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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Shaun Knight – Bath tighthead
1. Marcos Ayerza – He was the hardest prop I ever faced as a young player and every tighthead I speak...
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Features
/ 9 years agoTop French clubs wait on Ford’s decision
MIKE FORD will make a decision about his next move when he returns from holiday in a couple of weeks time....
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Features
/ 9 years agoLeague teams fear Solomona backlash
SALE Sharks go to court in Leeds on Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing into their controversial signing of Castleford Tigers winger...
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Features
/ 9 years agoLouis eyes move to Montpellier
NORTHAMPTON will fail with any attempts to keep Louis Picamoles, above, at Franklin’s Gardens beyond the end of the season. A...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
PETER SCRIVENER THE FORMER WASPS NO.8 In the early days of professionalism, I was officially the highest paid player in the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
SAM GRAHAMSLAW LEICESTER PROP Switching from the back row to prop is no easy feat fresh out of school, but Sam...
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Features
/ 9 years agoParisse is preparing for famous farewell
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Stade Francais are preparing for their Challenge Cup showdown with Gloucester this week with, at first sight,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoCockerill helps steer Toulon to play-offs
STOP-GAP Toulon boss Richard Cockerill last night delivered another powerful blow in his bid to make a stunning impression on the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYes, time has come to ring-fence Premiership
COLIN BOAG Facts of life: Rob Baxter speaks sense about the state of the game The Championship play-offs illustrated perfectly why...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDREAM TEAM
KARL DICKSON, THE QUINS AND FORMER BEDFORD SCRUM-HALF CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… KARL DICKSON 1....
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Features
/ 9 years agoThe good, the lads and the ugly, by Burger
Clermont Auvergne v Saracens Saturday. Kick-off 5pm, BT Murrayfield Stadium Still going strong: Schalk Burger Schalk Burger has scaled most of...
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Features
/ 9 years agoBrad’s our rock says Sorrell, he eptomises all our values
By NEALE HARVEY Priceless: Brad Barritt BRUTAL defence and a powerful forward effort, allied to the “priceless” leadership qualities of Brad...
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Features
/ 9 years agoON THE BLING SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BRISTOL will have talks with full-back Jason Woodward, right, once the outcome of the...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoMcGeechan: Lions have quality to win
No one speaks with more authority and knowledge about the British & Irish Lions than Sir Ian McGeechan, who was head...
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Young Gun
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: James Lasis – Loughborough Students lock
James Lasis started the season as a loosehead but it is at lock that he is looking to turn professional next...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoOnly way to beat the All Blacks is all out attack – Robbie Fruean
As a proud Kiwi, Robbie Fruean would never bet against the All Blacks, but he reckons their downfall against the Lions...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Robin Hislop – Doncaster prop
1. Foreign meat I grew up on a farm in the Scottish Borders rearing sheep and cattle so it pains me...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoTigers No.1 legacy safe with Genge says Ayerza
Leicester prop legend Marcos Ayerza has revealed how the joy of entrusting his beloved No.1 jersey to tyro loosehead Ellis Genge...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years ago20 Questions: Nick Selway – Jersey hooker
What did you make of the Championship season? It was disappointing to miss out on the play-offs but we’ve got to...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoHartley’s Lions hopes ‘were stifled by Saints’
Dylan Hartley‘s failure to win a Lions call had its roots in Northampton‘s restricted game plan, according to former England and...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andrew Turnbull – former Scotland Sevens and Rotherham wing
When I turned up for my first World Rugby Sevens Series tournament in Hong Kong in 2004, I couldn’t believe my...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Teimana Harrison – Northampton flanker
1. Mako Vunipola – The guy is a ridiculous carrier. He is good at the scrum like any prop should but...
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Features
/ 9 years agoToby still talking to Premiership clubs
TOBY FLOOD could still ply his trade in the Premiership next season but a source close to the player had told...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJohnston packs his bags to join Brive
Move: Johnston SAMOAN prop James Johnston is heading to France to play next season after agreeing to join Brive in the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoEarle doesnt know what hit him – nor will Pumas!
NICK CAIN TALKS TO SARACENS WINGER NATHAN EARLE ABOUT HIS SURPRISE ENGLAND CALL UP NATHAN Earle says he is glad he...
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Features
/ 9 years agoWhitcombe dynasty now propping up England
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When he left Cardiff before the Second World War, Frank Whitcombe could have...
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Features
/ 9 years agoLions riddle of McCall, the serial winner
MARKMcCall is far too busy planning Saracens’ dual defence of their English and European titles to waste any time pondering the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoPrice cuts show how WRU have devalued Tests
IN ANoverdue attempt to stimulate public interest in a tired fixture, the WRU have cut the price of 24,000 seats against...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
SEB JEWELL FORMER HARLEQUINS, ESHER, WASPS AND LONDON WELSH UTILITY BACK I fell into professional rugby and then fell in and...
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Features
/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
WILL EDWARDS ENGLAND SEVENS How long have been involved with England Sevens? I’ve been coming from Loughborough when I was needed...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CAMERON REDPATH Given his name, Cameron Redpath was always going to have a head start in rugby but he is determined...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMcGeechan: Lions have quality to win
Guy Williams finds the most successful of all Lions coaches in bullish mood before the tour No one speaks with more...
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Features
/ 9 years agoVaughan: Altrad veto was so short-sighted
COLIN BOAG Gloucester chief executive Stephen Vaughan this week broke his silence over the aborted takeover bid of the club by...
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Features
/ 9 years agoIt pains me but Scarlets will shade my Ospreys
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It’s business time in the PRO12 as the season reaches the run-in and I think...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDREAM TEAM
SHAUN KNIGHT, THE BATH AND FORMER GLOUCESTER TIGHTHEAD, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Marcos Ayerza...
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Features
/ 9 years agoHewitt gets it right by playing safe over concussion
I WAS concerned to see this week that Ashton Hewitt is still suffering from problems caused by a concussion suffered at...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMallinder must make sure he is not this year’s Devoto
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK EDDIE Jones has gone left field by announcing a next-generation squad to tour Argentina. In...
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Features
/ 9 years agoWell done Wales for giving Georgia their big day out
GEORGIA have been held back in international rugby for too long, so for them to play Wales this November is a...
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Features
/ 9 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
Jantjies told he can’t join the Warriors yet BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler WARRIORS have been dealt a blow...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDe Jongh attracts Wasps to South Africa
WASPS’ recruitment team have paid a visit to Cape Town where it is believed they had more talks with Springbok centre...
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Young Gun
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: Rory McMichael – Scotland U18s centre
The journey to professional rugby can be a treacherous one for youngsters trying to break through, but Rory McMichael will take...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoBilly and I can mix it up in back row says Faletau
Taulupe Faletau insists he will have no qualms switching to flanker for the Lions if it means starting alongside his cousin...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Isaac Green – Hull Ionians scrum-half
1. Slow walkers This kills me. There’s nothing worse than being stuck behind slow walkers in town, taking up the whole...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoLozowski is ready to state case for England
Alex Lozowski has declared himself ready to stake a claim for England‘s coveted No.10 jersey on the back of a stellar...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years ago20 Questions: Steve Hill – Richmond DoR
How about that for a first season in the Championship? The boys were desperate to prove they deserved to be in...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Wage bills will push clubs to the brink
By NEALE HARVEY Leicester Tigers chief executive Simon Cohen warns Premiership finances could “fall off a cliff” unless a handbrake is...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Gary Powell – former Gloucester prop
After countless hours playing Jonah Lomu Rugby on the PlayStation at Llandovery College it was surreal to suddenly find myself sat...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Alex Crockett – former Bath centre
1. David Flatman – He would get you six or nine points per game just by talking to the referee and...
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