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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Mark Wilson – Newcastle flanker
1. Topknot hairstyles Admittedly I’m not the most fashionable person around, but I can’t see why anyone would want to have...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: Jack can be the lad to help swing it for the Lions
You underestimate Jack Nowell at your peril, as many international defence coaches will readily concede. The nuggety Cornishman is not the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoChampions Cup qualification process to change
The Pro12 nations have lost automatic qualification to the Champions Cup as EPCR today announced that only the best seven teams...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoMercer: I’ll prove why I should be in Argentina
Teenage back row sensation Zach Mercer aims to show Eddie Jones why he should have been on the senior tour to...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years ago20 Questions: Will Owen – Rotherham centre
How do you look back at the season two weeks on? It wasn’t great and very frustrating. We started the season...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: World Cups need more pools of death
Here are the cold hard facts. There is only one “pool of death” in the 2019 World Cup draw made in...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoFrancis out to prove his versatility in Argentina
Gobsmacked Auckland Blues fly-half Piers Francis has revealed how he thought a 5am phone call from Eddie Jones advising him of...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Peter Scrivener – former Wasps No.8
In the early days of professionalism, I was officially the highest paid player in the world which still makes the lads...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoTEAMS: Championship final (first leg)
Yorkshire Carnegie Head Coach Bryan Redpath has named his side for the first leg of the Championship Play Off Final against...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWorcester tie down another Springbok
Worcester have announced that South Africa international Dewald Potgieter has signed a new contract to extend his stay at Sixways. Potgieter...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoFlanker quits Newcastle for Ealing
Dan Temm will swap life beside the River Tyne for life near the Thames when he joins Ealing Trailfinders from Newcastle...
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Latest News
/ 9 years ago2018 and 2019 Six Nations fixtures announced
The fixtures for both the 2018 and 2019 Six Nations Championships have been announced. Rugby’s Greatest Championship will take place over...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoAll Blacks will need big guns firing – Franks
Double World Cup-winning Kiwi prop Ben Franks reckons the array of “world-class” talent within the Lions ranks, led by the indomitable...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Karl Dickson – Harlequins scrum-half
1. Joe Marler – One of the hardest men in rugby and that’s why he’s going on the Lions tour this...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoKing Billy of Europe!
Vunipola inspires Saracens to superb double Champions Cup triumph By NEALE HARVEY Mac-nificent: Owen Farrell and Brad Barritt lift the Champions...
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Champions Cup
/ 9 years agoGoode: We just want to get better and better
SARACENS full-back Alex Goode praised the composure of his teammates after scoring another late matchwinning try to seal victory over Clermont....
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Champions Cup
/ 9 years agoWe’re going to miss you Ashton, try scoring ace
BRENDAN GALLAGHER No one individual ever wins a match for Saracens, it’s not how they go about their work, but it...
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Champions Cup
/ 9 years agoAbendanon: It’s not a nice feeling but we’ll be back again
NICK Abendanon was left gutted by Saracens’ stunning finale after his side had fought their way back into the match. He...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoWorld Cups need more pools of death
HERE are the cold hard facts. There is only one “pool of death” in the 2019 World Cup draw made in...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoBrown had to take off his passing blinkers to be a Lion
YOU would have to have an ice block rather than a heart not to empathise with Mike Brown, and all the...
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Challenge Cup
/ 9 years agoPeerless Parisse leads his nearly men to glory
From NICK CAIN at Murrayfield STADE Francais have been Europe’s nearly men for so long they must have thought they were...
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Challenge Cup
/ 9 years agoGlaws rue high penalty count
WITHGloucester losing out not just on a third Challenge Cup title, but also a chance at play-off qualification for next season’s...
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Features
/ 9 years agoCastleford accused of breaching contract
DENNY SOLOMONA will claim that Castleford Tigers ‘belittled’ him as the case over his switch to Sale Sharks heads to trial...
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Features
/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■KYLE EASTMOND’S much heralded return to Super League with the Warrington Wolves has...
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Features
/ 9 years agoAll Black Saili set to sign for Quins
HARLEQUINS are close to doing a deal that will see them sign former All Black centre Francis Saili from Munster. Saili,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoLamb looks for French lifeline at La Rochelle
RYAN LAMB could continue to play on next season if he can secure himself a contract with Top 14 outfit La...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWeir cut adrift as Townsend opts for fresh blood at No10
By GEORGE LAWRENCE NEW Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has called up three uncapped players to his squad for the summer...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRoberts ready to put Lions hurt behind him
By SAM JACKSON Experienced: Jamie Roberts hands off Luke McLean of Italy to score PICTURES: Getty Images JAMIE Roberts admits to...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoNice squad Robin, but why no spot for Davies?
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WALES have got the squad balance right for their summer tour, but there’s one glaring omission –...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoWales must find way to overcome bogey boy Wallabies
THE 2019 World Cup might be a way off yet, but what a tournament we can expect in Japan. This week’s...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJack can be the lad to help swing it for the Lions say ex-England stars
NICK CAIN ASKS TWO LIONS WINGERS ABOUT JACK NOWELL – AND THEY AGREE THE EXETER STAR CAN BE A HIT YOU...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJACK NOWELL UP CLOSE
Jack and the sea Jack Nowell’s father, Michael, is a trawlerman who runs a fleet of three boats out of Penzance....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoHogan calls for franchise system to save the north
By NEALE HARVEY NEWCASTLE managing director Mick Hogan believes club rugby in the north faces terminal decline unless the RFU act...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoExeter ‘wanted £250k’ for Blues to sign Francis
WALES have abandoned plans to sign Exeter prop Tomas Francis because his club demanded a ‘silly’ transfer fee of £250,000. The...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoSubscriptions…
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Features
/ 9 years agoFlutey: Lions must play keep ball to stay alive
As the only man to play for and against the British & Irish Lions, Riki Flutey gives Jon Newcombe his unique...
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Features
/ 9 years agoPerelini blasts England for selecting Solomona
Relief: Apollo Perelini SAMOAN legend Apollo Perelini has applauded World Rugby’s decision to raise the residency ruling from three years to...
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Features
/ 9 years agoRevitalised Broncos are bucking the trend
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER JACKSON Local heroes: Deri Broncos celebrate their final match victory over Markham The Deri...
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Features
/ 9 years agoChampions Cup play-off farce is poor advert for organizers
WHENthe clubs wrestled control of their major European competition from the Unions they did so on the basis that they would...
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Features
/ 9 years agoHistory is on the side of Irish in PRO12
FOUR of the seven PRO12 Grand Finals have been all-Irish affairs, most recently Connacht- Leinster at Murrayfield last year. Nobody will...
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Features
/ 9 years agoChiefs to beat Saracens but Wasps for title
Brendan Gallagher sets the scene for next week’s Premiership semi-finals …and picks his winners THERE’s no guarantee a cracking regular season...
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Features
/ 9 years agoWasps – 1st
STORY OF THE SEASON: Can be summed up in one word: Attack. Wasps have gone for broke from the off and...
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Features
/ 9 years agoExeter Chiefs – 2nd
STORY OF THE SEASON: The Chiefs endured a rocky start with just two wins in their first seven Premiership games including...
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Features
/ 9 years agoSaracens – 3rd
STORY OF THE SEASON: Hugely impressive when at full strength and then hanging tough when short handed. Saracens know they are...
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Features
/ 9 years agoLeicester Tigers – 4th
STORY OF THE SEASON: How long have you got? Horrendous injuries not least the ongoing Manu Tulagi situation and the eventual...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoGopperth: Ending drought will prove selectors wrong
By NEALE HARVEY WASPS will head into the play-offs fuelled by a burning sense of injustice over their international exclusions, according...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoKitchener confident Tigers can spring a surprise
Defiant: Leicester lock Graham Kitchener GRAHAM Kitchener reckons Leicester’s durability in adversity will enable them to ruin Wasps’ party and reach...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoRhodes now relishing life as colossus of Saracens
NICK VERDIER meets the black sheep who’s turned into a starring wolf for Saracens It can be a daunting prospect for...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoSteenson hoping for some Clermont pointers
By NICK VERDIER EXETER find Saracens on their path to Premiership glory once more but talisman Gareth Steenson reckons they could...
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