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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 9 years agoPower lines give Yorkshire an early surge
By ANDREW SMITH Yorkshire 26 Cheshire 17 YORKSHIRE made an inspired start to their County Championship campaign with a deserved three-try...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 9 years agoFour-star Goatley on fire for Gloucs
By TONY FIELDING Gloucs 55 Devon 12 CINDERFORD’S Sam Goatley scored four tries as Gloucestershire scored 35 unanswered secondhalf points to...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 9 years agoNo beating Herts despite man down
By GRAHAM COX Kent 12 Hertfordshire 19 HERTFORDSHIRE survived nearly an hour playing with 14 men to open their campaign with...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 9 years agoEssex turn on power for a high five
Division Three Round-up By WILL REILLY ESSEX produced a fine display as they powered past Notts, Lincs & Derbys 37-8 in...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 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....
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoIrish hold most aces, but there were plenty of kings in the pack and backs
by Nick Verdier London Irish were head and shoulders above any other side during the regular season but many individuals have...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
PETER SCRIVENER THE FORMER WASPS NO.8 In the early days of professionalism, I was officially the highest paid player in the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoHalfpenny free to join Lions from off
LEIGH Halfpenny will be available for the start of the British and Irish Lions tour even if Toulon reach the Top14...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoChief Thomas to go from player to coach
EXETER’S long-standing scrum-half Haydn Thomas confirmed he will be retiring from playing at the end of the season to take up...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMunster hit Pro12 Dream Team for six
MUNSTER saw six of their players being selected in the Pro12 Dream Team for 2016/17 which includes only two Lions tourists...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoHynard back to head Saracens academy
MIKE Hynard is to rejoin Saracens to take over from Don Barrell as academy manager. Premiership Rugby head of academies and...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWasps bid farewell to Festuccia, 36
WASPS’ Italian hooker Carlo Festuccia, 36, is to retire after a 19-year professional rugby career which included two stints with the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoFrance to play Test in United Arab Emirates
BERNARD Laporte suggested France could play Test matches in the coming two seasons in the United Arab Emirates. The French Federation...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoYoung so lucky he has time to get Wasps buzzing again
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Okay, I’ll admit it, even though I am a former Wasps player...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoJones hat-trick clinches title for Pwllheli
SWALEC Division One round-up By JAMES LLOYD PWLLHELI pipped Nant Conwy to the North title with a resounding 71-0 shutout triumph...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoGarland’s just Wizard to ensure home semi-final date
Aberavon………28 Bedwas…………9 By TIM LEWIS ABERAVON guaranteed themselves a home semifinal in their bid for the title with a 28-9 victory...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoGunter key as Steelmen dethrone champions
Ebbw Vale……26 Merthyr………35 By TREFOR WILLIAMS EBBW VALE’S reign as Principality Premiership champions is over and their mantle could yet pass...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoDrovers claim local pride with quickfire bonus-point win
Llandovery…33 Carmarthen Q 19 By LIAM MATTHEWS THERE was little other than local pride riding on this Tier 1 match and...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoRGC grab the Loots to book Merthyr showdown
Pontypridd…18 RGC 1404………37 By ROB COLE TIAAN LOOTS raced 75 metres to score the vital try that guided RGC 404 to...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoThomas signs off in style as Cardiff clear the basement
Bargoed………26 Cardiff RFC…35 By JOE THOMAS CARDIFF lifted themselves away from the foot of Principality Premiership’s second tier with a bonuspoint...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoHowley pitch perfect as Neath take their chances
Neath……………21 Bridgend………10 By JAMES LLOYD NEATH secured a home semi-final in the Tier Two play-offs after taking victory in their winner-takes-all...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoPositive thinking is crucial now says Jackson
By NICK VERDIER DRAGONS back rower Ed Jackson is determined to keep positive after seeing a huge breakthrough following his broken...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoConfident Ospreys unfazed by trip to Ireland
By ALEX BYWATER JAMES King says the Ospreys can travel to Ireland with confidence as they prepare for a tilt at...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
SAM GRAHAMSLAW LEICESTER PROP Switching from the back row to prop is no easy feat fresh out of school, but Sam...
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Features
/ 9 years agoParisse is preparing for famous farewell
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Stade Francais are preparing for their Challenge Cup showdown with Gloucester this week with, at first sight,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoCockerill helps steer Toulon to play-offs
STOP-GAP Toulon boss Richard Cockerill last night delivered another powerful blow in his bid to make a stunning impression on the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoNaholo try clinches stunning fightback
By NICK VERDIER NEW ZEALAND teams just do not know when they are beaten as the Highlanders demonstrated with a sensational...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Weekend beginning Friday, May 12, 2017 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs FRIDAY, MAY 12...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoBurns determined to ignore snub and leave Tigers with winning roar
By NEALE HARVEY Title in his sights: Freddie Burns wants to exit with a Premiership success PICTURE: Getty Images Coach: Matt...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWoodburn refusing to give up on England dream
IN-FORMExeter wing Olly Woodburn reckons being snubbed by England has only fuelled his ambition to nail down a Premiership winner’s medal....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoNo lazy Sunday afternoon for lineout analyst Kruis
By ADAM HATHAWAY GEORGE Kruis will be skipping domestic duties today as he masterminds Saracens bid for European glory against Clermont...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoPart-time would be end of promotion
IN TRP last Sunday, Jon Newcombe quoted Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill as suggesting more Championship clubs will choose the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoTime to rethink the B&I Cup fiasco and offer real incentive
WITH the Championship stumbling from one crisis to another, due to lack of sufficient central funding, there is another aspect of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoEngland deserved even more Lions
AFTER every Lions selection there are complaints that some countries have been under represented. However if you take fair representation as...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYes, time has come to ring-fence Premiership
COLIN BOAG Facts of life: Rob Baxter speaks sense about the state of the game The Championship play-offs illustrated perfectly why...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDREAM TEAM
KARL DICKSON, THE QUINS AND FORMER BEDFORD SCRUM-HALF CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… KARL DICKSON 1....
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoPicamoles has stood out despite Saints’ struggles
Dominant: Northampton No.8 Louis Picamoles PICTURE: Getty Images IT is no real surprise that there are three Wasps in the RPA...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoYoung’s hat-trick puts buzz back into Wasps
Wasps 35pts Tries: Young 20, 39, 78, Wade 59, Daly 71 Conversions: Gopperth 59, 71 Penalties: Gopperth 16, 35 Saracens 15pts...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoThat 7’s not too bad is he says dad
WASPS rugby director Dai Young saluted his side, and his man-of-the-match openside flanker, son Thomas, for securing a home Premiership semifinal...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoChiefs earn home semi with record 8th bonus win on trot
Gloucester 20pts Tries: Ludlow 7 May 27, 59 Conversions: Laidlaw 7 Penalties: Laidlaw 19 Exeter 34pts Tries: Whitten 35 Moon 51...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoWe’ll get up for Stade – Laidlaw
GLOUCESTER’S Champions Cup qualification hopes now rest on Friday’s Challenge Cup final against Stade Francais. After finishing ninth for a third...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoMcGeechan: Lions have quality to win
No one speaks with more authority and knowledge about the British & Irish Lions than Sir Ian McGeechan, who was head...
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Young Gun
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: James Lasis – Loughborough Students lock
James Lasis started the season as a loosehead but it is at lock that he is looking to turn professional next...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Whitcombe dynasty now propping up England
When he left Cardiff before the Second World War, Frank Whitcombe could have had no idea he would be creating a...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoOnly way to beat the All Blacks is all out attack – Robbie Fruean
As a proud Kiwi, Robbie Fruean would never bet against the All Blacks, but he reckons their downfall against the Lions...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Robin Hislop – Doncaster prop
1. Foreign meat I grew up on a farm in the Scottish Borders rearing sheep and cattle so it pains me...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams: It pains me but Scarlets will shade my Ospreys
It’s business time in the PRO12 as the season reaches the run-in and I think Wayne Pivac‘s Scarlets are in the...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNathan Earle speaks out after his surprise England call-up
Nathan Earle says he is glad he was horizontal in bed when he got the news of his selection for the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoTigers No.1 legacy safe with Genge says Ayerza
Leicester prop legend Marcos Ayerza has revealed how the joy of entrusting his beloved No.1 jersey to tyro loosehead Ellis Genge...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years ago20 Questions: Nick Selway – Jersey hooker
What did you make of the Championship season? It was disappointing to miss out on the play-offs but we’ve got to...
International Rugby
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