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Featured
/ 8 years agoSpringbok great Bryan Habana announces retirement from rugby
Second on the Springboks' all-time appearances list behind Victor Matfield...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWasps scrum-half Dan Robson signs new deal
A new long-term deal for the scrum-half challenging Ben Youngs and Danny Care for their England spots
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLeinster stalwarts to retire at end of season
Isa Nacewa and Richardt Strauss to bring curtains down on illustrious careers
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRing-fencing no cure-all warns boss of Tigers
By NEALE HARVEY LEICESTER chief executive Simon Cohen has spoken out against Premiership ring-fencing, insisting its proponents are misguided and that...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoScarlets routed by Leinster’s avengers
Fergus McFadden of Leinster dives over to score their third try PICTURE: Getty Images LEINSTER reduced the Scarlets’ Champions’ Cup dream...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoRacing 92 are my Gallic Barbarians
Brendan Gallagher traces the romantic history of the famous French side which play with panache Influential: Maxime Machenaud PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoEarls returns as Munster shake up the backs
MUNSTER, chasing their fifth appearanc in a European Cup final, have boldly moved their quarter-final hero Andrew Conway to full-back for...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoJackson and Olding face bigger trial among public
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK What happens next to Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding is less about them...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoBearly credible, this Bristol ursine rebrand
THE marketing brains behind Bristol’s rebranding as Bears could not have struck a more timely PC note. During a season in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoNorth was a great signing for Saints insists Diggin
By JON NEWCOMBE Glory days: George North with Saints in 2013 NORTHAMPTON legend Paul Diggin says George North’s contribution to Saints’...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoJohnson banned for drugs
WASPS forward Ashley Johnson has been suspended by the RFU after failing a drugs test. He is accused of testing positive...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoWoodward shows he’s England class
By TOM BRADSHAW Teamwork: Tom Marshall dives over for Gloucester’s first try, set up by Jason Woodward, right PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoDeano: We must be better for Tigers
DEAN Richards says his side will have to go up a notch if they are to beat Leicester next week and...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoBlues defy heat of Pau’s pack to claim final place
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Fast start: Gareth Anscombe beats Pau’s Julien Pierre to the ball to score PICTURES: Getty Images Retaliation: Seb...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoWilson: My best win for Blues
DANNY Wilson hailed his side’s win as the best of his three-years in charge at Cardiff Blues. The victory set-up a...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoHenson still big part of Dragons planning
NEWS EXTRA By STEFFAN THOMAS HE MAY not have played since the end of January, but Gavin Henson remains a key...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoYoung Ospreys get tough lesson in Italy
By STEFFAN THOMAS Reaching out: Mattia Bellini scores for Zebre A YOUNG and experimental Ospreys side got taught a brutal lesson...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTimoney’s double gets Ulster into Cup
By DECLAN ROONEY ULSTER secured their spot in next season’s Champions Cup as Nick Timoney’s double clinched a crucial bonuspoint win...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoScarlets still have so much to play for
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Great work: Blues wing Owen Lane makes a break against Pau PICTURE: Getty Images It...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHere’s best of luck to the super six playing in the finals this weekend
I CANNOT believe that it is a year ago that I played my last competitive game in the WRU National Bowl...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoReds fall to five minutes of Leinster try mayhem
By TOM INNES LEINSTER ‘A’ produced a stunning comeback to send shockwaves across Jersey and dump the Reds out of the...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoEaling provide fizz to bottle up Blues
By JONATHAN LANDY Strike One: Piers O’Conor crosses for Ealing’s opening try PICTURE: Lissy Tomlinson EALING continued their annus mirabilis by...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTom all set to join the exodus at Exiles
LONDON IRISH are set to lose another player with Tom Woolstencroft ready to depart the club once relegation is confirmed. Hooker...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMostert will join up with Ackermann again
GLOUCESTER are set to complete the signing of Springbok lock Franco Mostert within the next couple of weeks. Blindside understands that...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSharks bid £750k for Folau signature
SALE SHARKS have launched a sensational bid of £750,000 a year to lure Wallabies fullback Israel Folau to the North West....
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Features
/ 8 years agoBath boss is battling to stave off the axe
TODD BLACKADDER is battling to save his job as Bath’s director of rugby, according to Blindside sources. The 46-year-old, below, joined...
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Features
/ 8 years agoKalamafoni wants to be ton-up boy at Twickers
LEICESTER’S Sione Kalamafoni knows victory over Newcastle this Friday is nonnegotiable if he is to earn a shot at completing a...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWe can’t wait to play Exeter now says Pirates boss Dicky
By NEALE HARVEY Ambition: Dicky Evans DICKY Evans, director of the Cornish Pirates and a driving force behind the Stadium for...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWe’re aiming for Prem, Ealing warn ring-fencers
BEN WARD, rugby director of ambitious Ealing, has hailed the achievement of Cornish Pirates. And he has maintained his own club’s...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSubscriptions…
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow many games will North bring to Wales?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The George North transfer saga drags on towards its sixth month, almost half...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWould-be-pilot Adam is grounded by concussion
All over: Adam Hughes playing for Newport Gwent Dragons ADAM HUGHESwent to the 2010 Junior World Cup as part of a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSigning of Cave boost for Ulster
FOR THOSE with a natural affinity to Ulster, the most desperate of seasons marred on the pitch by scant success and...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBear facts at Bristol
THIS may take some believing but once upon a time they invented a team called the Bears who arrived complete with...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTeen star Joseph lands a double to save Ealing
By JON NEWCOMBE Held: Carnegie’s Tom Bullough is tackled PETE LYDON has predicted a bright future for Reon Joseph after the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDragons lining up prop Jarvis
THE Dragons look set to sign former Wales tighthead prop Aaron Jarvis from Clermont Auvergne. Jarvis is returning to the Guinness...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFront five are crucial to Bristol’s survival
LOOKS AT NEXT SEASON’S PROSPECTS FOR THE PREMIERSHIP’S NEW BOYS Champions: Bristol enjoy their bubbly – but will it be a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThis is how we beat them, reveals Biljon
HARVEY Biljon has the satisfaction as rugby director of Jersey Reds of being the only team in the Championship to defeat...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoHeroic Harrison had spirit of St George
TOMORROW – St George’s Day – is the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Arthur Leyland Harrison, the only...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoDon’t block Cornwall’s rise with ring-fencing
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Pirates in control: Alexander Day puts his backs away...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCommonwealth bosses got it wrong with Sevens competition
THE recent Commonwealth Games Sevens produced one game for the ages – New Zealand’s epic win over Australia to take the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSharks grab SA bragging rights with Du Toit’s try
By SAMUEL JACKSON Breaking through: Sharks’ prop Thomas du Toit PICTURE: Getty Images BURLY prop Thomas du Toit crashed over for...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoRead out of NZ Tests with France
NEWS EXTRA STEVE HANSEN has been dealt a major blow ahead of the All Blacks series against France by being told...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoBrilliant Basil brushes off Caldy challenge
By WARREN MUGGLETON Esher…………….42 Caldy…………….28 BASIL STRANG’S secondhalf try saw a revived Esher cruise to victory over Caldy at Molesey Road....
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National League One
/ 8 years agoCambridge trump careless Bishops
By JOHN ALLANSON Bishop’s St ….27 Cambridge……33 BISHOP’S Stortford coughed up the ball too much and with it derby bragging rights...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoClub front row pack a big punch
By GRAHAM COX Blackheath ….28 Old Eltham’ns 23 ON a damp dark day in December it was the Elthamian backs that...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoSupreme Seals puts Park into uncharted waters
By JOHN WILKINSON Fast and furious: Darlington score, right and, left, a Coventry attack is stopped PICTURES: Nick Meredith MOWDEN Park...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoSam keeps Moseley dreaming of the joy of six
By DAVID LAWRENCE B’ham Mos .34 Rosslyn Pk .19 MOSELEY kept their hopes of a top-six finish alive with an entertaining...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoSizzling Students serve up a dream dozen
By ALLAN FOSTER Fylde …………….38 L’boro S…………81 LOUGHBOROUGH Students eased their relegation fears with an incredible 12-try thrashing of fellow strugglers...
International Rugby
Mike Tindall: Steve Borthwick is still the man to lead England forward
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