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/ 5 years agoYoung Guns: Gloucester back row Josh Gray
Last March, Eddie Jones invited seven players from the England U20s camp to train with the senior team during the Six...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBelvedere specialise in producing truly greats
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BELVEDERE College, like all Leinster schools, have always operated in the...
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/ 5 years agoLion king Tony learnt how to be a winner by losing at Belvo
IT’S a close-run thing but Belvo’s most famous rugby alumni is probably still Sir Anthony O’Reilly. O’Reilly was a staggering schoolboy...
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/ 5 years ago‘I want to compete with Marcus’, says Harlequins signing Tommy Allan
The Italy fly-half discusses his arrival at Harlequins this summer and the competition that awaits against Marcus Smith
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/ 5 years agoMay feeling fresh after first summer off since 2011
■By ADAM HATHAWAY JONNY May has urged Gloucester to get out of the blocks quickly when the Premiership kicks off again...
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/ 5 years agoQuins off to a flyer with big cup upset
Welsh Championship Cup round-up By STEFFAN THOMAS MAESTEG Harlequins stunned Neath to record a shock 32-23 home victory over the Welsh...
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/ 5 years agoLions pain will fuel Sarries title charge, says Alex Lewington
The Saracens winger expects the club's contingent of Lions to be ready and raring to go for the new Premiership season
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/ 5 years agoWELSH RESULTS
WRU CHAMPIONSHIP CUP: GROUP 1: Cross Keys 13 - 33 Bargoed GROUP 2: Cardiff Met 47 - 22 Beddau GROUP 3:...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWomen’s Game in Focus: England and Loughborough Lightning hooker Lark Davies
Last season's top tryscorer in the Allianz Premier 15s tells Sarah Rendell about her journey through rugby and the new Cup...
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/ 5 years agoMcCauley, Nixon sign for Chiefs
EXETER have signed Australian second row Ryan McCauley and former Bath tighthead Sam Nixon. Former Australia U20 international McCauley, 24, has...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoHenry Trinder opts for Ampthill over top flight return
The Gloucester stalwart discusses his return to English rugby in the Championship with Ampthill, where he will start coaching as well...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoJonathan Davies fighting for his future in Welsh midfield
Captain for Wales this summer, Jonathan Davies sees plenty of competition coming his way in the national team
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/ 5 years agoTom O’Flaherty eager to right the wrongs of painful Premiership final
The Exeter Chiefs winger says the feeling is they 'let things slip' in the final against Harlequins
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/ 5 years agoCut subs to force front five to get fit, says Cardiff S&C guru Trystan Bevan
Trystan Bevan shares the view of Ian McGeechan and Willie John McBride that the number of replacements must be reduced
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/ 5 years agoCardiff strive for more with Bok four looming
CARDIFF chairman Alun Jones has told his team and Welsh rugby as a whole they will have to raise their game...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLions must now engage with the Premiership
COLIN BOAG T he idea that the best players from the Home Unions get together every four years and travel to...
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Former London Irish and Northampton fly-half Barry Everitt
Barry Everitt, the former Munster, Leinster, London Irish and Northampton fly-half chooses the best XV he has played with or against
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/ 5 years agoWhitlock: We want to be even better!
ALL BLACKS captain Sam Whitlock admitted he was surprised by his team’s final injury time try which earned the record score...
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/ 5 years agoSouth Africa 32-12 Argentina: Boks grind out victory but fail to hit bonus
A new-look side get the Springboks off to a winning start in the Rugby Championship against Argentina
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/ 5 years agoPumas more physical than Lions says captain Kolisi
South Africa captain Siya Kolisi says Argentina were a tough obstacle to overcome with their physical pack
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/ 5 years agoLeicester Tigers set George Worth free
LEICESTER have released utility back George Worth from his contract by mutual agreement. The 24-year-old made 62 appearances for the club...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoMunster have eye on Newcastle Falcons ace George McGuigan
The Newcastle hooker is Irish-qualified and wanted by Johann van Graan, TRP understands
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoPlayer ratings: Damian de Allende is the Boks’ rock again
Paul Rees rates the performances of both teams in the third and final Test of the 2021 British & Irish Lions...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoGive Lions tours more time pleads Warren Gatland
WARREN Gatland shrugged off the despair of a heartbreaking series loss to South Africa to demand the Lions be given more...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoVerdict: Two tries in three Tests don’t win Lions tours
Brendan Gallagher picks apart how the Lions lost the third Test, after leading at half-time
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoMINUTE-BY-MINUTE THE LIONS ON TOUR
THE Lions used 31 players throughout the series yet only two players went the distance from the first Test to the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRoom 101: Cornish Pirates wing Alex O’Meara
The Cornish Pirates winger takes us through his pet hates from the rugby world and beyond 1. Open-mouthed eaters I happen...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoStormers lock pairing look for move to Britain
Is a move north for the David Meihuizen and JD Schickerling on the horizon?
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoExeter boss Rob Baxter keen on Aussie giant McCauley
Rob Baxter goes hunting for Aussie lock to join Chiefs
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoLeicester Tigers academy product Tandoh to head to France
The Tigers back row has the option to return to Oval Park after deciding to take a year to play for...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoBig honour for Jamie
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER HERTFORD have honoured their most famous son, Jamie George, by naming a stand after...
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/ 5 years agoWelsh Premiership: Dead-eye Jones kicks Bargoed to first round win
TWO penalties from Steffan Jones enabled Bargoed to launch their WRU Championship Cup campaign with a 13-7 home win over Bedwas....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSevens was thrilling, give us more on TV
THE Olympic Sevens was a wondeful event and I would like to congratulate New Zealand and Fiji for winning the gold...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoErasmus did a job on everyone, that includes Gatland
I’M incandescent with rage at how easily the referee was influenced by Erasmus’ on-line rant, about how easily the ref ’...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoEddie’s rolling the dice with Gleeson
YES, Wasps’ attack has been pretty good over the last couple of years but I do not understand how former Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoHeart sinks when I hear Greenwood
I AGREE with Colin Boag, there is too much analysis on television before and after each Lions game. At least we...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBoycott South Africa until SARU put house in order | Colin Boag
For me the result of the Lions Test series was irrelevant, as the focus in the coming months has to be...
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Former England scrum-half Dewi Morris
Former British & Irish Lions, England, Orrell and Sale scrum-half Dewi Morris chooses the best XV he has played with or...
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/ 5 years agoEddie gets his holidays in before new season
SO Eddie Jones is off on his travels again in the next month although, still a long way out from the...
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/ 5 years agoErasmus rant warps rugby’s core values, says top ref
By PAUL REES A TEAM of lawyers is preparing to defend Rassie Erasmus who faces a misconduct hearing after South Africa...
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/ 5 years agoNew Zealand 33-25 Australia: Wallabies fightback fails in poor opener
The Wallabies drought at Eden Park goes on as they lose the Bledisloe Cup in their Rugby Championship pre-cursor
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/ 5 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Premiership clubs in stand-off over players’ agent fees
Neil Fissler exclusively reports on a new feud developing between Premiership clubs and players' agents
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/ 5 years agoGB star earns Sarries deal
SARACENS have given winger Ben Harris a new long-term contract. The 21-year-old was part of Great Britain’s Sevens squad at the...
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/ 5 years agoAdamson back at Blues from France
WINGER Dean Adamson, 28, has returned to Bedfo rd Blues following a year away at French ProD2 side Rouen, where he...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYoung Guns: Cornish Pirates back row Bear Williams
The new recruit at the Mennaye tells Adam Ellis how his past as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion is still present in...
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/ 5 years agoWorcester Warriors go green for brighter future
The Premiership club have pledged to reduce their climate footprint, director Peter Kelly outlines how the Warriors are overhauling their ways...
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Features
/ 5 years agoI had to tell Cov players there was no cash left
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER BIRMINGHAM- SOLIHULL PLAYER AND COACH WHO WAS ALSO ONCE IN CHARGE OF WORCESTER, STOURBRIDGE AND...
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/ 5 years agoPRE-SEASON FIXTURES
14 August Sale FC v Sedgley Park (2.30pm) Blackheath v Carmarthen Quins (3pm) Fylde v Preston GH (3pm) Penrith v Preston...
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/ 5 years agoALLIANZ PREMIER XVs FIXTURES 2021-22
CHAMPIONS Harlequins start their title defence at home to Loughborough Lightning on September 4. The season will see the introduction of...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSpringboks get payback for ‘74
MOMENT IN TIME LIONS TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA 1980 NEIL FISSLER TALKS TO ALAN TOMES AND PETER WHEELER WHERE ARE THEY...
Autumn Internationals
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