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Jeff Probyn
/ 13 years agoJeff Probyn: Let’s suspend relegation during World Cup years
At last, with the summer tours over, we can reflect on what has been a rollercoaster season for all. This World...
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Moment In Time
/ 13 years agoMoment in Time: Birmingham and the 2004 Powergen Cup quarter-final
No one gave Pertemps Bees a prayer before this Powergen Cup quarter-final. Wasps, the English champions, were well on course to...
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Young Gun
/ 13 years agoYoung Gun: Will Robinson – Wasps fly-half
The similarities are striking: a confident young Wasps fly-half not afraid to play what’s in front of him, schooled at Whitgift...
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Dream Team
/ 13 years agoDream Team: Jamie Lennard – Doncaster and former London Irish and Bedford fly-half
1. Tom Davies – A very mobile prop at Doncaster who has fantastic hands and is great at offloading. Solid in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Michael Owen – former Wales captain & Saracens No.8
You start every Six Nations thinking you’re in with a chance.We were no different in 2005 but it’s still remarkable we...
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20 Questions
/ 13 years ago2O Questions: Andy Hazell – Gloucester and England flanker
Been anywhere nice on holiday? I went to Portugal with the wife and kids, which was nice and quiet. Then I...
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Room 101
/ 13 years agoRoom 101: Russell Earnshaw – England Sevens Assistant Coach
1. Not coaching people There’s a fantastic quote by ex-England coach Geoff Cooke (below) that ‘good coaches coach activities, great coaches...
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Room 101
/ 13 years agoRoom 101: Richard Hill – Worcester head coach
1. Dog owners As a keen walker and rambler I come across quite a few dog walkers. It really winds me...
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Young Gun
/ 13 years agoYoung Gun: Shaun Moulton – London Irish hooker
South African hooker Shaun Malton is a man in a hurry and wants to make his mark at London Irish in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Peter Short – former England Saxons and Exeter lock
Bath felt like champions the day we beat Tigers Winning away at Leicester in the Heineken Cup quarter-final with Bath in...
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20 Questions
/ 13 years ago20 Questions: David Barnes – ex-Bath and Harlequins prop
Are you missing rugby? I thought I would, but I’m happy as RPA chairman. You miss the camaraderie with the guys...
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Featured
/ 13 years agoI always wanted to be a Bok admits Australia captain David Pocock
With under 12 months to go until the Lions tour Australia, it has become abundantly clear that the tourists’ success will...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoAlistair Hargreaves excited to join old friends at Saracens
South Africa second row Alistair Hargreaves has revealed that it is the link between Saracens and his native Sharks which convinced...
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Champions Cup
/ 13 years agoEngland legend Jonny Wilkinson still living for kicks after all these years
A campaign which began on England duty against Wales before 80,000 at Twickenham in early August ended ten months later for...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoNewcastle head coach Peter Russell ready to get Falcons on the attack
Kiwi Russell, an electrical engineer by trade, had hoped to start work at the Falcons on Monday when the players reported...
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Champions Cup
/ 13 years agoChris Whitehead ready to make most of Heineken Cup
But Exeter‘s all-action hooker has vowed to put the pain of rejection behind him by proving his worth in next season’s...
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Champions Cup
/ 13 years agoMoment in time: Leicester and the 2002 Heineken Cup final
Leicester Tigers arrived at the iconic home of Welsh rugby seeking to complete an historic league and Heineken Cup ‘double-double’. A...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 13 years agoMan behind the match: Lawrence Dallaglio and the 2008 Premiership Final
How do you organise a send-off for a man who has won everything? Arrange a world record crowd at Twickenham to...
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South Africa Memories
/ 13 years agoSouth Africa Memories: Paul Hull and the 1994 tour
I’d been around the England squad for four years and had been on the outer 1991 World Cup squad, but it...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoDanny Cipriani is ‘ready for an England comeback’
O’Connor played outside the former London Wasps talisman in Super Rugby and is a self-confessed admirer of the outside-half’s full range...
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Dream Team
/ 13 years agoDream Team: Jim Hamilton – Gloucester and Scotland lock
1. Cian Healy – He is everything you look for in a modern-day loosehead – he can scrummage and carry the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: Progression of sorts – but where are leaders?
In the end it was all a bit like kissing your sister; comforting but not particularly satisfying. England had the chances...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 13 years agoJeff Probyn: Losing England captain Chirs Robshaw will have done England some good!
This may sound odd, but the loss of captain Chris Robshaw for the final Test may have been something of a...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Bully-boy forwards win it for the Springboks
The England U20s should be green with envy following South Africa‘s 22-16 World Junior Championship final victory over New Zealand in...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales Morgan Stoddart deserves to avoid scrapheap
After 20 Tests spanning 46 weeks, the curtain came down in Sydney yesterday on the busiest and longest Welsh international season....
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: The spirit of braveheart England will not be broken
At no point in this Test did England look like winning. And at no stage did their spirit look like waning....
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Nick Cain
/ 14 years agoNick Cain: This should have been child’s play for England
Containment is a very dangerous game in an 80-minute sport, and the England U20s paid the price of a policy as...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 14 years agoJeff Probyn: Yes, winning is important, but the 2015 World Cup is the real target
Following last week’s defeat the headlines in almost every paper was about the reality check that England had faced when playing...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Brian O’Driscoll and the 2000 Six Nations’ France Ireland
There are certain moments in sport when a realisation dawns that what you are watching is not run-of-the-mill; an extraordinary talent...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Leeds and the 2005 Powergen Cup final
An epic day for the Tykes. Bath, whose record in senior Cup finals prior to this read played 10, won 10,...
