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/ 4 years agoBoks success meaningless if we fall to Scots – Tom Curry
By GARY FITZGERALD Previous: England win at Murrayfield in 2020 TOM Curry has warned his England teammates the autumn successes over...
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/ 4 years agoLevel-headed George Ford is ready to roll
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL WHEN GEORGE Ford was brought into the England’s Six Nations squad after initially being snubbed, there was no...
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/ 4 years agoPirates help prop pair get chance in Europe
NEWS EXTRA By MIKE SINCLAIR JAMES Kenny and Patrick Schickerling, who began the season competing for Championship places in the Cornish...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoRegional results
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/ 4 years agoGonzalo eyes glory despite Jaguares set-back
NEWS EXTRA By STEFFAN THOMAS DRAGONS scrum-half Gonzalo Bertranou insists the Jaguares’ exclusion from Super Rugby has made it difficult for...
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/ 4 years agoDurham lead way as top four battle intensifies
BUCS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK BUCS Super Rugby returned on Wednesday after its mid-season break with another enthralling round of action....
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoRegional results
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Features
/ 4 years agoLord Sugar was only person to tell me ‘You’re Fired!’
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER LEINSTER, CONNACHT, LONDON IRISH & IRELAND U20 FLANKER AND RECENT STAR OF THE APPRENTICE CONOR...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoHart leads welcome return to form for the Turks
Premiership By TOM PROSSER Llanelli..............26 Bridgend........... 14 LLANELLI skipper Nathan Hart scored two tries as his side claimed their first win...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoDeadly Marshall puts Quins top of the pile
Premiership By FREDDIE BENNETT Carmarthan Q......... 17 RGC............................. 14 CARMARTHEN Quins climbed to the top of the Indigo Premiership table with...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoGriffiths spurs on Black and Ambers
Premiership By HUW S THOMAS Llandovery............. 17 Newport...................27 INTEREST was high in this Premiership league clash between the two sides that...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoBanfield the star turn for fired-up Wizards
Premiership By GARETH JAMES Pontypridd.............. 16 Aberavon.................25 ABERAVON’S Chris Banfield delivered a controlled performance to ensure his side left Sardis Road...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoCushion wraps up bonus for Ironmen
Premiership By PAUL HOPKINS Swansea................. 15 Merthyr....................32 MERTHYR clinched a last-minute bonus point in an entertaining win over Swansea. It was...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoRed-hot Rees gives Ebbw the runaround
Premiership By ALED BISTON Cardiff......................58 Ebbw Vale................. 8 CARDIFF continued their ruthless form with a convincing victory over Ebbw Vale. The...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 4 years agoBargoed dig deep to keep run going
Championship round-up By FREDDIE BENNETT & TOM PROSSER CHAMPIONSHIP leaders Bargoed just about managed to make it an impressive eight league...
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/ 4 years agoHook: I’d give Adams shot at 13
By STEFFAN THOMAS JAMES Hook does not expect Wales to retain their Six Nations title but the former Ospreys, Perpignan, and...
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/ 4 years agoBRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES
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/ 4 years agoBattling Skewen make it five wins from five
Welsh National One roundup By FREDDIE BENNETT and TOM PROSSER SKEWEN made it five wins from five in the Division One...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoRelief as Dupont returns to action
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Forty-nine days after he last played rugby, scrum-half, Antoine Dupont returned to action last night, alongside international...
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Features
/ 4 years agoCONNOR DOHERTY
YOUNG GUNS SALE OUTSIDE CENTRE Sale born-and-bred Connor Doherty has achieved his lifelong dream of playing for the Sharks; now his...
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/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, January 30, 2022 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 4 years agoColeman aims to play his way back into Wallabies
By DANIEL GALLAN ADAM Coleman still harbours ambitions to play for Australia. The 30-year-old London Irish lock last donned his nation’s...
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/ 4 years agoHostile Murrayfield fans will bring the best out of Sinckler
KYLE Sinckler is relishing the gauntlet of fire that England players will endure from opposing fans during the Six Nations –...
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/ 4 years agoGeorge Skivington: Atkinson must start
GEORGE Skivington has called on England to be bold and pick Marcus Smith and Mark Atkinson as their midfield axis against...
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/ 4 years agoWALES v SCOTLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS TICKETS TO BE WON
WIN a pair of tickets to Wales v Scotland courtesy of Dove Men+Care! Wales continue their 2022 Guinness Six Nations campaign...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoHow to make B&1 league a success
I READ Chris Hewett’s article in last week’s edition with great interest as the idea of a B&I League is one...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoWe are losing heart and soul of game
IF this game ‘gets its very breath from the Community’ as Derek Gilbert states, and we have lost 65 per cent...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoParents of Minis players are the salvation for rugby
JEFF Probyn is right to flag the reduction in participants in rugby but, while the misguided diversion by some clubs of...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoSilence of the RFU
REGARDING the growing gulf between ‘elite’ and ‘community’ rugby, Jeff Gage felt that Colin Boag’s debatable views meritted a response from...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWales fans don’t care about clubs
COLIN BOAG Packed out: A full Principality Stadium but where are crowds for regions? PICTURE: Getty Imagesr At last the Welsh...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoBattle of the 10s will be exciting at Murrayfield
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK MARCUS Smith playing opposite Finn Russell at fly-half is an intriguing head-to-head going into...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoJackson dazzles to leave Chiefs at sea
By DAN GALLAN London Irish ....18pts Tries: Cornish 21, Stokes 40 Conversion: Jackson 40+3 Penalties: Jackson 28, 30 Exeter ................14pts Tries:...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoBattling defence was key- Kiss
LES Kiss, London Irish’s head coach, praised his side’s character after turning around a 14-0 deficit against Exeter Chiefs inside 20...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoDiamond: We need some fine tuning
By TOM VICKERS Worcester ........13pts Tries: Sutherland 61, Beck 65 Penalty: Smith 25 Northampton ..29pts Tries: Hutchinson 22, Matavesi 29, Mitchell...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoProud day for captain Dingwall
NORTHAMPTON Saints centre Fraser Dingwall was delighted to have been made captain for the day. “It has been a very cool...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoFormer Lions ace Hibbard calls time
DRAGONS’ former Wales and Lions hooker Richard Hibbard has announced his retirement with immediate effect. Hibbard played 38 Wales internationals and...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoGalthie’s surprise UFO lands his chance
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN France coach Fabien Galthie revealed his squad selection for Les Bleus’ first training camp ahead of the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoGowerton: A conveyor belt of talent for Wales
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools AS YOU might expect in such a rugby-daft area many great...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, January 23, 2022 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 4 years agoEngland bounce back to book semi-final spot
By SAM JACKSON ENGLAND face Argentina in today’s semi-finals of the inaugural Spain Sevens in Malaga. Favourites South Africa – who...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoYou can’t slice up this cake
I KNOW the piece is under the section “views” but I’ve rarely read such illinformed nonsense by Colin Boag. To paraphrase...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoWomen lead the way with yellow card
REFRESHING to see that the Women’s game doesn’t get off light, with the Sale player being yellow carded for not retreating...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoSport was founded in the Community
COLIN Boag’s article calling for the professional and amateur games to be split, sights the gulf in ability, concussion and the...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoRFU must answer Boag before his idea grows further
COLIN Boag’s article graphically exposes the fault-lines in English rugby. He writes that ‘he has believed for a long time that...
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Champions Cup
/ 4 years agoLeinster rout can devalue Euro Cup
COLIN BOAG Thrashing: Josh van der Flier evades the tackle of Josua Vici on his way to scoring Leinster’s ninth try...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoWarp-speed Radwan is the new Jason Robinson
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WHAT struck me about the announce- ment of England’s Six Nations squad by Eddie...
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Champions Cup
/ 4 years agoBristol’s late try flood makes Peel despair
By STEFFAN THOMAS Scarlets ............21pts Tries: Elias 23, McNicholl 60 Conversions: Patchell 24 Penalties: Patchell 7, 30, 44 Bristol ................52pts Tries:...
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Champions Cup
/ 4 years agoLam: Cup win is on if we’re ruthless
PAT Lam insists Bristol can be serious contenders for the Champions Cup if they improve their accuracy. The former Connacht coach...
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Champions Cup
/ 4 years agoHumiliation for Bath as Sexton spurs 10-try rout
By ADAM HATHAWAY Bath ......................7pts Try: Clark 33 Conversion: Bailey 34 Leinster ............64pts Tries: O’Brien 15, 36, 48, 76; Van der...
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