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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Wallabies great Michael Lynagh
Former Queensland, Benetton and Saracens fly-half recalls the most entertaining Test he played in
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Ulster and Northampton No.8 Roger Wilson
A 15-year rugby career saw the back row play for Ulster, Northampton and Ireland
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England Sevens star Christian Lewis-Pratt
Lewis-Pratt also played XVs for Northampton, Leeds Tykes and London Irish
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Leicester Tiger back Matt Smith
Now Leicester Tigers academy head coach after retiring last season
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England captain Catherine Spencer
TRP columnist features in our My Life in Rugby section
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former London Irish and Scotland forward Kieran Low
A remarkable story of a player who reached the heights but can't recall some moments due to concussion
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Wasps, Bath and Yorkshire Carnegie prop Charlie Beech
Now shifting his career into an office after 15 years in the front row
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Ireland prop Paul Wallace
One of the Lions' victorious tourists to win in South Africa in 1997
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Saracens and Namibia flanker Jacques Burger
Jon Newcombe talks to the ferocious back row forward on how his career began in desperate circumstances at Griquas
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath, Toulon and Sharks scrum-half Michael Claassens
A player who loved running out at The Rec before stints with Toulon and the Sharks
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Scotland lock Scott MacLeod
A Scot who played against England twice in his international career and was victorious on both occasions
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Hugo Southwell: Former Scotland, Edinburgh, Stade Francais and Wasps full-back
Southwell recalls the World Cup heartache of 2007 when the Scots were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Argentina
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Italy full-back Luke McLean
Luke McLean talks World Cups and being coached as a debutant by Nick Mallett
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Gloucester, England and Lions prop Phil Blakeway
Phil Blakeway revels he the battles he had with Wales and France
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/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England and current Wasps back Danielle Waterman
World Cup glory, an Olympic dream and now being coached by Giselle Mather
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/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Nottingham and Saracens back Tim Streather
The ex-Sarries centre talks about how back and knee injury proved an obstacle too difficult to overcome
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/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Bruce Reihana – former All Blacks, Chiefs and Northampton back
Now skills coach at Bristol Bears
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/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Junior Fatialofa – Former Cornish Pirates, Exeter and Bristol centre
One of my earliest rugby memories was watching Western Samoa, captained by my Uncle Peter, beat Wales at the 1991 World...
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/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England and Wasps lock Tom Palmer
My 19-year, 450-game professional career began in 1998 with Leeds Tykes, who were then playing in the Allied Dunbar Premiership 2....
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/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England and Bath No.8 Dave Egerton
Dave Egerton reflects on his career with England & Bath, where motivation was borne out of a desire to be considered...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Neil Mason – former Moseley and Worcester flanker
As a competitive back-row forward, there is always going to be a thin line between being on the right or wrong...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Garath Archer – former Newcastle, Bristol and England lock
Despite the fact my dad played on the wing for Gosforth when they were in their hey-day in the 70s, I...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jamie Noon – former England, Newcaslte and Brive centre
Scoring a hat-trick against Scotland in my first Six Nations campaign – I think I was the first England player to...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Gavin Cattle – Cornish Pirates legend
I always thought of myself as more of a game manager rather than a game changer, feeding off the good work...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jan Webster – former England and Barbarians scrum-half
After all these years, I’d like to put the record straight – I did not decline to play over in Ireland...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andy Saull – former Saracens, Newcastle and Yorkshire Carnegie flanker
Running out first in front of an 80,000-plus world record crowd at Wembley to mark my 100th appearance for Saracens was...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Kurt Johnson – former Coventry and Orrell wing
With my hair dyed pink and the No.14 shaved into the back of my head, people might have wrongly assumed I...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ben Gotting – former Wasps and Worcester hooker
To play in the 2004 Premiership final and make a significant contribution to our 10-6 win over Bath was undoubtedly a...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Tom Johnson – former England and Exeter flanker
I was a bag of nerves before my first Test against South Africa in 2012. Geoff Parling told me afterwards that...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Mike Worsley – former England prop
I was born in Warrington and my uncle, Ken Gill, played Rugby League for Great Britain but I never played the...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Steve Ravenscroft – former England centre
Looking back on my playing days I feel incredibly fortunate to have been at a club like Saracens, at such a...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jimmy Richards – former Harlequins hooker
Growing up in a small fishing village in North Pembroke-shire, it wasn’t unusual for me be up at 2am and spend...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Simon Binns – former Leicester fly-half
I experienced some memorable wins as a player – beating Bath at home while at London Scottish, for example – but...
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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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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Seb Jewell – former London Welsh full-back
I fell into professional rugby and then fell in and out of love with it several times along the way. Originally,...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andrew Turnbull – former Scotland Sevens and Rotherham wing
When I turned up for my first World Rugby Sevens Series tournament in Hong Kong in 2004, I couldn’t believe my...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Gary Powell – former Gloucester prop
After countless hours playing Jonah Lomu Rugby on the PlayStation at Llandovery College it was surreal to suddenly find myself sat...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Chris Malone – former Bath, London Irish and Quins fly-half
I came to England in 2001 and had 10 great years, experiencing time at five different clubs, all of which were...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jon Phillips – former Northampton and Bedford lock
Times have changed a bit since I played (and scored) in Saints’ first-ever Premiership match back in August 1997. There were...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Anthony Allen – former England and Leicester centre
With hindsight, getting capped by England at 20, just over a year after leaving school, was way too soon. But you...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Lee Blackett – former Rotherham and Leeds centre
I’d love to say that the biggest crowd in Rotherham‘s history (6,894) turned out specifically to see my club debut against...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Nikki Walker – former Ospreys and Worcester wing
Winning the Celtic League in my first season at Ospreys with a victory at the Border Reivers was a bitter-sweet experience...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Nick Baxter – former Worcester and England Sevens wing
To be the first player to score 100 National League tries and everything else that came my way was beyond any...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Scott Morgan – former Wales forward
Each and every time I pulled on a club jersey was special to me irrespective of who I played for, but...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Luke Fielden – former Bedford and Newcastle wing
Through good times and bad, rugby has been a part of my life and that will continue even though I’ve had...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Peter Winterbottom – former Lions, England & Quins flanker
Rugby was in my blood from an early age. Chris Rea lodged with us for a bit after he’d moved down...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Gareth Llewellyn – former Wales, Neath, Bristol and Quins lock
I think rugby changed more during the 20 years of my career than it did in the previous 50 with the...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ralph Keyes – former Munster and Ireland fly-half
To be top points scorer at the 1991 World Cup (with 68) is something I’m immensely proud of to this day,...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Tim Payne – former Wasps, England and Lions prop
After brief spells at Bristol and then Cardiff I was very close to jacking rugby in and pursuing a career in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Dave Baldwin – former Sale lock
Despite being a proud Yorkshireman most of my playing days were spent on the other side of the Pennines, with Sale....
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