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/ 2 years agoJones stars with try double as clinical Warriors book knockout spot
By BRYN PALMER Glasgow............29pts Tries: Rowe 21, 80; Jones 31, 63; McKay 60 Conversions: Horne 31, 61 Toulon ................. 5pts Try:...
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/ 2 years agoYeandle: Our good form is no surprise
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Bayonne v Exeter Today. Kick-off 5.30pm, Stade Jean-Dauger JACK Yeandle, one of Exeter’s longest serving players, has...
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/ 2 years agoSanderson hoping record crowd will inspire Sharks
PREVIEW... Sale v La Rochelle Today. Kick-off 1pm, Salford City Stadium By JON NEWCOMBE ALEX Sanderson wants La Rochelle to feel...
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/ 2 years agoLibbok’s late try seals comeback win for Stormers
By TOM RILEY Stade F .............. 20pts Tries: Timo 1, Etien 27, Hirigoyen 46 Conversions: Segonds 28 Penalties: Segonds 13 Stormers.............
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/ 2 years agoRecall for Ward less than year after giving birth
BRISTOL lock Abbie Ward has been recalled to the England training squad less than a year after giving birth to her...
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/ 2 years agoCooper names U18 EPS for Six Nations
ENGLAND U18 women head coach James Cooper has selected his 2024 Elite Player Squad ahead of this year’s U18 Six Nations...
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/ 2 years agoGeorgia turn to Cockerill
FORMER England hooker and forwards coach Richard Cockerill has been appointed head coach of Georgia and the nation’s premier club side...
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/ 2 years agoVukasinovic heads to LA
MLR newcomers RFC Los Angeles – previously Rugby ATL in Atlanta – have signed former Wasps lock Theo Vukasinovic, 27. The...
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/ 2 years agoFour-year ban for Jantjies
SOUTH Africa fly-half Elton Jantjies, 33, has been banned for four years after testing positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol –...
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/ 2 years agoGeorge signs on at Saracens
NEW England captain Jamie George has signed a two-year contract extension with Saracens. The 33-year-old hooker has won six Premiership titles...
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/ 2 years agoWomen’s Lions to play in 2027
THE British and Irish Lions will head to New Zealand in 2027 for a first ever women’s tour. The tour will...
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/ 2 years agoWallabies call for Schmidt
New Wallaby boss: Joe Schmidt PICTURES: Getty images FORMER Ireland boss Joe Schmidt has been appointed as Australia head coach, succeeding...
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/ 2 years agoInjury blow for Exeter
EXETER utility back Tommy Wyatt and prop Nika Abuladze have been ruled out for the rest of the season. Wyatt, 24,...
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/ 2 years agoTigers will go to limit
LEICESTER remain against the Premiership’s salary cap increase but will spend to the limit. The cap is set to increase from...
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/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 21/01/24
Half of the knockout stage places in both the Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup are still up for grabs,...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoChampions Cup Friday and Saturday preview
The final weekend of the Champions Cup pool stage promises an exciting round of matches, shaping the destiny of teams vying...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoChallenge Cup Friday and Saturday previews
Half of the places provided by the EPCR Challenge Cup pool stages for the last 16 have already been decided. Six...
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/ 2 years agoDiamond replaces Codling at struggling Falcons
Steve Diamond has replaced Alex Codling in charge of the Premiership‘s bottom club Newcastle Falcons. Codling was appointed head coach over...
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/ 2 years agoSeries 3, Episode 21: Rees-Zammit quits rugby, Six Nations squads and Portugal’s 2024 with Francisco Isaac
In a fascinating week in European rugby, amidst Six Nations and Women’s British and Irish Lions announcements, Welsh rugby superstar Louis...
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/ 2 years agoCockerill handed Georgia job
Former Leicester Tigers boss and England assistant Richard Cockerill has been named head coach of the Georgian national team and their...
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/ 2 years agoRees-Zammit will have to go to a ‘dark place for months and years’ – Wade
Racing 92 winger and former Buffalo Bills practice squad member Christian Wade has backed Louis Rees-Zammit in his decision to try...
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/ 2 years agoO’Mahony succeeds Sexton as captain in Ireland squad
Peter O’Mahony has taken over from Jonny Sexton as Ireland captain in Andy Farrell’s squad for the 2024 Six Nations. Flanker...
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/ 2 years agoGeorge to captain England as Feyi-Waboso named in squad
Jamie George has been named England captain as Steve Borthwick handed opportunities to seven uncapped players, including Exeter’s Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, in...
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/ 2 years agoRees-Zammit leaves Gloucester and Wales to pursue NFL ‘dream’
Gloucester and Wales wing Louis Rees-Zammit has left his club with immediate effect to “pursue his dream” of playing in the...
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/ 2 years agoJenkins takes Welsh captaincy in Six Nations squad announcement
21-year-old Dafydd Jenkins has been handed the Wales captaincy as Warren Gatland named five uncapped players in his Six Nations squad....
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/ 2 years agoLions announce historic women’s tour for 2027
The British and Irish Lions will send their first ever women’s team to New Zealand for a tour in September 2027....
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/ 2 years agoChampions Cup and Challenge Cup round three Sunday round-up
The third weekend of EPCR action ended with half of the qualification places now decided in each of the Champions Cup...
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/ 2 years agoBordeaux thump Saracens to make Champions Cup statement
By TOM JEFFREYS Bordeaux-Begles……………….55 Tries: Bielle-Biarrey 8, 80+1; Buros 12, Lamothe 21, Penaud 35, 57; Depoortere 44, Jalibert 52, Uberti 78...
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/ 2 years agoBath produce brilliant comeback to confirm qualification
By TOM JEFFREYS Bath…………………………………………29 Tries: Du Toit 35, Barbeary 60, Cokanasiga 63, Muir 72 Conversions: Spencer 61, 64, 73 Penalties: Spencer...
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/ 2 years ago‘RFU deal would cut our funds by 50%’
By JON NEWCOMBE Championship clubs would be nearly 50 per cent worse off in real terms if they agree to the...
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/ 2 years agoSlade does it again for Exeter
Henry Slade proved to be Exeter’s match winner once again as the Chiefs beat Glasgow 19-17 to book their spot in...
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/ 2 years agoTownsend: I’ll keep on playing hard
By PAUL REES Stu Townsend’s new year resolution is to stay fit after an unlucky run with injuries has left him...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoFarrell will use NZ experience to fire up Lions
By ADAM HATHAWAY Andy Farrell will use Ireland’s 2022 victorious tour of New Zealand as the template to guide the British...
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/ 2 years agoWhite: We targeted the scrum
THE Bulls decided to target Bristol’s scrum when they knew both Ellis Genge and Kyle Sinckler would not be playing. Genge...
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/ 2 years agoSaracens have to get it right this time
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Bordeaux v Saracens Today. Kick-off 5.30pm, Stade Chaban-Delmas SARACENS over the years have been a model of...
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/ 2 years agoSmith: We had a lot of chances
“CLOSE, but no cigar” was how Glasgow head coach Franco Smith summed up his side’s narrow loss. The Warriors led for...
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/ 2 years agoDowson glad to turn the corner
WITH their 11th win in the last 12 matches, Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson believed his side were upping the...
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/ 2 years ago‘I’ve got nothing but pride for team’
SALE director of rugby Alex Sanderson was left feeling nothing but pride in his men, who despite a tough week of...
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/ 2 years agoMcKellar knows Tigers face massive challenge
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... La Rochelle vLeicester Today. Kick-off 3.15pm, Stade Marcel Deflandre LEICESTER face holders La Rochelle at Stade Marcel...
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/ 2 years agoStade fail to turn up as Leinster go through paces
By JIM SHORT Leinster............... 43pts Tries: Lowe 18, van der Flier 30, Sheehan 40, Doris 47, 61; Larmour 45, 68, Conversions:...
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/ 2 years agoEngland primed for Six Nations Azzurri tie
ENGLAND U20 By WILL KEANE England............ 44 Oxford Uni.......... 5 ENGLAND U20s ran in eight tries to secure a comfortable victory...
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/ 2 years agoDeadeye Jones kicks OA’s to win
By PAUL RICHARDSON Old Albanians........32 Sevenoaks..............29 SAM Jones slotted two ice cool kicks to hand OA’s the spoils in this enthralling...
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/ 2 years agoBury Bourne again as Archie inspires
By ANDREW HERLIHY Bury St Ed’s.............26 Henley......................14 MATCHES involving Bury and Henley are always close-fought encounters, and this was no exception....
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/ 2 years agoForthcoming fixtures
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/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 14/01/24
The Champions Cup and Challenge Cup are back in full swing this weekend, and we’ll have reports from all 17 games being...
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/ 2 years agoChampions Cup round three Friday and Saturday preview
The 2023/24 Champions Cup resumes with an eagerly anticipated third round of pool-stage matches. English teams have performed exceptionally well up...
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/ 2 years agoChallenge Cup round three Friday and Saturday Preview
Round 3 of the Challenge Cup promises an array of exciting fixtures, featuring eight matches unfolding across Friday and Saturday with...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoFarrell to take charge of Lions in 2025
Andy Farrell has been named as the British and Irish Lions head coach for the tour to Australia in 2025. Farrell,...
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/ 2 years agoSkivington to head up England A coaching team
Gloucester boss George Skivington will take charge of the England A team that will face Portugal next month. Skivington captained England...
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/ 2 years agoRatuniyarawa jailed for sexual assault
Former Fiji international Api Ratuniyarawa has been jailed for three sexual assaults committed in the days leading up to a match...












