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Features
/ 8 years agoIt’s going to get brutal out there for the Pumas
Brendan Gallagher analyses the task ahead of new Pumas head coach Mario Ledesma Barnstorming flanker: Pablo Matera SO which Pumas team...
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
TOM CHEESEMAN THE FORMER BATH, HARLEQUINS & ESHER CENTRE Getting dropped a week after scoring a hat-trick against Worcester in the...
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/ 8 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE: Prop Boyce on the Wasps radar
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @ neilfissler WASPS are keeping tabs on Harlequins loosehead Lewis Boyce who could quit the...
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/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
WORCESTER CENTRE OLLIE LAWRENCE Worcester’s academy is providing a rich seam of talent right now and amongst the promising teenagers pushing...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoGallagher column: Where have Eddie’s bullying forwards got to?
Time is running out for Eddie to sort out his pack
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Dream Team
/ 8 years agoDream Team: Bath second row Dave Attwood
Attwood picks a XV from his time at the Rec, Bristol, Gloucester and Toulon
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/ 8 years agoWhy altitude sickness is the main Irish enemy now
BRENDAN GALLAGHER IDENTIFIES AN ONGOING SENSE OF CAUTION IN A NATION’S RUGBY PSYCHE Needs starts: Jordan Larmour Ireland and the Irish...
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/ 8 years agoMaori wanderlust thrilling the world for 140 years
Brendan Gallagher is left to marvel at the missionary zeal of the game’s great tourists Famous win: NZ Maori beat England...
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER PREMIERSHIP REFEREE ASHLEY ROWDEN DO I miss refereeing? I don’t miss the training, I don’t miss the travelling, but...
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/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
BRISTOL UTILITY BACK CHARLIE POWELL HOMEGROWN Bristol players have been thin on the ground in recent seasons but Charlie Powell is...
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/ 8 years agoBeck’s late score helps in Cutting down the champs
BUCS ROUND-UP By JOE BYRNES ANOTHER set of tableturning results compressed the league table yet further on Wednesday night in Round...
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/ 8 years agoTackle flaws have already devalued European Cup
COLIN BOAG No escape: Danny Cipriani just braced himself for impact It is hard to overstate the parlous situation that rugby...
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/ 8 years agoPicking Tuilagi at 12 will give the forwards a target
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JEREMYGUSCOTT Firing on all four: Manu Tuilagi has brought a new dimension to Leicester’s play in Europe...
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Dream Team
/ 8 years agoDream Team: Bristol Bears flanker Steven Luatua picks his XV
A team steeped with All Blacks
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/ 8 years agoYoung Gun – Sale Sharks fly-half Kieran Wilkinson
... A fly-half named Wilkinson
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/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
KIERAN WILKINSON SALE FLY-HALF Sharing your surname with one of England’s greatest players might be seen as a double-edged sword by...
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/ 8 years agoStiles strikes late winner to get the Rec rocking
BUCS ROUND-UP By JOE BYRNES BATHexacted revenge for last season’s home defeat by Leeds Beckett with a last gasp 29-27 win...
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/ 8 years agoCut out the goading Maro, it’s just not classy
COLIN BOAG Poor form: Maro Itoje celebrates Edinburgh’s non-try In the Glasgow v Saracens match Champions Cup match, Maro Itoje let...
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/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
STEVEN LUATUA, BRISTOL AND FORMER NEW ZEALAND & AUCKLAND BLUES FLANKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST…...
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/ 8 years agoGain-line busters will give England a new dimension
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JEREMYGUSCOTT Risk worth taking: Joe Cokanasiga is in devastating attacking form but could be a defensive liability...
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/ 8 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler SARACENS are weighing up a move for Western Province captain Chris van Zyl as...
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/ 8 years agoStormers prop duo sought by Diamond
Tight-head: Frans Malherbe SALE SHARKS have made no secret of the fact that they want to strengthen their front row and...
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/ 8 years agoWasps fancy Ibitoye to fill Wade gap
Exciting wing talent: Gabriel Ibitoye WASPS have put Gabriel Ibitoye, one of the most exciting wing talents in the Northern Hemisphere,...
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/ 8 years agoScarlets ramp up search for a new playmaker
SAM Davies and Owen Williams have been identified by the Scarlets as potential new playmaker options for next season. The Llanelli-based...
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/ 8 years agoSingleton starts new contract talk
WORCESTER are keen to build on their good start to the new season by opening contract talks with hooker Jack Singleton....
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/ 8 years agoWelsh stars to stay put
THE WELSH Rugby Union are keen to stop players moving between regions when their contracts are coming to an end. Blindside...
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/ 8 years agoLet’s hope we have a bolter like George!
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Left field choice: Leicester wing Jonah Holmes PICTURE: Getty Images OVER the course of ten...
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
FORMER ORRELL AND LEEDS HOOKER ROB RAWLINSON OUR celebrations lasted well into the night when we beat Bath to lift the...
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/ 8 years agoI’d like to emulate Halfpenny with Champions Cup success at Toulon, says Rhys Webb
With his international career in limbo after new WRU's new selection policy, we caught up with the Wales scrum-half on the...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Mike Brown wins the new ‘Bionic Elbow’ man
The ever-present Harlequins full-back has reached 301 appearances
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoGallagher column: I still feel the stress of that French fightback in 1999
New Zealand 31-43 France, a match that had the heart racing even for the neutrals
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Exeter Chiefs wing Olly Woodburn
Three things the Chief has a real dislike for
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/ 8 years agoCrisis? What crisis? Steve Brown says RFU is in good shape
Nick Cain meets the RFU chief executive who reflects on the financial implications facing the body
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
FORMER COVENTRY, PLYMOUTH, CORNISH PIRATES, WORCESTER AND BEDFORD LOCK BEN GULLIVER AS soon as I joined Coventry I got beaten up....
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/ 8 years agoTon-up Lloyd helps Beckett down the champions
BUCS ROUND-UP By JOE BYRNES ROUND 3 defied expectations as Leeds Beckett, Cardiff Met, Bath and Durham all prospered on another...
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/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
KIERAN SASSONE HARLEQUINS TIGHT-HEAD Role models play a vital part in any young player’s career and academy tight-head Kieran Sassone could...
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/ 8 years agoScarlets can foil six-try Blues final bid
CELTIC CUP ROUND-UP By CARL FIELD A CONFIDENT Cardiff Blues Aside ran in six tries to clinch a comprehensive 42-17 victory...
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/ 8 years agoSuccess may let Sarries and Chiefs rest players
COLIN BOAG Champions: But Leinster players appeared only 6.6 times for their club With the Champions Cup starting this weekend, it...
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/ 8 years agoSaracens need to make a big statement at Scotstoun
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Threat: Huw Jones picks good lines and has gas to burn PICTURE: Getty Images SARACENS’ trip...
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/ 8 years agoROOM 101 OLLY WOODBURN
THE EXETER CHIEFS WINGER TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Poor connectivity I’m always...
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/ 8 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Du Plessis to Glasgow GLASGOW have signed South African prop Petrus du Plessis from London Irish until the end of the...
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/ 8 years agoWe’re 6/10 so far but still have a way to go
NEALE HARVEY sits down with supremo Paul Gustard to assess Harlequins’ start to the new campaign Big job on: Quins head...
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/ 8 years agoMarchant back on track for World Cup place
PAUL Gustard reveals how a pre-season kick up the backside has pushed electric centre Joe Marchant back towards England selection. With...
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/ 8 years agoThrills and spills but no score on the board
A 0-0 draw is a collector’s item these days so we should cherish London Welsh’s scoreless London Three Northwest encounter with...
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/ 8 years agoI still feel the stress of that French fightback in ‘99
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Comeback kings: France beat New Zealand in 1999 RUGBY MATTERS...
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