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Features
/ 7 years agoChiefs get their men
EXETER CHIEFS are set to confirm that they are keeping a host of big-name players at Sandy Park next season. England...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPulis put on spot by England
ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones was quick to embrace football soon after taking over the national team five years ago. He has...
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Features
/ 7 years ago2020 is no comparison to the thuggery of 1980!
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Clash: Wales lock Geoff Wheel, left, and England...
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Features
/ 7 years agoUruguayan rugby pay respects to hero Catalan
Saviour: Sergio Catalan, top, with Old Christians players Nando Parrado and Robert Canessa THE death of Sergio Catalan this week at...
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Features
/ 7 years agoIrish high-ball bombardment will test out the fumblers
Keeping your nerve: George Furbank is challenged for the high ball by France centre Gael Fickou ENGLAND’S Six Nations campaign is...
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Features
/ 7 years agoAdvent of Adams puts North at big risk
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW True Test class: Josh Adams takes on Ireland’s Andrew Conway PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 7 years agoGenge joins the prop brig
ELLIS Genge did something last weekend that had not been done since long before he first saw the light in his...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSlow piper pips off Dylan and England
REGRETTABLY, the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield has been played out in recent years to a familiar soundtrack of English complaints about...
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Features
/ 7 years agoTeenage kicks in Dublin
ANOTHER alarm over the deteriorating conduct of rugby crowds has been ringing out all week from Dublin. The Leinster branch of...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFamily first for Exiles star-signing Coleman
By NEALE HARVEY Top of his game: Australian lock Adam Coleman PICTURES: Getty Images MARQUEE-SIGNING Adam Coleman aims to help London...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBristol flyer Morahan chasing Olympic dream
FLYING wing Luke Morahan has used Bristol’s recent break to pursue his Olympics dream. Morahan, 29, spent time training with Australia’s...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoChiefs aim to capture Welsh ace Baldwin
By STEFFAN THOMAS EXETER have expressed an interest in signing Scarlets centre Corey Baldwin. Former Wales U20 ace Baldwin is highly...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoItaly plot a new shock victory over the Russell-less Scots
Brendan Gallagher says Italy are plotting victory over the Six Nations team they know they can beat Welcome to Rome: Giovanbattista...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEternal City hands me a memory to last a lifetime
Brendan Gallagher recalls first Six Nations weekend in Rome when Italy beat Scotland at Stadio Flaminio Joy: Italy celebrate victory over...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoSoaring Falcons planning for Prem
Preview Newcastle v Cornish Pirates Today, Kick-off 3pm taking down their Championship opponents ‘man and ball’, with a more aggressive defensive...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoTrailfinders hit six to gear up for cup quarter-final
By OLI SHAPLEY EALING Trailfinders braved Storm Dennis and did so in impressive style to register a six-try victory over Bedford...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoGeneral Jennings puts Cov in command
By DAVID LAWRENCE Eye an opening: Coventry drive forward in the 22 COVENTRY overcame atrocious weather conditions to run in eight...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoPhoto finish as Gillespie wins late foot race
By WARREN KAY A LAST minute try against the run of play by replacement wing Josh Gillespie made the game safe...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoCharged up Knights put on a show for captain Matt
By GUY WILLIAMS DONCASTER skipper, second row Matt Challinor, celebrated his 250th appearance for the club by inspiring the Knights to...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoNottingham dig deep to fight back… and hold on
By ROB WILDMAN NOTTINGHAM overturned a slow start to win an entertaining match to put a smile on the face of...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWhite hot on the heels of under-fire Youngs
By NEALE HARVEY Quick-silver: Ben White avoids Nick Phipps of London Irish PICTURE: Getty Images LEICESTER tyro Ben White aims to...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoHalfpenny hopes for a repeat of 2013
By ALEX BYWATER LEIGH Halfpenny insists Wales can repeat their heroics of 2013 and bounce back from a defeat to Ireland...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoRichmond hang on against 14 men
By JON EDWARDS Old Elthamians ……7 Richmond …………….9 RICHMOND were given an almighty scare by battling Elthamians before hanging on for...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoRobbins decides relegation clash
By DAVID BEDDOWS Rotherham T …….26 Hull Ionians ……….10 WING Ben Robbins’ two tries helped relegation battlers Rotherham Titans to an...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoRosslyn win battle of the Parks and keep pressure on at top of the table
By WARREN MUGGLETON Scramble: Park touch down for the claim their first try of the afternoon PICTURE: David Whittam KIERAN Power...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoChinnor in seventh heaven at Canterbury
By JACK JOHNSON CHINNOR dug deep to overcome Canterbury and Storm Dennis to extend their unbeaten away run to seven games....
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National League One
/ 7 years agoStortford stalemate after Club fightback
By JOHN ALLANSON Bishop’s Stort ……10 Blackheath …………10 A PENALTY try 15 minutes from time earned Blackheath a draw away to...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Fatialofa on feet again WORCESTER lock Michael Fatialofa has taken his first steps after a serious spinal injury. Fatialofa spent four...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoJuddians win but fall from summit
By GARETH WITHERS Tonbridge J ……….26 Old Albanian ……..24 TONBRIDGE Juddians overcame the conditions and a second-half fightback to down Clifton,...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoJohnson steals show at Hoppers
By MIKE MITCHELL Preston GH …………..3 Hinckley …………….33 HINCKLEY piled further relegation fears on a young Preston Grasshoppers side as a...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoCaldy grit extends run to 22 unbeaten
By CHRISTIAN EVANS Fylde………………….7pts Caldy………………..15pts CALDY head coach Matt Cairns lavished praise on his team after a pivotal win against Fylde...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoHull run amok as winds lift them higher
By RICHARD GORE Hull……………….34 Sheffield T……21 HULL made the most of the first-half winds at their backs to run up a...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoHawks hit the front in bonus triumph
By ALISTAIR BENYON Henley…………..29 Westcliff…………5 HENLEY Hawks had to contend with both Storm Dennis and a resolute Westcliff defence to climb...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoFour-try Owsley seals the glory
By RHODRI MORGAN Worthing …………….10 Clifton ………………..24 CLIFTON secured a comfortable win with the addition of a bonus point over Worthing...
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National Leagues
/ 7 years agoSix of the best is enough for St Eds
By JOHN CROYSDILL Sutton & Epsom ..12 Bury St Edmunds 36 BURY wrapped up a league double over Sutton & Epsom...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER SALE SHARKS, NORTHAMPTON AND NOTTINGHAM BACK ROWER MARK EASTER WHETHER he knows it or not, my brother Nick (the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTraining with Eddie driving U20 standards says Dickens
By NEALE HARVEY England ‘apprentice’: Josh Hodge ENGLAND’S chances of achieving a first U20s Six Nations Grand Slam since 2016 have...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoChannel Islanders lead – but it’s still tight
London & South East Premier IT’s getting ever tighter at the top of the table, with Rochford Hundred and Guernsey battling...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoBlaydon’s late surge sends them to top
Northern Premier THE positions at the top of the table could not be tighter, with three clubs fighting it out for...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoImpressive Ivybridge make light of wind and rain
South West Premier IVYBRIDGE used the wet and windy conditions to their advantage to send runaway leaders Barnstaple to a fourth...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 7 years agoChampions rocked by first-minute Whites try
By PAUL HOPKINS Merthyr …………5 Swansea ……..10 SWANSEA earned a shock victory over champions Merthyr as The Wern took a storm...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 7 years agoBid to beat the storm fails as rivals slog it out
By TIM LEWIS RGC 1404 ……..15 Carm Quins ….15 THESE rivals braved Storm Dennis to play out a draw in Colwyn...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoEddie’s insults may have lost the players
It may not have been pretty, but at last England have kickstarted the journey to France 2023 with a much-needed win...
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Features
/ 7 years agoEngland ease past Scotland to go top of table
NEWS EXTRA CHAMPIONS England beat Scotland 53-0 in freezing conditions to go top of the women’s Six Nations table. The match...
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Features
/ 7 years agoTyro Tigers look for the hat-trick
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER Tigers U18s are hunting a third successive national title with London Irish standing in their way at Sixways...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCov recruit back three cavalry
COVENTRY have signed Louis Brown and Ryan Olowofela to cover the back three with James Stokes (London Irish) and Henry Purdy...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMawi joins champions
SARACENS have signed Fijian prop Eroni Mawi. The 23-year-old joins the club as injury cover for Ralph Adams-Hale and adds an...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoChampionship cuts:the great debate…
Give us a two-year moratorium at least Dear Bill Top prop: Harry Williams has gone from Jersey to Exeter and England...
International Rugby
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