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/ 6 years agoWorld Cup gave Piers a taste of the high life
By NEALE HARVEY Texts: Eddie Jones Lifelong ambition: Piers Francis playing against USA at RWC 2019 PICTURE: Getty Images PIERS Francis...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoRegions fret over Welsh ban on scrums
By PETER JACKSON Ben passes loyalty test Ben Youngs is determined to finish his career as a one-club man at Leicester...
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/ 6 years agoGeorge is latest Lion to commit at Sarries
SARACENS hooker Jamie George has penned a contract extension until 2023. The 29-year-old England and Lions hooker has played 226 times...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership Rugby announce first four rounds of fixtures for 2019-20 restart
Harlequins and Sale Sharks to kick-off resumption of 2019-20 Premiership season
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWebb: I’m back where it all started to reclaim Wales No.9 shirt
Rhys Webb speaks to Alex Bywater about his return to Ospreys and the competition with Tomos Williams and Gareth Davies
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLance Bradley – Our senior players wanted a forwards coach in charge
The Gloucester CEO opens up on the recruitment process which saw George Skivington appointed as head coach
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoFormer Labour MP calls on RFU to sell Twickenham Stadium
Derek Wyatt believes the RFU should sell Twickenham and lease it while they build a new, better-situated stadium
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoScotland wing Sean Maitland commits to two more years with Saracens
The 48-cap Scotland back is staying at Saracens until 2022
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/ 6 years agoWhat to expect from the Premiership restart
The coronavirus pandemic that has been sweeping the globe throughout the year has had far-reaching consequences on the way we live...
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoEPCR take decision to not host 2020 European Cup finals in Marseille
Stade Velodrome will not be the venue for October's finals
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoBlack role models are so important – Jonathan Joseph
The Bath and England centre started his career when Topsy Ojo, Jason Robinson and Ugo Monye were three of a handful...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSix Premiership players test positive for COVID-19
The Premiership has carried out 804 tests, with a total of ten cases diagnosed
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLast summer’s big-money arrivals at London Irish could leave
The Exiles top-earner Adam Coleman is one of ten players understood to be locked in salary reduction talks
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens conclude agreement with emerging fly-half Manu Vunipola
The cousin of Billy and Mako Vunipola has penned an extension through to 2023
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland prop Ellis Genge staying put at Leicester Tigers
“Ellis is a unique individual who we love having at Leicester Tigers” - Geordan Murphy
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoHarlequins play hard-ball with Welsh region’s pursuit of Adam Jones
Toby Booth wants to lure the Harlequins scrum coach to Ospreys in the PRO14
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRory Teague the latest to leave coaching upheaval at Gloucester
Rory Teague believes Gloucester have a squad to bring success to Kingsholm under new head coach George Skivington
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTommy Reffell hoping to stamp his authority at Tigers just like Neil Back
Leicester announced the highly-rated Welsh openside flanker had agreed a new contract on Monday
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago‘There are very few teams that have the expertise that we have’, says Quins prop Simon Kerrod
After arriving at the Stoop last summer, tighthead Kerrod heaps praise on Adam Jones for refining his scrummaging
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership Rugby to have midweek fixtures played under restart plans
Exeter, Northampton and Saracens to face much more compact schedule than Premiership rivals
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLeicester Tigers eye replacement for Telusa Veainu from Clermont
Full-back Veainu has signed a two-year contract to join Stade Francais in the Top 14
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoBill Sweeney confirms RFU to make 139 staff redundant
RFU to push ahead with option to reduce workforce by almost a quarter
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International Rugby
/ 6 years ago6 questions with England and Northampton flanker Lewis Ludlam
A snapshot quiz with the openside on his relationship with his father and return to training with Saints
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWorcester Warriors co-owners address reports of Michael Fatialofa facing £100,000 medical bill
"Warriors are, and always have been, committed to supporting Michael Fatialofa"
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoMichael Fatialofa facing six-figure medical bill for spinal rehab
The former Worcester Warriors lock had his contract with the club expire at the end of last month and now faces...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDon’t forget St Brendans
I’VE been enjoying Brendan Gallagher’s current features on rugby’s great schools but there has been one glaring omission so far -...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWebb gets back to basics with Lions call-up as his goal
By ALEX BYWATER Honour of the red jersey: Rhys Webb playing for Wales PICTURES: Getty Images In good shape: Rhys Webb...
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/ 6 years agoOspreys in battle to sign Quins scrum ace Jones
By ALEX BYWATER ADAM Jones is a main target for new Ospreys head coach Toby Booth who wants to sign the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTuilagi gets nod
HAVE thoroughly enjoyed Nick Cain’s series on his Lions contenders to take on the Boks next summer. His composite team in...
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/ 6 years agoSolomons has no plans to step back until vision realised
By NEALE HARVEY Big plans: Worcester boss Alan Solomons WORCESTER supremo Alan Solomons says the elixir of youth is driving him...
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/ 6 years agoBeauden on board Japan money train
ALLBlacks superstar Beauden Barrett has signed a lucrative one-year deal to play for Suntory Sungoliath in Japan next year. Barrett, 29,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWill powers that be put end to this inequality?
ECONOMICS and power have always gone hand in hand and any commodity available to serve the quest of those seeking to...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKiwis slap embargo on foreign coaches
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Odd man out: David Nucifora coaching the Blues It is barely 18 months since rugby coaches from...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSotutu would be huge coup for England
I’VE been impressed by Auckland Blues No.8 Hoskins Sotutu these last few weeks so was surprised to read he is England-qualified...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDamien is an outcast from his own city
No choice: McKenzie IS IT entirely beyond our sport to do anything in a straight-forward fashion, without complication or selfinflicted trauma?...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWhy are we waiting so long for rugby?
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK WAY back in the age of pre-pandemic innocence in March, Darren Childs, the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKeeping hoi polloi at a distance
SO THE corporate types will have first dibs on tickets, ahead of the man and woman in the street, when international...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNienaber’s gamesmanship nobbled England
IF YOUwanted proof of just how significant on-the-field coaching can be look then no further than the contribution of Jacques Nienaber...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGeorge is Bradley’s man for all seasons
COLIN BOAG talks to Gloucester chief exec Lance Bradley about changes at the club New arrival: Gloucester head coach George Skivington...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCips gets Teague’s vote of confidence
MIKE Teague has given Gloucester a piece of his mind elsewhere in this edition, but he says the club have at...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoTime to sell Twickers says MP and ex-star wing Wyatt
By JON NEWCOMBE FORMER England winger and Labour MP Derek Wyatt has called on the RFU to sell their crown jewels...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years ago‘Iron Mike’ cuts all ties with Gloucester
By NICK CAIN EXCLUSIVE MIKE Teague’s disenchantment with Gloucester has led the talismanic England and Lions flanker who played with such...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoVickery cooks up a treat
HAVING won Celebrity Masterchef a few years ago, Phil Vickery, England’s 2003 World Cup-winning tight-head, is about to open his own...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChampion Boks must declare war on drugs
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Cheat: Chilliboy Ralapelle has been banned for eight...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoJJ joins call for diversity
England ace Jonathan Joseph believes rugby still has a long way to go in terms of accepting and welcoming black culture...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoIt’s official, RWC2019 was huge success
SO much water has flowed under the bridge in the last months that RWC2019 seems a lifetime ago so it was...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoClubs will not release players for Test dates
By PETER JACKSON WORLDRugby’s plan to salvage an Eight Nations’ tournament from the wreckage of their Test schedule ploughed into a...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoScottish to be exiled from Athletic Ground
LONDON Scottish will move away from the home they have shared with Richmond since 1894 at the end of the coming...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoSpencer slams PRL for player welfare U-turn
By JON NEWCOMBE FORMER Lions manager John Spencer has accused Premiership Rugby (PRL) of double standards over player welfare. The Rugby...
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/ 6 years agoThorpe targets top grade at Chinnor
By ADAM ELLIS Blank canvas: Richard Thorpe during his time as a player at Chinnor NEW Chinnor director of rugby Richard...
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