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Latest News
/ 3 years ago‘CVC deal is very bad for rugby’
By NICK CAIN Francis Baron believes that the RFU is in the grip of a crisis which has been fuelled by...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoGatland to consider sending SOS to second row Ball
By PETER JACKSON The World Cup man-power crisis engulfing Wales will force them to reconsider sending an SOS to Australia for...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoPrem hoping to avoid Six Nations clashes
By PAUL REES London Irish’s demise means the Premiership will be reduced to 10 teams next season and officials are looking...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBainbridge can’t wait for life as a Falcon
By JON NEWCOMBE Foraging flanker Josh Bainbridge is looking forward to starting his Newcastle Falcons career after a whirlwind pre-season. Now...
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Women's International
/ 3 years agoEnhanced deals for England women
By BEN JAYCOCK The RFU has handed out new three-year contracts to England’s senior women players, that will cover the 2025...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoVarndell fears for future generation
By BEN JAYCOCK Tom Varndell says that allowing three Premiership teams to go under this season is ‘completely unforgivable’ and urges...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoHaskell calls for radical overhaul
By BEN JAYCOCK James Haskell believes the Premiership should be ring fenced and rebuilt using a franchise style NFL model, including...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoEngland rugby’s ‘annus horribilis’
THIS season has been an “annus horribilis” for English Rugby Union. Three professional clubs have folded because of financial difficulties. In...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoIreland’s time is now
I’VE followed Ireland for some time now and I have seen a massive growth in technique, skill set and depth like...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoVote of no confidence
STOW on the Wold RFC held its AGM on Thursday and a motion of “no confidence in the leadership of the...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoI can’t wait to see Bath get going
■ Am I just being cynical or, with the demise of London Irish, does this give the RFU and PRL exactly...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoTry something new and imaginative
JAMES Harrington reports that the average gate in the French top flight this season was 14,841, with Bordeaux topping the list...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Dan George
The Old Albanian head coach and former Scarlets, London Welsh, Gloucester, Worcester and Bedford hooker, chooses the Best XV he has...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoNo more excuses: Time to get serious, England
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK AS soon as Steve Borthwick got the England head coach job he will have...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoHe’s quite some man, that Emery…
David Emery 1946-2023 Peter Jackson looks back on the life and times of a giant in the world of sport and...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoArrival of novice advisers is cause for grave concern
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There could not have been a bigger catalyst for change at Twickenham than...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoYour chance to join the (£55,000) culture club
NICK CAIN The RFU’s failure to put in a robust, stringent regulatory framework has led to three Premiership clubs going bust...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 years agoBears swept aside as Gloucester power on
By BEN JAYCOCK Gloucester-Hartpury.....21pts Tries: Beckett 4, Jones 30, Lund 67 Conversions: Sing 5, 31, 68 Bristol Bears ....................12pts Tries: Davies...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoHunt so happy with her support
NATASHA Hunt was in tears after full time as she paid tribute to her Gloucester-Hartpury side for helping her to bounce...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCleall knows Chiefs will be a tough test for Saracens
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Exeter v Saracens Today. Kick-off 3pm, Sandy Park Force of nature: Poppy Cleall will be key for...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 3 years agoWaterman: Time to hit fifth gear
By NICK POWELL Former England star Danielle Waterman was moved by seeing a record crowd at Twickenham for the Red Roses...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoAmateurs set for talks over their future at Hazelwood
By PAUL REES London Irish Amateur RFC’s chairman Kevin Flynn is this week meeting administrators appointed after the collapse of the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoCardiff in fight for Thomas
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Gloucester have been linked with a move for highly-rated Cardiff coach T Rhys Thomas. The...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoEvans tops wanted list
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Cardiff have made Ospreys full-back Cai Evans their number one summer target. The son of...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBlackheath sign Owlett
NEWLY promoted National 1 side Blackheath have signed former Premiership tighthead Jack Owlett. Owlett, 28, played for Scotland U20s before joining...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoDiamond staying on
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Rugby's Red Adair Steve Diamond is staying at Edinburgh until the end of the World...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoFree agent Odogwu ready for URC
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Former Wasps flyer Paolo Odogwu could finally ply his trade in the United Rugby Championship...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoBorthwick’s plea for Irish boys to stay
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England boss Steve Borthwick hit the phones last week in a plea to stop London...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoRacing trying to tempt Marcus
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Racing 92 have made England and Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith an offer of around €500,000...
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Top 14
/ 3 years agoAbendanon: French rugby is far more fun
By NICK POWELL Former England full-back Nick Abendanon says that the Premiership is not entertaining enough to compete with the French...
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 3 years agoWinger Zheng on his way to Quins
Harlequins have signed Cardiff Met University winger Roma Zheng, who will join the club’s academy ahead of next season. Zheng, below,...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoO’Driscoll: Defeat was emotional
By NICK POWELL Leinster and Ireland legend Brian O’Driscoll feels Leinster’s second-straight Champions Cup Final defeat to La Rochelle could “leave...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTyro Warrior Tait signs for Knights
Doncaster have signed former Scotland U20s captain Rhys Tait, 20, from Glasgow Warriors, having featured on loan for the Knights at...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhen the collective carries all before it
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Dings Crusaders? Crazy name, cracking club. One of the oldest and most successful of the dozens of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTongans have a plan for Ireland
CHRIS HEWETT Interesting rumblings from down Tonga way, where Toutai Kefu, the magnificent Wallaby No.8 who rumbled all the way to...
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Features
/ 3 years agoToo many promises, too little scrutiny
After London Irish became the third club casualty of a brutal season, Paul Rees considers what might happen next If thoughts...
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Features
/ 3 years agoSafety first as red cards rise to an all-time high
Peter Jackson finds that only Ireland kept on the right side of every referee as the game gets to grips with...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoCrusaders give Gats a blueprint to beat Fiji
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Thank you, Scott Robertson and your Crusaders players for showing Wales the way to beat...
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Features
/ 3 years agoWrong to sell the family silver
Francis Baron, former CEO of the RFU, is concerned with rugby's deal with private equity firm CVC THE CVC ACQUISITION OF...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Saracens & England U18 full-back Jack Bracken
Jack Bracken is hoping to replicate his father Kyran’s career but has switched positions from scrum-half to full-back. Bracken, 17, made...
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World
/ 3 years agoMapletoft excited to face SA challenges
By BEN JAYCOCK England have announced their 30-man squad for the World Rugby U20 Championship in South Africa that gets underway...
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World
/ 3 years agoJones puts his faith in Woodman to lead
By BEN JAYCOCK Wales interim head coach Mark Jones has appointed Dragons forward Ryan Woodman as captain of the 30-player squad...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoTop Cat happy to recall the glory days
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW THE only man to captain Wales, coach Wales, select Wales, manage Wales, and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThere’s no stopping Ramos
PETER JACKSON Thomas Ramos is en route to finishing the season 100 or so points clear of his nearest challenger across...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoAfter this, Prince Harry could be calling AWJ
PETER JACKSON Alun Wyn Jones continues to treat ‘the media’ with such contempt that it may be but a matter of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWhen Kirk took the All Blacks right to the top of the world
Brendan Gallagher begins a series on the star man at each global gathering Being the first in anything often confers iconic...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoHow a boat trip on the Seine swung the vote
The IRB took the momentous decision to stage a first World Cup in March 1985 in strange circumstances. Prior to their...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Wayne Kilford: ‘Moore told me – The work starts now’
The former Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry and Midlands full-back talks about his life in the game My first captain in senior rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWe must find a way to stop vicious spiral
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Heaven knows The Rugby Paper has been warning...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWhen I needed a helping hand…
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER You could fill a noisy bar with the journalists past and present queuing to buy David Emery...
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