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English Championship
/ 5 years agoCornish Pirates 52-26 Hartpury: Robson sets platform for Pirates pack to dominate
Hat-tricks for Dan Frost and Tom Duncan put Pirates on course for big win over Hartpury at the Mennaye
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Features
/ 5 years agoLions tour cut to three venues
RUGBY SHORTS THE Lions’ schedule for the summer’s tour of South Africa has been amended. The team will play eight matches in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRed ends Dunn’s race
RUGBY SHORTS BATH hooker Tom Dunn's club season is over after being banned for four weeks for his red card against Bristol....
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Features
/ 5 years agoBrown may yet appeal
RUGBY SHORTS HARLEQUINS are ‘considering their position’ after Mike Brown was given a six-week ban following the first red card of his...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYou need help to ride highs and lows
PAUL REES talks to two Prem stars about the importance of PRL’s Restart charity As Dan Carter approached the end of...
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Features
/ 5 years ago‘Wellbeing champion’ at all clubs in England
PREMIERSHIP Rugby is supporting the LooseHeadz Foundation, a mental health charity set up four years ago which aims to have a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoIt’s a whitewash for rampant Kiwis
TRANS-TASMAN ROUND-UP By BEN JAYCOCK NEW ZEALAND sides dominated the opening round of the Trans-Tasman competition, whitewashing the Aussies by winning five...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoFukuoka repays the faith of Deans
JAPAN TOP LEAGUE THE Panasonic Wild Knights’ crushing 48-21 win over Toyota Verblitz in Osaka yesterday left the star Japanese winger...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSaints give thanks for their feeder school
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools WE have featured the likes of Campion and St Peter’s Gloucester...
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/ 5 years agoKristian got the kit but no Lions recognition
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW They were born in different centuries on different sides of the Atlantic, one in...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoO’Driscoll puts boot into PRO14 | Peter Jackson
Shrinking TV audiences has seen the exposure of the PRO14 dwindle since it was taken off BBC
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoLewis was poetry in motion | Peter Jackson
PETER JACKSON KEITH McLellan is a fair dinkum Aussie from Bondi Beach, who spent most of the Fifties at Headingley, captaining...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS
WASPS WING Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players ELLIE BOATMAN THIS WEEK... Broadcast details for the...
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/ 5 years agoI know just how Sinckler feels over Lions snub
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IF ANYONE knows just how Kyle Sinckler feels after missing out on the...
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/ 5 years agoNorth v South final is on
PRO14 Rainbow Cup organisers are close to finalising plans for a June final in Europe between the best Europebased team and...
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/ 5 years agoPeel is the supremo after Delaney quits
DWAYNE Peel will be in overall charge at the Scarlets next season following Glenn Delaney’s departure. Peel was last month named...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHad time of my life at Quins until Deano left
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER WORCESTER, NORTHAMPTON, HARLEQUINS, GRENOBLE AND ENGLAND U21S SECOND ROW JAMES PERCIVAL MY experiences in rugby changed me as a...
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/ 5 years agoLaumape wages will bring salary cap queries
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Confirmation of Ngani Laumape’s long-expected move from Hurricanes to Stade Francais was – unsurprisingly – rugby’s headlinemaker of...
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/ 5 years agoIrish to enter Premier XVs bidding war
LONDON Irish intend to apply for a Premier XVs franchise when the RFU open the bidding process for the next intake...
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/ 5 years agoDe Glanville eager to send Bath pals off with a splash
By ADAM HATHAWAY TRP Probyn: RFU must source different England players >> Page 29 TOM DE GLANVILLE is determined to give Bath’s...
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/ 5 years agoSaints sign Augustus but Owen’s off
NORTHAMPTON Saints have signed South African No.8 Juarno Augustus for next season but are losing New Zealand prop Owen Franks to...
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/ 5 years agoMindset at Harlequins has brought fun back for Scott Baldwin
Baldwin has no regrets over leaving Wales behind to reinvigorate himself in south-west London with Quins
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/ 5 years agoAmor leaves as Eddie takes over as attack coach
ENGLAND attack coach Simon Amor has stepped down after 16 months in the role while skills coach Jason Ryles will also...
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/ 5 years agoUnlucky Jack’s back on Chiefs injured list
EXETER winger Jack Nowell may miss the rest of the regular season after spraining medial knee ligaments. The 28-year-old hobbled off...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoGive the game back to genuine people
SO the RFU have decided to drop the Saxons name and replace it with England A – which is fine –...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoEnglish rugby must not be hostage to top-flight cartel
PREMIERSHIP clubs have created the perfect scam at the expense of the rest of England’s clubs. Until the early 1990s, players...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRFU always led the way for diversity
I’VE known RFU Past President John about 25 years, and I know of no one as committed and pro-active to rugby...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoRestrict ‘England A’ selection to players aged under 25 | Colin Boag
How best to approach using the revived England A programme for maximum benefit to the elite level
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoDREAM TEAM
MATT RILEY, THE SEDGLEY PARK AND FORMER SALE & ENGLAND U21S CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST...
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/ 5 years agoLeicester 35-29 Harlequins: Determined Tigers defy the Quins fightback
Fireworks in either half as Harlequins try to counter Tigers first start at Welford Road
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/ 5 years agoBorthwick: Forget his tries, Genge is my hero in defence
ELLIS Genge is a star on an off the pitch, according to Leicester boss Steve Borthwick. “His performances in the last...
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/ 5 years agoWasps 23-19 Worcester: Robson blasts lottery over red card decisions
The Wasps vice-captain decries the decisions to give yellow or red cards for 'virtually nothing'
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/ 5 years agoSearle: We must keep our heads up
BILLY Searle urged his Warriors to keep fighting and finish the season with heads high despite enduring another defeat. Worcester have...
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/ 5 years agoRFU must guarantee loans for first time amid debts of more than £250m
Nick Cain reports on the first cracks of the RFU's financial predicament beginning to show as they lose Triple A rating
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoHarlequins wait on decision from Stormers head coach John Dobson
Stormers boss John Dobson tops Harlequins' three-coach shortlist
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/ 5 years agoHarlequins confident Jack Kenningham can fill the Evans No.7 role
The Premiership's leading turnover winner broke his leg against London Irish last month
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Features
/ 5 years agoHarlequins turning on style now shackles are off
Paul Rees discusses Harlequins' turnaround in fortune as they close in on a semi-final place in the Premiership
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/ 5 years agoTomas Francis chasing a champagne finish at Exeter Chiefs
The Wales tighthead will depart Sandy Park this summer after making the difficult decision to leave after seven years with the...
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/ 5 years agoPat Lam urges law change to eliminate ‘latching on’
Bristol Bears director of rugby Pat Lam outlines why latching on must be kicked out of rugby
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoBig mistake not picking Danny Care, insists Bracken
Kyran Bracken's reaction to the Lions squad announcement, with Conor Murray, Ali Price and Gareth Davies selected to tour South Africa
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/ 5 years agoExclusive: Scarlets snare Argentina back row star Tomas Lezana
Currently in Australia with the Western Force, for whom he helped reach the Super Rugby AU knockout final against the Brumbies
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoGenge tells Lions: Be wary of Jasper Wiese
The England prop believes Leicester teammate Jasper Wiese is in with a shout of playing for the Springboks this summer against...
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/ 5 years agoThomas: Ted Hill deserves next shot with England
Worcester Warriors head coach Jonathan Thomas believes Ted Hill is far from the finished article and deserves a chance to grow...
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/ 5 years agoPreview: Game on for top six with Jacob Umaga back from his blip
Wasps look to hit on some consistency at Harlequins as the Premiership season nears its end
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoGatland: I learned from 2009 to start fast
Gatland intends to put Faf de Klerk on the back-foot in this summer's Lions tour of South Africa
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/ 5 years agoExeter 41-10 Worcester: Explosive Sam Simmonds closes on try record
Dave Ewers, Jacques Vermeulen and Sam Simmonds were all on song for Chiefs
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/ 5 years agoDiscipline killed us in the second half admits Thomas
Jonathan Thomas and Francois Venter react to Worcester's away trip to forget at Sandy Park
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/ 5 years agoRichards: It’s been long time coming
The Newcastle Falcons director of rugby gave Carl Fearns his debut against London Irish
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/ 5 years agoNewcastle 52-27 London Irish: Deano gives Falcons their licence to thrill
Falcons were devastatingly clinical in the second half, scoring five tries to blow Irish out of the water
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/ 5 years agoSale 26-10 Leicester: Sale go smashing on as Tigers rest stars
Sale record their sixth-consecutive win, with AJ MacGinty moving up the Sharks all-time points scorer list
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