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/ 8 years agoBigger club squads would aid England
Potential stars: Lower league players like Jake Polledri deserve a chance PICTURE: Getty Images COLIN BOAG It’s been open season on...
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/ 8 years agoFancy Leinster to copy class of ‘09
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for next weekend’s Champions Cup quarter-finals Grand Slammer: Johnny Sexton is key to Leinster’s chances PICTURE:...
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/ 8 years agoCut the number of subs to see the game improve
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK No more of this: England captain Dylan Hartley is substituted after 57 minutes against Ireland...
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/ 8 years agoSorry, Steve, your fatigue factor does not stack up
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW England’s Six Nations’ implosion has prompted the resurrection of a myth masquerading as...
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/ 8 years agoSandwich-man Polledri could have been Welsh rarebit
HAD Wales done a genealogy check on Jake Polledri, the results would have entitled them to offer one of the English...
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/ 8 years agoWe need to remember the heroes from Grand Slams past
GRAND Slams these days come awash with tickertape receptions, medals and cash, enough in Ireland’s case to have earned their triumphant...
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/ 8 years agoHadleigh parks bride for La Rochelle date
STEFFAN THOMAS catches up with Wales’ new midfield star Hadleigh Parkes Euro bid: Hadleigh Parkes PICTURE: Getty Images HADLEIGH Parkes will...
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/ 8 years agoTigers opt for Jersey boy Voss
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER have signed Jersey lock James Voss with immediate effect to plug the gap left by Dom Barrow’s departure....
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/ 8 years agoLemi will play on after exit at Bristol
DAVID LEMI is set to extend his career after leaving Bristol at the end of the season and appears to be...
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/ 8 years agoHow it went wrong, match by match
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT EDDIE JONES’ REIGN SO FAR, AND DECIDES WHERE THE DECLINE SET IN EDDIE Jones often calls the...
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/ 8 years agoON THE BLING SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BATH will confirm the news that Blindside revealed in January that they are...
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/ 8 years agoCox’s treble is key to Cup success for Loughborough
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP WITH the league wrapped up and the trophy perched in Exeter’s cabinet, attention turned to the...
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/ 8 years agoCuthbert snubs France to be Chief
Off to Exeter: Alex Cuthbert EXETER Chiefs have agreed a deal that will see them sign Wales and British Lions winger...
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/ 8 years agoTyrrells Women’s Premier 15s
Quins go top but must now wait and see By LAURA EDDIE Saracens …29 Harlequins…32 HARLEQUINS have done everything they can...
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/ 8 years agoSaints make Symons bid
NORTHAMPTON have made a last minute bid to stop Andy Symons from joining Newcastle Falcons next season. We reported a couple...
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/ 8 years agoDodd doubles up in derby for Wasps
By HOLLY FOSKETT Wasps …44pts Richmond …17pts At the double: Louise Dodd celebrates with Christina Veale after scoring a try WASPS...
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/ 8 years agoCortes off to Tigers
BRISTOL tighthead Gaston Cortes is set to move to Leicester Tigers when his contract runs out at the end of the...
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/ 8 years agoLund leads from front in play-off decider
By DUNCAN WOOD Gloucester H …36 L Lightning…8 GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY recovered from a lacklustre first half to book the final play-off spot...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHougaard signs lengthy deal to stay at Worcester Warriors
South Africa international will be 33 by the time his new deal at Sixways expires
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNorthampton Saints discipline George North for missing training session
Wales wing was dropped from Northampton's match against Sale earlier this month
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoConnacht sign Brumbies centre Kyle Godwin
One-cap Wallaby makes the move to the PRO14 for next season
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRory Best and Rob Kearney extend IRFU contracts
Grand Slam winners sign new deals with Ulster and Leinster
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoExeter Chiefs scrum-half Will Chudley to join Bath next season
Premiership winner becomes Todd Blackadder's latest recruit
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Features
/ 8 years agoDays when Griffiths was an outcast in his own country
Clive Griffiths witnessed the evils of apartheid South Africa during a rugby tour there almost 40 years ago and thought he...
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/ 8 years agoDazzling green is the colour of my top 23
NICK CAIN PICKS HIS TEAM FROM THIS SEASON’S SIX NATIONS LINE-UPS Champions: Ireland with Six Nations trophy PICTURE: Getty Images THIS...
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/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
HARVEY SKINNER EXETER FLY-HALF Rather than wallowing in the pain of rejection by Bath, budding Taunton-born playmaker Harvey Skinner elected to...
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
CHRIS WALKER THE FORMER ENGLAND U20 CAPTAIN AND YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE FLANKER It was in a small, idyllic Yorkshire Dales village, watching...
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/ 8 years agoBeckett leave best until last to gift Exeter the title
BUCS ROUND-UP ON Wednesday BUCS delivered the fittingly climactic finale the league deserved as the title went right to the wire....
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/ 8 years agoFawcett leads Warwick lads to back-to-back victories
Schools Cup finals U18s Cup final Signing off in style: Warwick captain Tom Fawcett lifts the trophy WARWICK defended their Schools...
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/ 8 years agoFast start puts Langley in the ascendancy
U18s Vase final LANGLEY defeated Wirral Grammar 48-22 to clinch the U18 Vase for the first time in their history. Langley...
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/ 8 years agoWhitgift win wrestle up front
Top dogs: Whitgift celebrate another title U15s Cup final WHITGIFT school overcame Manchester Grammar 22-12 in a tense game at Twickenham...
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/ 8 years agoHat-trick for Morris
U15s Vase final BEECHENCliff School scored six tries en route to a 36-14 victory over Kenilworth to win the U15 Vase....
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/ 8 years agoToo many poor games in this year’s Six Nations
COLIN BOAG All week there were adverts on television proclaiming that the Six Nations was the best rugby tournament in the...
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/ 8 years agoRFU’s shameful treatment of North
JEFF GAGE Eddie Jones says lessons will be learnt following England’s abysmal defeat against France. But the big lessons won’t be...
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/ 8 years agoAlun-Wyn gets the ideal deal
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Staying in Wales: Alun-Wyn Jones is mob-handed by England PICTURE: Getty Images A...
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/ 8 years agoLet’s call time on the drunks
MORE drunken behaviour during Wales-Italy last weekend has strengthened the perception of the world’s finest city-centre stadium as a place fast...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRoom 101 – Bath prop Nathan Catt
The loosehead runs us through the things that annoy him
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/ 8 years agoLock Parisse in to prolong career and free up Seb Negri for Italy
Brendan Gallagher suggests how Italy can transform themselves in time for the Japan Rugby World Cup
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/ 8 years agoAlun Wyn Jones commits to Wales and Ospreys with new deal
Ospreys second row commits to region with Japan World Cup on the horizon
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBristol second row Joe Batley diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma and set to undergo course of chemotherapy
Terrible news for the 21-year-old who has made 11 appearances in the Championship this season
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMilton Kachecha scoops HITZ Best Rugby Performer award
Old Northamptonians youngster has enjoyed a standout year on the rugby pitch as well as in education
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: North owes Saints some words of explanation
Have relations soured between Northampton and George North after his no-show against Sale?
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBlackadder: Injuries make my job almost impossible
The Bath director of rugby talks to TRP about challenges spawned from his team's lengthy injury list
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Time has come to end the Ford-Farrell 10-12 axis
The once pivotal combination is now fractured, writes Jeremy Guscott
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Featured
/ 8 years agoJoe Schmidt is the best coach in the world, claims Ireland hooker Sean Cronin
Cronin makes bold claim ahead of Grand Slam decider
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHarlequins centre Jamie Roberts to join Premiership rivals Bath
Roberts moves to the Rec after Tapuai's switch to the Stoop was confirmed last week
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Features
/ 8 years agoTigers time runs out on Mulipola contract talks
LOGOVI’I MULIPOLA has lost patience with Leicester Tigers dithering over offering him a new contract and is set to leave at...
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/ 8 years agoMake Italy play-off for right to stay in Six Nations
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ITALY may be making progress, as Conor O’Shea insists, but their performance in...













