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Features
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
PATRICK SCHICKERLING EXETER CHIEFS PROP Patrick Schickerling had a decision to make over the summer: should he represent Namibia at the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDan’s the man for Six Nations says Thomas
WAYNE Pivac has been urged to select Dan Thomas in his first Wales Six Nations squad. Openside Thomas – who represented...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWales search for top young talent
■By STEFFAN THOMAS Excited: Humphreys WALES’ new coaching team plan to look far and wide in a bid for success –...
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/ 6 years agoLeicester dig deep to keep Genge
Staying: George Ford LEICESTER Tig ers have been forced to dig deep to keep Ellis Geng e out of the clutches...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaracens reel in young Sharks ace Wiese
SARACENS have agreed a five-year deal to lure Sharks star Cobus Wiese from Super Rugby next season. The Premiership champions have...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTipuric top of Lyon’s hit list to replace Fearns
Wanted man: Justin Tipuric Return: Carl Fearns LYON are lining up a surprise move for Wales openside flanker Justin Tipuric to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBidding war begins for Nakarawa
PREMIERSHIP rivals Harlequins and Bath are set to go head to head later this year in the race to land Fijian...
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Moseley and ex-Coventry and Boland back Cliffie Hodgson
Willie le Roux features along with some old teammates at Coventry
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Featured
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Bath winger Gabriel Hamer-Webb
The Bath speedster talks working with Anthony Watson, Semesa Rokoduguni and Tom Homer
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Mike Ruddock can revive ailing Ospreys
Shane Williams believes the addition of Mike Ruddock is just one of the key changes needed at his old club Ospreys
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoGallagher column: Root of Israel Folau case grew from shame of apartheid
Brendan Gallagher examines the vitriol espoused by sacked Wallabies star Israel Folau and how it correlates with attitudes during the apartheid...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoNick Abendanon drawing interest from home as Clermont stay nears end
Nick Abendanon is keen on a return to the UK after five years in France
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: PRL secrecy is an insult to club rugby fans
Nick Cain explains why the drip-drip of information issued by Premiership Rugby on Saracens' salary cap breach is riling fans up
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Dan Cole will carry the can just like Paul Rendall
Jeff Probyn sympathises with Dan Cole for being made a scapegoat for England's capitulation at the scrum in the World Cup...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoVarsity match: Light Blues’ mighty duo may be godsend or curse
Cambridge have a Test-experience second row ready to take on rivals Oxford in the 138th Varsity match
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Featured
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Bristol Bears fly-half wonderkid Ioan Iloyd
A big future ahead for Bristol Bears' try-scoring fly-half
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Days of romance, song and drama with Lions
Peter Jackson looks back on the 1955 British & Irish Lions tour of South Africa, when attitudes were different but the...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: It beggars belief that the Lions are treated so badly
Jeremy Guscott believes it is as important as ever for the Lions to win in South Africa to not fall to...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoBristol Bears set to hijack Gloucester’s move for Kyle Sinckler
Gloucester could turn their attention to an Exeter Chiefs prop
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Features
/ 6 years agoBest’s sound advice to start the Farrell era
Quiet time: Rory Best IT’S good to talk but occasionally it’s best to shut up and reflect on what you already...
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Features
/ 6 years agoClimb for third Test will be the tricky bit
THE confirmed Lions itinerary for their visit to South Africa in 2021 is out and predictably there are two Tests at...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEddie’s new broom must staart sweeping
ANALYSIS NICK CAIN ON THE CHANGES NECESSARY FOR ENGLA AND AS SIX NATIONS LOOMS No.8 options: Alex Dombrandt, left, and Sam...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThe Light Blues’ mighty duo may be a godsend or a curse!
Brendan Gallagher looks at the 138th Varsity match, kicking off at Twickenham on Thursday Line-out strength: James Horwill was a stalwart...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFiona and Jenni are Cambridge’s Curry twins in back row
ColCaptain: Fiona Shuttleworth A NEW-LOOK Cambridge Women’s side will be seeking their fourth win in five Varsity matches at Twickenham in...
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Features
/ 6 years agoON THE BLID SIDE
Nakarawa staying in France BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler FORMER European player of the year Leone Nakarawa is unlikely...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDistilling the cream from Oxford’s 150 historic years
Elegance at No.10: Richard Sharp playing against Wales As Oxford gather for a 150th anniversary dinner at the Hurlingham club on...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTigers in hunt f or Pumas enf orcer
Wanted: Matías Alemanno LEICESTER TIGERS have made a move to lure Argentina lock Matías Alemanno to Welford Road when his contr...
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/ 6 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER HARLEQUINS, WORCESTER& EXETER BACK-ROWER. KAI HORSTMANN ICAME straight out of my first meeting with Rob Baxter and rang my...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMulipola eyes Kingston Park exit
NEWCASTLE Falcons are looking to revamp their squad at the end of the season with prop forward Logovi’i Mulipola set to...
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/ 6 years agoWar riors in pole f or Abendanon
FORMER England full-back Nick Abendanon is set to retur n to the United Kingdom when his contract with Clermont Auvergne runs...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBoyd notletting goof Vesty
NORTHAMPTON Saints head coach Chris Boyd is not ready to let one of his coaches go and join England’s backroom staff....
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Features
/ 6 years agoGustard on lookout f or cavalry
HARLEQUINS boss Paul Gustard is desperately trying to get some reinforcements into the club before they retur n to Premiership action...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDon’t neglect Italianspleads Campagnaro
■By NEALEHARVEY Mighty Quin: Michele Campagnaro has settled in well at the Stoop PICTURE: Getty Images HARLEQUINS centre Michele Campagnaro insists...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWallabies weren’t interested in bringing me back – Jones
ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones says Rugby Australia got in touch with him following news that Michael Cheika was stepping down as...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTigers confident of keeping their key men
HEAD coach Geordan Murphy is ‘hopeful’ Leicester can keep their in-demand England stars at the club despite interest in them intensifying....
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Features
/ 6 years agoUnion review critical of Ireland gameplan
IRELAND’S style of play should have been further developed going into the World Cup, their governing body says. The Irish Rugby...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSHANE WILLIAMS
Ruddock can revive the ailing Ospreys WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Winner: Mike Ruddock with the Six Nations trophy after leading Wales...
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/ 6 years agoFive warm-ups are enough to get the Lions ready
IT WAS interesting to see the eight-game schedule for the British & Irish Lions tour. Five warm-up games is more than...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJapan frustration still eats at Hatley
NEALE HARVEY finds Neal Hatley still asking himself what went wrong in World Cup final Mentor: Neal Hatley has reunited with...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoot of Folau case grew from shame of apartheid
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Controversy: Israel Folau this week reached a settlement...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoSeeds of Springboks multi-racial glory were sewn by student ‘yobs’
Brendan Gallagher recalls the 'Protest Tour' of 1969, fifty years on
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: The Welsh way once ruled – not anymore
Peter Jackson on the sorry state of affairs at the Ospreys and how Welsh coaching talent once thrived
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Sale Sharks and ex-Stade Francais back row Jono Ross
This is just a ridiculous team named by the Sale Sharks captain, who has played in England, South Africa and France
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Magical Radradra can cast spell on the Premiership
Jeremy Guscott reflects on what Bristol's signing of the Bordeaux Begles and Fiji star Radradra means for the rest of the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Wayne Pivac hasn’t done bad after one week’s work
Shane Williams saw plenty of positives in Wales' win over the Barbarians
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoNorthampton Saints will move on Ben Youngs should talks with Tigers fail
Cobus Reinach has been offered an eye-watering amount of money by Montpellier, and Saints could turn to Ben Youngs to replace...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Mourad Boudjellal ready to pack his bags at Toulon
Is one of rugby's most eccentric owners set to leave the Top 14?












