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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoQuins comeback shoots down Ravens
By TIM LEWIS Bridgend ..............15 Carmarthen Q ......38 CARMARTHEN QUINS produced a stunning second-half comeback to down Bridgend Ravens. Back on...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoPontypridd defence holds out in tense finale
By IOAN DYER Pontypridd ..........19 Newport ................16 PONTYPRIDD edged out Newport in a fierce affair at Sardis Road. This was an...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoO’Brien on target for Llandovery
By PAUL HOPKINS Llandovery ..........21 Swansea ................5 LLANDOVERY made it 20 successive victories over Swansea as competitive rugby returned to Church...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoBevan hat-trick sees Cardiff hit 60 points
By STEFFAN THOMAS Cardiff ..................60 RGC1404 ..................5 ELLIS Bevan ran in a hattrick as Cardiff annihilated RGC1404. The hosts started strongly...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoRowley sets the pace for Ystrad
Championship round-up By STEFFAN THOMAS YSTRAD Rhondda advanced to the Championship Cup play-offs after a hard-fought 31-17 home victory over Beddau....
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/ 4 years agoLightning and Saints Women’s teams join forces
By CYBIL HARDING Ambassador: Sarah Hunter PREMIER 15s side Loughborough Lightning have linked up with Premiership club Northampton Saints to create...
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/ 4 years agoNorth in two-year deal with Ospreys
By SAM JACKSON Signed: George North GEORGE North has signed a new two-year dual contract with Ospreys and the Welsh Rugby...
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/ 4 years agoBRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoDominici trophy will offer clubs a respite
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Toulon meet Stade Francais in the weekend’s final Top 14 match this evening. The Sunday night game...
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/ 4 years agoPreview: Harlequins must beware ‘animal’ Brown warns Marchant
HARLEQUINS are bracing themselves for a Mike Brown backlash at Kingston Park today when the former England fullback greets his old...
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/ 4 years agoYoung Saints must mature fast now says coach Vass
IAN VASS has told Northampton’s crop of young players that this is the season to deliver with England head coach Eddie...
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/ 4 years agoRugby 12s could kill golden goose
JEFF Probyn highlighted the limitations of Rugby 12s saying a player auction could undermine the esprit de corps between regular team...
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/ 4 years agoClubs must heed Winterbottom’s urgent call to arms
LAST Sunday’s TRP was just excellent. Unfortunately, not enough community clubs appear to be aware of the dire straits our game...
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/ 4 years agoBrilliant Bennett try for Wales was in 1977
CONGRATULATIONS on your publication – my first read every Sunday. Brendan Gallagher is a brilliant rugby journalist, I particularly enjoy his...
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Features
/ 4 years agoI’m predicting season full of entertainment
COLIN BOAG With the new Premiership season under way, the old cliché about this being the most competitive season ever has...
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/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
PHIL DOWSON THE NORTHAMPTON SAINTS FORWARDS COACH CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH 1. Soane Tonga’uiha - Giant of...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoWales to beat All Blacks? They could lose by 30pts!
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WALES have a few players that are on the cusp of the end of...
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/ 4 years agoLeicester 34-19 Exeter: Tigers come roaring into the new season
LEICESTER powered to a first win over Exeter in eight games to leave the Premiership runners up looking well beaten at...
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/ 4 years agoBaxter: Our guys have to improve
STEVE Borthwick insisted Leicester will not carried away by this upbeat victory. “We know we are a long way off other...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoNorthampton 34-20 Gloucester: Patched-up Gloucester get mauling by Grayson
JAMES GRAYSON scored 17 points as Saints got their Premiership campaign off to a winning start in a thriller at Franklin’s...
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/ 4 years agoBoyd laments his rusty Saints
DESPITE starting with a valuable five points, Northampton’s director of rugby Chris Boyd, was still dissatisfied. “Yes it’s great to be...
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/ 4 years agoSanderson: Saracens are favourites for Premiership title
ALEX Sanderson has piled the pressure on his old Saracens pals by labelling them firm favourites to lift the title again....
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/ 4 years agoLeigh to miss next nine Tests for Wales
By PETER JACKSON All smiles: Tom Litchfield scores for Northampton PICTURE: Getty Images LEIGH Halfpenny will miss Wales’ entire season of...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoBlues on way with Garside double
By RYAN ROBINSON Bedford ..........38 Ampthill ..........35 BEDFORD Blues reclaimed local bragging rights as Will Maisey’s late penalty edged proceedings at...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoThe long wait ends at last for happy Anscombe
By ALEX BYWATER Northampton....31pts Ospreys ............26pts GARETH Anscombe ended more than two years of injury misery and told of his relief...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoDeano delight after Falcons stick to the game script
By GARY HEATLY Edinburgh ........10pts Newcastle........26pts NEWCASTLE Falcons will head into the Premiership campaign on the back of an unbeaten pre-season...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoTigers missing their big four as Scarlets rally for victory
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ..........24pts Scarlets ............29pts LEICESTER Tigers boss Steve Borthwick conceded after this defeat that there were “good elements,...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoSaracens end warm up with five-try bloody nose
By GARY FITZGERALD Saracens ............3pts Ulster ................33pts ENGLAND flanker Ben Earl claimed it was not “all doom and gloom” despite Saracens...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoPirates hit back after left reeling 24-0 down
By MIKE SINCLAIR Cornish Pirates.....21pts Worcester ........24pts Opening try: Alex Hearle CORNISH Pirates, trailing 24-0 after conceding four high-speed tries in...
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Features
/ 4 years agoRALPH APPLEBY
ROOM 101 THE DARLINGTON MOWDEN PARK FRONT-ROWER TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Over-familiar...
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Features
/ 4 years agoScarratt in leg op
RUGBY SHORTS ENGLAND Women’s vicecaptain Emily Scarratt has had surgery on a broken leg – almost a year out from the...
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/ 4 years agoGabby gets the URC gig with BBC
By ALEX BYWATER GABBY Logan, right, is set to be the marquee signing for BBC Wales’ coverage of the new United...
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/ 4 years agoTomas is a Cardiff lad on his wife’s orders!
By ROB COLE TOMAS Francis has come home to Wales to play for the Ospreys, but one of the stipulations in...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBig personalties, big performances
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools EASTBOURNE College might not always be a pre-eminent force in the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoFive tries and the chop for Lambert
ONE of the more remarkable Eastbourne College alumni was Danny Lambert, the England wing who got dropped after scoring five tries...
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/ 4 years agoSwansea leave no room for doubt
Welsh round-up By ROB COLE NEATH’S 150th anniversary celebrations got off to a familiar start as they welcomed their oldest rivals,...
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/ 4 years agoHawks call off game in memory of Dave
By SAM JACKSON HENLEY Hawks postponed yesterday’s match with Hinckley as a mark of respect for second row forward Dave Hyde....
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/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Weekend beginning Friday September 18th, 2021 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 4 years agoSanderson calls in the SAS for a pre-season boot camp
By NEIL FISSLER ALEX Sanderson has sent his Sale Sharks on a pre-season camping trip with members of the SAS. Sharks...
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/ 4 years agoBen Earl expects warm welcome in Bristol Bears
BEN Earl labels Bristol ‘my second club’ and is relishing a swift return to the place he claims has helped make...
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/ 4 years agoLaunchbury tells Wasps, let me come back to better
Upbeat: Joe Launchbury is battling back from injury JOE Launchbury remains up beat despite approaching a new season resigned to being...
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/ 4 years agoCommunity game future worries me
I TOTALLY agree with the article from Peter Winterbottom, and as a past president of Cumbria Rugby Union, I am very...
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/ 4 years agoHewett a joy to read
CHRIS Hewett is a consistently great columnist to enjoy. His points are well presented and I always feel he knows what...
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/ 4 years agoLevel 4 should forgo third promotion place
RE PETER Winterbottom’s remarks last week... While I understand, of course the frustrations that Nat 2 clubs would feel, were they...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBarrett fiasco underlines bias towards All Blacks
COLIN BOAG What is the role of World Rugby? To me it implies that the game should be played and refereed...
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/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
ED WILLIAMSON THE FORMER NEWCASTLE, LONDON WELSH, LEEDS & ROTHERHAM BACK- ROWER TURNED ARTIST, CHOOSES HIS FAVOURITE XV FROM PLAYERS HE’S...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoIt’s a thriller as Gloucester share 90pts with Coventry
By BOBBY BRIDGE Coventry ..........40pts Gloucester ......50pts Fast start: Jake Morris scored after four minutes COVENTRY and Gloucester served up a...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoIrish give Chiefs true workout in final match
By ROGER PANTING Exeter ................19pts Munster ............31pts AS pre-season friendlies go, this was one of the more meaningful ones as both...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoHooker Riley makes his case for more game time with Quins
By JOHN FALLON Leinster …………40pts Harlequins……..21pts Talent: Sam Riley PROMISING hooker Sam Riley is hoping he can build on scoring his...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoPriestland’s imperious as Cokanasiga blow hits Bath
By ROGER PANTING Cardiff ..............25pts Bath ....................14pts RHYS Priestland tormented his former club as Cardiff looked in better shape for the...
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