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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEllis Jenkins on verge of return to full fitness for Cardiff Blues
Cardiff Blues head coach John Mulvihill provides an update on the recovery of Ellis Jenkins from a severe knee injury
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens sign fly-half Will Hooley after leaving Bedford Blues
15-cap USA international says it was an 'easy decision' to join Saracens
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland lock Maro Itoje pledges his future to Saracens
The Saracens lock has been widely tipped to captain the British & Irish Lions next summer in South Africa
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGloucester to name George Skivington as their new head coach
London Irish forwards coach set for top job at Premiership rivals
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath and England captain Phil de Glanville
A captaincy with England which started with its challenges after succeeding Will Carling
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoGareth Edwards-led Millfield really started Rosslyn Park Sevens dynasty
Brendan Gallagher begins a new feature looking at Britain's esteemed rugby schools
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTed Hill signs long-term extension with Worcester Warriors
The flanker has signed a further extension to the one he agreed last December
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoA different Call of Duty takes England’s Luke Cowan-Dickie to the Warzone
Nick Cain speaks to the Exeter Chief about his appetite for streaming the first-person shooter game on Twitch
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Northampton Saints and England flanker Tom Wood
An embarrassment of riches to choose from at No.8 for the 50-cap England back row
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago‘Bath is the best place for me’ – Will Spencer returns to the Rec
Things have come full circle for lock Will Spencer, rejoining Bath after seeking a move away in 2016 after a string...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Fine margins swung the 1997 series the Lions way
Brendan Gallagher goes deeper into the influence of Martin Johnson and Jim Telfer on the epic 1997 Lions tour
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBig guns snub call for rugby in summer
By PETER JACKSON Non! Paul Goze THE English and French clubs are refusing to sacrifice their traditional winter game on the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEarl eyes up Prem crown
England flanker Ben Earl is gunning for Premiership glory on loan at Bristol from Saracens Full Story: P5 PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoWales face oblivion in new World Club Cup
By PETER JACKSON WALES will be without a single contender for the proposed World Club Cup unless all four regional teams...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTigers ace Veainu weighing his options
Exit? Telusa Veainu LEICESTER are braced to lose some players with Telusa Veainu set to lead the exodus. The New Zealandborn...
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Features
/ 6 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Marshall follows money train to Japan TOM Marshall is set to be the latest...
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Features
/ 6 years agoItoje pledges his future to Saracens
Committed: Maro Itoje. Inset, Will Skelton MARO ITOJE is set to confirm he is staying with Premiership and European champions Saracens...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGoneva signs for swansong season in France
FORMER Premiership Player of the Year Niki Goneva is heading back to France after his contract with Harlequins runs out. The...
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Shane Williams
/ 6 years agoKiwi crowds show they back their players
Igot to speak to Warren Gatland last week in the wake of rugby’s return in New Zealand. He was in great...
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Shane Williams
/ 6 years agoChiefs have look of Euro champs
Europe crown awaits: Sam Simmonds scores Exeter’s fourth try against La Rochelle PICTURE: Getty Images NOW WE know the PRO14 will...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTest cauldron was relaxation for undercover cop Crowley
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at the best rugby-playing police officers 1. Dan Crowley (Queensland and Australia) A...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBuchanan fights on to save future for Llanelli
NEWS EXTRA By ROB COLE A YEAR ago Anthony Buchanan launched an ‘SOS’ appeal to try to safeguard the future of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoClarke joins the cast in Dallas adventure
Alex Bywater talks to former Ospreys head coach Allen Clarke about his move to US Making a point: Ospreys then head...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLeo is the Rashford figurehead for rugby
When it comes to set texts for students of the game - the unredacted script of Pitbull’s Punch-Ups, for instance, or...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoSaint-Andre will like ‘man with money’
MOHED Altrad, the moneybags of Montpellier, has been talking up the talents of Philippe-Saint Andre, the latest man charged with bringing...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGatland must find a Tartan talisman
WARREN Gatland is already thinking about next year’s Lions tour of South Africa, on which he will be confronted by a...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI was called some bad names but it never held me back
Lewis Ludlum explains his attitude to racial abuse in this exclusive interview LEWIS Ludlum’s story is a beacon of hope as...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLEWIS LUDLUM ON…
…The dedication of his dad, Arron My dad had never been involved in rugby at all, but after England won the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGatland’s spoilt for choice for speed
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… WINGS THE 2021 Lions...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoFine margins swung the series Lions way
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Imperious: Martin Johnson in the first Test against South Africa...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoSoper was All Blacks’ star prospect – better than Meads
ALISTAIR ‘Ack’ Soper died aged 83 in Invercargill this week, an uncapped All Black tourist (number 590) but probably not a...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoSwing Low was song of tribute to black star
THERFU stand accused of many crass decisions and incompetencies over the decades but they really do not have to get their...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoJohnson urges against banning rugby anthem
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the RFU announced it would review...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoJenkins comeback gives Blues fans needed boost
By ROB COLE Leader: Ellis Jenkins ELLIS Jenkins is set to return to action when the Cardiff Blues squad reassembles on...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSubscriptions…
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Features
/ 6 years agoWe must make our clubs more user-friendly for the local fans
Q&A JOHN INVERDALE ON THE RECORD John Inverdale, star broadcaster and president of National Two Esher, has just taken on the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoSerevi was a showboat but also a serial winner
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring photographs, and explains the story behind the iconic image What’s happening here?...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoLeinster’s glory trail runs into a roadblock
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had the season run its natural course, one team might well by now have succeeded...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoAll Black-slayer Carwyn deserved better than this
WHAT Carwyn James achieved during successive seasons had never been achieved before, nor since. He coached three teams to celebrated victories...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoDream debut …then tutor to a rock star
IRELAND had never beaten anyone from the southern hemisphere when the Wallabies turned up at Lansdowne Road in January 1958. A...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoJantjies strikes a blow for the shamateurs
AS VARIOUS factions within the English game traded insults over accusations of players being forced to sign reduced contracts, a plaintive...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoSo stylish even Sir Clive came for a lesson
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools THERE are very few rugby clubs that can claim to have...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoChampion class of 2020 maintaining the highest standards
IT can’t be easy living up to brilliant teams of yesteryear but this season’s Wellington 1st XV have been right up...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
GWILYM BRADLEY CARDIFF BLUES NO.7 When Gwilym Bradley suffered a serious wrist injury that wiped out his 2018/19 season and caused...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoPhillips wants rebirth of Ospreys galacticos
By ADAM ELLIS Glory days: Kristian Phillips playing for the Ospreys PICTURES: Getty Images KRISTIAN Phillips hopes the takeover of the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKlim latest to join revamped Reds
JERSEY Reds have signed Namibia international wing Lesley Klim ahead of the 2020-21 Championship season. Klim, 25, played twice at the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChief Holmes heads home
PROP Greg Holmes is to leave Exeter to return to his native Australia. The 37- year-old, who played in the 2015...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRing-fence could reduce the drain on RFU funding
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Ireally enjoyed last week’s article interviewing Plymouth Albion commercial manager Chris Bentley and his...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMandela effect unites a nation as Boks put the brakes on Jonah
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union THE 1995 World Cup is a story...
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