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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Topsy Ojo – London Irish wing
1. Clarke Dermody – It can’t be bad when your prop has hands like a centre as well as being able...
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Features
/ 9 years agoHartley’s run will end as Eddie starts stage two
NICK CAIN PICKS HIS ENGLISH LIONS AS EDDIE JONES REACHES A WATERSHED Hooker choice: Dylan Hartley in action against Australia last...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMurray is minted in pole position
LIONS WATCH Certainty for Lions: Ireland’s Conor Murray. Inset: Kieran Marmion Given the influence that Conor Murray had on the 2013...
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Features
/ 9 years agoDuffie strikes to set Blues on 6-try romp
Super Rugby By NICK VERDIER MATT Duffie sparked a second-half revival with two tries to help give the Blues a 38-14...
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/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
JON PHILLIPS THE FORMER NORTHAMPTON AND BEDFORD LOCK Times have changed a bit since I played (and scored) in Saints’ first-ever...
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Features
/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
RUARIDH McCONNOCHIE ENGLAND SEVENS How about that for a first half of the World Series? We’ve already won two tournaments and...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissle ROELOF SMIT, the Blue Bulls flanker who is out of contract at the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAMIE BARDEN CRANLEIGH SCHOOL FLANKER A broken leg cost him his place in the Harlequins academy but Jamie Barden proved he...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 9 years agoSharks in talks with Scots ace Jackson
Off north? Jackson SALE SHARKS are having talks with Scotland fly-half Ruaridh Jackson about a switch to the North-West from Harlequins....
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Features
/ 9 years agoThat extra 20 minutes? Enthralling rugby drama
COLIN BOAG I’ve always believed that all three matches in the final round of the Six Nations should kick off at...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 9 years agoGloucester make big money move to land Parisse
GLOUCESTER have emerged as surprise suitors for Italian skipper Sergio Parisse with Stade Francais struggling to stay in business. The Paris...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 9 years agoGriffiths goes to Paris in bid for Steyn
WORCESTER WARRIORS have held talks with Springbok fly-half Morne Steyn about moving to Sixways Stadium from the start of next season....
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Features
/ 9 years agoO’Mahony had a hunger England never showed
JEREMY GUSCOTT THERE are as many questions after the Six Nations as there were before it in terms of selection for...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoWorcester rejuvenated after Gold makeover
Gary Gold has revealed he discovered a Worcester squad training poorly and unprepared for the physical intensity of the Premiership when...
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English Championship
/ 9 years agoPremiership must take control of Championship
Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow fears Championship rugby will continue its downward spiral unless Premiership Rugby are handed control of the league....
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoBeale determined to deliver the goods at Wasps before departing
Kurtley Beale reckons the addition of Springbok superstar Willie Le Roux to an already electrifying backline has given Wasps the extra...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■GARY GOLD looks like staying on at Worcester Warriors next season after being...
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Features
/ 9 years agoIrish step up recruitment for assault on top-flight
LONDON IRISH have been busy recruiting players ahead of their impending return to the Premiership next season. But I understand that...
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Features
/ 9 years agoFalcons looking to lure Flood home
Heading home? Toby Flood TOBY FLOOD could this summer be heading back to Newcastle Falcons where he started his career when...
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Features
/ 9 years agoEasterby next on Kingsholm wanted list
Wanted: Ackermann GLOUCESTER have got a list of alternatives for their head coach job if they are turned down by South...
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Features
/ 9 years agoAnglo-Welsh Cup needs to rethink playing rules
COLIN BOAG I’ve made no secret of the fact I don’t much like the Anglo-Welsh Cup in its present form, and...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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