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Club Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoAlan Dickens: Tom Christie setting the standard at Newcastle Red Bulls
Alan Dickens has hailed the impact made by Tom Christie at Newcastle and expects the New Zealander to spearhead a resurgence...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoAfter 2,700 games, 90-year-old referee says: That’s my lot
Ferdinando di Matteo, one of rugby’s oldest referees at the age of 90, hung up his whistle yesterday after 44 years...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoMarnus on move
Scarlets hooker Marnus van der Merwe will join Munster at the end of the season on a two-year deal. The 29-year-old...
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International Rugby
/ 4 weeks ago2026 Six Nations: England prop Joe Heyes admits Italy scrum is a real threat
Prop Joe Heyes revealed England have been keeping one eye on Italy and their improving scrum ahead of their Rome meeting...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoEngland U20s 21-31 Ireland U20s: Irish put the squeeze on sorry English
Ireland stunned England to move into second in the U20s Six Nations, following a hard-fought win at The Rec on Friday...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoWales U20s 31-21 Scotland U20s: Tom Howe shows the way as the Welsh sink the Scots
Wales recorded their first win of the 2026 U20s Six Nations with a bonus-point display at Cardiff Arms Park against Scotland...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoItaly’s scrum gave Ireland flying lesson
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK FRANCE, and England, will have to be on their mettle against an Italy...
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Columnists
/ 4 weeks agoNick Cain: England boss Steve Borthwick missed his Henry Pollock chance
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and it is a saying coaches tend to lean on when it all goes wrong and...
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Columnists
/ 4 weeks agoNick Cain: Rifts widen as franchise plan set to go ahead
Attempts by Premiership club owners, and the RFU executive, headed by Bill Sweeney, to bounce English club rugby into an American...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 weeks agoChris Hewett: ‘Fast, faster, fastest’ is Fabien Galthie’s new look for France
Rugby is a game of assumptions about the future, rooted in the here and now.
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 weeks agoChris Hewett: Italians put on a show in the scrum
Just when you thought the scrum was dying on the ample backsides of its specialist practitioners, along come the Italians –...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoDominant Bedford get back on the right track
■ By CHRIS BALDWIN Bedford ............ 54pts Tries: Adamson 3, Hutler 9, Conway 11, Lennon 21, 39; Evans 49, Herman 60,...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoObonna hits top gear as Richmond take charge
■ By TIM FORRESTER Richmond ........38pts Tries: Obonna 9, 43; Baggott 33, Jones 56, Kitson 58, Brownhill 71 Conversions: Grieve 34,...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoNdimande’s double fires up Worcester
■ By LUKE JARMYN Worcester ........50pts Tries: Bassett 6, Ndimande 15, 19; Anstee 35, Wallis 46, Tyas 57, Garside 66, Short...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoThat was a good, gutsy performance, says Cattle
■ By CÓILÍN DUFFY C Pirates ..........17pts Tries: King 11, Moody 17, Agbongbon 21 Conversion: Sinclair 11 Nottingham .....12pts Tries: Rokomoce...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoHat-trick for Bridge has Ealing on easy street
By JOSEPH TERRY E Trailfinders ..50pts Tries: Bridge 5, 58, 62; Willemse 14, Chilvers 41, Taylor 47, Worboys 65, Jurevicius 80...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoOlowofela hat-trick lights way for Knights
■ By BENEDICT GOLDFINCH Chinnor ..............19pts Tries: James-Carter 3, Cave 69, Hall 76 Conversions: Chamberlain 70, 77 Doncaster .........36pts Tries: Olowofela...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoCleall the star for Saracens
■ By GEORGE WELLBELOVE Saracens ......... 45pts Tries: Cleall 14, 28; Packer 35, Clifford 47, Corrigan 52, Sellors 68, Omokhuale 79...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoQuins make Sale fight to the end
■ By AMELIA LINE Sale ....................15pts Tries: Lloyd 14, Cokayne 24 Conversion: Duffy 25 Penalty: Duffy 42 Harlequins .......12pts Tries: Peña...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoKabeya beefs up Lightning
PREVIEW... Loughborough v Bristol Today. Kick-off 3pm, Franklin’s Gardens LOUGHBOROUGH Lightning return to Franklin’s Gardens determined to protect their formidable home...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoTrailfinders back in contention
■ By BLUEBELL NICHOLLS Leicester ..........19pts Tries: McCalman 10, Günther 28, Lingham 80 Conversions: Feury 11, 80 Trailfinders .....40pts Tries: Tuffnail...
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Columnists
/ 4 weeks agoPeter Jackson: The French try blitz shows no signs of stopping
There was a time not that long ago when France found it beyond their collective wit to score six tries over...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoHamer-Webb joins the alternative route
AND still they come, those chosen by England at the start of their professional careers who found alternative ancestral routes into...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoItoje hits century in good company
SHOULD he so wish, Maro Itoje could lay claim to completing two Test centuries in barely six months. His 100th match...
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Letters
/ 4 weeks agoWhat were you thinking, George?
FIRST of all, congratulations to Scotland on reclaiming the Calcutta Cup. No sour grapes here, the better side won but as...
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Letters
/ 4 weeks agoWales left to rue kick-off blunder
SUCH a pity Wales could not hold on for the win against Scotland to end their horrible run – but it...
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Letters
/ 4 weeks agoWe got ahead of ourselves again
WE English, are once again the punchline for Scottish jokes... and deservedly so. Whenever we string together some decent performances, we...
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Letters
/ 4 weeks agoClumsy Arundell was harshly treated
AM I the only person that thinks Mr Arundell was more than a little harshly treated, when he received his second...
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Letters
/ 4 weeks agoEngland must stop kicking ball away
ENGLAND will not win any trophies as long as they kick the ball on a regular basis to the opposition. They...
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoWe can turn things around, says Goatcher
■By BEN JAYCOCK LEICESTER Tigers director of rugby Fraser Goatcher admits it has been a “frustratingly positive” PWR season so far...
