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Letters
/ 2 years agoTynedale player dies after fall
RUGBY SHORTS TYNEDALE centre Rory Cramb, below, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 26 following a fall. A statement...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoFlanagan gets backing from owners
DRAGONS coach Dai Flanagan has been backed by the club’s owners to fast-track a rebuild of the region after their 55-21...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoDuhan signs new deal
SCOTLAND winger Duhan van der Merwe has extended his contract with Edinburgh until June 2025. The 28-yearold South Africa-born player returned...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe need ‘whole game solution’
IT is significant that the latest statement by the Championship clubs, seeking to protect their position in the English rugby hierarchy,...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoCounty champs should return
BEN Coneybeare describes the ‘scintillating atmosphere’ at the recent Redruth versus Camborne Cornish derby in front of over 3,000 fans. Thanks...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTV deal for Tier Two
WITH Coventry attracting a record crowd of 5,047 to Butts Park Arena for the Boxing Day clash with Nottingham, Ampthill RFC...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPlaying against best in the world is good test
NOW we’re into the second year of the expanded Champions Cup, I thought I’d reflect on just how the inclusion of...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoIt’s time to address selection
WITH only 10 Premiership clubs – nearly all cash strapped with a salary cap to boot – does the England selection...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen Merlene Ottey’s leotard grew nine sizes
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points NEW Year’s Eve and rugby always brings to...
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Red Roses
/ 2 years agoRed Roses: Sadia Kabeya
ENGLAND FLANKER Birthplace: Lewisham Date of birth: 22/02/02 Community club: Streatham & Croydon RFC Club: Loughborough Lightning England debut: v Canada...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoCornish rivals play out another pulsating draw
CAMBORNE and Redruth played out another pulsating draw in the traditional Boxing Day clash in front of a bumper crowd of...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoChampions crash Harlequins party
By EDDIE MCATEER Harlequins .............. 19pts Tries: Sims 33, Scott 41, Latsha 57 Conversions: Tuima 34, 58 Gloucester-H..........31pts Tries:Jones 3, Monaghan...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoBiden steals the show in RAG awards
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Contrary to common belief, rugby’s event of the year did not happen in...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoFarewell to these fine men of rugby
Come hell or high water, The Grim Reaper never fails to take a day off from scything through his grisly business....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoProud men who graced the game
Brendan Gallagher recalls the achievements of those from across the globe that the world of rugby lost in 2023 Sydney Millar...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoLaunchbury’s impressed by French fitness
TRP Podcast By NICK POWELL Joe Launchbury feels giant Toulouse lock Emmanuel Meafou’s form reflects a growing trend of Top 14...
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Features
/ 2 years agoOne XV that would challenge the best
Joe Santamaria selects his Tier Two Team of the Year While the major nations were battling for sporting immortality at the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoTalented players will still miss out
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME With the start of a new year, it’s the beginning of a...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Scotland U20s prop Callum Smyth
BY BEN JAYCOCK Scotland U20s prop Callum Smyth enjoyed the ‘best six months of his life’ this year when he took...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoCoach to Coach with Martin Webdale
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill, below, talks to Martin Webdale, the head coach at Loughborough University, above Steve Hill:...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoSteelmen show grit to hit back against Ponty
Premiership round-up By ROB COLE EBBW VALE completed a smash and grab raid in the second half at Sardis Road to...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoDunvant pile pain on Tata
Championship round-up DUNVANT were able to jump into fourth place in Championship West as they picked up a three-try triumph from...
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James Harrington
/ 2 years agoSimmonds is facing a fight for survival
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN THE final weekend of 2023 – and we’re almost at the halfway point of the Top 14...
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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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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoSymes looking to impress in Wales
By BEN JAYCOCK After excelling in Australia, tyro fly-half Jacob Symes has returned to Wales to link up with Welsh Premiership...
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 years agoPhillips stands down as Merthyr coach
FORMER Wales women’s coach Rowland Phillips has left his position as Merthyr head coach with immediate effect. Phillips was due to...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoAgree new PGP deal quickly, urge DoRs
By PAUL REES Premiership clubs expect the details of the new Professional Game Partnership (PGP) with the RFU to be agreed...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoGloucester close in on deal for Atkinson
By NEIL FISSLER Gloucester are in talks to do a deal that will see them sign former Wasps fly-half Charlie Atkinson...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEaster urges RFU not to divide National One
By LUKE JARMYN Nick Easter fears that RFU plans to split National One in two, with a north and south divide,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoWarr: It’s special to learn from the best
By LUKE JARMYN Sale Sharks Gus Warr believes that time spent rubbing shoulders and working with the likes of double World...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoUnlucky Quirke ruled out with foot injury
Raffi Quirke’s dismal luck with injuries continued when a foot injury he picked up at Leinster last weekend that was initially...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoNewcastle sign Holgate
NEWCASTLE have signed Championship winner Jordan Holgate on a deal until the end of the season after his previous club Jersey...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGoodman takes over
LEINSTER assistant coach Andrew Goodman will replace Mike Catt as Ireland’s backs coach at the end of the season. The 41-year-old...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoBig Game is next in line for upbeat Dombrandt
By PAUL REES Alex Dombrandt will enjoy a rare break over Christmas before returning to drive Harlequins’ twin assaults on the...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoCodling: This is the toughest run I have had as a coach
By PAUL REES Newcastle may have had a challenging start to the season, but Alex Codling believes there are several reasons...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDowson praise for Radford turnaround
By JON NEWCOMBE Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson has paid tribute to new defence coach Lee Radford and his players...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoChiefs ace Tom set for Hanazono
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Tom Hendrickson has signed a deal with Osaka-based Japanese League One side Hanazono Kintetsu Liners...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoEveritt in talks at Edinburgh
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER EDINBURGH have opened talks with Sean Everitt about extending his stay in the Scottish capital...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSaracens in hunt for big name wing
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Saracens have held informal talks with England wingers Jonny May and Joe Cokanasiga about a...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoQuins offer Care new contract
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Danny Care has been offered the chance to extend his contract with Harlequins until after...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoGlasgow keen for Hastings return
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Scotland international Adam Hastings has been speaking to Glasgow Warriors about a return north of...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Damian Welch
The former Exeter Chiefs, Llanelli, Scarlets, Cardiff & Pontypridd second row, chooses the best XV he has played with or against......
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoI can see why Dupont has gold in his sights
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK IT is very hard to think of France without Antoine Dupont as a driving...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoCokanasiga shows his England quality
By ADAM HATHAWAY Bath .................................... 25pts Tries: Cokanasiga 1, 47; Stooke 42, Reid 74 Conversion: Russell 49 Penalties: Russell 33 Harlequins...
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Premiership
/ 2 years ago‘There’s more to come from Joe’
Johann van Graan, the Bath head coach, revealed Steve Borthwick has been keeping an eye on Joe Cokanasiga and insists there...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLeicester suffer as Chiefs put on a show
By MARK STEVENS Exeter Chiefs .................. 29pts Tries: Vermeulen 7, Penalty 10, Slade 39, Tuima 80 Conversions: Slade 7, 40 Penalty:...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoMcKellar unhappy with poor first half
LEICESTER head coach Dan McKellar bemoaned a dismal first half that saw the visitors trail 21-0. “It was a poor start...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoAgony for Hastings as Saints hold on
By PAUL REES Gloucester ....................... 29pts Tries: Clarke 27, Harris 40, Alemanno 47, Carreras 52 Conversions: Hastings, 28, 40, 53 Penalties:...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoA good win but not a great performance, says Dowson
NORTHAMPTON moved to third in the table with a sixth Premiership victory in seven, but director of rugby Phil Dowson was...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSharks keep it tight to hold off Saracens
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Sale Sharks ..................... 22pts Tries: Creevy 17, Roebuck 43, Cowan-Dickie 48 Conversions: Ford 18, 48 Penalty: Ford 64...
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