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Features
/ 6 years agoTough call, but rugby must help the islands
CHRIS HEWETT Fiji talent: Semi Radradra PICTURE: Getty Images When the Bristol scrum-half Richard Harding led England onto the field in...
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/ 6 years agoSpringboks ruled the roost in POW contest
Springbok rugby squad at Stalag IV-B in 1944. Back row, left to right: J Oakley, I Van Huyssteen, Kaplan, Timm, G...
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/ 6 years agoSuddenly Sale don’t shine so Diamond bright
FAF DE KLERK, Lood de Jager, Jono Ross, Coenie Oosthuizen, Akker van der Merwe, the Du Preez boys in triplicate… Frankly,...
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/ 6 years agoSteve McQueen? Arthur was ‘Cooler King’
Tunnel man: Arthur Rees ON THE subject of POWs it was noted Welsh flanker Arthur Rees who is widely thought to...
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/ 6 years agoI’m my worst critic, when I watch myself on TV I cringe!
Japan-bound: George Kruis leaving creates an England vacancy EPS choices: Charlie Ewels and Alex Moon JONNY Hill is doing his best...
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/ 6 years agoJONNY HILL ON…
…his lockdown regime “I’ve got a programme from our S&C guys, which runs from Mondays to Fridays and is quite intense....
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/ 6 years agoGlad I took Dad’s advice not to quit
MY LIFEIN RUGBY DIEGO ALBANESE THE FORMER ARGENTINA, GLOUCESTER AND LEEDS WINGER Pocket rocket: Diego Albanese playing in the Premiership for...
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/ 6 years agoCourtney is best bet to counter Du Toit
2021 LIONSA YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… BLINDSIDE FLANKER Tried-and-tested: Courtney Lawes’...
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/ 6 years agoNo French champions for first time since WW2
JAMES HARRINGTON Big signing: Wallaby Kurtley Beale will join Racing 92 PICTURE: Getty Images The 30 presidents of the Top 14...
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/ 6 years ago57 old farts and one nauseous reporter!
RUGBY MATTERS Controversy: Will Carling, right, with RFU president Dennis Easby, left, and Les Cuworth in 1995 PICTURE: Getty Images REMARKABLY...
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/ 6 years agoExeter philosophy inspiring Arscott’s climb with Dings
■By NEALE HARVEY Driving on: Luke Arscott in action this season for Dings against Barnes PICTURE: John White DINGS Crusaders boss...
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/ 6 years agoMost scenic rugby venue in the world? You decide…
Idyllic: Agustin Pichot Stadium YOU know that moment when you have got to the airport on time, miraculously the check in...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJenkins earns deal at Dragons
WING Owen Jenkins has signed a long-term deal to stay at Dragons after an impressive first season. The 26-year-old joined the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions tour contenders RANKED – Itoje can compete with Bok giants
Nick Cain ranks the locks who can form a formidable second row to unsettle the Boks in 2021
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoPicking a greatest England team from the four World Cup squads to have reached finals
Nick Cain selects a composite XV mined from the four England teams to have reached a Rugby World Cup final
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBath fly-half Freddie Burns confirms where he will be playing next season
Leaving the Premiership behind for Japan after a decade in English rugby
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Alan Solomons: Global club season must happen to make rugby recognised the world over
We jump straight into the serious point of whether Worcester are financially sound
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Features
/ 6 years agoFive promotions in six seasons – the Reeds Weybridge RFC blueprint
To the casual observer Reeds Weybridge RFC looks like just another amateur rugby club operating in leafy suburban surroundings, but appearances...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Easy does it when we finally get green light
The Welsh rugby icon contemplates rugby's return to training and matchdays
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Don’t mess up this crucial changeover
Brendan Gallagher points out that no-one from rugby's professional era has chaired World Rugby
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: WRU hard ball killed Test dreams of Steven Shingler
Peter Jackson sheds lights on the 'injustice' which came the way of fly-half Steven Shingler
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Our Golden Goose is an endangered species
Nick Cain says rugby can come through its most precarious challenge if it becomes more transparent
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Featured
/ 6 years agoSpecial report: Question time at Twickenham
The RFU has been accused of showing 'disrespect' towards Championship Clubs by a former chair of the management board
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Empty stadiums? You would be surprised by the chatter
How can the remainder of the Six Nations be played in a safe manner?
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEllis Genge’s rare feat in the Six Nations shows how props are changing
Willie John McBride told TRP last week props weren't built like they used to
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Features
/ 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 agoRoom 101: England Sevens forward Richard de Carpentier
De Carpentier submits one consideration we don't think we've had offered before...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoAnalysis: So, how do you fix this mess called the scrum?
TRP's mailbag is teeming with letters regarding the scrum every week. Nick Cain examines what's wrong and how it can be...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Presidents scrap over playoff principle
The 'hellscape' facing France's Top 14 with TV and player welfare ramifications
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Cardiff Blues prop Theo Bevacqua
England-born, loosehead Bevacqua says Wales was always his first choice
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Features
/ 6 years agoNeither Beaumont nor Pichot are right
Same old: Billy Beaumont and Agustin Pichot COLIN BOAG Everyone knows the problem with elections: candidates come up with good ideas,...
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/ 6 years agoThe Principality pointed way perfectly for the new millennium
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s best grounds TOP 20 …RUGBY GROUNDS NEXT WEEK Rugby Scandals Sheer...
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/ 6 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Tompkins is new target for Dragons THE Dragons appear to be nowhere close to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHolmes calls halt to become a city slicker
By JEREMY BLACKMORE NOTTINGHAM skipper Tom Holmes has called time on a 13-year career in the wake of the Championship funding...
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Features
/ 6 years agoItoje can compete with the Bok giants
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… LOCKS Outstanding: Maro Itoje...
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/ 6 years agoGlobal season must happen to make rugby a world sport
Q&A ALAN SOLOMONS ON THE RECORD Stifled: World Cup quarter-finalists Japan need more top level games to progress PICTURES: Getty Images...
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/ 6 years agoA sea of people hailed Carling like a Messiah
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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/ 6 years agoAge 30, I felt ready for the ‘real world’
MY LIFEIN RUGBY DAVE LEWIS THE FORMER GLOUCESTER, EXETER AND HARLEQUINS SCRUM-HALF Big break: Dave Lewis playing for Gloucester against Australia...
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/ 6 years agoRUGBY QUIZ
FORMER LEADING WELSH REFEREE ALUN WYN BEVAN TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE Q7: Frank Hayes playing cricket for England 1. On October 24,...
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/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TOMMYFREEMAN NORTHAMPTON FULL-BACK Rejected by Leicester at 16, Tommy Freeman might have been lost to rugby had he not made the...
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/ 6 years agoChester’s online aid helps fight cost of lockdown
NEWS EXTRA By JON NEWCOMBE A FRIEND of former England international Tom May has come to the aid of the business...
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/ 6 years agoCross Green’s home to generations of Melvilles
MY CLUB OTLEY WE SPEAK TO A NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN RUGBY FIGURES ABOUT THE CLUB THEY CALL THEIR OWN, THIS WEEK...
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/ 6 years agoAu revoir France as Home Unions assert their power
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Hired hands: The Quillan rugby team made...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFlying start grinds to halt after Lions refuse to field a replacement
Wild spirit: Blair Mayne was a Lion and a founding father of the SAS THE British Lions staged two major tours...
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/ 6 years agoHogg is loving life after Jack’s warm welcome
Scotland star Stuart Hogg tells Neale Harvey how West Country life is exceeding expectations Scotland’s Chief: Stuart Hogg breaks past Alex...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 5-1
The hard men who wouldn't take a step back on the rugby pitch
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Features
/ 6 years ago10 great coaching minds currently ‘lost’ on rugby
Martin Johnson had his career in coaching blighted by England's 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions tour contenders RANKED – test of strength at tighthead could sway series
Nick Cain looks at the depth available to Warren Gatland at tighthead for the Lions















