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/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TIAAN THOMAS-WHEELER OSPREYS CENTRE You’ve got to be good to wear bright orange boots and Ospreys academy product Tiaan Thomas-Wheeler is...
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/ 7 years agoJapan target quarter-finals
JAPAN rugby coach Jamie Joseph said his team are capable of making history by reaching the quarter-finals at next year’s World...
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/ 7 years agoStringer calls time aged 40
IRELANDgreat Peter Stringer has announced his retirement from rugby at the age of 40 and with 98 caps for Ireland. Having...
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/ 7 years agoContepomi quits Pumas
LEINSTER have confirmed, subject to being granted a work permit, that former centre Felipe Contepomi has been appointed their new backs...
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/ 7 years agoWasps name their coaches
SPECULATION Wasps were interested in the services of Graham Rowntree have been quashed by Dai Young’s confirmation of his coaching team....
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/ 7 years agoWilliams boys back to push Test claim
By ROB COLE THERE can be no excuses for Bernard Jackman’s Dragons next season as they can now field a match...
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/ 7 years agoExiled Bath enforcer in battle for fresh deal
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Dave Attwood describes himself as a traditional kind of lock. In other words, he loves a scrap...
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/ 7 years agoJenkins: Injuries won’t derail Wales’ bid
ELLIS Jenkins believes he has laid down a World Cup marker after a summer to remember. Jenkins was Wales cocaptain alongside...
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/ 7 years agoCodling in to replace Rowntree
Prolific: Tim Visser has scored 30 tries in 61 games for Quins PICTURES: Getty Images Lineout king: Codling HARLEQUINS confirmed that...
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/ 7 years agoVisser vows allegiance to Gustard revolution
By NEALE HARVEY ACE finisher Tim Visser aims to spearhead a Quins revival this season after giving the mental grind of...
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/ 7 years agoFielding knew Huggan bravery warranted a Victoria Cross
RUGBY famously honours four Victoria Cross winners for conspicuous bravery among its former internationals – England’s Arthur Harrison and the Irish...
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/ 7 years agoLondon Scottish 1913-14: The Club 1st XV assembled before the match against the United Services
BACK ROW Private J Ross (London Scottish Regiment): Killed November 1 1914, Messines. Won 5 Scotland caps. A Fettes boy before...
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/ 7 years agoIn honour of the rugby heroes of WWI
BRENDAN GALLAGHER explores the fascinating history of Scottish rugby players in World War I Paying tribute: HRH Princess Anne, with book...
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/ 7 years agoGrassroots pay price for Twickenham overspend
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As England return from a trying summer tour, the celebrations have started...
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/ 7 years agoBoyd raps Hurricanes as they flop yet again
By SAM JACKSON Super Rugby HURRICANES coach Chris Boyd slammed his team’s loss to the Brumbies. The early frontrunners for the...
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/ 7 years agoFormer skipper Strauss calls time at Bulls
By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA FORMER South Africa hooker Adriaan Strauss will retire from all forms of professional rugby at the...
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/ 7 years agoBoks aside, rugby in Africa has just gone backwards
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points HEAVEN knows it’s a difficult enough job growing...
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/ 7 years agoScots got one over Ealing pranksters
Noisy bunch: Scots pipers THERE was some cracking banter at the Caledonian Club in London this week at the launch of...
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/ 7 years agoFolau yellow highlights huge flaws in modern officiating
IT’S been a vexatious summer for referees and officialdom with the curious case of Israel Folau’s yellow card for his challenge...
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/ 7 years agoPhillips promises cash boost to keep Wales competitive
WELSH rugby’s days of mere financial survival will end with the signing of a landmark deal. The existing Rugby Services Agreement...
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/ 7 years agoStadium green light renews Pirates hope
By NEALE HARVEY Coaching role: Pirates back rower Chris Morgan CORNISH Pirates are in a ‘strong place’ to challenge for the...
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/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER BEDFORD, PLYMOUTH AND DONCASTER FLANKER ADAM KETTLE My parents are fullfledged Scousers and my uncle Brian played a handful...
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/ 7 years agoMy all-time US Eagles XV
15. Chris Wyles, below Native of Stamford Connecticut. High quality multiple trophy winner with Saracens where he made 254 first-team appearances....
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/ 7 years agoGold’s Eagles have found wind beneath their wings at long last
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to Dan Lyle about the changing landscape of rugby in America OVER the years we have heard so...
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/ 7 years agoIrish pop up everywhere
ON a green field far away in a corner of Halifax, Nova Scotia last weekend, a pair of fly halves from...
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/ 7 years agoShaun has date in Japan
NOT a week goes by this summer without Shaun Edwards being linked to a job other than the one he has...
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/ 7 years agoGermany are out of two World Cups!
GERMANY have now completed the fiendishly difficult trick of disappearing from two World Cups in the same week. In marked contrast...
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/ 7 years agoIoane joins quick-fire hat-trick club
RIEKO Ioane has been in a hurry ever since the All Blacks rushed him into their team as a teenager, a...
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/ 7 years agoLack of TV footage makes refs Fall-guys
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Benjamin Fall goes up for a high ball and his midair opponent, Beauden...
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