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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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Features
/ 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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/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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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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Featured
/ 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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Featured
/ 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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Featured
/ 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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Featured
/ 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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Features
/ 9 years agoSo should the Italians have just caved in, Matthew?
ITALY had been held up to such public ridicule before Twickenham last Sunday that not one of their detractors considered it...
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Features
/ 9 years agoEddie’s done good but he must beware of arrogance
BOB Dwyer and Eddie Jones are two of the most successful international coaches in Rugby Union history, having both won World...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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/ 9 years agoGatland has to be worried by captaincy shambles
COLIN BOAG Last weekend unexpectedly threw up the most intriguing Six Nations clash. England v Italy was akin to watching a...
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Features
/ 9 years agoFollowing in illustrious footsteps
Gavin Hastings Rock of a man at the back, commanding under the high ball and always made a huge dent when...
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/ 9 years agoStop moaning Eddie, you were out-thought
Postbox special on that Italian tactic which has split opinion within the rugby fraternity Smart move or poor spirit? Italians stand...
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/ 9 years agoThe four dramatic times Scots beat their HQ hoodoo
Scotland wins at Twickenham are one of the great rarities in Six Nations rugby, there being only four since England started...
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Features
/ 9 years agoO’Shea’s tactics were not in spirit of fair play
Scragged: Danny Care finds trouble waiting for him WONDER if admirers of the round ball game remember a recent advert created...
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Features
/ 9 years agoEngland’s calmness was credit to rugby
SO MUCH for the eagerlyanticipated home victory – yet England’s hard-earned triumph over Italy produced any number of talking points. Credit...
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Features
/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER ■BRISTOL are now the favourites to land Ireland fly-half Ian Madigan if he is released from the final year...
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Features
/ 9 years agoThis shows Italy are not relegation fodder
THE events should be an embarrassment to your correspondent, Stuart Stanton of Leeds and columnist Colin Boag. I refer, of course,...
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