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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: The Top 14 looks the likeliest route for Maro Itoje now
Jeremy Guscott looks at how the Saracens lock can maintain his financial income and international ambitions with England and the Lions
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Sedgley Park fly-half Steve Collins
Nobody wants brick-sized phones like the 1980s, Collins argues
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Features
/ 6 years agoTRP’s National Two South Team of the Season
We can reveal the National Two North XV voted for their standout individual campaigns in 2019-20
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions tour contenders RANKED – Tomos can put pressure on Conor Murray
Nick Cain ranks the scrum-halves available to Warren Gatland for the 2021 tour of South Africa
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Features
/ 6 years agoFive clubs in a queue for Lucas
Wanted: Isaac Lucas LONDON Irish and Bath are among the clubs who are interested in signing former Queensland Reds fly-half Isaac...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhere have all the Welsh coaches gone?
NO MATTER how different it may look or when it will start, next season will have a depressingly familiar look about...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBack three riches will give Pivac a problem
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND There was a time not so long ago when Wales were worried about their back...
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/ 6 years agoBattlefields to playing fields, medics with double lives
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at the most impressive rugby doctors TOP 20 ...RUGBY PLAYING DOCTORS NEXT WEEK...
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/ 6 years agoSideburns,big hair and huge talent the 70s Lions were show-stoppers
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Flying doctor: JPR in full flow in...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTyrrells are toast for the women
TYRRELLS have chosen not to renewtheir threeyear sponsorship of the Women’s Premier 15s when it comes to end in August. The...
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Features
/ 6 years agoANATOMY OF THAT BARBARIANS 1973 TRY
THE 1971 Lions re-mustered in all but name for the Barbarians match against New Zealand in January 1973 with Phil Bennett...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHolmes in at Dragons
DRAGONSconfirmed the signing of Wales wing Jonah Holmes following his release from Leicester. The 27-year-old scored 24 tries in three seasons...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEngland beat the Boks and the All Blacks!
Gloucester farmer: John Pullin GENERALLY the 70s weren’t kind to England but there was a madcap two or three years at...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIsiekwe will be a Saint for a year
ENGLAND forward Nick Isiekwe, 22, will join Northampton Saints on loan for the 2020-21 season, as revealed on Blindside in March,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLoader steps in to beef up Ystalyfera forwards
By ROB COLE NEWS EXTRA YSTALYFERA have added former Wales prop Christian Loader to their coaching team for next season as...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThomas urged to make Ospreys chance count
By ROB COLE Held: Nicky Thomas of Scarlets tackles Leinster’s Ed Byrne Inset: Nicky Smith Help: Bernard Jackman NICKY Thomas’ return...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSo proud to be made captain of my country
THE FORMER USA EAGLES CAPTAIN AND LEICESTER AND CARDIFF BLUES FULL-BACK BLAINE SCULLY MY LIFEIN RUGBY High spot: Blaine Scully scores...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCudd talks himself out of his job at Dragons
NIC CUDD is quite rightly proud of what he achieved over eight seasons at the Dragons, but perhaps his greatest legacy...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGive stars Test fees but keep pay down
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In the money: England players get £25,000 for each Test match PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLansdown argument all about monopoly
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST According to the American business magazine Forbes, there are around a thousand people in the world blessed...
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Features
/ 6 years agoForce for good is coming out of Oz at long last
SHOCK! Horror! A good news rugby story from Australia, where tales of woe have been a dime a dozen since Israel...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’ll never be like Beauden but I aim to be a winner
NICK CAIN TALKS TO WALES AND NORTHAMPTON FLY-HALF DAN BIGGAR, THE SCOURGE OF ENGLAND Injury-hit: Gareth Anscombe DAN Biggar says he...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDAN BIGGAR ON…
...Gareth Anscombe’s arrival spurring him on I made a joke and said I was happy coming off the bench last season,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFarrell has the game to replace Sexton
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION 2021 LIONSA YEAR TO GO THIS WEEK… FLY-HALVES Ice cool from the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTrailfinders trio are off to join Quins
HARLEQUINS are ready to confirm that they have swooped for Ealing Trailfinders stars Craig Trenier, Jordan Els and Matt Cornish. The...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’m leaving Scarlets with them ready to explode
Q&A BRAD MOOAR ON THE RECORD Scarlets head coach Brad Mooar flies back to take up a coaching role with New...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaracens make a bid for Bok lock Flip
Offer: Flip van der Merwe SARACENS are set to make a bid to tempt former Springbok second row Flip van der...
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/ 6 years agoWas this the greatest club Seven of all time?
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring photographs, and explains the story behind the iconic image Iconic Rugby Pictures:...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYou read it all in Blindside first, folks!
BLINDSIDE has once again proven this week that nobody comes close to us to providing transfer news. We reported last Sunday...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGivvons spun them a golden yarn in Oldham
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Star man: Alec Givvons, bottom row, third left, with the Oldham team of...
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/ 6 years agoQ&A – Mark Mapletoft: Harlequins could improve on bringing through more youngsters
After a decade at Harlequins, academy coach Mark Mapletoft is moving on. We asked him about his time at the Stoop...
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Features
/ 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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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Expected disaster story turned into a fairytale
Brendan Gallagher recalls the doom-mongering around the 1995 Rugby World Cup, as South Africa grappled with fragile identity after Apartheid's end
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Life with the Lions was just so physical
Rugby against the Springboks and provincial South Africa sides in 2009 was as hard as four years prior against the All...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHewett column: Reduce the size of the bench? It can’t happen
It's 40 years since Robin Cowling played through a dislocated shoulder against French great Robert Paparemborde
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoSam Underhill goes back to his roots during lockdown, but embraces future with Bath, England and as a possible Lion
The England flanker recalls working with his painter/decorator Grandad, and the grind required to bring success to Bath and a Lions...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Northampton Saints No.8 Tui Uru
Uru was signed by Saints after playing for Bury St Edmunds in National Two South
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Apartheid so sickened Tony Ward, he did not go back
The Ireland fly-half tells Peter Jackson how the disparaging sights of Apartheid South Africa he witnessed on the 1980 Lions tour...
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoLeinster wing Dave Kearney is king of Europe’s elite tryscorers
Peter Jackson looks over the stats for Europe's top performing players in terms of tries and points scored
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Featured
/ 6 years agoTRP’s National Two North Team of the Season
We can reveal the National Two North XV voted for their standout campaigns in 2019-20
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Premiership can learn financial fair play from NFL
Jeremy Guscott judges how the salary cap is applied in the NFL to maximise financial and regulatory viability
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Takeovers, big moves, life goes on in Pro D2
James Harrington reports on how money is swirling around the second tier of French rugby
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Most marquee players just aren’t worth the money
The Premiership has been a two-team preserve for too long. But Nick Cain questions Steve Lansdown's route to dethroning Saracens
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby stadiums countdown: 5-1
Twickenham enters the rankings outside of the Top 3
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Features
/ 6 years agoRugby must recalibrate by remembering less is more
Q&A MARK MAPLETOFT ON THE RECORD After a decade at Harlequins in various roles, former head coach and academy guru Mark...
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/ 6 years agoMiracle workers keep World Cup dream alive
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What’s happening...
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/ 6 years agoTitans lead charge with Redruth afterepic four-way title shoot-out
The Rugby Paper’s National 2 South correspondents pick a Team of the Season Nose for the line: Isaac ‘Sniffer’ Dalton scores...
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