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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: George Chuter is the face of professional game
He looks and sounds like a London publican and certainly a job for life awaits on the EastEnders set should luvviedom...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: French cash pile could bury international game
Ben Mowen’s decision to quit Australian rugby at the end of this year to take up a contract with a Top...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Luther Burrell and Billy Twelvetrees are big men for big job
The starting England backline in this season’s Six Nations should have a locked-in belief that they can strike up a connection...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain looks at the challenge awaiting England in their opening six nations match in Paris
Le Crunch 2014 is going to leave either England or France broken*. The opening Test of the Six Nations in Paris...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBredan Gallagher: Nutter who made Jim Telfer’s class of ’84 finest of all
Jim Telfer shakes his head in amusement and then caves in completely and laughs uproariously. It happens occasionally: “All really good...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Italy arrive in Wales on a wing and a blessing
Italy come to Cardiff for the opening match in the Six Nations next month armed with something different, a Papal blessing....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Just 20 games to go for Stuart Lancaster to get it right
With last week’s additions to the Elite Player Squad, Stuart Lancaster gets his one and only chance to choose the players...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: It’s not all tickety-boo as debenture holders revolt
Imagine paying £7,000 for a debenture seat which is meant to guarantee you the right to buy a face-value ticket for...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain takes a look at Stuart Lancaster’s Six Nations squads and likes what he sees
If England can show the sort of staying power that Stuart Lancaster demonstrated at Twickenham last Thursday then it will hold...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Let’s spare a thought for Toggie and Tanky
Freddy ‘Tanky’ Turner captained Scotland one hundred years ago, a Liverpudlian by birth who worked in the family printing business and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Georgia on my mind as the cosy club stick together
Lacking a degree in applied mathematics I only look at the IRB world rankings once a year and that is in...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Why I’m backing the WRU in showdown with regions
As if the Greek tragedy of the European Cup was not enough we now have a Welsh suicide pact that seems...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain urges England to look at some new faces in the World Cup build up
The seemingly routine announcement of amendments to the England elite squad on Thursday at Twickenham is the exact opposite. It is...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Backs must stop game being just about size and power
One of my New Year resolutions for 2014 would be for the backs in all teams bar New Zealand and Australia...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: This Anglo-Welsh decoy shouldn’t be discounted
Is the golden handshake across the Severn, binding the four Welsh regions to the English clubs, the solution it is being...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: RFU Championship clubs face a vital strategy meeting
Later this month the chairmen and owners of the 12 RFU Championship clubs will lock themselves away in a Birmingham Hotel...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Cliff was out of this world, but Barry was untouchable!
New Year gongs will be all the rage all too soon, a good enough excuse to enter the festive spirit and...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Why didn’t BT deal with the other leagues as well?
As the European row still rumbles along with a myriad of possible outcomes, it’s time to reflect on what started it....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher takes a personal look at the Rugby World in 2013
BEST NEWCOMERS BTSport for their lively match day coverage and excellent Sunday lunchtime round-up show which is the must-watch rugby programme...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Danny Cipriani is a risk, but he could unlock golden door
Who holds the keys to No.10 for England? There is no shortage of contenders to pilot them through the 2015 World...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: My fab four could make any team in the world
The Northern Hemisphere possesses some brilliantly talented players who would be comfortable playing in any team because they are that good....
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain picks his highs and lows from 2013
Team of the Year – The 2013 Lions. Whereas the All Blacks are virtually a club side which plays and trains...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: All Blacks chase the dollar in Big Apple
The All Blacks have announced their intention to cash in on the American market with a match in New York next...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher reminisces about some unique times with a hell-raising rugby fanatic
The security guard’s radio crackled around a deserted Twickenham: “Lawrence Of Arabia and a Man Called Horse are leaving the stadium....
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Danny Cipriani’s back as he decides to return to Planet Earth
Danny Cipriani is back on the England radar, there’s little doubt about that, he’s far from the wilderness he found himself...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: One hundred years on – and rugby hasn’t changed
There is a saying that there is nothing new in rugby and I think I may have found the proof. While...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Shameful memories for Wales in South Africa
As the top man in the world game, Bernard Lapasset paid due homage to Nelson Mandela on behalf of “the rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher talks to Nigel Owens about the challenges – and joy – of reffing around the world
It might surprise you to learn – although possibly not – that the pre-eminent referee in world rugby in 2013 has...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: France’s ‘Little Napoleon’ is trying to rule in Europe
When it comes to exercising absolute power within a rugby fiefdom there is no one who comes close to Pierre Camou....
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Enough! We don’t want more League coaches
The news that Steve McNamara is staying at his post in Rugby League – part time with England and assistant coach...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Saracens and Leicester Tigers can still fly English flag in Europe
The chances of an English club winning the Heineken Cup have receded, but that’s no big reality check because the most...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: South African link would make Stuart Lancaster happy
Last week I said the Premiership would have to look further afield if they wanted to find a replacement for those...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Nick Easter about his rebirth as a lock
Nick Easter’s nickname suggests he is a man who has plenty of credit in the bank. The soubriquet that the Harlequins...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Top dogs in Europe have bark but no bite
When they opened the roof after the Wallabies had done their level best to bring the house down, Wales were left...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher talks to John Carter, the Varsity captain who doesn’t put winning first
John Carter may look like Sebastien Chabal’s younger, wilder, brother and when his battered body can be welded together for 80...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: No, Kenny your call to ring-fence is so wrong
Exeter finished bottom of National 3 and were relegated to National 4 along with Clifton in 1995, the year that the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: England only third in ‘group of death’
The Autumn Internationals provide an obvious point from which to do a stock-take on where England, Wales and Australia are two...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Fans are shortchanged twice in one bad week
What do the RFU and the Premiership have in common? First, both have hit the headlines this week with announcements that...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Luke Charteris’ uncool hands mean try wait goes on
Luke Charteris threw himself back into the day job in France at the weekend, wondering why there is still no international...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: All Blacks dominate my best of the autumn XV
This has been New Zealand‘s year, and their unbeaten run continued over the course of the autumn series. That is why,...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: IRB must take the blame for debacle over George North
In what appears to be a clear case of mistaken identity, Premiership Rugby have decided that Northampton are the bad guys...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoMartyn Thomas – “Mark McCafferty should go – he led us into wilderness”
Ever since the Anglo-French club pact was formed Martyn Thomas has predicted that the Top 14 clubs would fold like a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: The joke’s wearing thin for Warren Gatland
This is getting beyond a joke. The more Wales fail to answer needling jibes about their ‘mental barrier’, the more the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Aussie kids who changed the face of rugby for ever
It’s hard to credit in this era of 12 or 13 Test matches per calendar year by all the major Test...
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Sevens World Series
/ 12 years agoTom Mitchell: Sevens deep in the desert
Of all the nine tournaments on the IRB series, the Dubai 7s is perhaps the one that best brings home the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher on Fiji’s duty to end 100 years of lost opportunities
There is a myth that the full All Blacks have never played in Fiji which is not quite true. In 1913,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales will count cost of vanishing 70,000 fans
For the second time in six days, Wales went about their business in Cardiff on Friday night in front of more...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: World Cup schedule is IRB-made shambles
The England 2015 Rugby World Cup fanfare gets underway for real at Twickenham on Wednesday when the IRB announce their ticketing...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain uncovers the ticking time bomb of Red Rose tour to New Zealand
The buzz-phrase after the autumn series is that ‘England are building’. However, exactly what structure Stuart Lancaster and his side build...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Joe Marler has moved above Mako Vunipola in the prop order
As the end of this season’s Autumn Internationals are approaching, what have we learned? England set a goal of three wins...
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