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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoScarlets part ways with Sam
SCOTLANDNo.9 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne has left the Scarlets. The 25-year-old signed from Edinburgh last summer and made 18 appearances for the side....
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup ticket touts face jail time in Japan
RUGBY SHORTS UNDER new Japanese laws aimed at clamping down on ticket touts, those caught selling tickets for profit can face...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years ago’Coakroach’ blast from coach after Am nicks it
■By ADAM ELLIS Rapid: Lukhanyo Am breaks through for Sharks’ winner PICTURE: Getty Images Aussie champs: Brumbies will face the Sharks...
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/ 7 years agoFolau junior set for Tongan bow … Israel may follow
Tongan blood: John Folau, left, and brother Israel TONGAcoach Toutai Kefu has been in contact with Israel Folau’s camp about enticing...
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/ 7 years agoBlues enter the bidding for star man Beauden
■By SAM JACKSON Tug-of-war: Beauden Barrett is wanted by the Auckland Blues PICTURE: Getty Images THE WELLINGTON Hurricanes face a battle...
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/ 7 years agoRetallick to take All Black breather ahead of 2023
■By GEORGE LAWRENCE Rest: Brodie Retallick BRODIERetallick will take a two-year sabbatical from New Zealand rugby following this autumn’s World Cup...
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/ 7 years agoCrusaders coach Ronan returning to France
Move: Ronan O’Gara RONAN O’Gara has confirmed the 2019 season will be his last with the Crusaders having accepted a coaching...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWin or lose in Japan, RFU have right men at the top
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Second chance: Sir Clive Woodward is the only coach to lead England...
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/ 7 years agoToulon’s rapid decline sinks to new depths
PETER JACKSON reveals his exclusive table of Europe’s best and worst disciplined Worst offenders: Toulon back row Liam Messame is sent...
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/ 7 years agoSolomons staying on
WORCESTER DoR Alan Solomons has committed himself to the club until the end of the 2021/22 season. Solomons’ existing contract expires...
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/ 7 years agoBlues return for Tovey
JASONTovey will return to Cardiff Arms Park for a second stint after signing a two-year deal with Cardiff Blues. The 30-year-old...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPirates sign two more
SCRUM-HALF Jean-Baptist Bruzulier, 26, has joined Cornish Pirates. He is the third player to join from Yorkshire Carnegie. Pirates have also...
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/ 7 years agoZach’s deal at Wasps confirmed
RUGBY SHORTS WASPS have announced the signing of winger Zach Kibirige from relegated Newcastle Falcons, as revealed in Blindside last weekend....
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/ 7 years agoOutcast Ford finds his rightful place in Hall of Fame
THE Coal Exchange in Cardiff Docks has long been renowned as the setting for the first seven- figure deal of the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoRetallick chooses Land of Sun rather than rain
BRODIE Retallick’s explanation for his next career move post-World Cup amounted to an admission that playing in Japan is a piece...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup hat-trick – yet Webbe had no idea
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Unknowing hero: Glen Webbe in action for Wales Glen Webbe will forever be...
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/ 7 years agoHonoured to jog behind the greats
MY LIFEIN RUGBY PHIL BLAKEWAY THE FORMER BRITISH & IRISH LIONS , ENGLAND AND GLOUCESTER PROP Front row club: England prop...
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/ 7 years agoWhiffen steps up from U20s to work with Scarlets’ elite
■By STEFFAN THOMAS Opportunity: Richard Whiffen coaching the U2 RICHARD Whiffin will swap the development of Gloucester and England’s best young...
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Features
/ 7 years agoBoyd’s building an arsenal for all-out attack on the top two
Q&A MATT FERGUSON ON THE RECORD Game-changer: Saints director of rugby Chris Boyd imparts his wisdom PICTURES: Getty Images Predicting big...
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/ 7 years agoAll Blacks jeers gave RFU boss his mission
NICK CAIN talks to the RFU’s new chief excecutive Bill Sweeney about his vision for the English game BILL Sweeney says...
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/ 7 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 7 years agoEQP rate proves our deal is working – Winstanley
By NEALE HARVEY English core: Saracens lead the way in Premiership. Phil Winstanley PREMIERSHIP Rugby has shot down suggestions that its...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup is the start of properly taking the game global
I’VE spent the last week or so in Japan as there are now less than 100 days to go until the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoRemove this loophole allowing players to switch allegiance
ISRAEL Folau’s sacking by Rugby Australia has been one of our sport’s biggest controversies this year. I don’t want to get...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWelshmen will play key role in South Africa
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND One club man: Alun Wyn Jones PICTURE: Getty Images THERE is no rest in rugby...
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/ 7 years agoHill’s enjoying high life again after painful axe
NEALE HARVEY talks to former England star Richard Hill about his success in France Building a legacy in Normandy: Richard Hill...
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/ 7 years agoScarlets upgrade
PARC y Scarlets is to have a new state-of-the-art playing surface in time for the start of the 2019-20 season. The...
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/ 7 years agoGale quits Warriors to run the Quins academy
■By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA CHIM Gale is reportedly set to become academy manager at Harlequins after leaving Worcester Warriors. Gale...
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/ 7 years agoGATLAND ON….
…Lost 2009 series, Altitude wars…and England “For me it is unfinished business. We have to get the scheduling right. I was...
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/ 7 years agoGatland will need all his steel to take on the Boks
NICK CAIN ON THE DEBT THE LIONS OWE THEIR NEWLY-APPOINTED 2021 HEAD COACH Pilloried in 2005: Clive Woodward Mission accomplished: Warren...

















