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Features
/ 9 years agoEngland have game to beat the All Blacks – but not yet!
THE England team rescued and brought back to rude health by Eddie Jones is in danger of being sold down the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoNick Cain’s player ratings
ENGLAND 1-MAKO VUNIPOLA 7.5 Trailblazing front row playmaker. The best handling prop around, and scrummaging stronger 2-DYLAN HARTLEY (capt) 6 Weird...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoThis Tiger is on your tail, Genge tells England rivals
Neale Harvey finds an impressive young Tiger in fighting mood ahead of the final Determined Leicester prop Ellis Genge has outlined...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoMauger excited at chance of revenge over in-form Chiefs
By JON NEWCOMBE LEICESTER will have to beat “the form team in Europe” if they want to win the Anglo-Welsh Cup...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoAtkins: It’s Exeter’s chance to shine
By SAM JACKSON OLLIE Atkins believes he and his Exeter Chiefs teammates have been given the perfect stage on which to...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoUnthinkable demise after Mad Max’s razzmatazz
When Max Guazzini bowed out six years ago, Stade Francais had good reason to feel as safe as the Central European...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoLaidlaw deserved some respect
ITV introduced Greig Laidlaw to their team of Calcutta Cup pundits with a caption of shameless Anglo-centricity: “Lost each of five...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoKeep your hands to yourself, Jonathan!
THE immediate aftermath of Ireland’s disallowed try against Wales provided further depressingly graphic evidence of how rugby is trashing one of...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoIsn’t player welfare still a hot topic?
PREMIERSHIP clubs want 50 per cent of the takings to secure the release of their players for the proposed out-of-window Test...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRowntree reprises Lions role to assist Borthwick
By SAM JACKSON GRAHAM Rowntree and Neil Jenkins have been appointed assistant coaches for this summer’s British & Irish Lions tour...
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/ 9 years agoSafety first? No, it’s now about who dares wins
By NEALE HARVEY EXETER backs coach Ali Hepher believes English players deserve more credit for their skills following a sharp increase...
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/ 9 years agoInternational snub powering Chiefs’ charge for title
FLANKER Don Armand reckons Exeter’s players can prove their Test credentials by claiming the Premiership title after using this season’s England...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoEngland outsider Goode focused on Saracens trophies
ALEX Goode insists he will see out the remaining three years of his contract with Saracens and has rubbished talk he...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoWages of sin don’t prove too costly for Trailfinders
By JEREMY INSON Ealing .59pts Tries: penalty 3, Lewis Jones 12, 31, Harries 22, Mantella 26, 48, Davies 71, Munro 79...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoJust topping from Topsy but Pirates fire warning
By NEALE HARVEY London Irish …39pts Tries: Ojo 7, 80, Paice 14, De Chaves 22, Ransom 25, 30, Lewington 28 Conversions:...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoHaining on high for Jersey to leave Titans grounded
By TOM INNES Jerseym…17pts Tries: Kerrod 45, Haining 72 Conversions: Sheedy 34, 72 Penalties: Sheedy 52 Rotherham …9pts Penalties: Millar 10,...
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English Championship
/ 9 years ago13-man Exiles snap their losing streak with early derby onslaught
By LUKE JARMYN Richmond …8pts Tries: Uren 72 Penalties: Kirby 17 L Scottish …19pts Tries: Stevenson 4, Lydon 8, Sheppard 19...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoCarpenter: Knights are charged for play-off run
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW… Doncaster Knights v Yorkshire Carnegie Today. Kick-off 3pm DONCASTER’S Canadian star Aaron Carpenter is predicting a titanic...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
SCOTT HAMILTON THE FORMER ALL BLACK, CRUSADERS AND LEICESTER WINGER/FULL-BACK The main reason I made the All Blacks team in 2006...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoBow: Premiership must take control of tier two
By NEALE HARVEY Struggle: Nottingham in action against Cornish Pirates NOTTINGHAM chairman Alistair Bow fears Championship rugby will continue its downward...
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/ 9 years agoFylde hit out at ‘farcical’ attempts to cap wages
RFU plans to introduce wage caps into the lower leagues have been branded as “farcical” by Fylde board member Mike Brennand....
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/ 9 years agoEddie’s lionhearts must now dispel the myth of supermen
As this year’s Six Nations finishes with more of a fizz than a bang, with everything decided last week, have we...
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Features
/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
STEVE BODEN YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE FORWARDS COACH How has your week been up in Leeds? We had a good training with a...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWarriors rejuvenated after Gold makeover
By TOM BRADSHAW GARY Gold has revealed he discovered a Worcester squad training poorly and unprepared for the physical intensity of...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMitchell: Lions should go with co-captains
By JON NEWCOMBE THE Lions captaincy will be the key debate now the Six Nations has concluded, but John Mitchell believes...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoComeback kings storm home to stay undefeated
By NICK VERDIER THE CRUSADERS are turning into this season’s comeback kings with yet another great escape against the Blues on...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoMehrtens calls for radical changes to ‘stupid’ system
FORMERAll Black fly-half Andrew Mehrtens believes New Zealand should focus their domestic structure o their own timezone and ditch South African...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoGibson: Revert to simple format, it works
By SAM JACKSON WARATAHS coach Daryl Gibson wants SANZAAR to revert to a Super Rugby format in which every team plays...
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Sevens World Series
/ 9 years agoVictory in Vancouver cuts Blitzbokke lead
VANCOUVER WRAP By NICK VERDIER ENGLAND claimed their second tournament victory this season on the World Sevens circuit with victory over...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoStudents convene for April double header
ENGLAND Students have announced their 42-man training squad ahead of next month’s internationals against Ireland Universities and French Students. The players,...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoUnbeaten England building for Wales
By NICK VERDIER England U18 31pts Scotland U18 17pts Setting the tempo: England skipper Ollie Fox feeds his backs ENGLAND ended...
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/ 9 years agoTop schools peaking for nationals
SCHOOL SEVENS HAMPTON go into this week’s Rosslyn Park national Sevens tournament unbeaten after seeing off Beechen Cliff in the Surrey...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoDefending champions Exeter face Hartpury in BUCS final
UNIVERSITY RUGBY HARTPURY College and Exeter will battle it out for the BUCS Rugby Championship at Twickenham on March 30 after...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
DOMINIC MORRIS ENGLAND U20s WING Being injured at the start of the season, Dominic Morris would not have expected to have...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoEngland go numb as the big freeze strikes again
From NICK CAIN at the Aviva Stadium No farther, Brown: England full-back Mike Brown is shackled Pile-up: the ball runs loose...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWhite confirms move to join Wallabies in West Country
By STEVE RIGBY EXETER Chiefs confirmed the signing of Australian scrum-half Nic White for next season. As revealed on Blindside last...
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/ 9 years agoDefeated Morley in relegation battle
MORLEYwere unable to make their game in hand count in their battle to avoid relegation as they went down 27-19 at...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoChief Short named player of the month
EXETER Chiefs wing James Short has been named Premiership player of the month for February. Short, below, was judged to be...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoHome tie for Premiership’s seventh best
A DRAWhas taken place for the play-off matches to determine which club secures the final place in next season’s Champions Cup....
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/ 9 years agoStridgeon joins WRU
PAUL Stridgeon has joined the WRU on a permanent basis as physical performance manager. Stridgeon, who first linked up with Wales...
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/ 9 years agoBroken toe for Bowe
IRELANDwing Tommy Bowe faces a spell on the sidelines after breaking his toe after coming off the bench against Wales. Ireland...
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/ 9 years agoIbanez on the move
RAPHAEL Ibanez will step down as director of rugby at Bordeaux-Begles at the end of the season. The 98-cap French hooker...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoChanges at Grenoble
GRENOBLE have parted ways with Irish head coach Bernard Jackman. Jackman took over in the summer from Fabrice Landreau but the...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoPrincipality Premiership
By RICH JONES Ebbw Vale 13 Pontypridd 20 PONTYPRIDD made it three wins from three in Tier One as they extended...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoNant stretch lead with rout of Ruthin
SWALEC Division One round-up By ROB COLE NANT CONWY pulled eight points clear at the top of Division One North as...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoMunster to face Ealing
MUNSTER ‘A’ completed the lineup for the British & Irish Cup semi-final by overcoming provincial rivals Ulster ‘A’ 26-3 last Sunday....
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International Rugby
/ 9 years agoSpain defy red mist to push Belgium to verge of drop
By JON NEWCOMBE RUGBY EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP Spain playmaker: Brad Linklater SPAIN overcame Jesus Moreno’s 43rd-minute red card for a stamp to...
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International Rugby
/ 9 years agoYou traitor, fans yell at the Stade president
You are a traitor. You have been playing Monopoly with our club. The accusation, full of bitterness and disillusion, was the...
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International Rugby
/ 9 years agoStrettle try-double keeps Clermont marching on
CLERMONT, even though they, too, have endured traumatic ends to their seasons in recent years through unexpected failure, have returned to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, March 19, 2017 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs SUNDAY, MARCH 19...
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