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/ 5 years agoLaunchbury’s hitting best form when it matters most
By NEALE HARVEY WASPS and England lock Joe Launchbury says he has no issues with putting his body on the line...
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/ 5 years agoBeno’s backing Bath to spring a surprise
By JON NEWCOMBE After him! Beno Obano sets off on a barnstorming run for Bath PICTURES: Getty Images BENO OBANO relished...
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/ 5 years ago‘Bomber’ gets taster of top-flight at Saracens
By JON NEWCOMBE CHAMPIONSHIP Dream XV prop Robin Hislop has secured a short-term loan move to reigning European and Premiership champions...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAll systems go again as Tomas eyes Test recall
By NEALE HARVEY FIT-AGAIN Exeter and Wales prop Tomas Francis says competition is driving him on as he targets a domestic...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSharks poacher Ben happy playing the waiting game
By JON NEWCOMBE AS a talented young cricketer, Ben Curry used to score his runs slow and steady and that patience...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoBears criticism unfair
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk ALTHOUGH a Bears’ supporter,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoPremiership must learn from folly of English football
WHICH Premiership club will follow Arsenal and be the first to field a team 100 per cent nonqualified for England. I...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoInconsistencies are ruining spectacle
EXETER are a great side and I enjoy watching them, even when they give my own side Worcester a thrashing. However,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSA are powering Sale but is that good for England?
COLIN BOAG South African recruits: Sale’s Faf de Klerk, right, and Lood de Jager Am I the only one who is...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRobertson as consultant would be good Lions call
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Massive character: Scott Robertson breakdancing after his Crusaders beat the Jaguares in 2019 PICTURE:...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoManu muscles in for try on Tigers return
By ROB WILDMAN Happy homecoming: Manu Tuilagi scores for Sale SALE tried to bulldoze Leicester aside in a ferocious assault fired...
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Premiership
/ 5 years ago‘Good to get win over my mates’
MANU Tuilagi declared after he scored a try on his Welford Road return: “I loved it.” Tuilagi insisted it was all...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBrilliant Bath pull plug on Quins top four hope
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER HARLEQUINS did a fine job welcoming back 2,700 fans to the Stoop yesterday – and hopefully their professionalism...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoGustard: Great to see fans back in
STAR man Rhys Priestland was impressed by Bath’s ability to put their last minute defeat to Wasps behind them. “We are...
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Mark Jones: Razor’s the best coach I’ve seen
Another great year for Welsh coach Mark Jones in New Zealand with the Crusaders
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoEx-AFL ace Kurt Heatherley hopes to lift Jersey Reds
6'4" Heatherley played at Hawthorn in the AFL, but was brought up in New Zraland loving rugby
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: Alex Goode reaches major milestone for Saracens
Ever-present Goode will reach 300 appearances in this weekend's clash with Wasps
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: Edinburgh make eight changes for play-off bow
The PRO14 reaches the knockout stages of its 2019-20 season this weekend in Dublin and Edinburgh
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoLeicester lock Blake Enever reflects on uncertainty of Australian rugby at start of outbreak
Enever had been in prime position to represent the Wallabies before Rugby Australia finances cracked
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoRebels coach Geoff Parling zooms in to help hometown club Stockton
The Melbourne-based former England lock has been calling in to Stockton RFC while coaching the Rebels in Super Rugby AU
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSaracens sign prop Robin Hislop on loan from Doncaster Knights
Hislop joins as injury cover at loosehead for the rest of Saracens' Prmeiership campaign
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Features
/ 5 years ago‘With every try I score I honour my best mate who died’ – Stuart Hogg
The Scotland captain was involved in a car accident which he was fortunate to escape from a decade ago
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoYorkshire Carnegie renamed and pledge to get ‘back to roots’
Carnegie will become Leeds Tykes once again, says new chairman
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European Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoTackling Radradra? I used to face Billy Vunipola in training, says Nick Tompkins
Dragons centre Nick Tompkins is already looking forward to the Challenge Cup quarter-final against Bristol Bears
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoJackson column: James Whitcombe keeping the great prop dynasty alive
Four generations of Whitcombes that are steeped in history and, in young Leicester prop James' case, promise
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoEx-Leicester Tigers head coach Aaron Mauger leaves Highlanders
Only the Chiefs laid behind the Highlanders in the Super Rugby Aotearoa standings
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 5 years agoCould Sonny Bill Williams Return to Rugby Union?
Things haven’t looked rosy of late for dual-code megastar Sonny Bill Williams. The All Black veteran of 58 caps crossed codes once...
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoFormer Gloucester coach linked with Georgia role
Georgia are being lined up to replace Japan in the Eight Nations tournament this autumn
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Double helping of the Curry twins may be on Eddie’s menu
Ben Curry is closing the gap on his Test brother after starring for Sale on the Premiership's restart
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: Flattery can even help you win the Rugby World Cup
Nick Cain shares his view on the report highlighting how the Springboks got on the right side of World Cup final...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoWhat is required from Ben Spencer to be England’s regular No.9?
Scrum-half Ben Spencer is looking to find his voice at Bath now he is out of the shadow at Saracens, a...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoFrustrated Blackheath director of rugby James Shanahan calls for 2020-21 start
Shanahan wants the governing bodies involved in sport's return to take the brakes off rugby
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoRFU pushes to have 20,000 fans permitted to attend October clash with Barbarians
Fans wishing to buy tickets can only do so for themselves and others in their household
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoRevealed: Champions Cup and Challenge Cup to undergo radical format change
EPCR confirm big shake-up to European format for 2020-21
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoFree agent Greg Bateman joins Dragons after Leicester exit
Only Kyle Eastmond remains unsigned out of the five Leicester players who rejected new contract terms in July
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoThree Premiership clubs eye demolition man Virimi Vakatawa
France centre Vakatawa has been on form for Racing 92 this season in the Champions Cup
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoDual-role Alex Brown shares his blueprint for Gloucester success
Brown is tasked with the smooth running of the Gloucester team under its new coaching heads, while keeping things tight off...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYoung Guns: Leicester Tigers centre Dan Kelly
Kelly fielded a call from an unknown number last year where Geordan Murphy was on the other end when he picked...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoProp Logovi’i Mulipola to re-join Newcastle Falcons at end of Gloucester stint
The Samoan international will move back to Kingston Park for the 2020-21 Premiership season
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England flanker Mickey Skinner
A deeper look at the career of the iconic back row, revered for more than just the Cecillon tackle in '91
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWhat to expect for the 2020-2021 rugby season?
Stemming from the greatest disregard of football rules that happened back in 1823, rugby is one of the most beloved sports...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoBill Sweeney urged to take the axe to untouched RFU-Premiership fund
Is the RFU chief executive keeping Premiership clubs happy so they release England players this autumn?
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoWorld Rugby announce £1.86m lifeline for sevens as more tournaments canned
Support for unions that have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoWilliams column: Steff Evans has the talent to back up the mullet hair choice
Steff Evans has hit the ground running for the Scarlets after the return of the PRO14
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoSweeney urged to battle the ‘fat cats’
■ By NEALE HARVEY TAKING an axe to Premiership funding would earn RFU boss Bill Sweeney applause from the community game,...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoNorth in race to be fastest ton-up kid
Hitting six: Marland Yarde goes over for Sale’s sixth try against Bristol PICTURE: Getty Images Match action - starts Page 8>>...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSkivington calls for big guns to shoot down Tigers
■ By SAM JACKSON GEORGE Skivington has reverted to his experienced XV for the clash with Tigers following Wednesday’s defeat to...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBrown’s got blueprint for long-term success
■ By NEALE HARVEY Rookie head coach: George Skivington, left, watches on as Gloucester warm-up for the Worcester match last week...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoFlattery can even help you win World Cup
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE lengths that international coaches will go to in order to get an...
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