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The day Rochy gave Merlene a shock
THE mention of certain names in our sporting village instantly results in a big smile and Tony Roche tops that list. Tony – or Louis Anthony...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 days agoFrench director calls the shots
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER DASTARDLY French TV directors have been quietly controlling...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoToulon next for Glasgow after they neuter Bulls
■By GEORGE LAWRENCE Glasgow ............25pts @therugbypape Tries: Williamson 17, Dempsey 33, Schickerling 56, MacDowall 71 Conversion: Lancaster 18 Penalty: Hastings 80...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 month agoDragons are hoping history will repeat itself
Preview Stade Francais v Dragons Today. 12.30pm By SAM JACKSON STADE Français head into their clash with Dragons as overwhelming favourites,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 month agoZebre face tough test against Pau
Preview Zebre v Pau Today. 5.30pm Zebre v Pau Today. 5.30pm ZEBRE host Top 14 high flyers Pau this afternoon looking...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoBrunel on top form to move up into the elite
BUCS RUGBY By JOSEPH TERRY BRUNEL have been promoted into Men’s BUCS Super Rugby after defeating Newcastle 29-25 in a promotion...
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/ 1 month agoTaylor leads from front as Crusaders hit their century
Super Rugby By BEN JAYCOCK Delight: Codie Taylor celebrates one of his four tries CRUSADERS signed off from Apollo Projects Stadium...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoIt’s about time rugby started to beat its chest
I DON’T know Eddie Hearn from Adam but I doff my hat to the influential boxing promoter for boldly signing up...
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Features
/ 1 month agoYOUNG GUNS
Feature FREDDIEJONES SARACENS & ENGLAND U19 LOCK Freddie Jones is embracing every moment of his England U19s experience, with the young...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoAnother blow for Steelmen
Welsh Rugby Super Rygbi round-up nBy CARL FIELD LEADERS Ebbw Vale crashed to a second straight home defeat – and a...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoSwannack at double for Merthyr
Premiership round-up nBy CARL FIELD DEFENDING champions Merthyr made it 18 wins from 19 in this season’s Welsh Premiership with a...
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/ 1 month agoBordeaux ready to run their marathon
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN All set: Bordeaux fly-half Matthieu Jalibert and, inset left to right, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Damian Penaud and head...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoForthcoming fixtures Week beginning Sunday, April 5, 2026
It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs SUNDAY, APRIL 5 EUROPEAN COMPETITIONS Champions Cup Bordeaux Bègles...
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Features
/ 1 month agoMemory of her brother lifts Powell
TRP nBy LAURA HOWARD Jackson: Lion king George North faces the final curtain THE sudden death of her brother is driving...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoDucker: We’re team they all want to beat
nBy BEN JAYCOCK CAMBORNE winger Alex Ducker believes consistency and raised training standards have been the driving forces behind his side’s...
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/ 1 month agoBears find welcome in the hillsides
THERE used to be a time when every clubhouse in England marvelled at the magnetic appeal of the Welsh club scene,...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 month agoPau lead the nice guys…
AT the risk of giving fate not so much a friendly nudge as a hefty shove between the shoulder blades, three...
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Columnists
/ 2 months agoAfter three rounds, it all looked so easy…
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN WELL, that was a remarkable end to what turned out to be an utterly astonishing Six Nations,...
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 months agoMcGuigan to leave coaching role at Sale
BYRON McGuigan, who was part of England’s coaching set-up during the Six Nations, is to leave his role as Sale Sharks...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 months agoConnacht at crossroads
Preview Montpellier v Connacht Today. 1pm By BEN JAYCOCK CONNACHT travel to south of France knowing their meeting with Montpellier could...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 months agoUlster still with work to do
Preview Cheetahs v Ulster Today. 1pm ULSTER head to Amsterdam knowing a return to winning ways in Europe will put them...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 months agoDragons looking to end poor run
Preview ■ By SAM JACKSON Dragons v Lyon Today. 3.15pm. Rodney Parade DRAGONS believe today’s clash with Lyon can act as...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoThe Best Rugby Themed Games
Rugby has inspired a variety of online games, offering a chance to engage with the sport in a different way. From...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoJeremy Guscott: Dynamic duo of Handre Pollard and Beauden Barrett can still rule at No.10
The dominance of South Africa and New Zealand in winning World Cups is a statistical reality and, because of their track...
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International Rugby
/ 8 months agoCanada can’t keep up with lively Japan
Pacific Nations Cup ■By BEN JAYCOCK EDDIE Jones’ Japan opened their Pacific Nations Cup campaign in emphatic fashion, moving straight to...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoCastres give youthful Harlequins outfit the runaround
Pre-season ■By BEN JAYCOCK A SEASONED Castres outfit proved too strong for a youthful Harlequins side in the south of France,...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoNick Cain: Two-team model in Welsh rugby has little chance of success
The precipice on which Welsh rugby is perched rests on two disastrous decisions made on either side of the Millennium which...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoVive La France! At last some scrum sense
THERE is at last a sign of sanity in the otherwise befuddled global administration of rugby union in the shape of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 8 months agoChris Hewett: Rassie Erasmus is in search of a brave new world with the Springboks
There is something unashamedly Old Testament about South Africa’s first-choice pack, possibly because its most accomplished components are more ancient than...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoFrench pair part of exciting generation
JAMES Harrington, our excellent go-to man on all things French, informs us that two of the country’s prime talents – the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoBrendan Gallagher: Remarkable Los Pumas an example to us all
I've always eyed the World Rugby rankings with a little suspicion, possibly because I’ve never fully understood their machinations and how...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoVan Graan worked his magic to turn Bath’s gladiators into champions
Premiership review Paul Rees continues his summer series reviewing the Premiership season, with the focus this week on champions Bath AFTER...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoShanahan the right man for Bury, says Ford
News ■ By BEN JAYCOCK FOLLOWING four successful years in charge of Bury St Edmunds, Jacob Ford has passed the baton...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoSoak up the best bits from across all sports
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Matt Albinson, below, the director of rugby at Stamford RFC who last season won...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoDavies has one more mountain to climb
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Loving life: Sam Davies playing for Grenoble PICTURE: Alamy ONE day soon, Sam...
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/ 8 months agoDemise of Miami Sharks still not headline news
ANOTHER working week gone and still the Miami Sharks website had nothing to say about what they told their squad almost...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoMaestro Ring is ahead of the game
AT the top of his game circa 1984 when Cardiff succeeded against the Grand Slam Wallabies where England, Ireland, Scotland and...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 months agoRocky road ahead for Welsh regions
United Rugby Championship ins & outs 2025-26 Ben Jaycock looks ahead to the URC season as Cardiff, Dragons, Scarlets and Ospreys...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 months agoGreen is glad to be back at Quins
SCRUM-HALF Max Green has returned to Harlequins on a season-long loan as injury cover. The 29-year-old spent the 2023-24 season at...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 months agoLevel 4 clubs hit by overseas player rule
By BEN JAYCOCK ROSSENDALE chairman Nick Ingham has criticised the RFU over what he describes as “pathetic” restrictions on foreign player...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 months agoU18s face triple challenge in South Africa
ENGLAND U18s start their summer tour of South Africa on Friday against Georgia. Jonathan Pendlebury’s side then take on France and...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 10 months agoLions 48-0 AUNZ Invitational: It’s time to get serious as British and Irish Lions step up
Invitational AU & NZ ........ 0pts British & Irish Lions ..... 48pts Tries: van der Merwe 7, 21, 64; White 10;...
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Miscellaneous
/ 10 months agoPaul Rees: Going from the phoney war to the real thing
The final warm-up match usually sees the likely Test side given a run-out, but the scratch nature of the AUNZ XV...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 10 months agoAlex Mitchell happy to take on a heavy workload for British and Irish Lions
Alex Mitchell has been a busy man in Australia but prefers seeing live action than being flogged on the training grounds...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 10 months agoTaniela Tupou makes most of Joe Schmidt’s message ahead of British and Irish Lions Tests
Taniela Tupou revealed a message from Joe Schmidt sparked the recovery that saw him named in the Wallabies squad for the...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 10 months agoJeremy Guscott: I see too much clunk and not enough click with the British and Irish Lions
Before you get to the last two provincial matches of a Lions tour, the head coach knows what his best team...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 10 months agoBritish and Irish Lions Tour going past in a blink of an eye for Maro Itoje
Skipper Maro Itoje has seen time fly by on the current Lions tour and the first Test match is rushing into...
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Miscellaneous
/ 12 months agoTime to decide: To party or play?
For numerous reasons too complicated to detail, I haven’t attended a match in person in Cardiff for a very long while,...
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Miscellaneous
/ 12 months agoEaling’s pair make the cut but Blues and Hartpury are at the top of the bill
CHAMPIONSHIP DREAM TEAM >> THE BEST XV FROM 2024-25 AS VOTED FOR BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS Ben Jaycock canvassed the views of...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 year agoNick Cain: Invest in the Championship – as well as women’s game
The money cut from the funding to Championship clubs in the last five years is believed to be very close to...
International Rugby
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