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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoHougaard set to stay at Wasps
ON THE BLINDSIDE Francois Hougaard looks set to extend his stay with cash-strapped Wasps to give the club some much-needed good...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoSaints close in on young Warrior Fin
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Northampton Saints are close to agreeing to a deal for...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoFrench clubs look at Nowell
ON THE BLINDSIDE Exeter winger Jack Nowell could move to France after the World Cup with his CV doing the rounds...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoExiles waiting in wings for Chick
ON THE BLINDSIDE London Irish are waiting in the wings to potentially move for Newcastle Falcons No.8 Callum Chick if there...
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Dream Team
/ 4 years agoDream Team with Caolon Ryan
Calon Ryan, the recently retired former Chinnor, Birmingham-Moseley, Stourbridge, Coventry, Darlington Mowden Park and Rotherham Titans fly-half, choose the best XV...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoTo sign or not to sign… how 60-cap rule is splitting Wales
PAUL REES Tommy Reffell started last season looking to establish himself as a regular in title-winning Leicester’s back row and finished...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoA rugby soap opera that has us hooked
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER For a tournament that is meant to be...
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Features
/ 4 years agoDelight! The day our friends in the north enjoyed a final hurrah
MOMENTINTIME THE NORTH DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONS 1995 NEIL FISSLER TALKS TO MATT GREENWOOD AND MARK NELSON DICKIE Jeeps’ priority in July 1976,...
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Features
/ 4 years agoPoliceman who was called in to mark Lomu
GREG Anderton was about to embark on a career as a Blackpool policeman when he got an emergency phone call that...
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Features
/ 4 years agoJohnno’s in the zone! He’s going nowhere…
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 4 years agoArgentina show they can take on the best
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It's hard to believe that Argentina were at the top of the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWhen St Ives was the pride of Cornwall
ST IVES have been part of the Cornish rugby scene since at least 1889, the official year of their founding, and...
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Features
/ 4 years agoCLUB 0F THE WEEK
BY BRENDAN GALLA GHER ST IVES RUGBY Nickname: The Hakes Founded: 1889 Ground: Recreation Ground St Ives. Capacity 3,000 (275 seats)...
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Features
/ 4 years agoAfter dropping out of the league, Hakes are raring to go again
MORE recently there was an outstanding season in 2017-18 when the Hakes, under the coaching of Rob Elloway, won both the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoYoung Guns: Ealing Trailfinders utility back Gabe Jones
Ealing Trailfinders academy utility back Gabe Jones made his U20s debut for Scotland in the Summer Series earlier this year and...
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Features
/ 4 years agoDozen new faces sign on at Ampthill
RUGBY SHORTS AMPTHILL have confirmed the signings of six forwards and six backs ahead of the 2022/23 Championship season. In the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoMarine Hayler joins Pirates
ROYAL Marine back rower Jarrard Hayler has signed a one-year contract with Cornish Pirates. Hayler has captained the Navy against the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoProp McGrath lands at Reds
JERSEY Reds have signed Connacht prop Greg McGrath. The 25-year-old played seven times in the URC for last season and once...
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Features
/ 4 years agoChancellor to Harlequins
AUSTRALIA international Emily Chancellor has signed for Harlequins. The Waratahs flanker, who has nine caps, will join in November following the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoFrom Moseley to a bar in Buenos Aires
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER MOSELEY & CORNISH PIRATES FLY-HALF/FULL-BACK OLLIE THOMAS MY route to rugby was different from the modern-day...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoTransfer market that never sleeps
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Accepted wisdom has it that the shortest period of time is the New York Second – helpfully...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoWe know what went wrong last season, says Lewies
By GARY FITZGERALD Stephan Lewies claims Harlequins “know where we went wrong” last season and is confident they can snatch the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Twenty-Seven with Christian Wade
One man who has well and truly lived the highs and lows of sport is Christian Wade. After years of terrorising...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoWorld Rugby should jump start on MND
Cheered home: Ed Slater completes his 350-mile cycle challenge this week COLIN BOAG I wanted to avoid mentioning concussions this week,...
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Features
/ 4 years agoIt’s time we introduced brain injury passports
KYRAN BRACKEN FORMER ENGLAND SCRUM-HALF Floored: Wales tighthead Tomas Francis, right, is knocked out in Six Nations Rugby Union has been...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoFalcons hope new deal will tempt Chick
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Wanted man: Calum Chick Newcastle Falcons are close to agreeing to...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoSale set to open talks with Raffi
Sale Sharks are keen on sitting down with England international scrum-half Raffi Quirke, below, to discuss a new deal, according to...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoHooper deserves support from us all
CHRIS HEWETT We are not sure how many of the New Zealand starting line-up actually read the anonymous fax sent to...
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Features
/ 4 years agoEddie taking fire from all sides after his call to ‘blow things up’
Under fire: ‘I felt the culture was working against us when I arrived’, says England coach Eddie Jones PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 4 years agoSlater finishes gruelling 350-mile bike ride
NEWS EXTRA GLOUCESTER star Ed Slater and his teammates completed a 350-mile bike ride this week in front of crowds at...
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Features
/ 4 years ago“I just ran around and smashed everything” – My Life in Rugby with Martin Purdy
The former Wasps, Bath, Gran Parma, L’Aquila, London Welsh, Massy and Grasse lock discusses his career As a professional sportsman you...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoOmanyala enjoys golden finale after leaving Sevens
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Triumph: Ferdinand Omanyala celebrates after winning the gold...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoTake time to polish leaders, Eddie
RUGBY MATTERS I HAVE absolutely no problem with Eddie Jones having his less than complementary say on the influence of our...
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Features
/ 4 years agoCharity matches will show strong links between rugby and the police
Jon Newcombe talks to Dean Richards before the Matt Ratana memorial games Strong links have existed between the police and rugby...
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Features
/ 4 years agoMet Police out to mark centenary in fine style
ONE year out from its centenary, Metropolitan Police RFC and police rugby in general is enjoying something of a revival. Back...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoTonita connects with his new ‘Taswegian’ friends
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 4 years agoPrivate schools vital to the survival of the game
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME EDDIE Jones drew a sharp rebuke from the RFU following his comments...
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Features
/ 4 years agoOld Boys who enjoy touch of Shakespeare
OLD Alleynians are one of those clubs with a particularly distinguished past which might have haunted them a little, but they...
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Features
/ 4 years agoDays when Flatman, Sheridan, Easter and Obano all enjoyed their time at the club
BRIEFLY after World War 2, the club combined with Old Whitfigitians but as numbers boomed it regained its individual identity and...
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Features
/ 4 years agoYoung Guns: Ospreys back row Morgan Morse
Schoolboy Morgan Morse was handed a first Wales U20s start at the age of just 17 earlier this year and the...
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Features
/ 4 years ago‘China is still decades behind leading nations’
Duncan Hooper talks to Zhang Zhiqiang on learning to play rugby with Leicester’s finest Zhang Zhiqiang’s introduction to the UK was...
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Features
/ 4 years agoTide has turned on overseas galacticos
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN IT is a truth long universally accepted that the Top 14 is a pension-liner for big-name overseas...
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Features
/ 4 years agoTown hall looking to find buyer for Beziers
FALLEN French rugby giant Beziers – subject of a protracted takeover tale two years ago – is still officially on the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoIt’s time for northern success in the World Cup – Dallaglio
By GARY FITZGERALD Lawrence Dallaglio is convinced a Northern Hemisphere team can reign supreme in France next year and that the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoGreenwood points finger at academies
WILL Greenwood claims Eddie Jones is wrong to blame a “closeted” private education culture for a lack of backbone and resolve...
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Features
/ 4 years agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Twenty-Six with James Horwill
For the first time ever on The Rugby Paper Podcast, a full house! Host Oliver Little is joined by columnists Nick...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoWe need bigger squads to reduce playing time
COLIN BOAG I’d really like my grandkids to be able to play and watch rugby, but I’m far from sure that...
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Dream Team
/ 4 years agoDream Team with Alex Woolford
Alex Woolford, The Bedford Blues and former Northampton, Moseley, London Welsh & Coventry second row, chooses the best XV he has...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoJack’s authority shows he’s the lad for England
KYRAN BRACKEN FORMER ENGLAND SCRUM-HALF It's interesting that, in England, scrum-half has traditionally been considered less influential tactically than fly-half, with...
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Features
/ 4 years agoIRFU to offer 43 pro contracts to women
RUGBY SHORTS The Irish Rugby Football Union have confirmed it will offer 43 professional contracts to women’s players in the country’s...
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