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Features
/ 6 years agoFrankly, I’ve got to improve
NICK CAIN TALKS TO NORTHAMPTON’S STAR ALL BLACKS PROP OWEN FRANKS Brains trust: Chris Boyd discusses tactics with coach Sam Vesty...
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/ 6 years agoHatley has the know-how to make Bath contenders
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Promotion: New head coach Neal Hatley, here on England duty with Lewis Ludlam, is...
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/ 6 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Options: Sam Davies Bath have Welsh ace Davies on their hit list BATH are...
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/ 6 years agoMorahan: We can’t afford complacency
By NEALE HARVEY LUKE Morahan says Bristol’s players are fully aware of their responsibilities around combatting the Covid-19 menace that continues...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoTEAMS: The Premiership returns for Round 14
Catch coverage of all the Premiership action in this Sunday's edition of TRP...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Workload too heavy? Get players to lose bulk
Super Rugby Aotearoa format gives an idea of Northern Hemisphere rugby's fast and furious calendar structure, writes Nick Cain
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: The invisible stars are letting down PRO14
The stars of the Six Nations are often left absent in their PRO14 campaigns, writes Peter Jackson
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Featured
/ 6 years agoNo honeymoon period for Skivington and Borthwick
Jon Newcombe assesses the betting market's view of how George Skivington and Steve Borthwick are expected to start off
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhy won’t Eddie pick Alex Dombrandt? It’s a mystery to Winterbottom
England and Harlequins great Peter Winterbottom deliberates why Dombrandt is being overlooked by the England head coach
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Exeter are clear favourites for the title
Jeremy Guscott hails the return of the Premiership this weekend, and will be watching Leicester and Exeter most keenly
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Features
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Rob Baxter reveals how he plans to balance Premiership with ‘A’ League fixtures
Rob Baxter also reveals how he plans to use Gareth Steenson within his coaching group
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Northampton Saints and former All Blacks prop Owen Franks
Franks holds 108 caps for the All Blacks and pick legendary centres Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith for his midfield
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Scarlets hooker Morgan MacRae
Teenage forward Morgan MacRae starred in the Welsh Exiles programme before joining the Scarlets
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Old Elthamians lock Perry-John Parker
The former Edinburgh and Ospreys second row picks three of his biggest pet peeves
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Features
/ 6 years agoPollard is Bath’s first-choice with Goosen back-up
Target: Handre Pollard BATH are attempting to lure World Cup-winning fly-half Handre Pollard to the Rec even though the move appears...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThe invisible stars are letting down PRO14
The PRO14 can boast a dual headline act beyond compare, a pair of players born 35 years ago on opposite sides...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAnother salary cap investigation
ENGLISH rugby could be set for another salary cap storm just a week before the Premiership returns to action. Blindside understands...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSale can time their run and nick title off Exeter
Brendan Gallagher looks ahead to next weekend’s restart of the Premiership Last hurrah: Bristol beat Harlequins on March 8, the final...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBlackett closing on deal for Bok lock
New signing: Mills WASPS head coach Lee Blackett is looking towards the South African market to strengthen his squad as he...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s Premiership restart preview
BATH Director of rugby: Stuart Hooper Captain: Charlie Ewels Stadium: The Recreation Ground Current position: 6th Form guide last 5 games:...
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Features
/ 6 years agoListen Jim, Lions will be packed with Welsh
SHANE WILLIAMS THE BRITISH & IRISH Lions tour to South Africa next summer is going to come around quickly. After the...
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/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JACK ROWNTREE LEICESTER TIGHTHEAD Jack Rowntree does not have far to look for advice. In fact, given his dad is the...
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/ 6 years agoBelieve me, Jamie hasn’t siged for the pay cheque
I SPENT A lot of time with Jamie Roberts at last year’s World Cup in Japan. We did media work together...
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/ 6 years agoI nearly quit after missing the cut with Orrell Colts
MY LIFEIN RUGBY GERRY AINSCOUGH THE FORMER ORRELL, LEICESTER AND ENGLAND B FLY-HALF Letting loose: Gerry Ainscough in action for Orrell...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’m no Manu but I have my strengths
Jon Newcombe talks to Scotland centre Matt Scott about filling the Tuilagi void in Tigers’ midfield STRONG-RUNNING centre Matt Scott is...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoAmpleforth got Dallaglio tuned up for greatness
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Top talent: John Macaulay playing for Quins soon after inspiring Ampleforth’s...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaracens still look too good for the rest
CHRIS HEWETT SARACENS are losing a dozen full internationals as a direct result of their demotion to the second tier, some...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJokers at the ready to cover Test calls
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Free agent: Former France centre Maxime Mermoz is without a club PICTURE: Getty Images Forget a week...
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/ 6 years agoDeadpan Rod’s surely having a laugh this time
ROD KAFER never seemed the most joyous of sorts during his coaching stint in England. Back in the 2000s, when the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRampant Rebels burst the Brumbies bubble
SUPER RUGBY MELBOURNE Rebels snapped the Brumbies’ unbeaten streak in Super Rugby AU with a first-half blitz setting up a 30-12...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTest match golden goose may stop laying her eggs
Louis Luyt may have been his own worst enemy, but it was a close-run thing. There were plenty of contenders for...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPrem’s here, so we’ll see some good refs again
COLIN BOAG All being well we’ll get some Premiership rugby next Friday evening, when Harlequins welcome Sale to the Stoop. I...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhy won’t Eddie pick Dombrandt? It’s a mystery to icon Winters
One of the best: Peter Winterbottom playing for the Lions ALEX Dombrandt is in a Catch-22 as the restart begins. Eddie...
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/ 6 years agoWINTERBOTTOM RATES HIS RIVALS AT NO.8
THE best No.8s Peter Winterbottom played with, and against, reads like a Who’s Who of one of the most influential positions...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’m thrilled rugby’s back – but I want it fast and open
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK NOTHING will ever quell my excitement at good rugby played at pace by smart,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBAFTA got it right – ITV were spot on
On camera: Owen Farrell tries to grab try-scorer Cheslin Kolbe in the final PICTURE: Getty Images ONE of the marvels of...
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/ 6 years agoHodge’s little and large act ready for big stage
NEWS EXTRA By GARY HEATLY EDINBURGH’S star wingers Darcy Graham and Duhan van der Merwe are on a mission to return...
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/ 6 years agoLevula will be honoured in Fiji on Aug 9
Pace to burn: Josefa Levula FIJI famously declared a national holiday when they won the Olympic Sevens but the date that...
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/ 6 years agoHaden knew how to make rugby pay
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW THERE was far more to Andy Haden than his theatrics at Cardiff Arms...
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/ 6 years agoQuins aim to lure in Exiles ace Loader
Wanted: Ben Loader HARLEQUINS are HARLEQUINS are weighing up a move for London Irish winger Ben Loader as they search for...
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/ 6 years agoBlues go quiet on Roberts’ Dragons move
JAMIE Roberts talking to The Rugby Paper in late March: “I told myself as soon as I left Cardiff that I’d...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIrish players set for pay-cut crisis talks
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler LONDON IRISH are poised to have more talks with their squad to push through...
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/ 6 years agoNick calls it a day after six clubs
Success: Nick Williams celebrates after retaining the Ranfurly Shield for North Harbour in 2007 PICTURE: Getty Images ONE of his brothers,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSuccess with Tigers would propel Steve Borthwick into the realms of super coaches
Nick Cain meets the new head coach getting to grips with things at Leicester, and how their rubbing off on lock...
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Features
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Joe Launchbury: ‘I’m pretty locked in at Wasps’
The Wasps captain speaks up on Dai Young's exit and new forwards coach Richard Blaze
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoBarnard Castle have Twickenham hoodoo but are Kings of the north at Rosslyn Park Sevens
A trial of Daily Mail Cup shortcomings but success at Rosslyn Park
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