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/ 5 years agoPlayers lost their kit in a daze every week
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER RICHMOND AND ESHER FLY-HALF ROB KIRBY My time at Christchurch Boys High in New Zealand was...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Kieran Murphy: Insulted in French, but I couldn’t understand!
The former Scarlets, Brive, London Welsh and Ealing Trailfinders will head for a job in the City
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Ashley Johnson: World Cup snub led me to Wasps
LIKE any black player growing up in South Africa, you couldn’t be mediocre, you couldn’t just be another talent, you had...
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/ 5 years agoDream stay at Pirates delivered big break
MY LIFEIN RUGBY BRISTOL BEARS WOMEN’S HEAD COACH AND FORMER BATH, NORTHAMPTON, SALE, CORNISH PIRATES, HARLEQUINS AND AMPTHILL HOOKER/FLANKER DAVE WARD...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Aled Brew: Ko’d by Burger after my World Cup try
After my time at Bath ended, I still had a little bit of fire left in the belly, as they say,...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Alex Davies: My first year at Leeds was the fondest of all
SOMEONE pointed out to me that winning silverware doesn’t happen very often so I can count myself as one of the...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Neil Doak: Lara wicket highlight of my international career!
SPORT has played a huge part in my life. I played quite a lot of sports – football, golf, tennis –...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Chris Czekaj: I won Challenge Cup after leg break horror
FOUR years after I’d scored on my Wales debut in 2005 against Canada, I did so again in the same corner...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Dougie Flockhart: We took Bristol to the wire in play-off
THE Dumfries Primary 4 tournament, aged six or seven, was my first taste of rugby. Up until that point I was...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Ian Nimmo: Leicester lads had me labelled as strange
THE FORMER LEICESTER, COVENTRY, NOTTINGHAM, CORNISH PIRATES, NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS, LONDON IRISH AND LONDON WELSH LOCK RIGHT the way through my...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Nick Popplewell: Life with the Lions was such a contrast for me
THE Lions tour to New Zealand in 1993 was the trip of a lifetime, I suppose in rugby terms it was...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Sean Scanlon: Rotherham were the fancy dress champs
Former Nottingham, Munster, Rotherham and Doncaster full-back Sean Scanlon reflects on his rugby career
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Kevin Maggs: Connolly and Foley ruined my Bath team
The Bristol, Bath, Ulster and Ireland centre discusses his career which had plenty of twists and bends
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Leicester Tigers wing Steve Hackney
Steve Hackney reflects on his rugby career that spanned across spells with Loughborough University, Leicester Tigers and Waterloo
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Cobus Visagie: Highs and lows of being a modern-day gladiator
ALTHOUGH my final surge into the top tier of world rugby was sudden in 1999, I was very blessed to have...
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England flanker Mickey Skinner
A deeper look at the career of the iconic back row, revered for more than just the Cecillon tackle in '91
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Orrell and Leicester fly-half Gerry Ainscough
The man who came from Wigan to set things alight at Orrell during the 1980s
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo
Former Cornish Pirates, Yorkshire Carnegie and Benetton back Di Bernardo reflects on his career
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Wallabies, Reds, and Worcester full-back Chris Latham
Latham shares the stadium where he delighted in playing rugby and how Jason Robinson was one of his toughest tests in...
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Sale Sharks back row Apollo Perelini
A teammate of Scott Gibbs in league, an opponent of Martin Johnson's in age-grade union, read Perelini's dual-code tales
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Hadyn Thomas
Thomas also played for Gloucester and Bristol but remembers the Championship final drama of ten years ago most
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Scotland and Saracens lock Tom Ryder
Jon Newcombe talks to the player who introduced the Tiki Tiki Tonga song to Saracens
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath and England captain Phil de Glanville
A captaincy with England which started with its challenges after succeeding Will Carling
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former USA Eagles captain, Leicester and Cardiff Blues full-back Blaine Scully
Scully explains how his career started Stateside and drew the attention of Leicester in 2013
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Playing for British & Irish Lions was most special honour for Rory Underwood
England's all-time leading tryscorer played in a World Cup and was a spectator at the 2003 triumph in Sydney
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Scotland, Leicester, Edinburgh and London Irish back Greig Tonks
The versatile Scotland international lives in the comfort of having no regrets at retiring, aged 30
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Argentina, Gloucester and Leeds winger Diego Albanese
From debut against Uruguay to the 1995 Rugby World Cup just a few months later
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Wasps openside flanker Paul Volley
The No.7 talks Jon Newcombe through his time at Wasps, Castres, Harlequins and London Scottish
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Canada, Sale, London Welsh and Esher utility back Phil MacKenzie
Three relegations haven't dampened the Canadian's outlook on his time in English club rugby
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Pontypridd, Dragons and Cardiff fly-half Lee Jarvis
Jarvis reveals what it was like for him to practice with Neil Jenkins when he was on the fringe of Pontypridd's...
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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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 7 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Bruce Reihana – former All Blacks, Chiefs and Northampton back
Now skills coach at Bristol Bears
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/ 8 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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/ 9 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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