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Features
/ 9 years agoRFU: Players knew their contracts would end
IN relation to the article ‘World Cup stars left high and dry by RFU’ there are a number of points we...
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/ 9 years agoWelsh Union set to step in for Halfpenny
LIONS full-back Leigh Halfpenny could be on the verge of finding a new club according to Blindside sources in South Wales....
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Features
/ 9 years agoBaxter bolsters lock stock with Kings enforcer
TRANSFER WRAP PREMIERSHIP champions Exeter Chiefs have bolstered their squad ahead of the new season with the acquisition of South African...
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/ 9 years agoMy love of risk-taking has landed me in U.S.
Big oak: Toulon’s Mathieu Bastareaud PICTURE: Getty Images The opportunity to try something new appealed to me when Dallas Griffins owner...
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/ 9 years agoJoe ready to take his chance alongside George
ONE downside of going to America is that I won’t be able to see George and Joe play for Leicester as...
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/ 9 years agoWhen Briggs made us all believers
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? BEDFORD 1975 THE RFU CUP WINNERS By NEIL FISSLER Mastermind: Pat Briggs DEREK Wyatt, the former England...
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/ 9 years agoArscott excited by coaching challenge at Dings
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY DINGS Crusaders coach Luke Arscott believes the club’s impressive new £8m facility at Shaftesbury Park will...
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/ 9 years agoDREAM TEAM
RORY PITMAN, THE JERSEY AND FORMER SCARLETS AND WASPS NO.8, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1....
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/ 9 years agoKnee injury ended my England hopes
MY LIFE IN RUGBY ANDY SAULL THE FORMER ENGLAND SAXONS, SARACENS, NEWCASTLE AND YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE FLANKER Saracens titan: Andy Saull shared...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoSigning winners shows Falcons mean business
says that Newcastle‘s ambition to be a real force in English rugby was one of the main factors in persuading him...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoWhy Peter Stringer is rugby’s answer to Roger Federer
Gary Gold says Irish scrum-half Peter Stringer is rugby’s equivalent to Wimbledon champ Roger Federer – inspirational proof that age is...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoLongbottom returns to Saracens with unfinished business
Returning Saracens prop Kieran Longbottom insists his England ambitions remain alive after fully recovering from a foot injury that was so...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoSaili eyes silverware after turning his back on All Blacks
Gifted centre Francis Saili believes his unique brand of passing skills, embellished by gainline-busting, off-loading qualities reminiscent of Sonny Bill Williams...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoLydon plots route to Ireland, via Ealing
Peter Lydon still dreams of playing Test rugby for Ireland and he believes switching from London Scottish to Ealing Trailfinders will...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoWorld Cup stars left high and dry by RFU
Rugby Football Union bosses have taken a sledgehammer to England Women‘s hopes of winning next month’s World Cup after informing stunned...
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/ 9 years agoBaxter must join Eddie’s team if he’s to succeed
ONE of the most vexing issues that all four Home Unions have had to face over the last eight years is...
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/ 9 years agoIt’s folly to block investment … but we do need Euro wage cap
Q&A MARTIN ST QUINTON ON THE RECORD Gloucester owner Martin St Quinton tells NEALE HARVEY why he believes Premiership Rugby’s rejection...
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/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
MATT CORNISH EALING TRAILFINDERS HOOKER There are many roads to professional rugby but Matt Cornish has taken it to the extreme...
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/ 9 years agoMulchrone aiming to capitalise on Karl’s retirement
NEWS EXTRA HARLEQUINS scrum-half Charlie Mulchrone reckons improvements in his gamemanagement will give him the best chance of applying heat to...
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/ 9 years agoEx-goalie Heyes is new prop blueprint
Neale Harvey talks to Peter Walton, the man who has helped shape England’s new batch England U18s forwards guru Peter Walton...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYou’ve got to be a big noise now, Demetri!
ANDY GOODE The fly-half merry-goround has been in full swing throughout a frenetic last few months with a host of No.10s...
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/ 9 years agoCoaching set-up at Exiles can keep them up
LONDON IRISH may be the bookies’ favourites to go down but only a fool would under-estimate their coaching team. I really...
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/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
MATT WILLIAMS WORCESTER HOOKER Enjoyed the off season? Very much so. It was quite a weird one as we had five...
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Features
/ 9 years agoI almost kept Jason out in his first game for Sale
MY LIFEIN RUGBY KURT JOHNSON THE FORMER COVENTRY AND ORRELL WINGER With my hair dyed pink and the No.14 shaved into...
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Features
/ 9 years agoKnee injury forces Tim to call time
SARACENS centre Tim Streather has been forced to retire from the game due to a knee injury. Streather joined the club...
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/ 9 years agoSamoa left with mountain to climb after All Blacks error
Tough debut: Samoa’s new cap Kieron Fonotia in action during the 87-0 defeat to New Zealand After a brutally long season...
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/ 9 years agoFrom age 16 you could tell Coleman had touch of class
DAVID RIMMER looks at the career of the formidable Tom Coleman, a sportsman he strongly admired while covering sport for Herts...
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/ 9 years agoSurely we can all agree on what ‘straight’ means
COLIN BOAG With six weeks to go until the start of the Premiership season, it has been announced that some Law...
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/ 9 years agoLiam’s electric but he must sharpen focus at Saracens
LIAM Williams’ move to Saracens from the Scarlets is one of this summer’s biggest transfers, and one of the big talking...
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/ 9 years agoProud Aussie but I’d love to keep working with England!
NEALE HARVEY talks to Australian backline guru Glen Ella about his recent England experiences and how Eddie Jones has inspired a...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoNeil de Kock Q&A: I only planned to stay two years, but the love shown by Saracens meant I stayed for 11!
Scrum-half Neil de Kock returns to South Africa later this summer after 11 years in England, safe in the knowledge that...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoI was left out in 2015 and I’ll risk missing 2019 to prove my class in Europe, says Exeter signing White
Revved-up Aussie maestro Nic White has revealed why he rejected the chance to fight for a place at the 2019 World...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoJacko column: Warburton an invaluable role model for all
By Peter Jackson No matter what happens from now on, nothing will stop Sam Warburton taking up permanent residence in that...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoMaro Itoje to become the Premiership’s first £1m player after 2019
MARO ITOJE will become the Premiership‘s first million pound a season player after returning from the Lions tour with an enhanced...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoScots can have no complaints over Lions selection says Sean Maitland
Warren Gatland named only two Scottish players – Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour – in his initial squad announcement
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Features
/ 9 years agoFiji reap the benefits of early RWC qualification
Brendan Gallagher rounds up the recent international action that has seen early qualifiers for RWC2019 Away from the excitement of the...
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/ 9 years agoWallaby win shows Scots way forward
Gregor Townsend turned down the opportunity to help coach the Lions to ensure he was available to start his career in...
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/ 9 years agoPremiership imports who have been pure Gold …
Jon Newcombe discovers the overseas stars who have impressed Gary Gold most in the Premiership Jon Newcombe Being a World Cupwinning...
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/ 9 years agoWho’d have thought it? Sam a radio role model
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW No matter what happens from now on, nothing will stop Sam Warburton taking...
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/ 9 years agoBlink and you’d have missed these eight Test debutants
THE Lions having been the only game in town since the end of the domestic season, it would have been nigh...
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/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■MMA star Conor McGregor, pictured, was on a worldwide publicity tour with Flood Mayweather...
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/ 9 years agoVintage crew quits Top 14
FOR the first time this century, a quartet of Test veterans will be missing when the Top 14 come under starter’s...
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/ 9 years agoMcKenzie close to joining Tigers
LEICESTER TIGERS are believed to in advanced talks with All Blacks fullback Damian McKenzie about a move to Welford Road. Blindside...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDid Poite let Lions off twice?
AMIDthe microscopic analysis of Romain Poite’s volte face on the penalty decision in the last Test, another question over the same...
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/ 9 years agoItoje set to become Prem’s first £1m man
Expensive! Maro Itoje MARO ITOJE will become the Premiership’s first million pound a season player after returning from the Lions tour...
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/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CALLUM SIRKER ENGLAND SEVENS WING Callum Sirker ended the past two seasons at Twickenham but what a journey the last 14...
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/ 9 years agoWarriors need deputy for Hougaard
WORCESTER Warriors are trying to find a short term cover for Francois Hougaard who is expected to be miss the first...
