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/ 6 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
ROB VICKERS THE FORMER NEWCASTLE FRONT ROWER AND CURRENT HEAD COACH OF THE FALCONS’ WOMEN’S TEAM Starting my Falcons career in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Make Pacific Islands rugby’s West Indies
The West Indies cricket team can be selected from 15 Caribbean island nations. Brendan Gallagher asks if the same can be...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoBristol ready for bidding war to make England ace a Bear
Pat Lam wants to bring fly-half George Ford back to the south-west
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/ 6 years agoJackson column: Kamikaze man ‘Shiggy’ has made real impact
Peter Jackson charts role of Shigeru Konno as one of the forefathers of Japanese rugby
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/ 6 years agoHagibis was a shock but Eddie did warn us says Jamie George
England hooker Jamie George on the team's move north away from Tokyo to avoid the effects of Typhoon Hagibis
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/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Exeter Chiefs centre Barrie Karea
Karea spent the summer training with the Exeter Chiefs first team
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Semi Radradra has been my player of the tournament
Jeremy Guscott was impressed by Fiji's performance, albeit ending in defeat, against Wales
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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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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Cancelled game will help Welsh chances
WALES are battered and bruised, but they are also battle-hardened for the World Cup‘s quarter-finals and that is where you want...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Crooked feed call has cost Scotland
Jeff Probyn examines Gregor Townsend's comments made about Japan's win against Samoa, a result aided by a call by referee Jaco...
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/ 6 years agoMake Pacific Islands rugby’s West Indies
SO another World Cup is barely halfway through and all the Pacific Islands are on the way home – or rather...
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/ 6 years agoFans have spent £5,000 and not seen one game
THEREwere thousands of disappointed England fans milling around Tokyo after the announcement that their Pool match against France was cancelled because...
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/ 6 years agoDiane’s smile caps a glorious debut for Scotland’s star man
ALL sorts of contenders for the jouer de rugby gallant t-shirt this week. The ever smiling Schalk Brits enjoyed what could...
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/ 6 years agoSadness behind Klim’s big journey
Alex Bywater talks to Namibia’s Lesley Klim about the problems he faced in his early life World stage: George Bridge of...
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/ 6 years agoWhitelock just keeps on winning
NEWS EXTRA THE All Blacks victory over Namibia was stand-in captain Sam Whitelock’s 17th World Cup win in a row. Whitelock...
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/ 6 years agoMy hotel was swaying like a huge concrete tree
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK A PART from the spatterings of rain on the glass window of my...
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/ 6 years agoNonu joins San Diego
FORMER New Zealand centre Ma’a Nonu has joined San Diego Legion for the 2020 Major League Rugby season. The two-time World...
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/ 6 years agoOwen and Billy are Eddie problems
Nick Cain arrives in Tokyo to find Eddie Jones confronted by some big selectorial decisions Not at their best: Owen Farrell,...
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/ 6 years agoForce majeure…life is a calculated risk!
Brendan Gallagher recalls other cases when extreme weather or random events have affected sport THE great and the good, not to...
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/ 6 years agoCancelled game will help Welsh chances
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS WALES are battered and bruised, but they are also battle-hardened for the World Cup’s quarter-finals...
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/ 6 years agoIt’s a shambles and that’s all down to World Rugby
COLIN BOAG It’s six years since the Oxford English Dictionary first included ‘omnishambles’ in its pages, and there can rarely have...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKamikaze man Siggy has made real impact
Just before the collision it is essential that you do not shut your eyes for a moment so as not to...
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/ 6 years agoLapse in French focus creates a frantic finish
By GEORGE LAWRENCE FRANCE overcame a battling Tonga last Sunday but coach Jaques Brunel admitted there is serious work to be...
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/ 6 years agoCobus was quick – but no cigar!
COBUS Reinach’s elevenminute hat-trick for the Springboks against Canada is among the fastest of the professional era but is not the...
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/ 6 years agoPumas put on a show for Leguizamon sendoff
By SAM JACKSON ARGENTINA secured third place in Pool C with a bonus-point win over the USA to book their place...
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/ 6 years agoParisse deserves much more
A SHAME that the longest international career of the 21st century should have been condemned to the most anti-climactic of finishes...
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/ 6 years agoCheika returns Eddie’s volley
Winging in: Marika Koroibete scores Australia’s second try PICTURE: Getty Images From ADAM HATHAWAY at Shizuoka Stadium AUSTRALIA head coach Michael...
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/ 6 years agoCan anyone stop these All Blacks?
Nick Cain evaluates the chances of the last eight teams in the World Cup quarter-finals England v Australia: Matt Toomua, left,...
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/ 6 years agoMerab: We owe Milton a big debt
GEORGIA captain Merab Sharikadze paid tribute to outgoing coach Milton Haig as their World Cup finished in noble defeat. New Zealander...
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/ 6 years agoAdams hat-trick starts the recovery from Fijian storm
By SAM JACKSON WALES survived a scare to claim victory over Fiji and secure their place in the quarter-finals. The Grand...
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/ 6 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
MICHAEL CLAASSENS FORMER SOUTH AFRICA, CHEETAHS, BATH, TOULON AND SHARKS SCRUM-HALF LIKE most kids in South Africa I grew up wanting...
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/ 6 years agoVocal Pichot’s braced for battle
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points GUS Pichot is used to battling the odds...
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/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JACK MUSK HARLEQUINS HOOKER INJURIES to a trio of senior Harlequins hookers have presented opportunities for Jack Musk to showcase his...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: The truth about why Mendez punched Paul Ackford
The first shock result of the World Cup fittingly provided by the hosts, Japan, against Ireland will certainly have focused the minds...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Coventry and former Northampton Saints forward Ben Nutley
We talk to Ben Nutley and ask him to pick a XV of the top players he's played alongside or against
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoExeter Chiefs keeping an eye on Welsh scrum-half Rhys Webb
Current first-choice scrum-half Nic White will leave Sandy Park at the end of the season and here's why Webb could leave...
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/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby cancels England’s clash with France as ‘violent’ Typhoon Hagibis stays on course
Tournament organisers cancel two matches with concerns now being raised about Scotland's crunch match against Japan
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/ 6 years agoJackson column: England v Wales in World Cup final, says John Gallagher
As the first Englishman to win the World Cup and the only one to retire unbeaten, John Gallagher made the most...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: There’s no pleasure in Domes full of sweat
Nick Cain explores the sweltering conditions of Japan made more energy-sapping by the closure of the roof at stadiums such as...
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/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Hope has turned into belief after win over Aussies
How Wales' win over the Wallabies changed their outlook for the rest of the World Cup
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/ 6 years agoProblems will exist in the Pacific until we get a professional team, says Fiji coach McKee
John McKee reflects on the issues facing Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, with all three nations set to exit the World Cup...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCut out the Pools and go straight to quarter-finals
COLIN BOAG Humiliation: New Zealand blitz Canada as Rieko Ioane goes over for their fifth try Are you enjoying the RWC...
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/ 6 years agoAshton still keen to make Test splash
CHRIS ASHTON has told Blindside that he still has ambitions to add to his 44 England caps next season. The 32-year-old...
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/ 6 years agoChiefs keep eye on Webb
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Coming home? Rhys Webb RHYS WEBB could be set to leave Toulon at the...
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/ 6 years agoLeague ace Sivo tempted by Prem
MAIKA SIVO, the Parramatta Eels winger who is the leading try-scorer in the NRL, has got his CV doing the rounds...
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