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/ 4 years agoCardiff best for me now says Liam
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON CARDIFF have confirmed the signing of Wales fullback Liam Williams from Scarlets for the 2022-23 season....
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThe game is nothing without jeopardy
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Apips-and-core Australian with vast experience of top-end rugby on both sides of the Equator sends his season’s...
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/ 4 years agoTigers roar on with late bonus point
NEWS EXTRA PREMIERSHIP leaders Leicester Tigers maintained their unstoppable start to the season with a 31-0 bonus-point win over Newcastle Falcons...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWe need Wray back in black as soon as possible
CHRIS HEWETT PLENTY of words have been written about Jackson Wray in this corner of the paper but, in light of...
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/ 4 years agoDupont, Jones and Smith vie for award
NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK THE shortlist for the Rugby Union Writers’ Club Personality of the Year has been released, with...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoThe genius of Liddell is recognised at last
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS column has long argued there should be...
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/ 4 years agoExeter keep heat on Durham at top
By BEN JAYCOCK DURHAM lead the way as the BUCS Super Rugby season moves past halfway, with Exeter and Loughborough hot...
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/ 4 years agoTwickenham ‘too costly’ for Wales to switch Six Nations matches
By PETER JACKSON WALES will almost certainly abandon a contingency plan to use Twickenham as their home base for the Six...
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/ 4 years agoSound the gong for two women pioneers
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE were gongs aplenty for sporting folk in the New Year’s honours list and it would have...
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/ 4 years agoUK is ‘closing the divide with South African schools’ now
Schools roundup By BEN JAYCOCK MOUNT St Mary’s College head of rugby Dylan Campbell believes school rugby in the UK is...
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/ 4 years agoWasps ace Fifita will join Scarlets
By STEFFAN THOMAS Ecstatic: Lloyd Evans celebrates Gloucester’s victory over Saracens on the final whistle PICTURE: Getty Images THE Scarlets have...
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/ 4 years agoAlfie’s part in Ruddock resignation is revealed
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ashred of new evidence is shining a light on the most intriguing St...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoGalthie: We have means to take title
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN France coach Fabien Galthie will announce his 42-player squad for the Six Nations a week on Monday,...
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/ 4 years agoGet Eddie’s successor to ride shotgun for him now
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK SUCCESSION plans for the England head coach role have been a lottery in...
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/ 4 years agoLiddell’s values honoured by SRU
PETER JACKSON ON A sharp New Year morning at his farm in the Borders, John Jeffrey switched off the engine of...
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/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, January 9, 2022 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 4 years agoMunster job not for me yet says O’Connell
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON FORMER Ireland captain Paul O’Connell has ruled himself out of the running for the Munster head...
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/ 4 years agoCreevy signs on – and could play until he’s 40 says Stokes
By GARY FITZGERALD AGUSTIN Creevy is such a fired-up ball of energy and enthusiasm he could carry on playing Premiership rugby...
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/ 4 years agoSarries’ giant new forward has only one fear – the cold!
By GARY FITZGERALD THEO McFarland is still cutting his teeth with the Wolf Pack but has already demonstrated he can back...
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/ 4 years agoZebo’s red can’t stop Munster momentum
By JOHN FALLON Munster ............18pts Tries: Haley 60, Kendellen 76 Conversions: Healy 77 Penalties: Crowley 33, 39 Ulster..................13pts Tries: Herring 8...
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/ 4 years agoAcademy has bred great Tiger cubs says Jack
By PAUL REES JACK van Poortvliet credits Leicester’s academy system with their rise up the Premiership table as they look to...
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/ 4 years agoHome care the secret of Saints’ health
By PAUL REES NORTHAMPTON’S players and coaches are conducting lateral flow tests at home every morning before going to training to...
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/ 4 years agoMarksman Anscombe trumped by Tuipulotu
By BRYN PALMER Glasgow ............38pts Tries: Forbes 22, Tuipulotu 27, 62; McKay 48, Brown 73 Conversions: Thompson 23, 28, 49, 63;...
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/ 4 years agoStrongman Parr swaps codes and countries
By JON NEWCOMBE COACHING career moves from Rugby League to Union have been almost ten-apenny in the professional era but Matt...
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/ 4 years agoTompkins is chasing his World Cup dream
By STEFFAN THOMAS NICK Tompkins insists Wales will see the benefit of his move back to Saracens as he targets his...
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/ 4 years agoEdinburgh too strong for wretched Cardiff
By BRYN PALMER Edinburgh ........34pts Tries: Moyano 5, Boffelli 9, Bennett 30, 73; Lang 39 Conversions: Boffelli 6, 31; Van der...
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/ 4 years agoExeter get 28-0 win
EXETER have been awarded a 28-0 win over Bath from their cancelled Premiership Cup match. They were scheduled to play on...
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/ 4 years agoUnlucky Nanai may miss rest of season
WORCESTER Warriors full-back Melani Nanai could miss the rest of the season after injuring his knee against Saracens on Boxing Day....
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English Championship
/ 4 years agoKnights go to Jersey bidding to keep pressure on
By BEN JAYCOCK Thriller: Hartpury on the attack against Nottingham THE Championship returns next Saturday with a full round of fixtures...
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/ 4 years agoFalcons lads get that big game feeling
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON ACADEMY coach PJ Butler says his Newcastle Falcons U18s side will have benefited from playing in...
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/ 4 years agoKolisi: My big battle with the bottle
SPRINGBOK captain Siya Kolisi has revealed how heavy drinking almost destroyed his career. In his autobiography Rise, Kolisi recalls his battle...
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/ 4 years agoToulon boss raps Etzebeth as club handicap
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON TOULON president Bernard Lemaitre has referred to Springbok enforcer Eben Etzebeth as a “handicap” to the...
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/ 4 years agoI can hear opportunity knocking insists Lam
By PAUL REES PAT LAM believes he and Bristol will benefit from their struggles this season, the first time the graph...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoArrival of Lomu was seismic moment
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME The start of the new year always brings hope, and the hope...
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/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
NICK WALSHE, THE FORMER ENGLAND, HARLEQUINS, SARACENS, BATH, SALE AND BEDFORD HALF-BACK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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/ 4 years agoNewcastle v Northampton: Saints must address ‘top two inches’ to beat Falcons
Northampton Saints captain Lewis Ludlam claims that it’s the ‘top two inches’ that are the missing ingredients they must fix going...
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/ 4 years agoSteve Borthwick rubbishes talk of records
Leicester Tigers boss Steve Borthwick is not distracted by talk of records as his Tigers side look to make it 12...
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/ 4 years agoCardiff sign Wales full-back Liam Williams from Scarlets
Wales full-back Liam Williams is the latest big name to join Cardiff for the start of the 2022-23 season after announcing...
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/ 4 years agoRob Baxter feels Six Nations should be played in one country
Playing the Guinness Six Nations Championship in one country has “got to be better than cancelling it”, says Rob Baxter. In...
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/ 4 years agoExeter awarded Premiership Rugby Cup victory over covid stricken Bath
Exeter have been awarded a 28-0 Premiership Rugby Cup third-round win after opponents Bath were unable to field a team due...
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International Rugby
/ 4 years agoEngland U20s announce 2022 squad
Ahead of the U20 Six Nations, England have selected their 32-man Elite Player Squad (EPS) for 2022. Head coach Alan Dickens...
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/ 4 years agoNorthampton Saints 6 – 30 Saracens: Lozowski scores emphatic 20 points
Alex Lozowski scored 20 points as Saracens earned a hard-fought win over Northampton at Franklin’s Gardens. At the interval, the sides...
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/ 4 years ago‘Bath players have to be accountable’
By PAUL REES Eager for a long run: Ruaridh McConnochie has missed most of the season with injury PICTURE: Getty Images...
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/ 4 years agoMcBryde: We aim to make life hard for Ealing
NEWS EXTRA WITH Covid leading to the postponement of fixtures in the Championship, Doncaster sit top of the league, although the...
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/ 4 years agoConnacht come out on top in feisty Irish derby
By JOHN FALLON Connacht ..........10pts Tries: Aki 58 Conversions: Fitzgerald 59 Penalties: Carty 15 Munster ..............8pts Tries: Conway 23 Penalties:...
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/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, January 2, 2022 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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/ 4 years agoMcNicholl double downs Ospreys
By ROGER PANTING Scarlets ............22pts Tries: Davies 9, S Evans 52, McNicholl 65, 77 Conversions: Jones 10 Ospreys ..............19pts Tries: Webb...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoNew Covid rules test powers of persuasion
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN After much of the second round of European competition was called off before Christmas because of Covid-...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSteward can succeed where Billy Whizz failed
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Famous try: Jason Robinson celebrates his try for the Lions against the Wallabies at the Gabba in...
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/ 4 years agoMore high calibre signings on way to Glasgow says Wilson
By BRYN PALMER GLASGOW coach Danny Wilson has signalled more signings of the quality of recent recruits Jack Dempsey, Sione Tuipulotu...
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