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/ 6 years agoBath to reshuffle coaching staff after agreeing deal with old friend of Neal Hatley’s
Will Girvan Dempsey be worked into another role at the Rec?
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/ 6 years agoPaul Gustard looks set to move abroad
Neil Fissler reports on where the defence guru will do next to devlop his career
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/ 6 years agoEmily Scarratt to swap Loughborough for Chiefs?
Neil Fissler reports on Exeter Chiefs' earnest recruitment plans for their second year in the Premier 15s
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/ 6 years agoWaisake Naholo injury hell goes on at London Irish
The career of the World Cup-winning All Black is under threat, TRP understands, after having a knee operation last April
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoPRL flying the fairness flag is hard to stomach
Halting relegation this season is the right thing, but PRL's history of fairness is a strange story
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Features
/ 6 years agoDr Anonymous set wheels in motion for rugby’s first Union
Brendan Gallagher looks at how player welfare and rows over law changes resulted in the formation of the RFU 150 years...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE 21?
Blackheath Founded: 1858 Home ground: The Rectory Field and more recently Well Hall. Currently solid citizens of National League One, finishing...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoO’Gara hoists a high ball and Lions series is lost
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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Features
/ 6 years agoPETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Alun Wyn looks set to eclipse Willie John Longevity: Alun Wyn Jones playing for Wales...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHaydn was a diamond
KIMBERLEY is famous for The Big Hole, a massive excavation leading to the town’s diamond mine. Haydn Morris marked his visit...
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Features
/ 6 years agoProsser had some fun with Boris and Arkle
ALUN CARTER has played international rugby and written an award-winning book, Seeing Red, which surely makes him unique in the British...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWiverns help game go global
Brendan Gallagher continues his series charting the history of the women’s game Pioneers: France and the Netherlands play in first women’s...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRichmond women ensure World Cup lift-off despite zero support from IRB
Inspirational: USA centre Patty Jervey, playing against Ireland in 2006 during her fifth World Cup WOMEN’s Rugby may have plotted an...
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/ 6 years agoWomen’s Game in Focus: Saracens scrum-half Eloise Hayward
Sarah Rendell speaks with the No.9 who has emerged as a worthy contender for a Red Roses call-up
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Features
/ 6 years agoNAHUMMERIGAN
YOUNGGUNS BATH NO.8 Should it transpire that Zach Mercer leaves Bath this summer, one of the club’s academy products set to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoSt Edward’s forged their style in Llanelli
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Hothouse of talent: First XV 1962-63 Young stars: The U16 team...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFearless Leahy, the ferocious tackler who went on to lead Tesco’s surge
LIKE many grammar schools of the era, the St Edward’s XV of the mid- 70s was an eclectic mix of many...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPremiership is so brutal, toughest on the planet
Daniel Gallan finds how coming to Irish has changed Nick Phipps’ perceptions Driven: Nick Phipps is determined to push London Irish...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME To be fair, Saracens should stay down another season Surprise: Saracens lose to Ealing...
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/ 6 years agoCoetzee set to sign at Bath
BATH are set to raid South Africa again with the signing of Western Province and Stormers loose forward Jaco Coetzee. The...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRUSSELL EARNSHAW
MY LIFEIN RUGBY Rotherham had real identity - unlike Bath THE FORMER BATH, ROTHERHAM, DONCASTER AND BIRMINGHAM & SOLIHULL FLANKER Professional...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN Alldritt’s out of running for Italy with knee injury Blow: Gregory Alldritt must await test results La Rochelle put...
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Features
/ 6 years agoNew deal for Danny
RUGBY SHORTS DANNY Care has signed a deal to extend his 15-year stay at Harlequins Care is third on Quins’ all-time...
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/ 6 years agoRandox in firing line
PREMIERSHIP Rugby are investigating a number of false positive Covid tests reported by testers Randox Health. Bath self-isolated after 19 players...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJaco pens extension
FLY-HALF Jaco van der Walt has extended his stay with Edinburgh. The South Africa-born Scotland playmaker, 26, has been with the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDoncaster sign Sexton
DONCASTER Knights have strengthened their second row options ahead of Saturday’s Trailfinders Challenge Cup game against Ealing by signing Jerry Sexton....
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Features
/ 6 years agoWomen get Covid tests
COVID testing will be introduced in women’s Premier XVs. The league had played without testing and some players had voiced concern....
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Features
/ 6 years agoForfeit for Saracens
SARACENSwere forced to forfeit their Trailfinders Cup match against Doncaster after two of their academy players tested positive for Covid. Contact...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWilliams fears for a lost generation of Wales U20s
TRP Probyn: Saracens must stay down for two seasons By ALEX BYWATER Promise: Wales U20 beat France last season WALES U20...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBaxter wins the Writers’ Club vote
EXETERdirector of rugby Rob Baxter has won the Rugby Union Writers’ Club personality of the year award for 2020. The 49-year-old...
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/ 6 years agoHis ‘controlled aggression’ earns Falcons No.8 Graham a Scottish recall
By BRYN PALMER Leader: Gary Graham NEWCASTLE No.8 Gary Graham has been picked to bring his “controlled aggression” to the fore...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoUnfortunately now it’s all about money
THE game developed very quickly after professionalism and was quoted, “Like being in the Wild West” with new owners coming in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoIs copying the Prem best way to achieve self-sustainability?
IS the formation of a company “overnight” really the route to salvation for the Championship, as Coventry’s Nick Johnston suggests last...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCut funding so PRL fend for themselves
IF Nick Cain ever wants to change his profession then a carpenter he should be for once again he has hit...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCould Ealing be viable in the Prem in London?
COLIN BOAG Up-and-comers: Ealing Trailfinders beat Saracens last weekend When Saracens lost last weekend to the Premiership pretenders, Ealing Trailfinders, it...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHepher expects response from his champions
NEWS EXTRA EXETER head coach Ali Hepher believes his side are over their month of turmoil and ready come out fighting...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFalcons’ camaraderie reminds me of Quins
Jon Newcombe talks to Nick Easter about his new job as Falcons defence coach Massive moment: Toby Flood scores the winning...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEaster: Big Billy is still vital to Eddie’s gameplan
NICK EASTER believes Billy Vunipola will still be England’s go-to man at No.8 with Eddie Jones unlikely to shift from his...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBig lift for the ref as player gets too familiar
HAVING written a column last week about the dangers of over-familiarity between referees and players, it was instructive to see that...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTesting times all round
THE order of priorities at the RFU are hard to fathom. The Championship clubs are being told to pay the £5,000...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: London Irish scrum-half Rory Brand
Brand offers three of his biggest pet peeves up to Room 101
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoThe history of women’s rugby: Growth in wartime years
Brendan Gallagher looks at the pioneers who fired rugby past being a sport played only by men and opened the game...
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoRob Baxter voted Rugby Union Writers’ Club personality of the year 2020
The Exeter Chiefs director of rugby is the recipient of the Pat Marshall award after a Premiership and Champions Cup winning...
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Features
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Jonathan Davies: Playing in that World Cup semi-final was worth the pain
Jonathan Davies joins Neale Harvey for a special interview reflecting on his time playing for the Lions, Wales, Scarlets and Clermont
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoFrench system is set up for success – Adamson
Former Bedford Blues wing Dean Adamson is settling in well to life in the second tier of French rugby at Pro...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBristol boy Joe Joyce done with clapping Exeter Chiefs
Spurred by a state-of-the-art training ground, lock Joyce says the squad already assembled by Bears can want for nothing in their...
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/ 6 years agoExeter and England lock Jonny finds some more hills to climb
The time for reflection isn't now for the double-winning lock eager to press his claim with England
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Northampton Saints and Fiji hooker Sam Matavesi
Sam Matavesi, Northampton, Fiji and former Toulouse, Cornish Pirates, Plymouth Albion, Redruth and Camborne, hooker selects a XV based on the...
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/ 6 years agoExtrovert Sanderson will be great for Sale says Petrus du Plessis
Wallabies scrum coach Petrus du Plessis worked as a player under Sanderson at Saracens, and believes his appointment at Sale to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHarry Randall has been a key influencer every week for Bristol | Kyran Bracken
Kyran Bracken considers Bristol Bears to have one of the Premiership's best scrum-half departments, and it will only get better once...
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