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/ 4 years agoEuropean Super Cup can help bridge divide
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHE THE FIRA-run European Super Cup is up and running and although it’s very early days it could...
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/ 4 years agoWeighty matters key for Kearney
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHE I’VE become a little obsessed with rugby players’ obsession with weight. Take the splendid Ireland and Lions...
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/ 4 years agoWord Cup every two years is just madness
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Keep it special: South Africa win the World...
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/ 4 years agoPlayer power puts pressure on players!
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER By all accounts, player power had much to...
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/ 4 years agoJordie let-off proves there’s one law for NZ and one for rest
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE was much evidence this week for those (ie everybody living outside of New Zealand) who have...
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/ 4 years agoCliff used diplomacy to get what he wanted
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER ON the 1955 tour to South Africa, Cliff Morgan was absolutely key to the Lions prospects and...
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/ 4 years agoRogge paved way for Olympic return
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE death earlier this week of former IOC...
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/ 4 years agoPortugal flyer Storti set for big time at Stade Francais
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER AS predicted in these pages a few weeks back one of the big beasts of T14 Rugby...
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/ 4 years agoThomas was only inches away from immortality
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER ELSEWHERE in this edition we read of Horace Wyndham Thomas becoming the first rugby player of real...
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/ 4 years agoSuperpowers take showdown to tropics
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS cursed Pandemic has taken us down some...
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/ 4 years agoChange guidelines to weed out ‘cheats’
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER I’m not going to do a Rassie and...
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/ 4 years agoLegends line up in memory of Jack
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE rugby community is rallying around, as it always does, after the very sudden death from cancer...
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/ 4 years agoLions should ditch Boks slog for Buenos Aires party | Brendan Gallagher
If Rassie Erasmus deems it fit to tarnish the integrity of a Lions tour with his crashing bore of a video,...
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/ 4 years agoPumas’ Sevens system offers pathway to top
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE Men’s Sevens tournament in Tokyo this week...
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/ 4 years agoMorne still Boks’ record man
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER MORNE Steyn, still in the Boks long squad although unused in the series thus far, is usually...
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/ 4 years agoHypocrisy of coaches sticks in my craw
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER WHAT to make of Rassie Erasmus, below, and his recent outbursts? He was a brilliant flanker in...
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/ 4 years agoRugby Matters: Wolves poised for World Cup return
Portugal appear to be on the brink of qualifying for their first Rugby World Cup since 2007
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/ 4 years agoChile pay for lack of global standard
The state of rugby in Chile after they shocked Uruguay in the World Cup qualifying phase
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/ 4 years agoRugby Matters: First Test success vital for a winning series
There is always a special feel to the first Test of any Lions series in South Africa, a step into the...
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/ 4 years agoJack van Poortvliet has got the world at his feet | Brendan Gallagher
NO Junior World Cup this year, or last, and therefore no junior world player of the year for either season but...
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/ 4 years agoRugby Matters: Captain Meite’s got Elephants charging
Brendan Gallagher asks whatever happened to the Ivory Coast after their appearance at the Rugby World Cup in 1995
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/ 4 years agoPeculiar how lowly Canada now meet the cap criteria
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER ENGLAND caps should never be given away goes the mantra, but it’s a philosophical approach that often...
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/ 4 years agoSemi Radradra sprinkles his stardust on Tokyo Olympics
The stars of XVs who will switch to sevens this summer at the Tokyo Olympics
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/ 4 years ago‘Man strength’ helped make it best final ever
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Power play: Wilco Louw scores for Quins in...
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/ 4 years agoLos Lelos need a few more like Davit
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER HAVE Georgia finally unearthed their first superstar outside back? The lack of firepower behind the scrum has...
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/ 4 years agoDeep diving podcast into ‘97 Lions is a must-hear
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SUDDENLY our cup over-runneth with Lions previews not to mention retrospectives, podcasts, books and specials dealing with...
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/ 4 years agoIrish lively lads can strike gold in Tokyo
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IFI was a betting man, and thank the...
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/ 4 years agoRugby Matters: Chiefs duo deserve bans… and sympathy
THE question of tackle heights and what constitutes a legal tackle continues to vex the game, myself included. For example I...
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/ 4 years agoLions aside, rugby has no place in sport’s silly season
THE rugby in recent weeks has been generally splendid and, until this weekend sun kissed, but perversely more than ever I...
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/ 4 years agoTributes to Jack, a top player and great man
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE tragic death of Jack Adams at just 34 from cancer has been felt in many rugby...
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/ 4 years agoRugby Matters: Malakai Fekitoa sprinkles his stardust on Monaco
WHAT with Covid doing its worst for the last 15 months or so, Sevens has rather disappeared off the radar with...
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/ 4 years agoBelgium win leads to Dutch enquiries
RUGBY MATTERS IT’S amazing what a breakthrough season and a famous win can do. Netherlands coach Zane Gardiner reports that his...
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/ 4 years agoWarriors could have done a lot worse!
RUGBY MATTERS THOUGHT for the day. In the 19 Premiership matches Worcester played this season they accrued a disappointing 15 league...
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/ 5 years agoDutch come out of the blocks looking good
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER TALK about playing catch-up. The Netherlands claimed a...
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/ 5 years agoFrench integrity preserves Holy Grail
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER I AM very loath to criticise anybody who has been grappling with the logistics of a pandemic-fraught...
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/ 5 years agoErrol paved way for today’s Springboks
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER WE mark all sorts of landmarks in rugby...
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/ 5 years agoMbale show how it’s done
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER WHILE the well-paid pros in Europe and the SANZAR nations still grapple with the harsher definition of...
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/ 5 years agoWildcats pay homage to Sedbergh star Henry
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SEDBERGH, year in year out one of British rugby’s great nurseries, has been mourning the sudden death...
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/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Wigan Warriors gave Union their wake-up call
Brendan Gallagher recalls the illustrious players who shone in the battle of the codes for Wigan Warriors
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/ 5 years agoShame my dream team won’t grace Olympics
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER APROPOS of almost nothing other than probably having too much time on my hands, it struck me...
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/ 5 years agoLions beware those slips before lift-off
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Was it Homer or Robbie Burns – it’s...
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/ 5 years agoJuggling act with Japan doesn’t cry commitment
RUGBY MATTERS SO Eddie Jones was coining it over in Japan this January helping coach Suntory, and Beauden Barrett in particular,...
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/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Pass master John Dawes had a natural born genius
John Dawes played with the speed and accuracy of the NFL's best quarterbacks and basketball's best point guards
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/ 5 years agoFind that lost slice of 50s life at Ealing
RUGBY MATTERS TRYING to celebrate your 150th anniversary with the usual array of dinners, golf days and social gatherings during a...
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/ 5 years agoMassimo Cuttitta was heart and soul of Azzurri | Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher remembers Massimo Cuttitta and the Italy of the late prop's era
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/ 5 years agoTragic that Trinder’s magic failed to find favour
RUGBY MATTERS THERE are many players for whom the road not taken is an interesting hypothetical journey to contemplate and Gloucester’s...
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/ 5 years agoSix Nations’ treatment of Spain blights game
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE has been much debate this week about...
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/ 5 years agoLee was the heart and soul of Sevenoaks rugby
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A BELATED hat tip and farewell to an old rugby colleague – Lee Adamson – from Reigate...
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/ 5 years agoRight wing’s king for Kiwis
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER I WAS struck by an interesting tweet this week from respected New Zealand rugby journo Jim Keyes...
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/ 5 years agoDay BBC bosses made Inverdale rage | Brendan Gallagher
SO farewell then to John Inverdale, the BBC’s main rugby anchor for much of the last 30 turbulent years during which...
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