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/ 7 years agoDon’t knock us for promoting rugby says Exeter Uni boss
By NEALE HARVEY KEITHFleming, rugby director at Exeter University, has slammed traditionalists who claim college sides should have no place in...
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/ 7 years agoThis dark side of Pontypool Park must be cleansed
THERE was a time, especially during the early Eighties, when ‘Pooler’ turned Ponty-pool Park into the most forbidding fortress in the...
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/ 7 years agoBut even Warburton has to bend the knee to John Dawes
THE timeless debate as to the identity of the greatest Lions captain has been given a thorough airing these last few...
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/ 7 years agoYou did it Sam, you’re a true Lions legend now
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ambition achieved: Sam Warburton with the Lions in NZ PICTURE: Getty Images ■...
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/ 7 years agoMerger between Hull clubs hits the buffers
By JON NEWCOMBE NOT for the first time – and probably not the last – talks about a merger between Hull...
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/ 7 years agoThomson tipped to be big hit at Scarlets
KIERON Fonotia has no doubts Blade Thomson will take European rugby by storm when he joins him at the Scarlets. The...
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/ 7 years agoEvans: Brown is a freak of nature
By STEFFAN THOMAS Big and fast: New prop sensation Leon Brown PICTURE: Getty Images IAN Evans is backing the Dragons’ young...
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/ 7 years agoMarshall re-joins Hurricanes after stay with Irish
Return: James Marshall HURRICANES have lured James Marshall back to Wellington for the 2019 Super Rugby season. Marshall will rejoin the...
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/ 7 years agoRugby’s all-star athletics line up
100M – CARLIN ISLES: Warren Weir might have the quickest PB on paper but he hasn’t approached that 10.02 for a...
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/ 7 years agoWeir has a way to go if he’s to be rated alongside rugby’s fast men
BRENDAN GALLAGHER SUGGESTS THAT THE CLOCK MAY MISLEAD WHEN LOOKING FOR SPORTING SPEEDSTERS ANALYSIS Remarkable pace: Carlin Isles makes a break...
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/ 7 years agoTigers’ pack must find more teeth
Big loss: Ellis Genge charges upfield against Bath WHERE Leicester have come up short in the last couple of years is...
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/ 7 years agoI have one rule for my TV work – call it as you see it
ANDY GOODE GUEST COLUMN FROM THE FORMER ENGLAND FLY-HALF Anyone who says they don’t miss a thing about playing rugby once...
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/ 7 years agoRebel rousers fined
SUPER Rugby Melbourne Rebels have handed £8,500 fines to Amanaki Mafi and Lopeti Timani after a fracas in a Dunedin nightclub...
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/ 7 years agoHorne fund-raiser
NORTHAMPTON will play their Premiership game against Leicester on October 6 at Twickenham to raise money for centre Rob Horne. The...
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/ 7 years agoGenge out until 2019
LEICESTER loosehead prop Ellis Genge will be out until the New Year after surgery on a knee injury sustained on England’s...
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/ 7 years agoWounded Tigers want payback for playoff pain
By NEALE HARVEY Fit and firing again: Gareth Owen PICTURES: Getty Images Hungry for action: Manu Tuilagi GARETH Owen is desperate...
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/ 7 years agoSevens stint can improve me, says Williams
By STEFFAN THOMAS LLOYD Williams hopes his adventure with Wales Sevens can help him regain his place in Warren Gatland’s 15-a-side...
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/ 7 years agoPontypool relocation a blow for our game’s heritage
I ONLY played at Pontypool Park on one occasion and it’s not a happy memory. In my Neath days we went...
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/ 7 years agoWhy Luke’s switch is no gamble for canny Ospreys
Prolific: Luke Morgan LUKE Morgan’s move to the Ospreys is a win-win situation for everyone involved. I’ll be fascinated to see...
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/ 7 years agoWarburton exit must be wakeup call on welfare
SHANE WILLIAMS Retired: Sam Warburton’s story must be heeded PICTURE: Getty Images Sam Warburton’s shock retirement last week hit me for...
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/ 7 years agoScarratt anguish as her women fall at the first
By SAM JACKSON Take that: England’s Alex Matthews gets stuck into China. Right, Emily Scarratt runs in a try ENGLAND women...
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/ 7 years agoMaunder’s body now battle ready after injury layoff
By ROB COLE Fit again: Jack Maunder JACK Maunder was picked out by Eddie Jones as one for the future when...
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/ 7 years agoUSA stand in the way of bid for gold by England
By ADAM ELLIS In at the corner: Mike Ellery scores for England against Samoa Flier: Fiji’s Sevuloni Mocenacagi scores against Japan...
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/ 7 years agoShingler: I’ll take my time after Sam shock
By PETER JACKSON On their way: England are through to the quarter-finals of the Sevens World Cup after victory over Samoa...
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/ 7 years agoKent plan to break into rugby big time
By NEALE HARVEY KENT, the second biggest rugby playing county behind Yorkshire, currently have no top-notch Championship or Premiership club. But...
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/ 7 years agoOspreys wing Keelan Giles still believing in World Cup dream
The 20-year-old accepts he is behind Steff Evans and Josh Adams in the pecking order... for now
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/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Bruce Reihana – former All Blacks, Chiefs and Northampton back
Now skills coach at Bristol Bears
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/ 7 years agoTom Mitchell column: Dallaglio’s victory in 1993 gives this tournament so much history
The England Sevens captain looks ahead to the World Cup this weekend in San Francisco
