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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoFantastic four face final tests
PAUL REES LOOKS FORWARD TO THE PREMIERSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINALS: NORTHAMPTON v SARACENS AND BATH v SALE NORTHAMPTON The Saints finished at...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoDiamond out to add some steel
By PAUL REES Even someone without Steve Diamond’s coaching experience would have known that taking over at Newcastle was never going...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoYou write off Saracens at your peril – Grewcock
By BEN JAYCOCK Danny Grewcock has joined Paul Sackey as the second player to be inducted into the Premiership Rugby Hall...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoDay O’Reilly missed out on Hollywood
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When he last spoke in public, at his old Dublin rugby club a few hefty...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoThe £20m circus which led to a World Cup
David Lord would kick off every email to The Rugby Paper during the last years of his life in the down-to-earth...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoYoung guns who are shining for the Chiefs
Paul Rees talks to Exeter DoR Rob Baxter to find out how his investment in homegrown talent is paying off at...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoPlaying for Tigers a privilege, says Scott
By MARK STEVENS Matt Scott says it was his ‘privilege’ to pull on the Leicester Tigers jersey after playing his final...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoPoor defence cost us, admits Wilson
By NICK POWELL Harlequins head coach Danny Wilson has admitted poor defence cost them a place in the play-offs after a...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoCloete & Van Velze to retire at end of season
Bath's South African forwards GJ van Velze and Chris Cloete will retire from rugby at the end of the season. Van...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoSaracens hold on to take it at the death
By HARRY SCOTT-MUNRO Saracens ............................ 33pts Tries: Clifford 20, Gregson 29, Campbell 40, 66; Cleall 59 Conversions: Harrison 21, 40, 60,...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoTrailfinders make L’borough work hard for three in a row
By ROGER PANTING Trailfinders....... 18pts Tries: Dow 6, Laflin 31 Conversions: Green 31 Penalties: Green 17, 24 Loughborough.. 19pts Tries: Keates...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoWills grabs hat-trick as Bears go on rampage
By STEWART MCCULLOUGH Harlequins .......25pts Tries: Neumann 9, 27, Mullen 74 Conversions: Cromack 10, Tuima 74 Penalties: Cromack 17, 21 Bristol...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoRigoni double as Sale show promise
By SAM JACKSON Leicester ........ 21 Sale...................36 In a battle of the league’s bottom two, Leicester fell short at home to...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoJennings looking for new challenge
By JON NEWCOMBE Still only 28, Rory Jennings is seeking the seventh full-time contract of his nomadic career after being released...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoZebo calls time
Munster flyer Simon Zebo will retire at the end of the season. The 34-year-old was capped 35 times by Ireland, helping...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoIRFU changing funding model
THE Irish Rugby Football Union has announced a change to its funding model which will see the four provinces contribute “up...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 2 years agoKent show true grit to hold firm
By ADAM CLEARY Kent...........................34 Cornwall..................33 KENT continued their defence of the Bill Beaumont Cup with victory over Cornwall at Charlton Park,...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 2 years agoYorkshire set up shootout with rivals Lancashire
By WILLIAM GUPWELL Somerset........... 31pts Yorkshire...........33pts YORKSHIRE secured a vital win in this Bill Beaumont Cup thriller to set up a...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 2 years agoFive-star Oxfordshire power into last four
By LUKE JARMYN Division 2 round-up OXFORDSHIRE scored five tries with their best performance of the campaign to grab a 34-27...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 2 years agoDevon secure place in semi-finals
By JOE SANTAMARIA Division 3 round-up DEVON continued their good form by dispatching a competitive Berkshire side at Maidenhead RUFC. Fresh...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 2 years agoBarnes hits four in nine-try rout
By GEORGE WELLBELOVE Surrey.......................................... 7 Hampshire...............................63 HAMPSHIRE ran in nine tries to thrash Surrey and kick-start their campaign with Curtis Barnes...
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National Leagues
/ 2 years agoToo many law changes-just let players play
Steve Hill puts the questions to James Shanahan, the head coach of Blackheath RFC and Cambridge University Why did you get...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoCamborne make impact but top two dominate final line-up
NATIONAL 2 WEST DREAM TEAM >> THE BEST XV FROM 2023-24 AS VOTED FOR BY OUR REPORTERS After Dings Crusaders’ National...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBuckinghamshire push Surrey all way
By GEORGE WELLBELOVE Surrey ...................... 14 Buckinghamshire.. 5 SURREY won a battle of attrition by absorbing much of Buckinghamshire’s pressure. The...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoChamps Lancashire kick off with big win
Round-up REIGNING Gill Burns Cup champions Lancashire made a dominant start last week with a 39-6 victory against Gloucestershire in Pool...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoCalcutta Cup win the highlight of my career
MY LIFE IN RUGBY Scott Steele - Former Scotland, Leicester, London Irish Harlequins & Edinburgh Scrum-Half I was sat on a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoThe time Tony did plenty of learning
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It might surprise some to learn that...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGoing, that bundle of barbed wire, a match for Edwards
SID Going, who died last Sunday aged 80, might have been a man of God but the diminutive scrum-half from Kawakawa...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns – Will Jeanes
WILL JEANES - BATH SECOND ROW England Students second row Will Jeanes has progressed through the age groups at Bath and...
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