby Union has its flaws, but a thin skin is not among them. The game has the hide of an armadillo,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLimit the poundage to reduce injuries | Chris Hewett
SO THE New Zealanders are suddenly worried about the injury fall-out from Super Rugby Aotearoa. Welcome to the 21st century. Players...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoGourdon proves big is not the best policy | Chris Hewett
Rugby's struggles with David and Goliath statures for forwards can often by a headscratcher, writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoIsrael Folau row looks set for re-run in Tonga | Chris Hewett
Folau's journey into cyberspace should inhibit any return to Test rugby, after recent comments by Tonga's head coach that he would...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoJohn Eales was the best | Chris Hewett
ANOTHER Wayne Smith, the highly accomplished rugby correspondent of The Australian, is calling it a day after half a century on...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThat Rome weekend puts block on Georgia | Chris Hewett
If Italy are not all washed up as a permanent member of the Six Nations elite –a sporting society so exclusive,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWayne Smith may spark new Kiwi dominance | Chris Hewett
Wayne Smith played a bigger role in the 2015 All Blacks side than you may think, writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoOh no, the Beast has made a twit of himself! | Chris Hewett
Rugby has a new law – as if the game needed another one – and the way things are going, it...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWallabies Rugby World Cup challenge is blooming in Brisbane sun | Chris Hewett
Success in France in two years' time for Australia will rest on the crop of young players emerging under Brad Thorn...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoFishermen of Cornwall | Chris Hewett
THIS is a bit of a stretch, admittedly, but if Cornish Pirates beat Saracens to promotion, just as they beat them...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoStopwatch away! It’s quality time that counts | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett examines rugby's rugby tape law regulations that could do with being cut to simplify the sport for the masses
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