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English Championship
/ 4 years agoJersey 0-19 Sale: Quickfire treble puts Sharks in open water
SALE’S first pre-season match, and their first trip to the Channel Islands to play Championship side Jersey Reds ended in a...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBorthwick knows his captains, have faith!
MANY an eyebrow has shifted in a northerly direction since the news broke late last month, but Steve Borthwick knows what...
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/ 4 years agoHowe puts boot in to swing win Quins way
Welsh Championship Cup round-up By ROB COLE BARGOED completed the double over Cross Keys in Pool A of the WRU Championship...
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/ 4 years agoWorcester 52-39 Connacht: New-look Warriors get monkey off their back
IT MAY have been only a pre-season friendly but Worcester recorded their first win since November 21. Since then they have...
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/ 4 years agoHansen’s right, the Lions turned people off rugby
EVEN when he lost nine in a row with Wales, Steve Hansen never shied away from speaking his mind, much less...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoKolbe saga could lead to transfer windows
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Cheslin Kolbe’s midcontract switch from Toulouse to Toulon raised a few eyebrows in France. The deal itself...
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/ 4 years agoScarlets 55-21 Nottingham: Nine-try Scarlets wow the crowd to kick-off Peel era
DWAYNE Peel’s first game as Scarlets head coach ended in a romp against Championship side Nottingham as 22-year-old winger Ryan Conbeer...
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/ 4 years ago‘Borzov’ Morgan sped to hearts of the fans
RHYS Morgan played 539 matches for Newport over the best part of 20 years and one for Wales back in those...
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/ 4 years agoBolton offer help to mafia-hit club
By PAUL REES BOLTON RUFC, a level seven amateur club that yesterday played their first league match since the Covid- 19...
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English Championship
/ 4 years agoCornish Pirates 55-3 Royal Navy: Blackmore injury leaves Pirates light at hooker
NEW recruits Carwyn Penny, Callum Sirker and Caleb Montgomery made impressive debuts as the Pirates sunk the Royal Navy with an...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 years agoTell us European Cup dates, clubs urge EPCR
EUROPEAN Challenge Cup organisers are coming under pressure from clubs to announce the format of this season’s competition which remains under...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBall signs for Rockets
New challenge: Jake Ball playing for Wales PICTURE: Getty Images FORMER Wales lock Jake Ball has signed to play for NEC...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoCoventry 21-52 Wasps: Thomas Young puts his toe down for Wasps in 11-try thriller
A SCINTILLATING 90-metre sprint to the line by Thomas Young was the pick of the 11 tries served up by Wasps...
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Miscellaneous
/ 4 years agoBarrett back at No.10 for All Blacks
Preview BEN JAYCOCK Australia v New Zealand Today, Kick off 7am ARDIE Savea captains New Zealand for the first time as...
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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 agoOlowofela to Dragons
DRAGONS have signed wing Jordan Olowofela on loan from Leicester Tigers for the 2021-22 season. The 23-year-old spent the summer on...
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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 agoScots snap up Zondagh
TOULOUSE coach Alan- Basson Zondagh has joined Gregor Townsend’s Scotland coaching team, focusing on attack. The 35-year-old South African replaces Mike...
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/ 4 years agoMoffett: Our game is boring. Change it!
■By STEFFAN THOMAS DAVID Moffett has slammed rugby’s current state, labelling the game a “dog’s dinner” and added his concern that...
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Latest News
/ 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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Latest News
/ 4 years agoForthcoming fixtures
It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs Weekend beginning Friday September 10, 2021 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoFly-half factory wobbles in Wales ahead of All Blacks clash
WALES are in danger of being hit by an unprecedented No.10 crisis for the All Blacks Test in Cardiff next month....
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoPirates captain De Battista on mission to make up for lost time
MIKE SINCLAIR NICOLAS De Battista is aiming to make a big impact this season with a new-look Cornish Pirates side after...
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Features
/ 4 years agoOne more for Swinson
RUGBY SHORTS TIM Swinson has signed a contract extension with Saracens to stay to the end of the 2021-22 season. The...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoQuins beware, Clapp’s Sarries mean business
WOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS By SARAH RENDELL Driven: Saracens skipper Lotte Clapp PICTURES: Getty Images Fixtures Saturday, September 4 Saracens v...
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Features
/ 4 years agoTigers call for Evans
RUGBY SHORTS LEICESTER have signed back row forward Gareth Evans, 29, on a short-term contract from Ospreys. Evans, who started his...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoPlayers feedback saw end of Cockerill at Edinburgh
By GARY HEATLY GRANT Gilchrist admits it became clear in the summer that Edinburgh Rugby needed to evolve, whether with Richard...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoSurgeon warns: Act on head peril NOW
■By PETER JACKSON Risk: Prof Fairclough AN eminent surgeon has sent World Rugby a grim warning over the brain-bashing controversy: “Act...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAfter 18 months away, we just can’t wait to get started again!
PAUL REES TALKS TO SOME OF THE LEADING NATIONAL ONE COACHES AHEAD OF THE NEW SEASON The long wait is over....
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoIt’s time to call it a day says Mama
FORMER Worcester Warriors back row Marco Mama has announced his retirement. The 30-year-old joined the Premiership club in January 2016 after...
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/ 4 years agoExclusive: Premiership players urged to take the Covid vaccine
PREMIERSHIP Rugby have asked clubs to take a hard-line approach with players who refuse a Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the new...
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/ 4 years agoDavies back to help club that launched his coaching career
LEEDS are the one club in National 1 to have played in the Premiership and they have turned to the man...
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/ 4 years agoChick: Falcons aim to start fast and not fade
■By ADAM HATHAWAY NEWCASTLE back rower Callum Chick says the Falcons will be flying when their Premiership campaign kicks off against...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoPre-season friendlies
Coventry ................60 Nottingham............10 By CHRIS WEARMOUTH COVENTRY put Nottingham to the sword in perfect conditions at Butts Park Arena. Cov’s intent...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 4 years agoRassie Erasmus set to get date for misconduct hearing
World Rugby will discern if Rassie Erasmus used the right channels to air criticisms of officials after the first Lions Test
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoWarriors will attack from the back says Forbes
■By GARY HEATLY COLE FORBES believes the new-look Glasgow Warriors back three will click quickly and play a fast brand of...
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/ 4 years agoAmps turn set-piece power into points to clinch win
By KEVIN MILLER Ampthill ..........40 Bedford ............38 AMPTHILL recovered from a first quarter bashing to clinch this keenly contested derby between...
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/ 4 years agoJennings avoids jail
FORMER Sale and England U20s centre Mark Jennings has been given a suspended sentence after fleeing police under suspicion of drinking...
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/ 4 years agoLast man standing Moon eyes more glory
■By PAUL REES AND then there was one. Ben Moon is the last survivor from the squad that won Exeter promotion...
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English Championship
/ 4 years agoEaling Trailfinders 34-29 Gloucester: Uzokwe at the double to down Gloucester
First blood to Ealing ahead of their reverse fixture with Gloucester next week at Kingsholm
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/ 4 years agoNavy set course for Cornwall
NEWS EXTRA CORNISH Pirates are gearing up for their visit from the Royal Navy on Friday night. Various representative service teams...
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/ 4 years agoJoe quits Eddie for Scarlets
SCARLETS have confirmed the signing of a key man from Eddie Jones’ England staff, as revealed in TRP on August 1....
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/ 4 years agoTeenage flyer Cusick cruises in for first-touch try
By TOM INNES Jersey ..................7pts Leicester ..........17pts A TRY from 18-year-old wing Jacob Cusick with his first touch in senior rugby...
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/ 4 years agoKelly subs for Oskar
NEWS EXTRA BEDFORD have signed centre Frank Kelly from Luctonians after Oskar Hirskyj-Douglas suffered a potential season-ending Achilles injury. Kelly, 25,...
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/ 4 years agoGenge is captain
ENGLAND prop Ellis Genge has been appointed captain at Leicester, taking over from hooker Tom Youngs. Genge, 26, has made 89...
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/ 4 years agoMorgan opts for Warriors coaching gig
LONG-SERVING Cornish Pirates player and coach Chris Morgan is leaving the Championship club to take a coaching role at Worcester’s academy....
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/ 4 years agoWood calls on Saints to end ‘transition’ talk …and deliver
By GARY FITZGERALD Veteran: Northampton flanker Tom Wood TOM Wood claims Northampton can take a leaf out of Harlequins’ title-winning book...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoWomen’s Lions will be a full English
I AGREE with Simon Middleton “that the formation of a women’s Lions team is only a matter of time” and I...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoPremiership clubs like look of Ospreys lock Rhys Davies
'Several' Premiership clubs are interested in young Ospreys lock Rhys Davies
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/ 4 years agoLosing the Jaguares has brought a crucial talent drain
MARCELO BOSCH WITH the Jaguares no longer part of Super Rugby, everything has changed for Argentinian rugby. In 2019, almost the...
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