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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoIreland mustn’t copy this breakdown flaw
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER The tumultuous happenings in Dublin last week were...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoLet’s hope technology passes trial
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER Be careful for what you wish for! World Rugby are carrying out their promise to trial chip...
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National League 2E
/ 3 years agoBlackheath take lion’s share
THE BEST XV FROM THE 2022-23 SEASON Ben Jaycock canvassed the views of our National Two East reporters to compile The...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoIt’s right that Wasps start again from the bottom
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As I look at the Wasps saga, I can’t help thinking that...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoToulouse look set to take top spot
JAMES HARRINGTON Tonight, more than 24 hours after both the Premiership and URC celebrated their champions for the 2022/23 campaign, the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 years agoFakatava the star as Highlanders steal it
Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK Folau Fakatava kept the Highlanders play-off hopes alive and sent the club’s inspiration leader...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoLlandovery blow away Cardiff to make history
Premiership Final Cardiff RFC......... 8 Llandovery..... 24 LLANDOVERY won the Welsh Premiership for the first time in their history with a...
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World
/ 3 years agoSharks gobble up Griffons to reach summit Currie Cup round-up
Natal Sharks moved to the top of the Currie Cup table after beating the Griffons 35-9. Sharks roared back from a...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWaterman pushing for more opportunities for women in rugby
Ex-England 15s and 7s player Danielle Waterman feels that there is more work to be done in growing the women’s game...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoSaracen Obinna Nkwocha Signs for Coventry
Second row Obinna Nkwocha will join Coventry Rugby from Premiership finalists Saracens ahead of the 2023/24 season. The 20-year-old Saracens Academy...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoKerr-Barlow pines for Eddie
Tawera Kerr-Barlow, probably the second best scrum-half in the world behind you-know-who, would love to do the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSeries 2, Episode 20: Gallagher Premiership Final Preview with Alex Lozowski
It was a great weekend in Europe for French rugby with a resounding Challenge Cup win for Toulon and a one-point...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCoventry bolster squad with Kvesic signing
Coventry Rugby have confirmed the signing of highly-experienced former England forward Matt Kvesic. The 31-year-old back-rower joins from Italian side Zebre...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBaron calls for PGA deal to be scrapped
By NICK CAIN Francis Baron believes that the RFU is in serious financial difficulties which will undermine rugby union in England...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoO’Gara breaks Leinster hearts
La Rochelle retained the Champions Cup by breaking Leinster’s hearts for the second year running in a thrilling final in Dublin....
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoAlun Wyn bows out ahead of RWC axe
By PETER JACKSON Alun Wyn Jones abandoned the last goal of his monumental career amid growing fears of failing to make...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoEaling and Jersey unite in criticism of cup coverage
By LUKE JARMYN Players and coaches from both Ealing and Jersey have criticised the RFU for the lack of coverage of...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoCurry’s determined to do it for the fans
By JON NEWCOMBE Tom Curry hopes to inspire the next generation of Northern rugby fans by taking the Premiership trophy back...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoCounties complain about selection criteria
By LUKE JARMYN Hundreds of players have missed the chance to represent their shire for the 2023 senior men and U20...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoSarries keen to do it for loyal Jackson
By PAUL REES Saracens are set on giving Jackson Wray a winning send-off as his 14 years at the club come...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoReds should have had a shot at the Prem – Allen
By JON NEWCOMBE Double-winning coach Anthony Allen admits he feels for Jersey after his Cambridge side were allowed to go up...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoClock is ticking as Irish eye takeover
By PAUL REES London Irish have a week to prove they have the funds to keep their place in the Premiership...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoSharks can give favourites a fright
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Alex Sanderson is quality, and that is why he has managed to take Sale...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoWe’ll get over the line some day says Cullen
By BEN JAYCOCK Leinster head coach Leo Cullen feels they just need to continue putting themselves in the positions to win...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoColombe try leaves the Aviva stunned
By PAUL REES Leinster............................. 26pts Tries: Danty 19, Seuteni 37, Colombe 71 Conversions: Hastoy 20, 38, 72 Penalties: Hastoy 42, 49...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoLeinster finally pay the price for their cynicism
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Every journo is surely allowed one “told you so” moment in their career and mine arrived last night when...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoSuperstar Parisse signs off in style
By BEN JAYCOCK Glasgow............................. 19pts Tries: Steyn 55, 73; Cancelliere 68 Conversions: Horne 56, 74 Toulon ............................... 43pts Tries: Serin 4,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoWarriors will learn from this – Smith
Glasgow head coach Franco Smith accepted that his side were outplayed but believes this experience will help his players in the...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoTomi aiming for top after switch back to Scarlets
By LUKE JARMYN Welsh flyer Tomi Lewis is adamant that moving back to his native land and working with head coach...
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Sevens World Series
/ 3 years agoGB sevens players pondered boycott
By BEN JAYCOCK Several Great Britain Sevens players thought about refusing to participate in this weekend’s London leg of the World...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoRFU failed to enforce regulatory standards
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Nothing holds a mirror up to all that is wrong with the elite...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoParisse and Ollivon sparkle
NICK CAIN Toulon's 43-19 European Challenge Cup victory over Glasgow was notable not just for the style in which the French...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTeen Ogden hails impact of veteran star Chudley
By BEN JAYCOCK Tyro Coventry scrumhalf Fin Ogden has been taken under the wing of Premiership veteran Will Chudley this season....
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoLeinster face fight for Boyle
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Leinster are trying to keep highly-rated prop Jack Boyle from moving to the Premiership this...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoMoneybags Racing keen to sign Smith
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Racing 92 are serious about tempting Marcus Smith to quit south-west London for a move...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoEddie has no time for sentiment, mate
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Eddie Jones is due in London for the first time since taking over as Australia...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoNo debate, Hill has to be the Immortal No.6
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST UP, you could not make it. BT Sport, whose coverage of English club rugby has been close...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoHow England could use that Limerick spirit
CHRIS HEWETT BACK in the dim and distant, when down-to-earth Munster were the side to beat in Ireland and hifalutin Leinster...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoStage set for mind battle between old friends
Paul Rees previews the Premiership final Alex Sanderson is a two-club man. He spent the bulk of a playing career that...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoRowntree’s Red Army ready to roll
Saturday's United Rugby Championship final between the Stormers, the holders, and Munster at the DHL Stadium in Cape Town is a...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 years agoProp Sarah is revelling in her turn in the spotlight
By BEN JAYCOCK Sarah Bern has gone from having the lights turned out on her training sessions to sharing the same...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 years agoBears make it seven wins on the bounce
By JESSICA TOLKIEN Bristol.......................24 Exeter....................... 21 Bristol secured a bonus-point win against Exeter in their round 16 clash and now head...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 years agoWilliams-Morris stars with hat-trick
By SAM BYTHEWAY DMP Sharks...............0 Loughborough....... 71 Loughborough secured just their fifth win of the league season with a powerful 12-try...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 years agoSarries survive Botterman red to close gap
By HARRY SCOTT-MUNRO Worcester............... 15 Saracens.................38 Saracens survived a red card to Hannah Botterman to close the gap on the top...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 years agoDeadly Sharks enjoy feeding frenzy
By MATT MERRITT Wasps......................... 7 Sale...........................88 With only three games of elite rugby left before they are dropped from the Premier...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 3 years agoGloucester-HartpuryvHarlequins Today
PREVIEW... Acid test awaits for Quins play-off hopes By BEN JAYCOCK HARLEQUINS face a big test at table-toppers Gloucester-Hartpury with Amy...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoWhen it’s your time to go, you just know
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Well, I didn’t see any of that coming! Two retirements within an hour of each...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoDallaglio’s turned into Nostradamus
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of the 12 clubs to have won European rugby’s supreme prize, only one...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoToulouse’s homemade champions
The original champions of Europe could have put their collective feet up on Saturday knowing that neither contender in Dublin would...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoHertfordshire sign off by smashing 50
By KIERAN FREE Cheshire ........ 24 Herts ................ 54 Hertfordshire signed off their championship with an emphatic victory on the road...
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