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/ 9 years agoNick Cain’s player ratings
ENGLAND 1-MAKO VUNIPOLA 7.5 Trailblazing front row playmaker. The best handling prop around, and scrummaging stronger 2-DYLAN HARTLEY (capt) 6 Weird...
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/ 9 years agoEngland have game to beat the All Blacks – but not yet!
THE England team rescued and brought back to rude health by Eddie Jones is in danger of being sold down the...
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/ 9 years agoCan we find the new Barry John?
THE Six Nations provides Warren Gatland with the most exacting series of trials that any Lions chief selector could wish for....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoNZ wing winning battle to be fit for Lions tour
By SAM JACKSON NEHE Milner-Skudder has been ruled for six weeks with a foot injury and faces a race against time...
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/ 9 years agoIt’s not mind games insist New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND coach Steve Hansen says he is not playing media mind games, after Eddie Jones reacted suspiciously to the Kiwi’s...
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/ 9 years agoWray fights RFU bid to cash in on All Blacks
By NEALE HARVEY Opposed: Nigel Wray RAGING Saracens chairman Nigel Wray insists Premiership bosses must put player welfare ahead of money...
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/ 9 years agoDREAM TEAM
TOPSY OJO, LONDON IRISH AND FORMER ENGLAND WING, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Clarke Dermody...
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/ 9 years agoAnglo-Welsh Cup needs to rethink playing rules
COLIN BOAG I’ve made no secret of the fact I don’t much like the Anglo-Welsh Cup in its present form, and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoGap between top tiers getting wider
SO this year’s Premiership relegation battle is between Bristol and Worcester – its two most recent recruits. Barring a play-off disaster,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoI thought RFU were there to grow the game at all levels
I READwith dismay that the RFU are seriously considering cutting the England Counties side and the County Championship deeming them ‘an...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 9 years agoGrandparents play big role in identity
ALTHOUGHI disagree with the three-year residency qualification, I believe that where you are born should not be the only qualification to...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMallinder misses out to Wasps flier Howe
WASPS’ wing Tom Howe has won the Anglo-Welsh Cup breakthrough player award. Howe won a public vote from a ten-strong shortlist...
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/ 9 years agoBeale determined to deliver the goods before departing
By NEALE HARVEY KURTLEY Beale reckons the addition of Springbok superstar Willie Le Roux to an already electrifying backline has given...
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/ 9 years agoEasterby next on Kingsholm wanted list
Wanted: Ackermann GLOUCESTER have got a list of alternatives for their head coach job if they are turned down by South...
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/ 9 years agoFalcons looking to lure Flood home
Heading home? Toby Flood TOBY FLOOD could this summer be heading back to Newcastle Falcons where he started his career when...
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/ 9 years agoIrish step up recruitment for assault on top-flight
LONDON IRISH have been busy recruiting players ahead of their impending return to the Premiership next season. But I understand that...
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/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■GARY GOLD looks like staying on at Worcester Warriors next season after being...
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/ 9 years ago‘It’s taken 5 years for Joseph to get recognition for defence’
By NEALE HARVEY MIDFIELD maestro Jonathan Joseph has “no limits” to what he can achieve in rugby now that people have...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoSurely the French capital can house two top teams?
THE troubled attempts to merge traditional archrivals Stade Francais and Racing 92 is fast developing into a farce that tarnishes the...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoEurope’s finest being sold down the river
WELCOME to Northern Hemisphere rugby’s endless road. An 11 month season which purports to be all things to all men, but...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoMy team of the tournament…
15. Stuart Hogg (Scotland): One of few modern players with genuine x-factor. A try scorer and provider. Rob Kearney was in...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoThe Six Nations that was…
Player of the tournament: Owen Farrell. Last year’s winner Stuart Hogg again provided the moments that remain seared in the brain...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoHigh quality moments could not mask increasing shortage of classic matches
Brendan Gallagher looks back at the defining moments of the Six Nations and how the introduction of bonus points effected things...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoWales denied despite Evans’ salvo
France W 39 Wales W 19 FRANCE made it three from three over Wales in this last weekend of the Six...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoSkeldon holds nerve to earn Scots victory
Scotland W 14 Italy W 12 SCOTLAND claimed a second win in Six Nations for the first time since 2006 by...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoIt’s Grand for Scarratt as England sweep in
By SAM JACKSON Ireland W 7pts Try: Lyons 66 Conversion: Tyrrell 66 England W 34pts Tries: Wilson Hardy 16, Keates 53,...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoFrance overpower Wales in the generation game
A DOMINANT second-half in Montauban on Friday night helped France and their famous sons hit Wales for six in the last...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoDefensive shift earns Slam for Zach’s boys
By SAM JACKSON Ireland U20 10pts Try: Coombes 64 Conversion: Johnston 64 Penalty: Johnston 40 England U20 14pts Tries: Nay 18,...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoCards fall in favour of five-try Scotland
Scotland U20 38 Italy U20 17 DARCY Graham scored two tries as Scotland dominated an ill-disciplined Italian side to claim their...
