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Features
/ 9 years agoOLLIE THORLEY
ROOM 101 THE GLOUCESTER CENTRE/WING TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Barriers to Nuclear...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWallaby star confident he’ll find extra gears at Tigers
By STEFFAN THOMAS TATAFU Polota-Nau has told Leicester fans he plans to become an even better player when he joins the...
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/ 9 years agoEngland Women win opening battle of Autumn
ENGLAND Women have secured a pay deal with the Rugby Football Union before the autumn internationals. For the first time, the...
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/ 9 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 9 years agoMugabe’s thugs sent Don on the rugby trail
NICK CAIN TALKS TO DON ARMAND ABOUT STRIFE IN ZIMBABWE AND HOPE IN ENGLAND MEET Don Armand, Mr Adaptable. The rangy...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDon’t miss this night of Lions magic
SPECIAL OFFER Tour heroes: Sam Warburton, centre, hails the fans TWO great Lions captains are coming together for a night to...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoAt last! Warriors get reason to be cheerful
By COLIN NEWBOULT AFTER all the pain, disappointment and frustration that has enveloped Worcester’s season, the fans – finally – have...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoSpencer is simply sublime says Gold
WORCESTER director of rugby Gary Gold believes that lock Will Spencer should be in the England reckoning following his performance against...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoHigh-speed Wade gets impressive Wasps off to a flyer
By ROB WILDMAN WASPS blew away Newcastle last night to demonstrate that they are beginning to find their best form after...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoEastmond deserves success says Dai
WASPS boss Dai Young hopes Kyle Eastmond will make a quick recovery from a head injury sustained when making a try-saving...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
MARTYN WOOD THE FORMER WASPS, BATH AND ENGLAND SCRUM-HALF Flying out to Australia for the 2003 World Cup as standby injury...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoSharks in pursuit of big away day catch
By JON NEWCOMBE SALE talisman Faf de Klerk Still harbours hopes of playing in the next World Cup for South Africa...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoFit-again flanker Northcote-Green gets first
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish flanker Max Northcote-Green will put a year-long injury nightmare behind him today when he lines up...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoFestive run-in key to Quins’ season
By NEALE HARVEY HARLEQUINS stalwart Mark Lambert has urged his side to dig in ahead of a “massive” period of league...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoPremiership start against old club
Tom Dunn and Zach Mercer return to the Bath line-up. The duo who have been away on international duty with England,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
HARRY SIMMONS LEICESTER TIGERS SCRUM-HALF Harry Simmons recently announced himself as a scrum-half of huge potential when, under his expert guidance,...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoBench men make big impact at Kingsholm
By TOM BRADSHAW THIS was an evening of implausible stories. It was implausible that Gloucester should beat table-topping Saracens despite having...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoFearless Glaws target top four
ATTACKcoach Tim Taylor believes Gloucester are genuine top-four contenders after another top-half team succumbed at Kingsholm. “Yes, top four is our...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoHow Clem seized once in a lifetime opportunity
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Even now, more than 20 years after his death, Clem Thomas remains as...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoSadly Ireland couldn’t match the big money
ONCE those behind the unsuccessful bid to land the 2023 World Cup stop feeling sorry for themselves, Irish rugby will have...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoAki opens his Test account in some style
BUNDEEAki’s shuddering launch of his international career in Dublin last weekend would have been felt 12,000 miles away back home in...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoFowkes demands big effort for Ealing
Preview Nottingham v Ealing T’finders Today, Kick-off 3pm. Lady Bay NOTTINGHAM forwards coach Neil Fowkes insists no-one is patting themselves on...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoCarnegie caned as new-style Bristol take on Lam philosophy
By COLIN NEWBOULT EVENat this stage of the season, Bristol appear a certainty for promotion. And the concerning thing for their...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoRotherham facing upto titanic fight for survival
By GUY WILLIAMS ROTHERHAM’S hopes of avoiding relegation suffered a massive blow when the league’s bottom club lost a must-win game...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoExiles back to winning ways with Atkinson double
By LUKE JARMYN SCOTTISHNo.8 Joe Atkinson scored two tries and put in a man of the match display as Exiles showed...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoBurns turns up the heat to deny 14-man Knights victory
By STEVE HOSSACK SECONDrower Matt Challinor joined Doncaster’s exclusive 200 Club – but unlike when prop Richard List reached the same...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoKirby holds nerve towin kickfest for Richmond
By ANDREW BEACHAM THIS was not a game that will linger in the memory, although that will not concern Richmond who...
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/ 9 years agoCowan-Dickie’s back and gunning for Dunn’s spot
By NEALE HARVEY FORGOTTEN England hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie is ready to ramp-up the pressure on Dylan Hartley by roaring back into...
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/ 9 years agoMore key skills for Marcus to master
MARCUS Smith’s gamemanagement in the face of blitz defence will be one of the defining factors in whether he makes the...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoDominance up front gets Dragons out of trouble
By STEFFAN RODNEY THEDragons warmed up for their daunting PRO14 trip to Leinster with a good win over an experimental Scarlets...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoOspreys pay price for finding winning touch
By ROB COLE OSPREYS finally got the win they needed to stop the rot after nine defeats in their previous ten...
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/ 9 years agoAmbitious England set for battle on three fronts
By JOE BYRNE THE SEVENS World Series returns next month with first stop Dubai as England aim to improve on last...
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/ 9 years agoWales put big focus on success at Commonwealths
THE RECENT Anglo- Welsh training hostilities continued last week when England Sevens welcomed their Wales counterparts for a day of live...
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/ 9 years agoCockerill captures tight-head Millar-Mills
By JON NEWCOMBE EDINBURGH boss Richard Cockerill has swooped for Yorkshire Carnegie tighthead, Elliot Millar-Mills with immediate effect. Millar-Mills has impressed...
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Features
/ 9 years agoWhen best of the best turned out to honour Sam
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to JPR Williams 40 years on from the famous Sam Doble Memorial game CHARITY matches, gala occasions and...
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Features
/ 9 years agoHis monstrous boot changed way the game was played
THE record books will tell you that Sam Doble scored a world record 581 points in the 1971-72 season but it...
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Features
/ 9 years agoInjury set-back for Wales back rower
RUGBY SHORTS WALES flanker Ross Moriarty has suffered a fresh back injury in training at Gloucester. The 23-year-old has played once,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoLeicester’s Lion Croft forced to call time
LEICESTER forward Tom Croft has announced his retirement from rugby. The 31-year-old, who played 40 times for England and five Tests...
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Features
/ 9 years agoManu pins hopes on Joseph jersey
MANU Tuilagi will return to action next month and is targeting Jonathan Joseph’s England No.13 jersey for the Six Nations. The...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJet-heeled Jonny runs 40m faster than Bolt
ENGLAND winger Jonny May has recorded a sprint speed that is faster than eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt. May apparently...
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Features
/ 9 years agoPivac swoops for Rebel Cummins
SCARLETS have signed Australian lock Steve Cummins from Melbourne Rebels. The 25-year-old former Wallaby U20 international will join the region at...
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Features
/ 9 years agoHamstring injury rules out Ojo until New Year
LONDONIrish winger Topsy Ojo will be out of action until the new year because of a hamstring tear. Ojo, 32, suffered...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoPrincipality Premiership
By HUW THOMAS Neath…19 Llandovery …5 BOTTOM of the table Neath caused a big upset at the Gnoll as they turned...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoLlanelli given Hart by back rower’s match-winning effort
By CARL FIELD Llanelli ….23 Bridgend R…18 NATHAN Hart’s try two minutes from time snatched victory for Llanelli over Bridgend. The...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoPonty no match for Merthyr in comeback success
By ANDREW DEERING Merthyr ……….50 Pontypridd ….21 MERTHYR dismantled Pontypridd in this top-ofthe- table clash at The Wern. Ponty registered early...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoKeys spread the love with team effort in Cardiff thrill ride
By SCOTT DAVIES Cross Keys ….35 Cardiff …………27 CROSS Keys ran in five tries to secure an exciting bonus-point victory over...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoPrice is right for Quins as five-try Jack sparkles
By PAUL HOPKINS Swansea …21 Carmarthen …43 A FIVE-TRY haul by star winger Jack Price helped Carmarthen to a comprehensive victory...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoGogs go ten unbeaten as Hughes seals last-gasp victory
By HOWARD EVANS Aberavon…27 RGC …30 POWERFUL centre Tom Hughes crashed over five minutes from time to gain victory for the...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoOld boys come back to leave Bedwas feeling blue
By HOWARD EVANS Bargoed ……….20 Bedwas ……….26 BEDWAS bounced back from three straight defeats with victory at Bargoed. The visitors led...
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Features
/ 9 years agoNorthumbria unfazed after Exeter throw down gauntlet
BUCS ROUND-UP By JOE BYRNES EXETER staged a stunning home comeback to leapfrog Cardiff Met in Topsham. The Welsh struck first...
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