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/ 8 years agoHalaholo’s quick feet cut Munster to shreds
By ROGER PANTING WILLIS Halaholo had a night to remember as he spearheaded Blues to their first win of the season....
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/ 8 years agoLaunchbury ruled out by knee knock
JOELaunchbury picked up a knee injury during Wasps’ victory over Leicester and is out for at least two weeks. Director of...
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/ 8 years agoHot-stepper Jordan crossing size divide
By ALEX BYWATER Pocket rocket: Dragons full-back Jordan Williams JORDAN Williams is the man of Shane Williams’ stature proving size is...
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/ 8 years agoAbendanon requires second operation
NICK Abendanon has been ruled out for three months as the Clermont full-back requires a hernia operation. This will be the...
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/ 8 years agoStuart targets first full cap of 2016 class
By NEALE HARVEY WASPS’ tyro tighthead Will Stuart is determined to win his battle for a starting jersey and stake his...
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/ 8 years agoBurns’ nerves of steel save Ulster
By JOHN MUNN Cheetahs …39 Ulster …39 HENRYSpeight’s try in the final passage of play earned Ulster a draw in South...
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/ 8 years agoJackson gets nod for World Cup
FORMER Blues head coach Steve Jackson has been named Samoa head coach in place of Fuimaono Titimaea Tafua. Jackson is a...
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/ 8 years agoSaracens call for front row reinforcements
HOOKER Joe Gray has signed for Saracens from Northampton on a deal until the end of the season. The 30-year-old trained...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoEddie believes Invisible Man Ford can trump Superman Dan
THE mood music emanating from Eddie Jones was up-tempo as he announced his first pared-down training squad of the season with...
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/ 8 years agoTrailblazing Bee-Gee who twice broke Welsh hearts
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The merest mention of his name still evokes memories of the lunar landing...
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/ 8 years agoCheek fracture puts Roberts on sidelines
BATH centre Jamie Roberts will miss the next four to six weeks of the Premiership season with a fractured cheekbone. The...
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/ 8 years agoNo excuses, big guys must tackle lower
By NEALE HARVEY Wreckless: Will Spencer sees red against Wapsps last Sunday PICTURES: Getty Images NORTHAMPTONSaints midfield hitman Andy Symons insists...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoEddie Jones on…
…breakdown issues “We haven’t (any). In South Africa we did incredibly well, we have improved our breakdown by about 80 per...
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/ 8 years agoWe need answers now Gus
THE movers and shakers of World Rugby converge on Sydney this weekend against a back-drop of falling Test match attendances south...
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/ 8 years agoJoseph puts all his focus on Japan
JAPAN head coach Jamie Joseph is set to relinquish control of Super Rugby’s Sunwolves to concentrate on the run-in to the...
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/ 8 years agoMatson: Stick will Todd, he’ll bring Bath success
TABAI Matson has urged Bath to think twice before sacking Todd Blackadder and believes he is the man to end their...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoReal shame Eddie sees it differently
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk EDDIE Jones must be...
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/ 8 years agoBlade is a shoo-in for Scotland
WITHIN weeks of The Rugby Paper revealing Scotland’s interest in claiming Blade Thomson, below, the Scarlets’ Kiwi flanker has made it...
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/ 8 years agoBoulton suspended for Adamson contact
COVENTRY front rower Phil Boulton has been suspended for seven weeks by an RFU disciplinary hearing. Boulton pleaded not guilty to...
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/ 8 years agoResting top players is vital, but so is winning!
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND IF you don’t understand players need resting every now and again, then you don’t understand...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCorrect decision to letter of the law but still harsh on Tigers
THE RED card shown to Will Spencer, the Leicester Tigers lock, was predictably given prominence in the following morning’s sports pages....
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/ 8 years agoNo-contests taking fans to cleaners
TWO weeks into the new season and the Ospreys opted to leave their three biggest hitters behind in Swansea for their...
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/ 8 years agoSam’s fuelled by frustration
By NEALE HARVEY Man on a mission: Sam Simmonds on the charge for the line against Wasps No.9 Dan Robson EXETER...
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/ 8 years agoWell done to Martyn Phillips and the Union for bringing in £97m
IT WOULDN’T be Welsh rugby if there wasn’t someone out there beating the Welsh Rugby Union with a stick over some...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWorld Rugby must realise less is more
COLIN BOAG is correct, there are far too many internationals played each season. The November internationals interrupt the club season and...
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/ 8 years agoLewington hooked on Saracens’ ‘winning mentality’
HOT-SHOTwing Alex Lewington believes the ‘scary’ Saracens pack can underpin another glory march towards silverware. Lewington, who has notched five tries...
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/ 8 years agoMercer upping power to match footwork
BEEFED-UP Bath back rower Zach Mercer is determined to show why Eddie Jones must pick him this season rather than keep...
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/ 8 years agoScene set for Watkin to state his claim in midfield
INJURIES are an unfortunate, but now inevitable, part of modern-day rugby. No-one wants to see the best players fall lame, but...
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/ 8 years agoTwo Jakes in dreamland on Bristol journey
Jon Newcombe talks to new Bristol prop Jake Woolmore about stepping up a level FOR Bristol’s two Jakes, Armstrong and Woolmore,...
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/ 8 years agoPools for European Shield revealed
CLUBS from Italy, Georgia and Belgium will kick off the Continental Shield on October 13 with a place in next season’s...
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/ 8 years agoSleeping Warriors stunned by early onslaught
By SAM JACKSON S Kings …38 Glasgow…28 THE Kings registered their first win of the season in commanding fashion in Port...
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/ 8 years agoUren leading the charge of home-grown contingent
By NEALE HARVEY BRISTOL scrum-half Andy Uren is ready to buck the trend by proving the ambitious club can hang on...
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/ 8 years agoLangkilde withdrawn for a year
SAMOA rugby player Gordon Langkilde has pleaded guilty to assault charges after the altercation involving members of the Wales Sevens team....
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/ 8 years agoBig guns do the job for underfire Ospreys
By STEFFAN THOMAS OSPREYS put last weekend’s horror defeat to Munster behind them to see off a stubborn Benetton outfit 27-10...
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/ 8 years agoSame again but men get the honour in Tokyo
DON’T mend what isn’t broken seems to be the message from the IOC and World Rugby after this week announcing the...
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/ 8 years agoEngland to follow Black Ferns’ lead
By SAM JACKSON Work to do: England lost to New Zealand in the 2017 World Cup final PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND...
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/ 8 years agoAdeolokun try denies Scarlets a bonus point
By DARAGH SMALL SCARLETS head coach Wayne Pivac bemoaned his side’s poor decision making as they fell to their first defeat...
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/ 8 years agoPuma king with the most giant killings
83rd cap: Leguizamon THAT old war horse Juan Manuel Leguizamon seems to be “retired” by the Pumas selectors at the end...
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/ 8 years agoGive players a voice say RPA
By NEALE HARVEY Chair: Mark Lambert AT A time when star players are under increasing pressure to deliver, Rugby Players Association...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoRed card fever could ruin rugby warns Care
By GARY FITZGERALD DANNY Care fears red cards could wreck top rugby as a spectacle if officials fail to adopt a...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHook: George North is showing he can smash Shane’s Wales try record with form for Ospreys
North's Ospreys debut was certainly a perfect welcome home
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoStephen Jones urged to stay at Scarlets rather than join Pivac at Wales
A former Scarlets and Wales coach says Llanelli is the place to be for Jones
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoEddie Jones names England training squad as countdown to World Cup hits 12 months
Danny Cipriani overlooked by Eddie Jones as World Cup looms
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/ 8 years agoWhere will you be this time next year?
See yourself in a stadium? Us too. Fortunately, it’s not too late to secure a spot at the world’s most important...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHenry Trinder says Cipriani has got Kingsholm rocking and can ignite his own England career
The Gloucester fan favourite talks about the Cherry and Whites' playmaker
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMurphy’s law can make Manu Tuilagi lethal for Leicester, says George Ford
"We are looking a bit more threatening" – Geordan Murphy can put right the 'disservice' done to Tuilagi
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLeicester Tigers Will Spencer handed four-week ban for red card against Wasps
Spencer was sent off for a dangerous tackle on Tommy Taylor
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoI’m not concerned about my job security, says Dragons coach Bernard Jackman
Coming off a heavy loss to Leinster last weekend
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/ 8 years agoRFU and Bulls agree deal to make John Mitchell England’s new defence coach
Just in time for the Autumn internationals
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/ 8 years agoRassie Erasmus to take charge of Barbarians at Twickenham
Plotting victory with the BaaBaas after beating the All Blacks with the Springboks
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