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Features
/ 4 years agoWOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS
Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players LAURA PERRIN THIS WEEK... SALE SHARKS CENTRE Laura Perrin started...
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English Championship
/ 4 years agoHartpury resilience shuts door on Cov
By ANDREW BEACHAM Hartpury ............18pts Tries: S Smith 40, Bailey 50 Conversions: Williams 51 Penalties: Williams 22, 35 Coventry ..............7pts Tries:...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoBreakdown battle will be box office
PAUL REES talks to Alex Mitchell and coach Matt Ferguson about Saints’ strong start to the season PREVIEW... Wasps v Northampton...
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National League One
/ 4 years agoMoseley battle back in fine style after Juddians’ fast start
By PAUL SMITH B Moseley ..............34 Tonbridge J ........... 21 LED by superb displays from Andy Bulumakau and Tom Benjamin, Birmingham...
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Features
/ 4 years agoHard to replicate those post-war halcyon days
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools RUGBY success at Christ’s Hospital School over the decades has been...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoFish shows his quality to deny Pontypridd
Cardiff......................29 Pontypridd.............. 15 CARDIFF claimed victory over regional rivals Pontypridd on Friday night, but the margin wasn’t as big as expected...
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National League 2N
/ 4 years agoCarleton shines to see off Wharfedale
By ELLIOT BURROW Fylde ........................48 Wharfedale ............ 18 TOM CARLETON helped himself to a hattrick as Fylde stayed unbeaten at home....
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Features
/ 4 years agoEngland women call up 11 debutants
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON Impressed: Middleton SIMON Middleton has included 11 uncapped players in his 40-woman England squad for the...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoShields tells his Wasps to be ready for old boss Boyd’s trickery
By JON NEWCOMBE Out to cause havoc: Brad Shields WASPS captain Brad Shields is anticipating a meeting of minds when his...
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National League One
/ 4 years agoCaldy claim draw in dramatic climax
By JOHN LYON Caldy.........................27 Chinnor.....................27 CHINNOR and Caldy traded late penalties as a superb match ended in a thrilling draw. The...
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Features
/ 4 years agoHill’s rigid stance led to ‘great schism’
POSSIBLY the most notable Old Blue is George Rowland Hill, an influential rugby administrator in the game’s formative years and the...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoBillingham celebrates 21st with a hat-trick
Championship Cup round-up By ROB COLE AARON Billingham marked his 21st birthday with a hat-trick of tries as Bedwas put Tata...
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National League 2N
/ 4 years agoSecond-half blitz spurs Sedgley on
By CHRIS NUNN Blaydon ................... 16 Sedgley Park ........66 BLAYDON started well with an early Nathan Horsfall penalty, but it wasn’t...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoMike Brown looks at a new career as an agent
MIKE Brown has started to prepare for life after rugby by joining a player management division for the private platform Premier...
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National League One
/ 4 years agoWill power earns Park first triumph
By DAVID JONES Darlington MP........33 Bishop’s S’ford......22 DARLINGTON Mowden Park finally notched their opening win of the season at home to...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoSmith’s try double is a clincher for Guernsey
By MATTHEW BALDWIN Barnes............... 19 Guernsey..........26 TWO tries from Ethan Smith set the stage for Guernsey as they squeezed past Barnes...
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National League 2N
/ 4 years agoTynedale left to rue missed penalties
By DES HICKIE Chester .............32 Tynedale ......... 31 THIS match was tight, as the score suggests. It finished with four tries...
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James Harrington
/ 4 years agoJapan cash could force marquee men u-turn
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Fears over the future contracts of France’s internationals have raised the spectre of a marquee player system...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoJP du Preez could quit Sale Sharks for Glasgow Warriors
SALE Sharks have four players called Du Preez on their books but could have one fewer from the start of next...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoSam steals win in frantic finale
By NICK HALLETT Old Albanian........... 21 Rochford H..............22 A LAST-GASP penalty from Sam Cappaert snatched victory for Rochford Hundred in a...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAlun Wyn stays shtum on private matters
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Say Nothing is an awardwinning book on ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, its...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoSkilful Dino Lamb is Harlequins back in a forward’s body
DINO Lamb could have been doing a Louis Lynagh and running in tries for Harlequins instead of putting in a shift...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoHeads try puts seal on victory
By BOB COLLINS Barnstaple.............. 10 Canterbury..............22 CANTERBURY notched their second win of the season as they got the better of fellow...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoScott’s renaissance is worthy of a Test recall
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WALES are set to confirm their squad for a humdinger of an autumn series this...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 4 years agoGreggains sparks Newport fightback against Merthyr
Newport...................27 Merthyr.................... 16 NEWPORT celebrated their first game at Spytty Park with a comeback victory over Premiership big spenders, Merthyr. In...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAnayi finds TV figures after all
PETER JACKSON THREE years ago PRO12 rugby chose to disconnect a multitude of viewers by wiping their matches off live BBC...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoNathan Earle eyes England lift-off at Falcons
NATHAN Earle is hoping his move to Newcastle will put him back into England contention after his time at Harlequins was...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoVowles is hat-trick hero for Hinckley
By CHRIS CAMPBELL Hinckley...........66 Westcliff............ 5 RORY Vowles bagged a hat-trick as Hinckley ran in ten tries to register their first...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoReaders complete Rugby XV name game
THANKS to all those prompted by the Max Wiltshire story last week, the assembly of a Place Name XV can now...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoInjury-hit Marcus Watson playing for his future at Wasps
MARCUS Watson aims to start persuading Wasps he deserves a new contract by putting Northampton to the sword today. Constant setbacks...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoEight tries see Reds put Clifton to sword
By BILL HOOPER Redruth............. 49pts Clifton................. 12pts Why you wear a gumshield: Jack Oulton swallow dives over for a Redruth try...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 4 years agoExodus of players is real threat for game
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME A few weeks ago this paper had an interview with Peter Winterbottom,...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoCare: Let Alex Dombrandt show just how great he is
DANNY Care has urged Eddie Jones to not just pick Alex Dombrandt but stick with him throughout the entire Autumn campaign....
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoHawks pack power past a battling Esher
By NICK PITSON Henley...................... 31 Esher......................... 21 HENLEY Hawks eased to a bonus-point victory over Esher at Dry Leas. The foundation...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoWomen’s World Cup countdown: Alphonsi hired to inspire
By STELLA MILLS ONE year out from the Women’s World Cup, headline sponsor Mastercard have named England hero Maggie Alphonsi as...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoExeter 42-5 Worcester: Sam Simmonds comes roaring back to fire up Chiefs
THE Lions returned and Sam Simmonds burst out of the cage to resume where he left off last season. The Premiership’s...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoRaiders edge it with McClean try
By IAN HADDRELL Dings Crusaders ..33 Worthing .................35 LEADERS Worthing kept up their excellent start to the season with a narrow...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoRugby Matters: Pro game in this country owes Nigel Wray a huge debt
I’ve always maintained that the long lens of rugby history will view Nigel Wray as a giant amongst pygmies and see...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoGloucester 33-32 Sale: Sharks late bite back just fails to prove fatal
WITH the last kick of the match, Sale replacement Tom Curtis missed a touchline conversion as his side just failed to...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoSuddenly, it’s home comforts for all
Midlands Premier IT WAS a clean sweep of victories for home teams in the Midlands Premier. The intriguing fixture of the...
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National League 2E
/ 4 years agoSeven heaven as Lions topple Bury
By BRIAN DAVIES Leicester L .............49 Bury St Eds .............26 LEICESTER Lions ran in seven tries as they brushed aside Bury...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 4 years agoHarlequins 5-24 Bristol: Bristol dump Quins again to stay top of shop
BRISTOL condemned reigning champions Harlequins to a secondsuccessive defeat on home soil and affirmed their status as league leaders. The Bears...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years agoLiam Williams joins Wales list of absent Lions stars
WALES have ruled Liam Williams out of the All Blacks’ match on October 30 – their eighth Lion to miss the...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoRossendale pile on the pressure
Northern Premier ROSSENDALE started where they left off after their previous abandoned encounter with a 13-41 win away at Kirkby Lonsdale,...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoDash for cash must not damage rugby’s ethos | Nick Cain
THE £32m takeover of Saracens by a polyglot international consortium comes with a health warning as the club’s erstwhile banker and...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 4 years agoLaura clinches it for Worcester on her return
By STEWART MCCULLOUGH Loughborough 14 Worcester ......18 WORCESTER showed incredible determination to record a hard-fought victory. Laura Keates, on her return...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoExeter beat Brixham to stay on top
South West Premier EXETER University continue to sit at the summit of the South West Premier with a 27-20 win against...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoFord’s not as sharp as Smith but he’s still class
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK GEORGE Ford is a player I’ve always admired, and I would call him a...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoDon’t let new cup trash great Euro comp
NICK CAIN THE capacity of this game to devalue its own gold standard tournaments is illustrated by the idea that the...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 4 years agoSale get off the mark in battle of the Sharks
By CARL LEE DMP Sharks ......0 Sale Sharks ....31 SALE Sharks women recorded their opening win of the Allianz Premier 15s...
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