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Premiership
/ 6 years agoFaletau lasts the entire 80 minutes
WHILE Sale felt aggrieved, Bath’s dogged forwards matched a powerful visiting pack, winning four lineout steals and forcing crucial scrum penalties....
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoDiamond anger over ref’s late penalty call
By NEALE HARVEY NOT for the first time this season, Sale supremo Steve Diamond was left fuming at officialdom after a...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoAlun Wyn doubt for start of 6 Nations
By PETER JACKSON ALUN WYN Jones has been forced to delay his Ospreys come-back, raising early alarms over his fitness to...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEddie must prove his worth says Woodward
By GARY FITZGERALD SIR Clive Woodward feels the RFU are right to play the waiting game with Eddie Jones and claims...
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoWhy some Premiership clubs are angling for a format change to the Champions Cup
Saracens owner Nigel Wray details how player welfare grounds affect Premiership clubs in the Champions Cup
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoThe most spectacular tries of the 2019 Rugby World Cup
Josh Adam – WALES v Fiji In a breakthrough year for the former Worcester Warriors wing, the highlight arguably came against...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoI can still cut it at Test level insists Bath and Wales centre Jamie Roberts
The two-time Lions tourist is eager to play a role for Bath to ease the pressure on Stuart Hooper
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Macho Makis can make their mark in Sevens
Brendan Gallagher marks Madagascar as one of rugby's growing nations who can utilise the creation of the Challenger Sevens Series
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTEAMS: Taulupe Faletau back for Bath to start at No.8
Full team news for Round Seven of the Gallagher Premiership, as Bath welcome back Taulupe Faletau
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Featured
/ 6 years agoThe Rugby Paper’s team of the 2010s
Brendan Gallagher has watched a lot - and we mean, a lot - of rugby this decade. So we asked him...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Bath second row Elliott Stooke
Semesa Rokodoguni has one prank which the Bath lock doesn't take too kindly to
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSimmonds: Put me in the back row with Tom Curry
The Exeter Chiefs no.8 reveals when Eddie Jones last spoke to him
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Ross Moriarty should stay in Wales with Dragons
Shane Williams praises the back-row forward for filling in for Taulupe Faletau, but that he should turn down interest from overseas
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: We got over 1991 – now the class of 2019 must develop
Jeremy Guscott on how Owen Farrell can lead England to a new level in the Six Nations
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoI’m ready to challenge Big Billy again says Nathan Hughes
The move to Bristol Bears has fired up the no.8 to reclaim his England spot
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Rugby is forgiving and Rob Howley deserves that
Corruption had nothing to do with Howley's suspension handed by World Rugby, writes Nick Cain
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoJonny May is latest Leicester Tigers star to be targetted
SARACENS are weighing up a move for England winger Jonny May who is coming into the last six months of his...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoSix Nations aim to draw £750m TV mega deal as CVC near stakeholding
Could the era of free-to-air Six Nations viewing be coming to an end?
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Rugby as Wales’ national sport? Not with these crowd numbers!
Can we expect a full house at any of the regions' this festive period?
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoBaxter: Sarries is a huge game
ROB Baxter was eager to play down the potentially explosive festive Premiership battle with arch rivals Saracens after seeing his team...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoMurphy in trouble as the cavalry can’t save his Tigers
■By GARY FITZGERALD CLOSE-UP MANU TUILAGI Leicester outside-centre Tuilagi charged back onto the club stage like a bull but still ended...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoMcCall: Max has touch of Barrett
SARACENS two-try fullback Max Malins drew comparisons with Beauden Barrett after inspiring Saracens to inflict the heaviest defeat Bristol have suffered...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoSarries uneveil a new star in magical Malins
By NICK CAIN Star is born: Max Malins goes over in the corner for Saracens PICTURES: Getty Images Early hope: Luke...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoRelegation has no fears for Prem
THE main reason given for Premiership clubs devaluing the European Cup by putting out half strength sides is that they are...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoMunster’s manners slip with doc Jamie
WE are all hostages to fortune at times, which is where Nigel Wray found himself as events unfolded during Saracens’ 15-6...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoRugby is forgiving and Howley deserves that
RROB Howley’s ninemonth ban (with a further nine months suspended) for breaching World Rugby’s gambling regulations is not something to be...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
STEVE McCOLL, DONCASTER AND FORMER SCOTLAND U20s, LEEDS & GLOUCESTER FULL-BACK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST…...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoIrish and French squad strengths defy belief
Views COLIN BOAG Galacticos: Leinster at Franklin’s Gardens had 453 caps between them What are we to make of the situation...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHuge plaudits for Lam and Boyd
SINCE before the end of last season two subjects have dominated “rugby talk” – the World Cup and the financial affairs...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoStop this chatter, just ref the game!
AT LAST, someone agrees with me. Colin Boag is 100 per cent right – referees are taking away the advantage by...














