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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, September 3, 2023 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs ... Continue reading......
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Podcast
/ 2 years agoSeries 3, Episode 6: Scotland’s World Cup prospects and England crisis deepens with Duncan Hodge
We are just over a week away! England‘s first ever loss to Fiji marked the low point of their World Cup...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoLawes: We were made to look silly
By BEN JAYCOCK Steve Borthwick had to admit his side were outplayed yesterday as England suffered their first ever defeat to...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 2 years agoWelsh aiming for 10-team elite division
By SAM JACKSON The Welsh Premiership will be replaced in the 2024-25 season by a “finishing school” for rising talent with...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoPlayer welfare needs top priority – Hayman
By BEN JAYCOCK Carl Hayman says rugby is in denial about player welfare and insists there must be improved education on...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoBassett gets ready to roar for Tigers
By JON NEWCOMBE Chris Ashton will take some replacing but Josh Bassett has come to Leicester hoping to make a splash of...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoDavies: I almost gave up on Wales career
By ROB COLE Scarlets scrum-half Gareth Davies has revealed he came close to giving up on his international career before Warren...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoShambolic England crash to new lows
By NICK CAIN England.............................. 22pts Tries: May 9, Smith 57, Marchant 68 Conversions: Ford 58, 69 Penalties: Ford 6 Fiji.........................................30pts Tries:...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoHeat ramping up on Borthwick
PAUL REES AS THE start of the World Cup looms, the heat increases. Steve Borthwick has been mopping his brow increasingly...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoAll true rugby fans will delight in this long overdue Fijian victory
BRENDAN GALLAGHER NOBODY ever really owes you anything in sport..... but it’s my firm belief that rugby owed Fiji this historic,...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoGalthie puts his faith in Jalibert to step up at 10
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... France v Australia Today. Kick-off 5.45pm (4.45pm UK time), Stade de France FRANCE head coach Fabien Galthie...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoHat-trick for Ioane as Italy continue to build
By NICK POWELL Italy.................. 42 Japan................ 21 Italy continued their excellent preparation for the World Cup as Monty Ioane scored a...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoScotland head to France on a high
By BRYN PALMER Scotland ........................... 33pts Tries: Van der Merwe 46, 77, Darge 50, Dempsey 58, Steyn 68 Conversions: Penalties: Russell...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoNine-try Argentina take Spain to the cleaners
Spain ................. 3 Argentina ......62 ARGENTINA ended their World Cup preparation on a bright note as they saw off Spain with...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoWillemse: Credit to the forwards, they put in a hell of a shift
Damian Willemse was delighted to have got revenge for the Springboks humbling by the All Blacks in the Rugby Championship and...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoMy concerns: attack, defence and attitude
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WATCHING England now is the most frustrating thing in the world. I want them to do...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoHealy fear as Ireland battle back
Ireland 17-13 Samoa By GARY FITZGERALD CIAN Healy dealt Andy Farrell a big World Cup blow as the veteran prop sustained...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRowe confident Chiefs will be back in the black soon
By PAUL REES TONY Rowe is confident Exeter will move back into the black by the end of the season after...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoEngland heading to the Badlands
STEVE Borthwick has taken a fork in the road which has led England into the Badlands of international rugby. With two...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoBoks have the clout to retain the crown
South Africa’s record 35-7 blitz of New Zealand at Twickenham on Friday night showed that the reigning world champions have the...
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Features
/ 2 years agoI’d put my faith in Mitchell to spark England
KYRAN BRACKEN NO MATTER what Steve Borthwick does he’s just getting lynched by the public. There’s a certain pool of people...
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Features
/ 2 years agoSaracens still the team to beat
KYRAN BRACKEN The Champions Cup is always a great competition but right now there’s too much of a financial divide for...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoBig cats likely to dine on minnows
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED IT MUST be a sobering prospect for the makeweights, travelling to a World Cup with a bunch...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoHansen’s secrets not hard to guess
There has been quite the hue and cry down there in All Black country following the latest twist in trans-Tasman affairs....
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoBeer talk: Eddie happy to stay in the headlines
Paul Rees on how the Aussie coach is creating the news - again - by talking to his old mate EDDIE...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoElvis to make his return at Taunton
Former Exeter hooker Elvis Taione has joined National 1 outfit Taunton Titans two months after announcing he was retiring from the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSarries fight to keep hold of big stars
BY NEIL FISSLER Saracens are looking to head off potential interest in some of their big-name stars out of contract at...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoCodling needs more money
Newcastle boss Alex Codling is weighing up asking for an increase in his budget to bring in at least another player...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoRFU will honour Watson contract
The RFU are set to continue picking up the tab for Anthony Watson despite the winger being ruled out of the...
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Features
/ 2 years agoNow South Africans are the team to beat
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND THIS may still be the phoney war period, but what a statement the world champion...
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Schools / Universities
/ 2 years agoParkin highlights England pathway
By BEN JAYCOCK Will Parkin says the RFU have moved towards a ‘Club England’ with a clear alignment throughout the pathway...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoBig beasts need to set the right mood
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points SO where did the last four years go?...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoBrothers linking arms for Chile
Chile is a minute rugby community compared with many giants of the game and is inevitably centred on geographical pockets of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoVeteran Earls out on his own
Like his native Limerick, there has never been anything flash or fancy about Keith Earls which goes some way to understanding...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoTreacherous route for top-ranked team
Before they know it, a pair of sacked England coaches will be back in Paris on World Cup business to oversee...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoTop Cat’s rousing farewell journey
Finlay Calder shall never forget how Clive Rowlands stood four-square behind him after the Lions‘ traumatic start to their victorious series...
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National League 2W
/ 2 years agoFijian Matavesi to turn on style for Camborne
National League Previews - League Two West This season’s National Two West features three new sides but newly promoted Camborne are the...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoRichmond in the mood to bounce back into big time
National League Previews: League One National One’s dramatic three-horse title race could only be settled on the final day last season...
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National League 2E
/ 2 years agoWinterbottom sets Esher’s sights on quick promotion
National League Previews - League Two East National Two East gets underway tomorrow with Esher going in as favourites, but multiple...
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National League 2N
/ 2 years agoLeeds Tykes and Hull add heft to battle at the top
National League Previews - League Two North Sedgley Park were runaway winners in National Two North last season but this year’s...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoKing keen to prove worth for Bedford
By BEN JAYCOCK Cameron King now sees himself as a settled Championship player and is looking forward to his new adventure...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoI still think England could surprise a few
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME SO here we are again, losing a player as a result of...
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James Harrington
/ 2 years agoOyonnax are worth place at top table
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Promoted ProD2 champions Oyonnax demonstrated – if there was still any doubt after last weekend’s impressive opening...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSkills guru Ryles back with Eddie
Eddie Jones has turned to another former member of his England coaching staff to link up with the Wallabies for the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWebb tests positive for growth hormone
By Ben Jaycock Former Wales international Rhys Webb has tested positive for a growth hormone following an unexpected check by the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSpringboks inflict record loss on All Blacks at HQ
By Nick Powell, Online Editor New Zealand…………………….7 Tries: Roigard 71 Conversions: Mo’unga 72 South Africa……………………..35 Tries: Kolisi 18, Arendse 34, Marx...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSeries 3, Episode 5: Argentina’s World Cup prospects and Farrell and Vunipola bans with Marcelo Bosch
Following their respective suspensions, Billy Vunipola and Owen Farrell will miss the start of the World Cup this year as England‘s...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoInjured Watson out of World Cup
England winger Anthony Watson has been ruled out of the Rugby World Cup after sustaining a calf injury in last weekend’s...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWainiqolo: ‘We can’t wait to face England’
Fijian winger Jiuta Wainiqolo says his side are relishing the chance to face England this Saturday and put right some of...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSkipper Lawes makes 100th appearance as May returns
Courtney Lawes will captain the England team against Fiji as he becomes only the fifth English player to reach 100 test...
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