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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoNorthampton captain Dylan Hartley urges Saints to shake off that losers’ tag
Saints captain Dylan Hartley has demanded his side shake off their tag as the nearly men of English rugby. While Northampton...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoExeter winger Matt Jess: “Team ethic is only concern for Chiefs”
When Bath chairman Bruce Craig told the club’s end-of-season dinner that there wasn’t a single player in his side whom he...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoIt’s time for Nathan Catt to sparkle says Bath new boss Gary Gold
This is the season that loosehead Nathan Catt will stop being talked of as a potential talent and start becoming a...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoLeicester Jordan Crane looking for Leicester Tigers and England place
Jordan Crane is itching to put a season-long absence behind him and challenge Thomas Waldrom for his place in the Leicester...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoCoventry Nathan Jones: “Some Championship players earn no more than minimum-wage”
Coventry‘s new signing Nathan Jones has hit out at Championship clubs’ pay structures, revealing some of his former Nottingham teammates earn...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoWhy those gentlemen of league are on the defensive
While rugby league’s national standing has waned as union’s has risen since the introduction of professionalism, its influence on the XV...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoCornish Pirates Aaron Penberthy ready to unleash full range of skills
Cornish Pirates supporters might have thought they had seen Aaron Penberthy’s full range last season, but the 20-year-old fly-half has said...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoWe’re doing things even better than the Natal Sharks says Bristol head coach Liam Middleton
Bristol head coach Liam Middleton hopes a recent fact-finding mission to South Africa will make the difference as his side targets...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNew Nottingham boss Marting Haag can make the step up says Ian McGeechan
Sir Ian McGeechan has backed Martin Haag to be a big hit in his first head coach role after Nottingham appointed...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoEngland Ben Morgan’s advance no shock to Brad Harrington
Brad Harrington has not been surprised by the impact Ben Morgan has had in an England shirt. Gloucester‘s new No.8 has...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNewcastle Falcons revival will be key for Jon Golding’s England call
A Newcastle pack getting the better of their Wasps counterparts at Adams Park sounds a familiar tale but this scene took...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 14 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jon Pendlebury – former Leeds, Gloucester and Rotherham lock
As a 20-year-old lad who had only been playing rugby for four years, it was a dream come true when I...
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Young Gun
/ 14 years agoYoung Guns: Jordan Burns – Harlequins scrum-half
Harlequins‘ stable of wings is so well stocked that the fastest man in their Sevens side, Jordan Burns, is being groomed...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Bill Beaumont and the 1980 Grand Slam
The Sixties and Seventies were dark times for English rugby. While Wales were enjoying a golden era, each turning year across...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: London Wasps and 2004 Heineken Cup Semi Final
Stunning game. Truly stunning result. Quite simply, this Anglo-Irish showdown in Dublin was one of the greatest, if not THE greatest,...
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20 Questions
/ 14 years ago20 Questions: Neil de Kock – Saracens scrum half
Where have you been this summer? We went to Europcamp Costa Dorada, just south of Barcelona. We have two kids, aged...
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Dream Team
/ 14 years agoDream Team: Leo Halavatau – London Irish prop
1. Max Lahiff – I think Max will go far. He is probably the strongest player I have ever played with...
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Room 101
/ 14 years agoRoom 101: Mike Denbee – London Welsh flanker
1. The Tube The London Transport system is, on a good day, the quickest, cheapest and most convenient way to travel....
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoI’m now tougher and smarter, says returning golden boy Danny Cipriani
Danny Cipriani says the defensive frailties which have blighted his career have been sorted out and that his critics will see...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNewcastle Falcons wanted to swoop on Gavin Henson
Newcastle made a bid to sign Gavin Henson before the RFU reversed their decision barring London Welsh from promotion to the...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoIt’s great to feel up for the England challenge, says Saracens full-back Alex Goode
For a player who always seems so confident, full-back Alex Goode makes the surprising admission that a lack of self-belief had...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoRyan Walkinshaw: “I aim to make Gloucester a flagship club in Europe”
Ryan Walkinshaw is a remarkable young man. Thrust into the cut-throat world of global business at the age of 23 following...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoPromising London Wasps back row Sam Jones happy to learn from Haskell
Sam Jones was just a schoolboy apprentice the last time James Haskell was playing in a Wasps shirt – now the...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoDiccon Edwards ‘got it wrong’ with Leeds’ youth policy says departing Lee Blackett
Lee Blackett has revealed his anger at the way senior players were jettisoned at Leeds by Diccon Edwards’ youth-based policy. The...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNew Bristol signing James Grindal gears up for big time again
James Grindal ended a 13-year consecutive run in the top flight when he swapped Leicester for Bristol this summer, but such...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoBath winger Tom Biggs has still got that blond ambition
Winger Tom Biggs believes his England ambitions will remain on the backburner while Bath are languishing in the lower reaches of...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Stuart Barnes and the 1992 Pilkington Cup final
During the dying embers of amateurism, Twickenham on Cup final day was a very special occasion, and more often than not...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Worcester Warriors and the 2004 Premiership promotion game
It was Boy’s Own stuff. Twelve years earlier, Worcester had been a modest rugby club minding its own business in the...
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Room 101
/ 14 years agoRoom 101: George Chuter – Leicester hooker
1. The Rolling Stones This really pains me. I’m a HUGE Stones fan. But I feel it has to be said...
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Dream Team
/ 14 years agoDream Team: Chris Cracknell – former Bath and Worcester flanker and England Sevens Star
1. Nathan Catt – Not a household name yet, but he will be. I am certain he will be pulling on...
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Young Gun
/ 14 years agoYoung Gun: Nathan Earle – Saracens winger
Every so often you can pinpoint the exact moment when a sporting star is born. For Wayne Rooney it was his...
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20 Questions
/ 14 years ago20 Questions: Gareth Steenson – Exeter fly-half
How’s the summer been? I got married to Karen so it’s been a big summer. We went to Orlando and Miami...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 14 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Heino Senekal – former Blues, Pirates and Namibia lock
Playing for Namibia in three consecutive World Cups from 1999 to 2007 was without a doubt the biggest achievement of my...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoDominic Waldouck: I need a new challenge
Wasps centre Dom Waldouck is leaving to join Northampton Saints. Waldouck, who had a year to run on his contract at...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoCharlie Sharples : “Ducking out on England was my best career move”
Charlie Sharples insists it was a simple decision to miss England‘s summer tour, even if he concedes he admits he has...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoIt’s our fairytale and we aim to slay those giants says London Welsh
London Welsh face the toughest possible start to life in the Premiership with opening games against Leicester and champions Harlequins. But...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 14 years agoStuart Lancaster locates a drop of Southern comfort
Stuart Lancaster insists the ‘‘gap is closing” between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres despite another summer series wipe-out. England, Wales and...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoJosh Matavesi magic means attack, attack for Worcester Warriors
After playing alongside Frans Steyn and Juan Martin Hernandez in the Racing Metro midfield, Worcester new boy Josh Matavesi is keen...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoSarecens out to take the JP Morgan’s trophy back says Jackson Wray
One of the many consequences of London Welsh‘s elevation into the top flight is that there will be a new champion...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoRugby League legend Keith Senior returns to rugby Union 20 years later
Talk to anyone in either code about legendary Rugby League centre Keith Senior and the soundbites are always the same. “Great...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoDean Richards’s tough love will revive Newcastle Falcons says Simon Keogh
Newcastle players had better get ready to roll up their sleeves on the field – and in training – under Dean...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Shane Williams and the 2008 Wales win over Australia
In 2008 Wales swept to a second Grand Slam in four seasons under the newly installed coach Warren Gatland – a...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: London Irish and the 2002 Powergen Cup final
London Irish had been written off as relegation fodder at the start of season 2001-2. They were a team without stars....
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20 Questions
/ 14 years ago20 Questions: Olly Barkley – Bath and England fly-half
Been anywhere nice on holiday? I went to Portugal with my girlfriend and then to LA and Las Vegas for 10...
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Dream Team
/ 14 years agoDream Team: Steven Shingler – London Irish and former Scarlets centre
1. Alex Corbisiero – A really good player around the loose and has become a world-class loosehead, although he is cutting...
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Room 101
/ 14 years agoRoom 101: Lee Blackett – Rotherham winger
1. 50mph roadworks on a Motorway Travelling across the Pennines on the M62, as I do fairly frequently because my family...
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Young Gun
/ 14 years agoYoung Gun: Callum Braley – Bristol scrum half
As a West Country boy Callum Braley would like nothing more than to stamp his mark on Bristol‘s first team. But...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoPromoted London Welsh will take look at Gavin Henson
London Welsh boss Lyn Jones has been armed with a war-chest to sign eight “headline players” who will underpin the club’s...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoToby Booth’s snub made Guy Armitage turn his back on London Irish
Guy Armitage has opened the door to one day playing for France after revealing that Toby Booth’s snub at London Irish...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoWe’ll get Cipriani settled in – then it’s up to him
Steve Diamond is not a man for standing still. Since returning to Sale as executive director of sport in January 2011,...
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