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Premiership
/ 1 year agoMichael Cheika quick to defend Ollie Hassell-Collins
Leicester boss Michael Cheika defended Ollie Hassell-Collins after his try-scoring wing was yellow-carded for a forearm chop on Alex Hearle. “I’m...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 1 year agoGlasgow Warriors 36-18 Stormers: Champions on course to retain their crown
Glasgow ............36pts Tries: Darge 10, Rowe 15, 45, Venter 28, Horne 51 Conversions: Horne 11, 16, 46, 52 Penalty: Horne 56...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 1 year agoIt wasn’t pretty but we made it, says Keenan
By JOHN FALLON Leinster ..............................33pts Tries: Lowe 5, Gibson-Park 10, Osborne 46, Keenan 60 Conversions: Prendergast 11, 47 Penalties: Prendergast 35,...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 1 year agoBulls 42-33 Edinburgh: South African’s are too good for Edinburgh’s battlers
Bulls .................. 42pts Tries: Hanekom 18, Kriel 32, Vorster 37, Moodie 43, Johannes 46, Nortje 51 Conversions: Johannes 44, 47, 52...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoBest yet to come for Bristol Bears, says captain Fitz Harding
Bristol went into Saturday's match against Harlequins having been in the top four all season, but Fitz Harding believes the best...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoNorthampton Saints’ Jonny Weimann takes his lead from Alex Mitchell
Northampton's production line shows no sign of slowing down, with Jonny Weimann the latest prospect off the conveyor belt. Henry Pollock,...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoUruguay’s Gonzalez joins the Worcester rebuild
WORCESTER Warriors have signed Uruguay back Juan Gonzalez as they build towards their return next season in the revamped Championship. The...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoPenguins RFC are happy to give prisoners a helping hand
The Penguins RFC summer tour saw the men’s team beat Bologna RFC 40-17 while the women’s team heavily defeated Colorno RFC,...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoMemories are made of this, says coach Rae
■By DAVID LAWRENCE DELIGHTED Coventry head coach Alex Rae praised his departing players after they turned on the style to run...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoMaisey holds his nerve to snatch it for Bedford
■By CHRIS ROGERS Caldy .................26pts Tries: Robinson 6, 70; Wilkinson 17, 45 Conversions: Barker 7, 18, 46 Bedford ............29pts Tries: Jack...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoCattle: We were lucky to hold on to that one
■By MIKE SINCLAIR Cornish Pirates .............. 35pts Tries: Pritchard 12, Ribbons 26, Hallam 51, Yates 53, Hocking 58 Conversions: Houston 12,...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoChampions Ealing keep marching on
■By RHYS THE sun set on the Championship season with another magnficent seven from champions Ealing. Ealing attack coach David Johnston...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoDoncaster make it ten out of ten to secure third
By BEN WHITE Ampthill ...........1 Tries: Sharwood 18, Mapapalangi 23, Va’enuku 80 Conversions: Davidson 19; Marshall 80 Doncaster ........29pts Tries: Veainu...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoChinnor hit 12 to end season on a high note
By STEVE JACKSON Chinnor ..............82pts Tries: Goss 5, 32; Carter 15, 20, 76, 80; Hughes 25, Walker 40, Bourton 42, Hall...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoMike Brown: I never took a backward step, I never gave up
Paul Rees talks to Mike Brown, the gritty full-back who played 72 times for his country and never let his standards...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoBrendan Gallagher: Alex Goode was high class under the high ball
So, almost unbelievably, it’s farewell to Alex Goode, one of the three or four best full-backs I’ve ever seen anywhere, even...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 year agoTime to decide: To party or play?
For numerous reasons too complicated to detail, I haven’t attended a match in person in Cardiff for a very long while,...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoCheshire work hard to subdue Cumbria
Division 2 ■By JOSH THOMAS CHESHIRE came from behind to beat Cumbria 45-28 to move into the semi-finals unbeaten after a...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSemi-finals decided
Division 3 ■By GEORGE WELLBELOVE LEICESTERSHIRE, Hertfordshire, Dorset & Wiltshire and Sussex qualified for the Division 3 semi-finals. After three weeks...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoMinikin is on fire for dominant Yorkshire
Division 1 ■By LUKE JARMYN Lancashire .......22pts Tries: C Smith 15, Bowker 31, Ailes 57, Quinn 78 Conversion: Hunt 16 Yorkshire...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoHerts force Leicestershire to battle to finish
Gill Burns County Championship ■ By MOSHER LEICESTERSHIRE booked a semi-final place in the third tier of the Gill Burns Cup...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSix of the best sees Cornwall end on a high
Division 1 ■By BILL HOOPER Hampshire .......32pts Tries: Dennett 2, Sargent 18, Colbourne 37, 68; Bruce 43, Meyer 80 Conversion: Dennett...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoI really like the idea of Cup competitions
Coach to coach Steve Hill puts the questions to Rudi Kochanowski, below, the head coach of Hampshire Men’s County XV (Division...
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Club Rugby
/ 1 year agoResults
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoToulouse keen to get back in groove
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN SITTING out last weekend’s Champions Cup final was not in Toulouse’s plans at the start of the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoExpect Grenoble to get it right this time
GRENOBLE will go into next Saturday’s ProD2 final as strong favourites for the title, and the prize of promotion to the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoVaa’i hat-trick puts Chiefs in command
Super Rugby Pacific round-up ■ By SAM JACKSON THE Chiefs secured top ranking for the play-offs with a 41-24 win over...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoBrave Lupus promise to take the attack to Spears
Japan League One preview Ace: Richie Mo’unga BRAVE Lupus second row Warner Dearns insists the defending champions will continue their expansive,...
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News Extra
/ 1 year agoExeter locks on their way
NEWS EXTRA LOCKS Franco Molina and Jack Dunne are to leave Exeter at the end of the season. Argentina’s Molina, 27,...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoForthcoming fixtures
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoPete Ryan: The ‘often overlooked’ Sam Davies still tearing up Pro D2
Arguably the most famous position on a rugby pitch, a fly-half is integral to any side at any level. Charged with...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoPete Ryan: Bridgend Athletic ready to write their next chapter in Welsh grassroots rugby
“Playing for Bridgend Ath is like being part of a big rugby family. It’s serious when it needs to be, but...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoSaracens boss Mark McCall declines to comment as Owen Farrell linked to Premiership return
Saracens boss Mark McCall declined to comment on reports that former club captain and England fly-half Owen Farrell could be eyeing...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSam Underhill handed four-match ban for dangerous tackle in Challenge Cup final
England flanker Sam Underhill is set to miss Bath‘s bid for the Gallagher Premiership title after receiving a four-week ban. Underhill...
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Rugby Paper News
/ 1 year agoRWC Countdown: Halfway to Go, Why Are the Boks Not Favourites for Historic Three-Peat?
It feels like only yesterday that Siya Kolisi was lifting the Webb Ellis Cup aloft at the Stade de France after...
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Rugby Paper News
/ 1 year agoHow the rise of online sports betting has impacted rugby in the UK
Rugby is comfortably one of the top five sports in the UK. And just as it is popular among fans and...
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Guest Blogs
/ 1 year agoRugby Superstitions: How Fans and Players Try To Affect The Game
As is the case with many sports, rugby is full of interesting and sometimes strange superstitions. Whether it’s fans who are...
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Rugby Paper News
/ 1 year agoCan Leinster Win The URC? – What The Bookmakers Think
The 2024/2025 season for the United Rugby Championship began on the 20th of September 2024 and will conclude on Saturday the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSuper Rugby Americas Round 13 Review: Peñarol move top ahead of Warren Gatland addition
Selknam 20-17 Yacare Selknam produced a stirring performance to keep their playoff hopes alive by defeating Yacare 20-17 just six days after their historic...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoGreat Britain to cut its sevens project
Great Britain will cease to run full-time sevens programmes at the end of July. Players will still meet up to train...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoDoctor calls for concussion protocols to be revised
Doctor Ben Jones, a former scrum-half with Northampton, Worcester and England 7s, has called for concussion guidelines to be revised to...
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoImmanuel Feyi-Waboso ‘raring to get stuck in’, says Steve Borthwick
Steve Borthwick says Immanuel Feyi-Waboso is ‘raring to get stuck in’ and hopes the ‘world-class’ Exeter winger will feature in England’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 1 year agoDate for Rugby World Club Cup revealed
The first Rugby World Club Cup will be held in 2028 after “unanimous” agreement from the relevant leagues and unions. The...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoBath pair Finn Russell and Thomas du Toit lead Premiership awards shortlist
Bath duo Finn Russell and Thomas du Toit are among five nominations for this season’s Premiership player of the season award....
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoBrave Northampton Saints didn’t have enough in reserve
Injuries have cursed Northampton Saints’ season and there was no relief on their biggest day of the decade.
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 year agoBath 37-12 Lyon: Ben Spencer sparkles as Bath put Lyon to sword
Bath won their first major trophy for 17 years with the biggest margin of victory in a Challenge Cup Final since...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoFinn Russell: We’ve worked hard and we are not finished yet
Bath remain in the running for a treble this season with them favourites to clinch the Premiership title and the Premiership...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoMax Ojomoh: Bath have the tools for any job
Max Ojomoh compares Bath, who in three seasons have risen from basement battlers to table toppers, to a Swiss Army knife....
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoFraser Balmain ‘excited’ to sign for Worcester Warriors
Saracens prop Fraser Balmain will join Worcester at the end of the season. Balmain previously played for Leicester, where he won...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 1 year agoGabriel Hamer-Webb to quit Cardiff
Cardiff wing Gabriel Hamer-Webb will leave the club this summer, with Leicester favourites to sign him. Welsh-qualified Hamer-Webb, 24, joined Cardiff...
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