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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoFarrell’s jumping from fire…into fire
RUGBY MATTERS I don't know about you but it’s occasionally been a bit of a torture watching Owen Farrell struggle with...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoThe tackle: Different options are available
Dafydd Jenkins’ yellow card last week for Exeter against Bayonne has caused much debate with most people agreeing that is was...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoScots should focus on developing own talent
The international merry-go-round continues. After the best part of a decade of striving for England honours Exeter Chiefs prop Alec Hepburn...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoMagnificent tome tells fantastic tales
Take a bow Neil Fissler and Adam Hathaway – much respected members of this parish – for completing a definitive Who’s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoNo hiding place in those final trials
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER For some reason, the good old days have...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen JPR enjoyed his day at court
The late JPR Williams has many claims to sporting fame and one of the more esoteric is that he played in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen the selectors made the right calls
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S 2024 – a belated Happy New Year...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoSir Dicky’s New Year honour is hugely deserved
Everybody west of the Tamar, and indeed way beyond, was delighted that Dicky Evans was elevated to Sir Dicky in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoThe day Bancroft created history
TODAY sees the 130th anniversary of the first successful penalty kick in Test rugby with Billy Bancroft, below, landing a tricky...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen Merlene Ottey’s leotard grew nine sizes
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points NEW Year’s Eve and rugby always brings to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTime of goodwill to all (well, nearly all)
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER hands out his Christmas goodies... HO HO HO. I’m normally more of a scrooge than a Santa...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoToulouse’s victory over Quins is top of my list
RUGBY MATTERS THE greatest single performance in the Heineken Cup? That’s a tricky one, there have been so many, but when...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoMillar knew how to keep ref onside
RUGBY MATTERS Dr Syd Millar was many things – Ballymena stalwart, redoubtable Ireland Test prop, successful Ireland coach and innovative rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoFollowing in fathers’ footsteps
RUGBY MATTERS The tradition of “sons of” playing for France U20 is well and truly established now and seems to know...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoI can’t see how a single action can cover it all
Lawyers and the legal system move in mysterious ways but as a layman it’s difficult to understand how the law firm...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTime to enforce law on quick tapped penalties
RUGBY MATTERS I can't remember the last time I saw a quick tapped penalty taken correctly yet refs and assistant refs...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoA game in desperate need of some answers
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IF THERE is one thing I have learned...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen relegation battle was the key
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Twenty years on from England’s World Cup triumph...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoYoung guns who fired the triumph of 2003
RUGBY MATTERS While we rightly ruminate on the 20th anniversary of England’s World Cup triumph we should also doff a 30th...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoMarta try was my favourite moment
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points SO that’s a wrap and after this final...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoLions of Europe would be a fine team to watch
A long time ago I concluded that the self-interest of the Six Nations runs so deep, and they are so frightened...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoEngland’s finest right to the end
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Now here’s a little in-house admission. A couple...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoLagisquet’s effort cannot be ignored
RUGBY MATTERS World Rugby could desperately do with an injection of PR savvy not to mention a certain generosity of spirit....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhy the final step is often one too many
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER If I had a fiver for every time...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoPleased Dickson made the right call
Did you, like me, cheer inwardly when Karl Dickson could be heard on comms explaining that not all hits to the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoA French-inspired XV to take on the world
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points The ProD2 Twitter account – sorry X account...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhy do Aussies let so many escape?
RUGBY MATTERS The problems facing Australian Rugby are many and numerous but a largely unmentioned issue would appear to be letting...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoKeep Portugal in game
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Portugal might have become the surprise package of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoAustin’s bite would add to the show
I miss Austin Healey. There, I said it. I miss his eagle eye spotting stuff I have missed; I miss him...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWarrior spirit at heart of the game
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points I’VE been surprised that some have been surprised...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoShame of the RFU blazers
It's funny what tugs at your emotions and I was caught unaware last week by the traditional pre-season picture of the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTime for Italy to play like big boys
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER AS keen observers of sport, we are all amateur psychologists and, with that in mind, it’s been...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoAnother fine mess! Pinto ban so unfair
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER WORLD Rugby and their disciplinary officials have come...
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Rugby Matters
/ 2 years agoWallabies benefit from Fiji brilliance
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER NATIONALITY is a pretty fluid concept in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoStick with 20 teams but bring in Trophy
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S very rare, in fact unique, for me...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoDiagram shows how difficult it is to tackle head-on
THE RFU are of course totally correct in their desire to improve and “make safe” tackling techniques at grassroots and junior...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoMixed reviews on opening nights…
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER NOT long now ... but first comes the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTricky to get the message
So apparently we will be watching something called the Investec Champions Cup this season – all mention of Europe now seems...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoBig beasts need to set the right mood
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points SO where did the last four years go?...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoBrothers linking arms for Chile
Chile is a minute rugby community compared with many giants of the game and is inevitably centred on geographical pockets of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoThe cruellest time to suffer an injury
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER The agony of these eve of World Cup...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoSamoa look ready to spring surprise
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER This column has had its say – whinge...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoItaly need to protect their stars
We are barely halfway through the dreaded World Cup warm-up season and Italy in particular are feeling the pain from these,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoAt last! Spain show us what they can do
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S BEEN a bittersweet roller coaster five or...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoThe time that Dixon bolted out of the blue
RUGBY MATTERS Bolters seem to be less common in top rugby these days but as teams finalise their World Cup squads...
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/ 2 years agoA phoney war that has little to tell us
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER AND suddenly the World Cup warmups, or the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHasta la vista! It’s a Spanish decider
RUGBY MATTERS THE World U20 Trophy final today in Nairobi is an all Spanish speaking affair between Uruguay and Spain with...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoArendse can light up the World Cup
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER NO sooner had it started than the abbreviated...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoModern-day Lions seem to be tone deaf
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER So the Lions itinerary is out for their 2025 Australia tour and, although there is much to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoHogg was one of the best in the business
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points So farewell then Stuart Hogg. Try scorer extraordinaire...
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