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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoMercer in top form as Eddie looks on
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The Top 14 returned after a three-week international break for two rounds ahead of the start of...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, November 28, 2021 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 4 years agoRFU seek answers to alarming ref shortfall
By JON NEWCOMBE THE RFU has surveyed its community rugby referees for a second time to gauge whether an early season...
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National Leagues
/ 4 years agoPack power drives Cambridge’s advance
By WARREN MUGGLETON CAMBRIDGE are seeing the fruits of their recruitment labours in their National 1 form, says director of rugby...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoHooper rejects claims that his staff face axe
By PAUL REES STUART Hooper has dismissed a report that Bath’s coaches had a month to sort out what has been...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoFormer France ace Ellis on Rec shortlist
BATH have sounded out former France defence coach Dave Ellis about coming to The Rec. Ellis is well known to head...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoTrailfinders open £2.5m sports centre
EALING Trailfinders took a step nearer to their goal of supplying a super stadium to their area of London with the...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoYes to proper cup, with cap on seniors
I AGREE with Jose Mourinho, it’s time to bring back the real RFU Club Knockout Cup competition for all clubs in...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoEnthralling series but the big issues need addressing
WORLD Rugby recently dispensing lifestyle advice you could find in a GP surgery leaflet reflects their woeful inability to resolve the...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoRespect for refs is rugby cornerstone
AS bad as some of the officiating was in last weekend’s internationals (referees and TMOs) I still agree with everything in...
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Features
/ 4 years agoIt’s confirmed: Italy must leave the Six Nations
COLIN BOAG With the autumn international moneyspinners over for another year, what did we learn? The first is that the gulf...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
JON CLARKE, THE FORMER BRISTOL, NORTHAMPTON, WORCESTER & LEEDS CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1....
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoBest thing about England’s autumn was their tries
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE last round of the autumn series made everyone’s weekend – it was pretty...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoExiles show they mean business this season
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Harlequins ........19pts Tries: Beard 28, 66, Northmore 35 Conversions: Allen 29, 36 London Irish ....22pts Tries: Creevy 28,...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoThat was full of emotion says Kiss
LONDON Irish head coach Les Kiss enjoyed the emotion of the day. “We put two wins together in the Prem Cup...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoSimmonds bulldozes Bath hopes of revival
By MIKE SINCLAIR Bath ....................16pts Tries: Reid 19 Conversions: Bailey 19 Penalties: Bailey 2, 47, 63 Exeter ................23pts Tries: Iosefa-Scott 42,...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 4 years agoBaxter: We need the joy of winning
WHEN back-rower Dave Ewers plays, Exeter win. The Chiefs have suffered four defeats in the Premiership this season but Ewers, absent...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAzzurri finally end long run of defeats
Italy..................17 Uruguay ..........10 ITALY were made to work hard for their narrow victory in Parma which ended a 16-Test losing streak....
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoIce-cool Priestland provide Wales with
By PETER JACKSON Wales ................29pts Tries: Elias 23, Tompkins 48 Conversions: Biggar 24, 48 Penalties: Biggar 6, 16, 38, 65; Priestland...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoHawks swoop on Hundred slip-ups
By GRAHAM PRATT Rochford Hundred... 15 Henley Hawks...........37 HENLEY Hawks made Rochford Hundred pay for the slightest errors as they eased...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoGriffin goes out in style with gutsy try double
Ireland ............15 Japan ..............12 RETIRING Ireland captain Ciara Griffin ended her career with two tries and a win over Japan. Griffin,...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAt long last, the in-depth story about Obolensky
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It was back in February 2009 that a...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS: ZOE TEECE
Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players ZOE TEECE THIS WEEK... DMP DURHAM SHARKS TIGHTHEAD DMP Durham...
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Features
/ 4 years agoDodgy wine cost me England cap!
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER ENGLAND U21, BARBARIANS, BRISTOL, COVENTRY, STOURBRIDGE AND BERRY HILL BACK ROW JULIAN HORROBIN Club legend:...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBaby faced, but Pearce is a ref to be reckoned with
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Saturday, April 11, 2015 at The Stoop and Harlequins are playing Gloucester in...
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Latest News
/ 4 years ago‘I was watching Wales game when drunk fell on us from two rows up’
PETER JACKSON ANOTHER victim of drunken behaviour at the Principality Stadium has asked the Welsh Rugby Union for his money back...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWartime ‘Springboks’ were simply unbeatable
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoIrish show northern unions the way ahead
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Well, that’s the autumn games over and it looks like Eddie Jones...
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Features
/ 4 years agoTOM WILSTEAD
YOUNG GUNS BRISTOL FLY-HALF TOM Wilstead lives out his schoolboy dreams every day he turns up for training at Bristol Bears....
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoResults
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoSmith comes of age as England ride a Bok storm
From NICK CAIN at Twickenham England ............27pts Tries: Tuilagi 7, Steward 17, Quirke 65 Conversions: Smith 8, 18, 66 Penalties: Smith...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoCardiff to host 2023 wheelchair champs
NEWS EXTRA THE 2023 World Wheelchair Rugby European Championship Division A tournament will be played at Cardiff ’s Principality Stadium. The...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBlanc off the board
AMANDA Blanc will step down from her role as chair of the Professional Rugby Board (PRB) and the board of the...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoRegional results
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoDropped Davies will fight for World Cup spot
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON WALES head coach Wayne Pivac believes Jonathan Davies still has to plenty to offer despite leaving...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBolton’s late try secures crown for Army lads
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON THE Army U23 team won the 2021 Inter-Services Championship last week, coming back from doubledigit deficits...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoRegional results
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Features
/ 4 years agoStellar cast of Scottish champions
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools STEWART’S Melville College in Edinburgh might not be among the oldest...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoLobbe confident Pumas can make history
NEWS EXTRA By ALEX BYWATER ARGENTINA legend and current Jaguares head coach Carlos Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe believes the Pumas can cause...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 4 years agoCrane stands tall as Newport stay in form
Premiership Cup By JAMES CANDY Merthyr.................... 31 Newport...................52 NEWPORT stayed top of the eastern conference with a high-scoring win, inspired by...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 4 years agoFish leaves his opponents all at sea
By IOAN DYER Pontypridd................ 6 Cardiff......................46 DAN FISH inspired Cardiff to a hammering of regional rivals Pontypridd. The visitors took a...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 4 years agoRGC overcome red alert to snatch victory
By JAMES LLOYD Ebbw Vale............... 21 RGC.............................22 RGC continued their encouraging growth under head coach Ceri Jones with victory by the...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 4 years agoWizards in top shape for showdown
By ROB COLE Aberavon..............22 Carmarthan Q......... 17 ABERAVON will battle it out with Llandovery for the top spot in the Premiership...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 4 years agoJoy for Jones on such a big day for Rhodri
By HUW THOMAS Bridgend.................... 7 Llandovery.............27 LLANDOVERY recorded their eighth win in nine Premiership Cup games to avenge their surprise loss...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 4 years agoIn-form Williams adds to Llanelli’s misery
By PAUL HOPKINS Llanelli.............. 19 Swansea..........27 SWANSEA survived a second-half scare to clinch victory and leave Llanelli winless after nine matches....
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoCardall hopes cup run leads to league starts
By PAUL REES TIM Cardall is closing in on 50 appearances for Wasps after joining three years ago, but the second...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES
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/ 4 years agoPremiership highlights show set for Welsh makeover
By STEFFAN THOMAS THE Gallagher Premiership is set to hit Welsh language television with S4C poised to show highlights of English...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoSuccess of Ruiz puts refs in hot demand
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN You’d be forgiven for thinking – especially after World Rugby’s sanction against Rassie Erasmus following his video...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, November 21, 2021 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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