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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoKitshoff set for return to Stormers
After weeks of speculation South Africa’s two-time World Cup winning prop Steven Kitshoff has decided to leave Ulster at the end...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoEngland need access to their overseas stars
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK ENGLAND and New Zealand, who meet in a two-Test series this summer, find themselves...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoManny stars for Baxter’s battling Chiefs
By MARK STEVENS Exeter ...............................21pts Tries: Vintcent 23, Fisilau 56, Roots 66 Conversions: Slade 23, 56, 66 Bath ...................................15pts Tries: du...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoChampions keep threepeat dream alive as Libbok fires wide
By GARY FITZGERALD Stormers........... 21pts Tries: Jantjies 27, Hartzenberg 79 Conversions: Libbok 29 Penalties: Libbok 3, 21, 45 La Rochelle ......22pts...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years ago‘It came down to small margins’
Disappointed Bath boss Johann van Graan insists his side will ‘regroup’ in the wake of their Champions Cup exit. “We are...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoRiley crashes over to snatch Stoop thriller
By NICK POWELL Harlequins ....................... 28pts Tries: Esterhuizen 23, Smith 34, Murley 40+2, Riley 76 Conversions: Smith 25, 35, 40+3, 78...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years ago‘We dug deep to find way to win’
Quins head coach Danny Wilson felt the result was all that mattered as his side booked a place in the last...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoLeinster march on to face old foes
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster............................. 36pts Tries: Gibson-Park 12, 23, 29; Henshaw 49, Conan 71 Conversions: R Byrne 13, 30, 50; H...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoPowerful Bulls lay down a marker
By BEN JAYCOCK Bulls ..................59 Lyon................... 19 The Bulls reached the Champions Cup quarter-finals for the first time in their history...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoBordeaux put sorry Sarries to slaughter
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bordeaux .......................... 45pts Try: Garcia 36, 48; Depoortere 61, 66; Bielle Biarrey 63, 75 Conversions: Lucu 27, 49,...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoGeorge: We must learn from this to go hard at Premiership
Disappointed captain Jamie George said Saracens will get over their defeat to Bordeaux and refocus on the Premiership run-in. “It’s a...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoJames relishing the Munster challenge
■By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Northampton Saints v Munster Today. Kick-off 12.30pm, Franklin’s Gardens IT is games like this after noon’s Champions...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoDowson brings in Ludlam & Graham
IT will be the first time Saints have hosted a home knock-out clash in Northampton in the competition since 2000 with...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoNtamack back for heavyweight clash
By PAUL REES PREVIEW… Toulouse vRacing 92 Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stade Ernest Wallon ROMAIN Ntamack starts his first match since suffering...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoToo much tinkering is causing confusion
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Rugby Union is in the grip of the “the law of unintended consequences”,...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoSecond fine for Tigers is case for concern
The recent announcement of a second salary cap infringement by Leicester indicates that the Premiership’s policing of its own financial regulations...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoUlster set for massive fight
Preview Montpellier v Ulster Today. 12.30pm ULSTER interim head coach Richie Murphy says a ‘massive test’ awaits in Montpellier. Ulster have...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoClermont survive second-half scare
Clermont ........27 Cheetahs .......22 ■By BEN JAYCOCK THREE-TIME Challenge Cup winners Clermont held off a Cheetahs fightback to earn a place...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoUmaga stars for 14-man Benetton
Benetton ........27 Lions ................ 17 ■By SAM JACKSON THE Lions were booted out of the Challenge Cup by a Benetton side...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoCarreras’ boot keeps Gloucester in control
By ROGER PANTING Gloucester ......... 30pts Tries: Mercer 8, May 27, Llewellyn 32 Conversions: Carreras 8, 27, 32 Penalties: Carreras 54,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoDominant Ospreys out-muscle the weakened Sharks
■By ROGER PANTING mance from them and a tion has to be made of the 30 metres out from his own...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoBundee’s back to boost Connacht
Preview Pau v Connacht Today. 5.30pm IRELAND duo Bundee Aki and Finlay Bealham come into the starting XV as Connacht head...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoSisi leads way on 100th appearance
Preview Sharks v Zebre Today. 3pm DAVID Sisi captains Zebre on his 100th appearance for the club as the Italian side...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoRed Roses: Saracens outside centre Sydney Gregson
By BEN JAYCOCK Birthplace: Baldock, Hertfordshire Date of birth: 20/01/96 Community club: Letchworth Garden City RFC Red Roses Debut: vs Wales...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoGloucester will battle to the end
By PAUL REES Gloucester may be out of the running for a play-off place, but they will not be coasting in...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoHill looking forward to Edinburgh challenge
England prop Paul Hill will leave Northampton in the summer to join Edinburgh. The tighthead has made 187 appearances for Saints,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoModernise the scrum, don’t allow it to die
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED IF WE take the Book of Ecclesiastes as our guide – ancient though it may be, it...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoIt’s all a difficult question of trust
Leicester's latest fine for salary cap irregularities – their second in as many years – throws up an interesting question or...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoMasterful Willis leads Trailfinders fightback
■By MIKE SINCLAIR C Pirates ........... 17pts Tries: Walker 10, Stevens 25, McNab 63 Conversions: Houston 25 E Trailfinders ..26pts Tries:...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoBarton’s second try pivotal for Ampthill
■By JOHN LYON Caldy ................................ 20pts Tries: Hayes 15, Pilgrim 20, Hearn 27 Conversions: Barker 16 Penalty: Barker 11 Ampthill .............................
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoOustanding Venner grabs hat-trick as Coventry run riot
■By PAUL SMITH Coventry .......... 64pts Tries: Venner 4, 22, 41; Salt 28, Poole 32, Hitchcock 38, 49, Wand 68, Wilson...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoIngall stars as Scottish hold firm for brave victory
■By MO SHER L Scottish .........29pts Tries: Brown 13, Ingall 35, Wallis 38, Ferdinand 43 Conversions: Sheppard 14, 36, 39 Penalty:...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoKiller wing Adamson hunts down club record
■By ROB WILDMAN @therugbypape Nottingham..... 24pts Tries: van der Flier 19, Ferreira 19, R Olowofela 44, Ramage 80 Conversions: Stronge 35,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoJVP ready to prove he’s back to his best
By LUKE JARMYN England and Leicester dynamo Jack van Poortvliet has highlighted in both his actions and words that he’s back...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoUnderhill agrees new contract with Bath
ENGLAND flanker Sam Underhill has signed a contract extension to stay with Bath until the end of the 2025-2026 season. The...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoThe day Crane had final word at Cardiff
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Millennium Stadium once staged a trio of penalty shoot-outs in four years...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoVile keeps his record as Care steps down
Tommy Vile and Danny Care were born in the same decade of different centuries, the former in Newport during the first...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoIt’s still all to play for in race to the finishing line
Paul Rees predicts a nerve-racking end to the Premiership season where bonus points will prove crucial THE two-month Premiership break has...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoBring back rucking and kill the jackal
Coach to coach Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to Paul Turner, below, coach of Championship club...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 2 years agoGeorgia next as England aim for three in a row
U18 Six Nations By BEN JAYCOCK ENGLAND are looking to retain a 100 per cent record in the U18s Six Nations...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoHere’s hoping we see another drop of magic
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S Northampton against Munster in Europe today and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years ago25 years of hurt and counting for Scotland
Scotland fans should look away now but this week – April 10 to be precise – will be the 25th anniversary...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoHolland makes it a very special occasion
Blackheath .....25 Sedgley P ........15 By GRAHAM COX THIS was a contest dominated by a strong gusty crossfield wind and littered...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoMain man Mullis is the key for Ford
Cinderford..............29 Rosslyn Park.........28 By NIGEL WILCE CINDERFORD overcame Rosslyn Park by the narrowest of margins to give their chances of avoiding...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoUsher is the best man for the victors
Darlington MP....... 17 Bishop’s S............... 13 By TOM BULMER PARK saw out a low-scoring win against Bishop’s Stortford in a game...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoRyan leading from the front as Lions are tamed
By JOHN VAUGHAN Chinnor............. 42pts Tries: Ryan 1 and 80, James-Carter 19, Passman 27, Cross 51, Worboys 57 Conversions: Worboys 2,...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoRams suffer major blow in bid for promotion
Plymouth A ............28 Rams ........................22 By PADDY MARSH A LATE try from Rams hooker Max Hayman keeps his side’s slim promotion...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoRatu helps side take Titanic step
Sale FC.....................27 Taunton Titans..... 41 By GARETH DANIELS TAUNTON took a huge step in their bid for National One survival with...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoIt’s another very close encounter!
Richmond................ 17 B Moseley............... 17 By TIMOTHY FORRESTER FOR the second time this season, very little divided these two teams, and...
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National League 2N
/ 2 years agoTykes taking nothing for granted in tough run-in
By BEN JAYCOCK National Two North pacesetters Leeds Tykes face a difficult run-in to get over the line and return to...
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