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Premiership
/ 5 years agoFrench double-header will be difficult for us, says Richards
NEWCASTLE director of rugby Dean Richards admitted he was less than impressed with Falcons performance, but spoke of greater concern around...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoMoseley battle to overdue victory
By GRAHAM COX Blackheath...... 17 Moseley............22 TWO tries in the third quarter turned this game in Moseley’s favour and gave the...
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National League 2E
/ 5 years agoNixon’s hat-trick can’t halt Hawks
By CHRIS CAMPBELL Hinckley..............27 Henley Hawks..29 SHAE Nixon’s second-half hat-trick for Hinckley proved to be in vain as Henley Hawks held...
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National League 2N
/ 5 years agoMinnikin holds his nerve to earn point
By BRIAN TILLEY Tynedale................. 18 Hull Ionians............ 18 A MAGNIFICENT touchline conversion from Lewis Minnikin 10 minutes into added time salvaged...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoResults
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoMorahan gets Bears back on the prowl
By ROGER PANTING Bristol ................32pts Tries: Capon 9, Morahan 20, 31; Uren 79 Conversions: Sheedy 9, 31, 79 Penalties: Sheedy 45,...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoDuncan dares in Albion’s triumph
By NICK BURT Plymouth................. 31 Bishop’s Stort........ 17 FULL-BACK Craig Duncan bagged two tries as Plymouth Albion held off Bishop’s Stortford...
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National League 2N
/ 5 years agoDale undone by class of Broadley
By EDWIN WILLIAMS Wharfedale.............. 9 Sheffield Tigers.... 13 SHEFFIELD Tigers snatched an improbable victory with a try in the 74th minute....
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoRegional results
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoAlex is baffled by scrum decisions
SALE director of rugby Alex Sanderson offered a possible explanation after his side continued their long losing away run with their...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 5 years agoDupont nowhere near Gareth – but he’s got time
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE amount of hype surrounding France’s brilliant scrum-half Antoine Dupont raises the question whether...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoJuddians denied by late Rams raid
By GARETH WITHERS Tonbridge Jud....... 19 Rams.........................22 RAMS scored a try with less than four minutes on the clock to take...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoEuro re-matches to be announced this week
By PAUL REES THE Champions Cup organisers will decide by the end of the week whether to rearrange the five matches...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRing-rusty stars may struggle in Six Nations
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND All the international coaches used to want to wrap their star players in cotton wool...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoThe genius of Liddell is recognised at last
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS column has long argued there should be...
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National League 2N
/ 5 years agoField find form to secure a vital win
By ANDREW SMITH Huddersfield...35 Blaydon............. 19 RELIEVED Huddersfield claimed a well-deserved bonus-point win in this bottom-of-the-table clash. Two tries each from...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoRegional results
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoTries galore, but still Warriors struggle
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Bath v Worcester JONATHAN Thomas is taking no notice of Bath’s failure to win a match this...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoCairns full of praise as Royle nicks it for Caldy
By GARETH DAVIES Caldy...................26pts Tries: J Dickinson 6, B Jones 35, Penalty 58, Royle 69 Conversions: B Jones 36, 70 Cinderford...........
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Features
/ 5 years agoLight Blues shone golden light upon the great game
Brendan Gallagher charts the rich history of 150 years of Cambridge University rugby As we nudge into 2022 it’s time to...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoHookers and kickers are getting away with murder
SHANE WILLIAMS HANDS UP if you are tired of seeing scrum halves putting the ball into the second row. That is...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoExeter power tells in one-way second half
By SAM BRETT Sale ....................7 Exeter ..............43 EXETER have proved tough opposition for Sharks this season and yesterday’s fixture did not...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoHooker Doughty gets the call up
TOM Doughty makes his first Premiership Rugby start as Stuart Hooper’s side attempt to turn around their dismal campaign. The hooker,...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 5 years agoPeel ‘wants Scarlets to be a ruthless team’
By STEFFAN THOMAS NIGEL Ashley-Jones has worked with some of the best coaches in world rugby from Eddie Jones to Steve...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoHema breaks Sale hearts to seal Cambridge win
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge.............. 17 Sale........................... 14 IT’S now only one defeat in 12 matches for Cambridge after they edged out...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWomen make their mark at Cambridge as well
HQ heroines: Cambridge women’s team at Twickenahm in 2017 WOMEN’S rugby started to really blossom in the late 1980s. England played...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoUnderwood double savages the sorry Bears
By MATT MERRITT Bristol ..............14 Glouc-Hart ......36 GLOUCESTER-Hartpury hit the ground running in both halves to secure a comfortable win...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThe game is nothing without jeopardy
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Apips-and-core Australian with vast experience of top-end rugby on both sides of the Equator sends his season’s...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoHougaard: Tigers have Bok qualities
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Wasps v Leicester Sunday, Kick-off 3pm, The CBS Arena FRANCOIS Hougaard agrees playing Leicester is a bit...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 5 years agoWilliams lands try double as Bedwas go second
Championship & Div 1 round-up By STEFFAN THOMAS BEDWAS moved up to second in the Championship after a comprehensive 38-13 away...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoLeaders hold off spirited Tykes bid
By BEN CROPPER Leeds Tykes........... 13 Rosslyn Park.......... 19 LEADERS Rosslyn Park were given a fright as Leeds Tykes almost caused...
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Features
/ 5 years agoVarsity match was all important
CAMBRIDGE, Wales and Lions wing Rowe Harding –a future High Court judge – was a wonderfully acute and pithy observer of...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoSaracens look set to feast off the Sharks
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Saracens v DMP Sharks Sunday, Kick-off 2pm SARACENS head coach Alex Austerberry believes his team are entering...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWe need Wray back in black as soon as possible
CHRIS HEWETT PLENTY of words have been written about Jackson Wray in this corner of the paper but, in light of...
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Paul Rees
/ 5 years agoDiscipline is still a concern for me admits Borthwick
By PAUL REES Banned: Jasper Wiese LEICESTER’S rise to the top this season has coincided with a significant improvement in their...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 5 years agoBRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES
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National League One
/ 5 years agoGosling hat-trick downs Darlington
By MIKE AMOS Taunton Titans.....24 Darlington MP....... 14 CAPTAIN George Gosling scored a hat-trick of tries to lead Taunton Titans to...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSupermen aplenty sculpted at Stowe
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools GIVEN that the ethos of Stowe and its founding father JF...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCharlie Ewels: Ingredients for success are here at Bath – we just need the recipe
PAUL REES TALKS TO BATH CAPTAIN CHARLIE EWELS ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AT THE REC As Mike Ford reflected on Bath’s 2015...
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News Extra
/ 5 years agoToulon boss raps Etzebeth as club handicap
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON TOULON president Bernard Lemaitre has referred to Springbok enforcer Eben Etzebeth as a “handicap” to the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHastings was the star in school’s best XV
ONE of the great names of Stowe rugby is PRH Hastings – Peter Robin Hood – who after the war morphed...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoMarshall helps Quins edge home in a thriller
By STEFFAN THOMAS Cardiff ..................25 Carmarthen ........27 A TREMENDOUS individual performance from Steffan Marshall fired Carmarthen Quins to a significant victory...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoUK is ‘closing the divide with South African schools’ now
Schools roundup By BEN JAYCOCK MOUNT St Mary’s College head of rugby Dylan Campbell believes school rugby in the UK is...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoKnights go to Jersey bidding to keep pressure on
By BEN JAYCOCK Thriller: Hartpury on the attack against Nottingham THE Championship returns next Saturday with a full round of fixtures...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAlfie’s part in Ruddock resignation is revealed
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ashred of new evidence is shining a light on the most intriguing St...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTompkins is chasing his World Cup dream
By STEFFAN THOMAS NICK Tompkins insists Wales will see the benefit of his move back to Saracens as he targets his...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLiddell’s values honoured by SRU
PETER JACKSON ON A sharp New Year morning at his farm in the Borders, John Jeffrey switched off the engine of...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoMarcus and his giant mate settle a thriller
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Harlequins ........14pts Tries: Northmore 3, Esterhuizen 78 Conversions: Smith 4, 79 Exeter ................12pts Tries: Slade 32, Innard 65...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 5 years agoArrival of Lomu was seismic moment
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME The start of the new year always brings hope, and the hope...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSmith kicks ‘are no fluke’
QUINS senior coach Tabai Matson was delighted with the win but that won’t spare Quins a tough debrief at training this...
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