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/ 9 years agoDREAM TEAM
TOPSY OJO, LONDON IRISH AND FORMER ENGLAND WING, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Clarke Dermody...
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/ 9 years agoCan we find the new Barry John?
THE Six Nations provides Warren Gatland with the most exacting series of trials that any Lions chief selector could wish for....
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/ 9 years agoEngland have game to beat the All Blacks – but not yet!
THE England team rescued and brought back to rude health by Eddie Jones is in danger of being sold down the...
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/ 9 years agoNick Cain’s player ratings
ENGLAND 1-MAKO VUNIPOLA 7.5 Trailblazing front row playmaker. The best handling prop around, and scrummaging stronger 2-DYLAN HARTLEY (capt) 6 Weird...
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/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
SCOTT HAMILTON THE FORMER ALL BLACK, CRUSADERS AND LEICESTER WINGER/FULL-BACK The main reason I made the All Blacks team in 2006...
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/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
STEVE BODEN YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE FORWARDS COACH How has your week been up in Leeds? We had a good training with a...
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/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
DOMINIC MORRIS ENGLAND U20s WING Being injured at the start of the season, Dominic Morris would not have expected to have...
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Young Gun
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: Will Jones – Wales U20s captain
Enjoying the student life while trying to become a professional rugby player is not easy but Wales U20s captain Will Jones...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Gareth Steenson – Exeter fly-half
1. Traffic I’m lucky that I don’t have too far to travel to get to work because I live close to...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: Nick Haining – Jersey No.8
Big win against Yorkshire Carnegie last week? It was a great home win for us and it raised the confidence levels...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Anthony Allen – former England and Leicester centre
With hindsight, getting capped by England at 20, just over a year after leaving school, was way too soon. But you...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Marc Jones – Bristol hooker
1. Eifion Lewis-Roberts – Turned up at Sale around the same time as me in 2005, so I spent a long...
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/ 9 years agoAnother Wallaby to Exeter
EXETER Chiefs could this week announce the signing of Montpellier’s former Wallaby scrum-half Nic White, below. Blindside reported at Christmas that...
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/ 9 years agoHooper banking on true Bath men to bring back glory days
JON NEWCOMBE finds his boyhood club are moving back to their roots of growing local talent AS a club with an...
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/ 9 years agoKvesic out to show he’s as able as Cane
MATT Kvesic provides a perfect case history of why English rugby, with its boombust results cycle, can never afford to be...
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/ 9 years agoJoseph becomes centre of attraction
THE ebb and flow of Lions selection at centre during this Six Nations turned decisively in England’s direction when Jonathan Joseph...
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/ 9 years agoInglorious tour which began with an erroneous choice of captain
BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks back at 1983 when the Lions suffered badly from selection mistakes Clash of the giants: Maurice Colclough jumps...
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/ 9 years agoBut there was one man who still stood out
Dynamic: Peter Winterbottom makes a break during the second Test The Lions may have been swatted away 4-0 in the Test...
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/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
DON BARRELL FORMER SARACENS AND BEDFORD FLANKER & CURRENT SARACENS ACADEMY COACH I had to get permission from school before I...
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/ 9 years ago20 QUESTION
KIERAN MURPHY EALING NO.8 Enjoying a good run of form recently? We targeted that last block of Championship fixtures starting with...
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/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAMIE BLAMIRE ENGLAND U20S HOOKER Leaving the parental home at 16 to live with strangers was not easy for Jamie Blamire...
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/ 9 years agoDon’t kill off the county game, just get rid of the academies!
As Benjamin Disraeli once said: “There are three types of lies; lies, damn lies and statistics.” However, as with all things,...
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/ 9 years agoJoking aside, refs need to be tough men of the law
COLIN BOAG Romain Poite made the headlines with his cracking one-liner, ‘I’m a referee, not a coach’, but the plain fact...
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/ 9 years agoAll-change for England despite rout of French
ENGLAND U18s ENGLANDU18s made a winning start to their season after a seven-try 43-14 victory over France in Aylesbury. In tough...
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/ 9 years agoSeven-try Bishop’s land big day at HQ
NATWEST SCHOOLS CUP SEMI-FINALS By NICK VERDIER Upset: Bishop’s Wordsworth celebrate after their semi-final win over Bromsgrove BISHOP’S Wordsworth booked their...
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/ 9 years agoKirkham eager to carry banner for the North
SCHOOLS SEVENS KIRKHAM Grammar School will kick off the defence of their North of England Sevens title today high on confidence...
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/ 9 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler HARLEQUINS are leading the race to land All Blacks centre Malakai Fekitoa who...
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/ 9 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, March 12, 2017 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 9 years agoAckerman leads list of Kingsholm candidates
GLOUCESTER have spoken to former South Africa lock Johan Ackermann, the current Lions coach, about moving to Kingsholm next season. Ackermann,...
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/ 9 years agoSymons gunning for Test debut against the Pumas
By NICK VERDIER WASPS lock Matt Symons admits he has “no idea” of where he stands in the England pecking order,...
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/ 9 years agoWarriors close to O’Connor deal
FORMER WALLABY star James O’Connor looks set to be heading to the Premiership next season and is close to agreeing a...
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/ 9 years agoJoe to join George at Leicester
EXCLUSIVE By JOHN NEWCOMBE GEORGE Ford will be joined at Leicester next season by big brother, Joe. George has come back...
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Young Gun
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: Max Coyle – Harlequins full-back
Concussion may have cut his U18s Premier-ship final appearance short but Max Coyle is determined to create long-lasting memories from his...
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/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: Crooked feeds are bigger concern than lack of rucking
What a fuss about nothing. As all hell breaks loose because of what Italy did not do, and what England could...
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/ 9 years agoBiggar: No sulking, we’ve got to shape up for Irish
Dan Biggar insists Wales won’t be lacking motivation when they face Ireland on Friday, despite having only pride to play for...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoLichfield in shock as they miss out on Super league
Lichfield Ladies director of rugby Becky Williams reckons the RFU have made a “mistake” in excluding the “best club in the...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Ted Stagg – Caldy hooker
1. Littering I just don’t see the point of throwing rubbish on the floor when everywhere you go there is a...
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/ 9 years agoDestroyer Hamish on mission at Twickenham
Hamish Watson felt he had a point to prove to Vern Cotter when he came off the bench to star against...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years ago20 Questions: Tom Calladine – Rotherham flanker
How’s your week been? Pretty hard to be honest after two big defeats to Yorskhire Carnegie and Bedford last week. But...
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/ 9 years agoNo need for motivation when we face Scots says Youngs
Ben Youngs happily fanned the Calcutta Cup flames that threaten to burn red hot in the build-up to the latest crunch...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Lee Blackett – former Rotherham and Leeds centre
I’d love to say that the biggest crowd in Rotherham‘s history (6,894) turned out specifically to see my club debut against...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Steve Boden – Yorkshire Carnegie forwards coach
1. Tom Davies – Known as ‘Toddy’, he is very good at the set piece but also very skilful ball in...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoTop clubs vie to lure Brown from Harlequins
Harlequins face the prospect of losing star full-back Mike Brown in the summer. And Brown’s fellow England international, scrum-half Danny Care,...
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/ 9 years agoNehe runs riot on Hurricanes return
By NICK VERDIER NEHE Milner-Skudder celebrated his longawaited return to Super Rugby yesterday with a brilliant hattrick to help the Hurricanes...
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/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER ENGLAND AND LEICESTER CENTRE AND NOW LEICESTER ACADEMY COACH ANTHONY ALLE With hindsight, getting capped by England at 20,...
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/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
JERSEY NO.8 NICK HAINING Big win against Yorkshire Carnegie last week? It was a great home win for us and it...
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/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
WILL JONES WALES U20s CAPTAIN Enjoying the student life while trying to become a professional rugby player is not easy but...
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/ 9 years agoHogg-warts wizardry as Stuart casts his spells …
BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks at the qualities of the Scotland full-back destined to be a Lion. Real pace: Stuart Hogg makes a...
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