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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 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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/ 8 years agoSteadman adds steal to the defence
LONDON SCOTTISH have bolstered their coaching staff with the addition of experienced defence and skills coach Graham Steadman. The former Rugby...
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/ 8 years agoVernon brings Test pedigree to Exiles
By NEALE HARVEY MARQUEE signing Richie Vernon is ready to spearhead London Scottish’s charge for a top six Championship place after...
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/ 8 years agoRecord win in Argentina salvages Scots’ pride
SCOTLAND wrapped up their summer tour with a record 44-15 victory over Argentina last weekend. Scrum-half George Horne scored the first...
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/ 8 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 8 years agoNational One clubs hit out at dual registration snub
By NEALE HARVEY ANGRY National One clubs have accused the RFU and Premiership Rugby of ‘damaging the integrity’ of their competition...
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/ 8 years agoWelfare is still key but refs need more empathy
I’VE watched a lot of rugby this summer and I have to raise my concern over players competing for the high...
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/ 8 years agoSummer rugby way forward for the minis
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND AS a parent I read with interest the Welsh Rugby Union’s plan to trial mini...
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/ 8 years agoEaling call Buckland back from rugby wilderness
JAMES Buckland has vowed to make the most of a ‘fantastic opportunity’ after being summoned from the coaching wilderness to lead...
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/ 8 years agoBruzulier puts French nightmare behind him
By JON NEWCOMBE Top level experience: Jean-Baptiste Bruzulier in action for Clermont NEW Yorkshire Carnegie scrum-half Jean-Baptiste Bruzulier comes with a...
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/ 8 years agoNagusa takes new signings up to ten
FIJI back rower Nemani Nagusa has become Newcastle’s latest signing. The 30-year-old helped Fiji win their fourth consecutive Pacific Nations Cup...
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/ 8 years agoMay’s electric but Eddie’s in dark
NICK CAIN GIVES HIS ENGLAND MAN-BY-MAN RATINGS FROM SOUTH AFRICA THIS was a tour in which only five players – Jonny...
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/ 8 years agoOld stagers set to return as England stumble on
NICK CAIN gives his thoughts on where the South African tour has left England preparations THE leading question following England’s twoone...
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/ 8 years agoSlade deserves to keep the 13 jersey for Autumn series
WHILEOwen Farrell and his Saracens mates head off to Hvar in Croatia for his stag weekend and the rest of the...
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/ 8 years agoYoungs played like a general, De Klerk led from the front like a fireball
NEIL DE KOCK EX-SARACENS AND SOUTH AFRICA SCRUM-HALF Controlling influence: Ben Youngs The first-choice scrumhalves for England and South Africa, Ben...
