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Columnists
/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Shame Cardiff Blues didn’t go for home-grown option
Shane Williams questions why Wales looks set to have no Welsh head coaches in charge of the regions next season
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWales legend Adam Jones announces retirement from rugby
The 37-year-old will move into coaching at the end of the season with Quins
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoEngland go on the road to find new supporters
By NICK CAIN THE RFU are set to take their England team on the road to make it more appealing to...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoI’m ready to be No1 now says Anscombe
GARETH Anscombe has told Wales fans he is close to finding his best form as he targets becoming Warren Gatland’s number...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoTwo bonus points give Kidney cause for hope
By NEALE HARVEY DECLAN Kidney’s first match in charge of London Irish ended in defeat but not before they had given...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoCLOSE-UP
JAMES MARSHALL London Irish full-back JASON WOODWARD Gloucester full-back Both these dashing Kiwis have attacking intentions racing through their veins and...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoStill far too many mistakes – Ackermann
STAR MAN Mark Atkinson was delighted with Gloucester’s win. The centre told TRP: “Irish have run most teams close and we...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoWhy defeat by France was biggest blow of all
NICK CAIN Upper hand: France celebrate victory over England PICTURE: Getty Images THERE has been too much of a shoulder-shrug about...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBrown’s ready to ride the wave with Eddie
EDDIE Jones was sacked by Australia after a seven Test losing run in 2005. On Wednesday at Twickenham I asked the...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoTough road to success
HOW’S this for an itinerary to help England get their shape back. Three away Tests in South Africa, then an Autumn...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoSharks show they can strike with lethal force
By COLIN NEWBOULT Power: Marland Yarde holds off Bryce Heem to score for Sale PICTURES: Getty Images AS A FEW sides...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoCiting officer to check gay slur
A SALE player could be in trouble with the authorities after Worcester’s Jamie Shillcock alleged he made a homophobic slur. The...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoSimmonds holds nerve to sink Bath fightback
By NEALE HARVEY Match-winner: Joe Simmonds on the break for Exeter PICTURES: Getty Images Workhorse: Exeter’s Don Armand battles for the...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoAll-action Obano in message to Eddie
TODD Blackadder admits Bath’s top four hopes are remote. He said: “I’m proud of the effort and our defence was outstanding,...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoAxed Ford will roar for Tigers predicts Toomua
By NEALE HARVEY Challenge: George Ford is back for Leicester PICTURE: Getty Images CHASTENED England fly-half George Ford bounces back into...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoI’m aggressive alright insists Jake
International bid: Jake Cooper-Woolley WASPS prop Jake Cooper- Woolley has dismissed accusations he lacks the aggression necessary to force his way...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLemi will play on after exit at Bristol
DAVID LEMI is set to extend his career after leaving Bristol at the end of the season and appears to be...
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Features
/ 8 years agoON THE BLING SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BATH will confirm the news that Blindside revealed in January that they are...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCuthbert snubs France to be Chief
Off to Exeter: Alex Cuthbert EXETER Chiefs have agreed a deal that will see them sign Wales and British Lions winger...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSaints make Symons bid
NORTHAMPTON have made a last minute bid to stop Andy Symons from joining Newcastle Falcons next season. We reported a couple...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCortes off to Tigers
BRISTOL tighthead Gaston Cortes is set to move to Leicester Tigers when his contract runs out at the end of the...
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Features
/ 8 years ago‘Stylish’ Scarlets are right fit for me says Cassiem
Excited: Uzair Cassiem UZAIR Cassiem has revealed how he shunned other lucrative offers to sign for the Scarlets in the hope...
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Features
/ 8 years agoShame Blues didn’t go for home-grown option
SHANE WILLIAMS Signing on: New Cardiff Blues coach John Mulvihill with CEO Richard Holland PICTURE: Getty Images Good to see Cardiff...
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Features
/ 8 years agoJackman’s Dragons will breathe fire next season
LET’S face it, things haven’t been going too well for the Dragons this season. In many people’s eyes they have been...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMacGinty’s kicking on with help from Callard
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Sale’s sharp-shooter AJ MacGinty now fit again after a knee injury Back in stride: AJ MacGinty takes...
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Features
/ 8 years agoStockdale scoops top prize
NEWS EXTRA WINGER Jacob Stockdale has been named Six Nations Player of the Championship, with three of his Ireland team-mates completing...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEdinburgh warm up nicely for European showdown
Connacht 22 Edinburgh 29 EDINBURGH lock Grant Gilchrist says the Scots can improve even further after they secured victory over a...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDragons still winless in the league since September
By STEFFAN THOMAS BERNARD Jackman was critical of his side’s lack of concentration as their horrific domestic record worsened with defeat...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTipuric leads the charge in Ospreys play-off push
By ROB COLE THERE is still some work to do for Leinster to reach the PRO14 play-offs after the Ospreys outmuscled...
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/ 8 years agoFifth win on the spin keeps Blues in contention
By ROGER PANTING A SUPERB performance from Jarrod Evans spearheaded Blues to a fifth successive league win and virtually guaranteed the...
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/ 8 years agoClinical Irish make Pivac’s lads pay for profligacy
By DECLAN ROONEY THERE was no win on the road for Scarlets as Robin Copeland and Alex Wootton helped Munster to...
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/ 8 years agoReturning hero DTH stars as Glasgow run riot
By GARY HEATLY Glasgow 68 Zebre 7 WARRIORS head coach Dave Rennie admits a few players have given him food for...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWalshe eyes route back to top after Gloucester axe
By NEALE HARVEY NICK Walshe says steering Coventry back into the Championship has exceeded his landmark achievement of winning successive Junior...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFancy Leinster to copy class of ‘09
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for next weekend’s Champions Cup quarter-finals Grand Slammer: Johnny Sexton is key to Leinster’s chances PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSorry, Steve, your fatigue factor does not stack up
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW England’s Six Nations’ implosion has prompted the resurrection of a myth masquerading as...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSandwich-man Polledri could have been Welsh rarebit
HAD Wales done a genealogy check on Jake Polledri, the results would have entitled them to offer one of the English...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWe need to remember the heroes from Grand Slams past
GRAND Slams these days come awash with tickertape receptions, medals and cash, enough in Ireland’s case to have earned their triumphant...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHadleigh parks bride for La Rochelle date
STEFFAN THOMAS catches up with Wales’ new midfield star Hadleigh Parkes Euro bid: Hadleigh Parkes PICTURE: Getty Images HADLEIGH Parkes will...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTigers opt for Jersey boy Voss
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER have signed Jersey lock James Voss with immediate effect to plug the gap left by Dom Barrow’s departure....
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow it went wrong, match by match
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT EDDIE JONES’ REIGN SO FAR, AND DECIDES WHERE THE DECLINE SET IN EDDIE Jones often calls the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCox’s treble is key to Cup success for Loughborough
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP WITH the league wrapped up and the trophy perched in Exeter’s cabinet, attention turned to the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTyrrells Women’s Premier 15s
Quins go top but must now wait and see By LAURA EDDIE Saracens …29 Harlequins…32 HARLEQUINS have done everything they can...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDodd doubles up in derby for Wasps
By HOLLY FOSKETT Wasps …44pts Richmond …17pts At the double: Louise Dodd celebrates with Christina Veale after scoring a try WASPS...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLund leads from front in play-off decider
By DUNCAN WOOD Gloucester H …36 L Lightning…8 GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY recovered from a lacklustre first half to book the final play-off spot...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoTongans backtrack over girls’ rugby ban
A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER TONGA, with their incredible players worldwide, hold a special...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoSedbergh deny Cranleigh’s triple glory bid
WINNING three major titles on the trot is incredibly difficult – witness England in the Six Nations – and Cranleigh fell...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoStranger and stranger, this tale of Spanish defeat
Controversy: Belgium beat Spain ONE of the saddest aspects of events in Brussels last Sunday when Belgium beat Spain 18-10 in...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoTahiti find players are ineligible – five years after they started!
WORLD Rugby so reluctant to get involved in the controversial World Cup qualifier in Brussels, acted decisively enough this week to...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoPirates confident of revenge mission
Preview Cornish Pirates v London Scottish Today, Kick-off 2.30pm CORNISH Pirates welcome London Scottish to the Mennaye Field keen to avenge...
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