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Features
/ 8 years agoMarquee players are driving up the debts
COLIN BOAG Unfit: The Australians looked exhausted against the All Blacks In among the Premiership previews whetting our appetites for the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 8 years agoFerreira set to join Lions exodus to Premiership
On move? Ferreira LIONS lock Andries Ferreira wants to join the exodus of players leaving Gauteng to move to the Premiership...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
DAVE DENNIS, EXETER AND FORMER WARATAHS AND AUSTRALIA BACK ROW, CHOOSES HIS BEST XV HE’S PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1. Tony...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 8 years agoLangkilde’s date for court return
SAMOA Sevens player Gordon Langkilde could learn his fate this week after his alleged assault on three Wales players during the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMy hope is Gustard gets Quins playing without fear
JEREMY GUSCOTT Expectation: Paul Gustard with his Quins squad PICTURE: Getty Images HARLEQUINS have a great tradition as the aristocrats of...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 8 years agoNowell close to agreeing new Chiefs’ contract
Negotiations: Jack Nowell JACK NOWELL looks set to become the first of the large number of Eddie Jones England squad who...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWest Country foes set to rekindle rivalry in Ashton Gate near sell-out
26,000 tickets and counting have been sold for the Premiership season opener between Bristol and Bath
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoThe Beast has shown Kyle Sinckler the route to the top
The Harlequins prop explains what he learnt playing opposite the Springboks stalwart during the June tour
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPremiership preview: Saracens
The champions have focussed their recruitment on tying down their current stars during the off-season
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: Eddie Jones has no grounds to dump his bad boys
The end of Eddie Jones' "clean slate" approach?
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPremiership preview: Wasps
This summer’s big spenders will be looking for a return on their investment in trophies. With All Black fly-half Lima Sopoaga...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 8 years agoSteve Diamond can shine rough edges with his talent-spotting
Brendan Gallagher's assessment of Sale Sharks heading into the new season
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAckermann relieved as scan shows Tom Savage injury not as bad as first feared
Ackermann had feared the forward could be out for "six to nine months"
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDelon Armitage’s season is over after damaging knee ligaments
An ACL injury strikes cruel blow to the Lyon full-back
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMarc Jones leaves Sale Sharks to join Scarlets
Competition for Ken Owens and Ryan Elias
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Featured
/ 8 years agoMichael Cheika needs to bridge the gap to the All Blacks, says ARU chief
"I don’t think it’s about changing what we’ve got, it’s about what can we bring"
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Features
/ 8 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Tigers keen to land Macken LEICESTER TIGERS are believed to have offered former Wasps...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWRU may scrap dual contracts to save cash
Pioneer: Warburton THE WRU have held high level discussions about scrapping their Dual National Contracts, Blindside can reveal. The Welsh Union...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSaracens battle to keep Skelton from going home
Wanted: Will Skelton SARACENS are facing an uphill battle to retain the services of Wallaby lock Will Skelton when his contract...
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Features
/ 8 years agoQuins may seek cover for Saili’s new injury
Blow: Francis Saili HARLEQUINS could be set to enter the transfer market after former All Black centre Francis Saili received another...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBroken but now bowed, the Dragons fight back
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Reason to be cheerful: Cory Hill PICTURE: Getty Images Had someone devised a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWho’s that acting with Meg Ryan? Oh, must be Geoff Bray!
EVERY now and then, whenever he felt the need to enlighten a dull moment, Geoff Bray would slip the name of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoClubs are asked to jog along in memory of Sam
GARETH’Sam’ Williams, the Bridgend, Wales and Lions back row forward, died at the end of last season way ahead of his...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSexton’s fit as a fiddle …but silent
UP INGlasgow the other day, Johnny Sexton marked the launch of another PRO14 season by declaring himself in an unusually unmarked...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
JON GOODRIDGE THE FORMER GLOUCESTER, LEEDS AND BRISTOL FULL-BACK Every time I ran out at Kingsholm as a Gloucester player it...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
RIODYER DRAGONS WING Rio Dyer’s first Junior World Cup experience with Wales U20s ended in agony in June when he dislocated...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU make a rod for their back over Cipriani case
COLIN BOAG No role model: Danny Cipriani leaves court Were the RFU right to charge Danny Cipriani with ‘conduct prejudicial to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEddie has no grounds to dump his bad boys
Chris Ashton and Danny Cipriani are like men with itchy trigger fingers who are caught in a hypnotic trance which draws...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAll Blacks aim for the solar plexus
THE continued domination of the Rugby Championship by New Zealand, reflected in their two runaway wins so far over the Wallabies...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHeed this Beauden lesson
IF any international coaches out there needed reminding of the importance of fierce competition for places in their squads all the...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoFEATURE: Rob Baxter on Exeter’s prospects in the Premiership and Europe and why ring-fencing would be ‘morally wrong’
Is there any part of Exeter Chiefs that director of rugby Baxter doesn't have a role within?
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Johnny Sexton has become invisible in the PRO14
Peter Jackson points out that Johnny Sexton has played in one PRO14 match in Wales over the past two years
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEaster: I learned more in adversity with Quins than if we were on hot form
Nick Easter speaks to Neale Harvey about leaving the Stoop and how he got the job in Durban with the Sharks
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Deafening WRU silence over the future of Cardiff Arms Park worries me
Shane Williams gives his take on the future of a ground with grand standing in the history of Welsh rugby
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoAbuse at Twickenham made me consider retiring, says Nigel Owens
The official reveals comments were shouted from the stands during a Test between England and New Zealand
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBiggar: Good to get out of the goldfish bowl
'I put playing for Wales above the Lions' says the new arrival at Franklin's Gardens
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoGive Danny Cipriani a chance like the ECB with Stokes, Vickery urges
Phil Vickery calls for caution by the RFU and Eddie Jones
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Aussies look like a junior team
Michael Cheika's future as Wallabies coach has been called into question Down Under
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHarlequins release former Hartpury star Jonas Mikalcius
27 tries for Hartpury when they won promotion to the Championship
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoUlster’s Rory Best keeps tight-lipped on his thoughts about his future
Over a decade as Ulster captain
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Features
/ 8 years agoOspreys can turn the corner with Shaun working defence
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Leader: Justin Tipuric has the Ospreys armband this season PICTURE: Getty Images MY former side...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDeafening WRU silence over future of Cardiff Arms Park
IT’S 2018, but I will always remain a rugby traditionalist and that’s why I’m firmly of the belief Cardiff Arms Park...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
OLLIE SLEIGHTHOLME NORTHAMPTON WING The race to become the first player born since the turn of the millennium to play Premiership...
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Features
/ 8 years agoChief White won’t be following Matt home
By NEALE HARVEY Wallaby ace: Nic White is enjoying life in the West Country PICTURE: Getty Images AUSSIE scrum-half Nic White...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFagerson has high hopes after Rennie’s full pre-season
SCOTLAND prop Zander Fagerson believes Glasgow have “all the tools” to make up for last year’s PRO14 semi-final defeat and go...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSexton has become Invisible in the PRO14
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER JACKSON Scarce: Johnny Sexton has played one league match in Wales in two years...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCan Wasps put sting on Leinster this time?
THE Champions’ Cup six-round pool competition will begin in Dublin with Leinster’s opening defence against Wasps on Friday October 12 and...













