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/ 5 years agoCovid testing problems hit Championship start
By NEALE HARVEY Problem: Alistair Bow FALLEN giants Saracens are facing further frustration in their bid to win promotion back to...
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/ 5 years agoGeorgian star Giorgi signs for Gloucester
GLOUCESTER have signed Georgia centre Giorgi Kveseladze on an undisclosed-length contract. The 23-year-old has 29 caps and played in the Autumn...
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/ 5 years agoShorter season and less travel for leagues
THE RFU Council have voted to radically overhaul the format of the community game in a bid to make the demands...
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/ 5 years agoHastings declined ‘competitive offer’
DANNY Wilson says Adam Hastings was made “a very competitive offer” not to leave Glasgow for Gloucester, but that in the...
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/ 5 years agoGilpin in pole to replace Gosper
WORLD Rugby are expected to confirm the appointment of an English chief executive next month, with Alan Gilpin emerging as the...
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/ 5 years agoOspreys ‘home tie’ in Llanelli
THE OSPREYS will lose home advantage for their crunch Boxing Day clash against the Scarlets with the game now set to...
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/ 5 years agoGreen light for Eddie’s Japan gig
ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones can continue as a consultant for Japanese Top League side Suntory Sungoliath. The RFU deemed there was...
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/ 5 years agoSHANE WILLIAMS
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Christmas derbies should be crackers There can be no bigger contrast in your life as a rugby...
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/ 5 years agoAlun Wyn injury blow for Wales
WALES captain Alun Wyn Jones could miss the start of the Six Nations after it was announced he may be absent...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoTempting to cut Prem loose but I doubt it’s sustainable
THE top tier clubs wield a vastly disproportionate influence over English rugby by virtue of their monopoly over England Academies and...
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/ 5 years agoPut down that phone, pre-season starts now!
THE Covid vaccine programme that has begun to be rolled out across the UK has offered a ray of hope for...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoTrim Tier 2 and introduce new cup
ED Griffiths’ constructive report contains many positive recommendations, not least his proposals for future academies. However I am not convinced that...
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/ 5 years agoNorth West grassroots rugby set to kick off in January
By GEORGE LAWRENCE GRASSROOTS rugby is set for a return as teams throughout the North West of England prepare for a...
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/ 5 years agoBoyd: Big teams will miss out on quarters
Critic: Chris Boyd CHRIS BOYD believes the current European Champions Cup format will result in some of best teams in the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoClamp down on foul play to fight dementia
Let off: Andre Esterhuizen was banned for only four weeks for an elbow on Lloyd Evans PICTURE: Getty Images IT’S sad...
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/ 5 years agoWorld Cup Katy calls time on England
By SAM JACKSON Praise: Simon Middleton ENGLAND’S 2014 Rugby World Cup-winning captain Katy Daley-Mclean has decided to retire from international rugby....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoReturn rugby to a game of skill
I AM sure there is merit in restricting training practices to reduce the potential of head injuries but I feel it...
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/ 5 years ago‘Hundreds’ set to join brain injury court fight
Peter Jackson reports on the growing number of retired rugby players pledging their support to the court case seeking damages over...
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/ 5 years agoBT Sport continue broadcasting Prem until 2024
On air: BT Sport panel PREMIERSHIP Rugby have agreed a new deal with BT Sport which will see the broadcaster show...
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/ 5 years agoToulon pull plug two hours before KO
SCARLETS’ Champions Cup match at home to Toulon on Friday was called off less than two hours before kick-off. Toulon pulled...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoIt’s time the smaller clubs were listened to
THE RFU purports to represent the whole of English rugby but when have clubs below Level 1 ever been consulted about...
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/ 5 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Nigel Melville is PRL’s new executive chairman
Former RFU director of professional rugby Nigel Melville takes senior position at Premiership Rugby
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/ 5 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Dyanti ban tops off bad year for Boks BRENDAN GALLAGHER Fall from...
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/ 5 years agoScotland ace Hastings signs for Glos
GLOUCESTERhave signed Scotland fly-half Adam Hastings to fill the hole left by Danny Cipriani’s departure. Cipriani, capped 16 times by England,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoClough knew what he was talking about
I HAVE watched as much rugby as possible in the last 25 years having played football under Brian Clough’s reign at...
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/ 5 years agoRFU Council votes in significant format changes to National Leagues and below
League structures to undergo radical change to help the community game survive and prosper
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/ 5 years agoEngland legend Katy Daley-Mclean announces international retirement
Red Roses fly-half takes decision to end her England career on 116 caps
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoBath’s trip to La Rochelle cancelled due to Covid-19
12 players at Bath forced to self-isolate following match against Scarlets, who had one positive test confirmed on Thursday
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/ 5 years agoWales captain Alun Wyn Jones to miss start of 2021 Six Nations
A huge concern for Wales head coach Wayne Pivac, who is already counting the cost of injuries to senior personnel
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoExeter Chiefs trio aim to build ironclad case for Eddie
Scrum-half Jack Maunder says he and the omitted Simmonds brothers will continue to bash on the door of England head coach...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoSteve Borthwick gives his agent top Leicester Tigers job
New Tigers head of recruitment Richard Wilks was involved in the start-up of reputable player management firm Green Room Sports
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/ 5 years agoSaracens defence coach Sanderson is man Sale want to replace Diamond
A move which Sale Sharks hoped would happen last summer
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/ 5 years agoSix more ex-pros join legal fight against World Rugby, RFU and WRU
Former centre Adam Hughes, 30, and Neil Spence, 44, among those to back the traumatic brain injury lawsuit against rugby's governing...
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/ 5 years agoThompson: Some days I can’t walk down stairs
The danger of CTE in rugby and those diagnosed with traumatic brain injury training to bring about change in the sport
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/ 5 years agoCarl Fearns on verge of making Premiership return
The former Bath back row is attracting interest from the Premiership
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoThis is tip of iceberg says neuro specialist
Dr Barry O'Driscoll, uncle of Ireland great Brian, voices his concerns over rugby's trend of concussion and traumatic brain injury
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/ 5 years agoSweeney: Six Nations could go to pay-for TV broadcaster
RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney discusses the arrival of Amazon on the rugby TV broadcastings scene
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/ 5 years agoClear front-runner emerges to lure Exeter’s Tomas Francis back to Wales
Wales tighthead Tomas Francis is set to hold talks with all four regions, as Exeter future hangs in the balance
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoScotland fly-half Adam Hastings agrees Gloucester move in 2021
Hastings will leave Glasgow Warriors when his contract at Scotstoun expires next sum
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/ 5 years agoGloucester confirm Danny Cipriani has left the club with immediate effect
Danny Cipriani's stay at Kingsholm is cut short in the final year of his contract, as Adam Hastings is set to...
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/ 5 years agoSteve Diamond rescued Sale Sharks from abyss but courted controversy
Jon Newcombe charts the highs and lows of Steve Diamond's tenure at Sale Sharks
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/ 5 years agoBig guns heading to Twickenham
ENGLAND will host Australia and South Africa at Twickenham during November next year. The Autumn International series will start with England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoPredictably same old Scots story
I SHALL now predict the Six Nations for Scotland 2021, perhaps best to imagine it in Eddie Butler’s voice... Opening weekend...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoBlackett: Players had option to pull out
WASPS’ director of rugby Lee Blackett questioned EPCR’s approach to the Covid situation in the Dragons’ camp. He said: “EPCR were...
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/ 5 years agoBlues fly-half Jarrod wanted at Kingsholm
■By STEFFAN THOMAS GLOUCESTER are weighing up a move for Wales and Cardiff Blues playmaker Jarrod Evans. The Cherry & Whites...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWas Eileen first Lady President?
WHILE reading England’s Hall of Fame listing on World Rugby’s website I came across the entry for Gillian Burns. Among the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoEnd yellow bib brigade
I PLAYED rugby in the era that celebrated a player scoring by waiting until he reached the halfway line and then...
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/ 5 years agoAmazon ‘relaxed about terrestrial coverage’
>continued from Front “You’ve got to balance that commercial value – and pay TV can pay more – against the game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoMatch action
Dragon-slayer: Wasps’ Thomas Young scores their fourth try in the 24-8 victory in Newport PICTURE: Getty Images -starts Page 8 >>...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoIs Farrell still untouchable?
I’M starting to question Owen Farrell’s place in the team. What does he bring that others do not? At flyhalf he...
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