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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBristol run riot with 11-try thrashing of Waterloo
By GEORGE WEST Bristol…59 Firwood W’loo 7 BRISTOL kicked off 2018 in style with a convincing 59-7 win over Firwood Waterloo,...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoQuins’ success keeps pressure on leaders
By DANIS ROBERTS Harlequins …17pts Loughborough…10pts Threat: Jess Breach breaks through the Loughborough defence HARLEQUINS scored three tries from their forward...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAppleby excited for Acheson’s Glos debut
Preview…Richmond v Gloucester-Hartpury Today, Kick-off 2.30pm By DANIEL MURRAY PROP Sasha Acheson will make her debut in a Gloucester-Hartpury shirt against...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSaracens smash a century of points in easy win
By LAURA EDDIE Saracens …105 Worcs Valky’ …0 Prolific: Emma Uren SARACENS couldn’t have hoped for a brighter start to 2018...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGullis hat-trick as Pooler land win No14
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD PONTYPOOL strengthened their lead at the top of after a 14th consecutive win. A hat-trick...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDunvant eyeing a quick return to top flight
Welsh Division One round-up By JAY BAYFORD DUNVANT’S hopes of returning to the National Championship at the first time of asking...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPhillips’ boot puts holders out of the Plate
Welsh Plate & Bowl round-up By CARL FIELD HOLDERS Penallta are out of the WRU National Plate after going down 12-7...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNoves puts Laporte in the dock over axing
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Ousted: Guy Noves with his erstwhile French squad in training PICTURE: Getty Images Guy Noves has launched...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWatch out Robshaw, Rhodes is ‘best blindside in England
By NEALE HARVEY Big fan: Alex Sanderson Combative: Saracens blindside Michael Rhodes UNCOMPROMISING flanker Michael Rhodes poses a huge threat to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoTop-flight coaches need to branch out
IAN Davies bemoans the recent ‘farcical’ appointments of Alan Gaffney and Alan Solomons while claiming that coaches in the Championship should...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIsiekwe’s the latest Haileybury old boy to hit the big time
NICK Isiekwe has enjoyed a meteoric rise since leaving Haileybury at the end of the 2016 summer term. It was a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoScrums costing fans too much game time
I BELIEVE we are being short changed and getting only an average of 60 or so minutes of actual play, due...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSense of adventure is driving Gloucester on
COLIN BOAG Revelation: Willi Heinz scores for new-look Gloucester We’re one week into the Premiership’s five-week break, with two rounds of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBlackadder must beef up front five – and coaches too
JEREMY GUSCOTT Ferocious: Scarlets flanker Aaron Shingler swats away the challenge from Chris Cook PICTURE: Getty Images TODD Blackadder has some...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoQuins shock Wasps with their double comeback
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Sprinter: Nizaam Carr runs in to score for Wasps HARLEQUINS, with nothing to play for but pride, effectively...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoYoung: Defence just not good enough
WASPS director of rugby Dai Young lamented: “We got what we deserved. We probably won that game three times and let...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoUlster stay afloat after riding tide of emotion
By DARAGH SMALL Ulster 20pts Tries: Best 28, Stockdale 35, Timoney 45 Conversions: Cooney 50 Penalties: Cooney 46 La Rochelle 13pts...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFREE Rugby Turf Workshop next month!
A free to attend workshop on Rugby Turf is taking place at Royal Holloway University of London Sports Centre on 8...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDream Team: Bedford Blues and former Northampton scrum-half Lee Dickson
The ex-England international picks his best XV based on players he's played with and against
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoWilliams column: George North blow means we’ll rely more on Steff Evans
Shane Williams explains why George North is a 'world-class' player and why he is vital to Wales
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Featured
/ 8 years agoNo X-Factor, but captain Hartley’s still the right man to lead out England
Nick Easter says the Northampton Saints hooker is still the man for England despite Jamie George no longer being his main...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Why has the drop goal gone the way of the dodo?
They have provided the sport with some of its most defining moments, so why are drop goals fading from the field...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBarnes column: Rory Teague’s rise just goes on and on in France
David Barnes on the former Gloucester man's growing influence with Top 14 side Bordeaux-Begles
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBath stalwart Banahan completes switch to arch West Country rivals Gloucester
Banahan ends 12-year stay at the Rec and will move to Kingsholm at the end of the season
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Featured
/ 8 years agoLeinster and Ireland dealt injury blow as Ringrose ruled out for over a month
Centre out for remaining Champions Cup pool matches and first two Six Nations matches
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDragons recruit Worcester forward Huw Taylor
Welsh-qualified back row completes switch from Sixways to Rodney Parade
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoTheRUGBYPaper
‘We’re giving everyone else’s coaches experience’ By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Cornish Pirates director of rugby Ian Davies has branded the RFU’s...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoWales in SOS to Worcester wing Josh
Wreckage mounts for Welsh wingers By PETER JACKSON Finding form: Manu Tuilagi scored for Leicester Tigers in their defeat of London...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoQuins come up short after Marler sees red
By COLIN NEWBOULT JOEMarler, at times a cantankerous individual, is prone to the odd brain fade but his red card offence...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoKingston struggles to accept late call
HARLEQUINS director of rugby John Kingston believed they were unfortunate to lose after seeing a potential lastminute try ruled out. Kingston...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBring back magic of Six Nations trial matches
THE first week of January always used to be the occasion of the final England trial at Twickenham – England v...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoIrish in some bother but future’s looking bright
THESE are tough times for London Irish, but as the Exiles fight for their Aviva Premiership survival they continue to look...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoEddie needs a leader who will be there at bitter end
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points IS Dylan Hartley the Mike Brearley of...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoKenya 7s up the creek after main sponsor pulls plug
Flyer: Nelson Oyoo THE Kenyan Sevens team has always been the standard bearers for the country competing in the World Series...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoConfidence boost for Bath ahead of Europe
By ROGER PANTING BATH move into next week’s European crunch game with Scarlets in good spirits after a six try demolition...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoWarriors starved of ball and territory
ALAN Solomons’ home debut as Worcester’s new director of rugby saw Warriors concede a season’s worst at Sixways as Bath ran...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBig chance for Watson toshowwhat he can do
By NEALE HARVEY MARCUS Watson wants to catch the eye of England boss Eddie Jones by shooting down Saracens, who welcome...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBurger backing Haskell for England
SPRINGBOK star Schalk Burger insists there was never any doubt that fellow back row veteran James Haskell was good enough to...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoAmbition’s soaring as Newcastle target top four
By JON NEWCOMBE Taking flight: Falcons fullback Simon Hammersley SIMON Hammersley insists there is a real belief within the Newcastle squad...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoNorth blow means we’ll rely more on Steffan
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND GEORGE North’s knee injury is the latest hammer blow to Wales’ Six Nations chances and...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoI never expected Dai to be in running for Wales
MUCHof the focus on Welsh rugby surrounds who will succeed Warren Gatland as head coach. This week we lost one of...
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Features
/ 8 years ago2018: Rugby year ahead…
Away from the staple diet of Six Nations and The Rugby Championship the international season is dominated by the climax to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBennett stars on debut as Kings put to sword
By GARY HEATLY Edinburgh ……37 Kings ………………7 EDINBURGH head coach Richard Cockerill believes Mark Bennett will only get better after he...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoUlster hit for six as new boy Larmour steals show
By BILL KIELY LEINSTER ran in six tries to earn a record win over Ulster at the RDS as Jordan Larmour’s...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHomework pays off for Ospreys’ hero Biggar
By ALEX BYWATER DAN Biggar revealed his man-of-the-match display had been a week in the planning after he created three of...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSeven-try Scarlets hammer injury-hit Dragons
By STEFFAN THOMAS SCARLETS head coach Wayne Pivac was full of praise for his side as they thrashed the Dragons to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMunster in tune for the Euro battle that waits
By JOHN FALLON MUNSTER got a timely boost ahead of the resumption of the Champions Cup with a bonus point win...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRampant Warriors rack up bonus by half-time
By SAM JACKSON Zebre…………….20 Glasgow……….40 A STARRINGperformance from George Horne helped Glasgow to a twelfth PRO14 victory of the season. The...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoForeign influx could hurt England warns Gatland
By ALEX BYWATER WARREN Gatland fears the ever-increasing riches on offer in the Premiership could prove a detriment to the international...
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