Search results for "wasps"
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoPremiership Round 2 review
Bath (beat Wasps 30-23) They arrived at the Rec on the back of an unconvincing win at Worcester facing the flying...
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Room 101
/ 14 years agoRoom 101: Dave Walder – former England and Mitsubishi Dynaboars fly-half
1. Ineffective Touch Judges It amazes me how TJs fail to get the number of an offending player or can’t suggest...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Watch out if Cowan makes Gloucester’s back line tick
I have a sense of huge anticipation for the upcoming Aviva Premiership mostly based on the rugby I’ve watched over the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoPremiership Round 2: preview and predictions
Bath v London Wasps Lee Mears will make his 250th appearance tomorrow in a Bath side with two changes from the...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Gloucester and the 2003 Powergen Cup Final
It is perhaps typical of Gloucester’s ill-fortune down the years that their 2002-3 campaign is best remembered for two complete and...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoAviva Premiership Round 1: Team News and Predictions
Exeter v Sale Tom Johnson returns to the Exeter team after making his England debut on their summer tour to South...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoConor O’Shea challenges Harlequins to become a great team
Good teams win titles, but great teams back it up time and again. That is the view of Harlequins‘ head honcho...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoBath’s Rob Webber out until 2013
England hooker Rob Webber could be sidelined until the New Year after undergoing a second shoulder operation. The new Bath signing...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoNow Wales put on their own club double header
Wales are to promote their first double-header at the Millennium Stadium during the new season, an East-West duel involving all four...
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Nick Cain
/ 14 years agoNick Cain talks to bath boss Gary Gold about reviving a once-champion club
Gary Gold is cagey when he considers the question of the quality he has found at Bath in terms of squad,...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoHaughton moves across The Channel
As revealed in The Rugby Paper, full-back Richard Haughton joined Perpignan on a six-month deal as a medical joker for Sofiane...
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Peter Jackson
/ 14 years agoPeter Jackson: Forgotten Dwayne finds new ally in Cips
At a suburban training centre where Manchester City’s multi-millionaires cruise around in their limousines, two international misfits are preparing to take...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 14 years agoBritish and Irish Lions eye Leinster’s Joe Schmidt as Gatland back-up
The Lions are to consider a second New Zealand contender for next year’s three-Test series in Australia – Leinster head coach...
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Dream Team
/ 14 years agoDream Team: Hugo Ellis – Rosslyn Park and former Dragons No.8
1. Alex Corbisiero – Has an incredible appetite for hard work and is a great scrummager. He thoroughly deserves the rise...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Saracens and the 1998 Tetley Bitter Cup final
Emotion is an oft-used word in rugby, but this is a day that sticks in the minds of Saracens people on...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoERC “dismayed” over Anglo-French threats.
As exclusively revealed by Peter Jackson in The Rugby Paper on May 6th, English and French clubs have given an ultimatum...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 14 years agoMy Life in Rugby: David Flatman – Bath and England prop
When I was at Saracens I was ten times more scared of going to training than I was of playing –...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Jon Callard and the 1998 Heineken Cup final
Bath were not given much of a chance of becoming the first British and Irish side to win the Heineken Cup....
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Dream Team
/ 14 years agoDream Team: James Grindall – Bristol and former Leicester scrum-half
1. Andrew Sheridan – We played age group rugby together and he was an absolute beast running over people playing No.8....
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Newcastle and the 2001 Tetley’s Bitter Cup final
Sensational game, sensational finish. Widely considered to be one of the best cup finals of all time, two star-studded teams went...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoWaldouck handed first Saints start against Leinster
New Northampton Saints signing Dominic Waldouck has been selected to make his home debut for his new club in tomorrow’s pre-season...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoAnother Scot captains a Premiership club
Following Hugo Southwell yesterday at Wasps, Gloucester has today named Scottish international second row Jim Hamilton as their captain for the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoReformed Shark Andy Powell is the new ‘Sebastien Chabal’
Sale Sharks are to extend Andy Powell’s contract in recognition of the Welshman’s emergence as ‘the new Sebastian Chabal.’ The Premiership‘s...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoElliot Daly’s rise means Dai Young won’t miss Dominic Waldouck
The emergence of Elliot Daly as a star for Wasps this year made director of rugby Dai Young‘s decision to let...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoLock of ages? French turn back clock for Brits
The burgeoning British colony in France hurls itself into Top 14 action next weekend, an assault force headed by surely the...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoFixtures unveiled for 2012-2013 LV= Cup
Saracens will kick off the 2012-13 LV= Cup season against current title holders Leicester Tigers in the opening round of the...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoWales teen wonder Tom Prydie aiming to fly high again
Tom Prydie and Kristian Phillips aim to relaunch their careers this season after falling into the international wilderness. The former Ospreys...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoSerge Betsen shrugs off the Sir Graham Henry fixing accusations
France legend Serge Betsen has laughed off Graham Henry’s claims that the infamous 2007 World Cup quarter-final in Cardiff could have...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoSerge Blanco lets me know if I’m kicking too much says Iain Balshaw
World Cup winner Iain Balshaw knows all about instinctive rugby and would love England to show more of it. We meet...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Jason Robinson and the 2006 Premiership final
World Cup hero, Lions star, Great Britain rugby league icon, multiple trophy-winner with Wigan … Jason Robinson’s cv is awesome and...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Northampton Saints and the 2000 Heineken Cup final
Few people had rated Northampton’s chances of lifting the Heineken Cup. Still fewer gave them a prayer after they had lost...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoI was fed up facing the same teams all the time says Jersey new boy Richard Haughton
Richard Haughton has revealed how he turned down offers to remain in the Premiership in favour of a move to Championship...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNew Leeds boss Ian McGeechan keen to embrace Leeds Rhinos
John Bentley has hailed the appointment of Sir Ian McGeechan as being massive for the profile of Leeds Carnegie. Bentley, selected...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNew Nottingham boss Marting Haag can make the step up says Ian McGeechan
Sir Ian McGeechan has backed Martin Haag to be a big hit in his first head coach role after Nottingham appointed...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoNewcastle Falcons revival will be key for Jon Golding’s England call
A Newcastle pack getting the better of their Wasps counterparts at Adams Park sounds a familiar tale but this scene took...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoBath winger Tom Biggs has still got that blond ambition
Winger Tom Biggs believes his England ambitions will remain on the backburner while Bath are languishing in the lower reaches of...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Quins have the players to create their own dynasty
Harlquins deserve a round of applause. I like the way they play the game. Being prepared to play an attacking game...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 14 years agoJeff Probyn: Plastic may not be all that fantastic for Saracens
Isn’t it strange with all the fuss re London Welsh not having a stadium that reached the minimum criteria and whether...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoDominic Waldouck: I need a new challenge
Wasps centre Dom Waldouck is leaving to join Northampton Saints. Waldouck, who had a year to run on his contract at...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoIt’s our fairytale and we aim to slay those giants says London Welsh
London Welsh face the toughest possible start to life in the Premiership with opening games against Leicester and champions Harlequins. But...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoJosh Matavesi magic means attack, attack for Worcester Warriors
After playing alongside Frans Steyn and Juan Martin Hernandez in the Racing Metro midfield, Worcester new boy Josh Matavesi is keen...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoSarecens out to take the JP Morgan’s trophy back says Jackson Wray
One of the many consequences of London Welsh‘s elevation into the top flight is that there will be a new champion...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: London Irish and the 2002 Powergen Cup final
London Irish had been written off as relegation fodder at the start of season 2001-2. They were a team without stars....
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoNew Gloucester coach Nigel Davies reckons Mike Tindall will help make Gloucester great
Nigel Davies, Gloucester’s new director of rugby, is banking on the experience of Mike Tindall to help fire the club towards...
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English Championship
/ 14 years agoGive our tier-two English coaches a chance says coaching guru Kevin Bowring
The RFU‘s Head of Elite Coach Development, Kevin Bowring, wants to see more English-qualified coaches follow Glenn Delaney’s example and make...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Birmingham and the 2004 Powergen Cup quarter-final
No one gave Pertemps Bees a prayer before this Powergen Cup quarter-final. Wasps, the English champions, were well on course to...
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20 Questions
/ 14 years ago2O Questions: Andy Hazell – Gloucester and England flanker
Been anywhere nice on holiday? I went to Portugal with the wife and kids, which was nice and quiet. Then I...
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Room 101
/ 14 years agoRoom 101: Richard Hill – Worcester head coach
1. Dog owners As a keen walker and rambler I come across quite a few dog walkers. It really winds me...
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20 Questions
/ 14 years ago20 Questions: David Barnes – ex-Bath and Harlequins prop
Are you missing rugby? I thought I would, but I’m happy as RPA chairman. You miss the camaraderie with the guys...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoEngland legend Jonny Wilkinson still living for kicks after all these years
A campaign which began on England duty against Wales before 80,000 at Twickenham in early August ended ten months later for...















