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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSeeing the appeal in land of the rising sums
CHRIS HEWETT It seems there are two ways of ending up in Japan unexpectedly. The first involves taking a flight from...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoItalian fire is starting to burn brightly
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I used to love playing against Italy. Nine tries in nine games! But I also...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoDays when being sent off was not common
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW What happened in Paris last Sunday added an ironic postscript to a time...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBattle cry will always remind us of ‘Briano’
PETER JACKSON THE massed regiments of the Red Army will never forget Brian O’Brien. They will ensure he is remembered across...
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Features
/ 3 years agoMurrayfield showdown holds key
Paul Rees says the clash between Scotland and Ireland will decide the destiny of this year's Six Nations title Scotland against...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoInsult to see Borthwick give away England caps
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME What a weekend of rugby we had last week with two fascinating...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoSofa, so good for the TV audience
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The impending World Cup and being home to the second-best international side on the planet are having...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoPlenty of effort but not much speed or sizzle
PAUL REES COMMENT A week that started with Wales’s players threatening to go on strike because of the way they were...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoPointless! Wales have nothing to show in this bleakest of winters
PETER JACKSON Despite issuing an avalanche of apologies over scandals on and off the pitch, Welsh rugby’s besieged management were left...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoIt’s do-or-die in Italy so we must pull together
SHANE WILLIAMS I know exactly how the Welsh players are feeling at the moment because I’ve been there. I came back...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoFrench stars can produce something from nothing
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK France lost to the number one ranked side in the world in Dublin a...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoBorthwick right to ask for eligibility changes
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Steve Borthwick has had the guts, and the gumption, to state that the...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoFrench will want all angles covered
NICK CAIN The French will be twitchy about any repeat against Scotland in Paris today of the defective TMO process which...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSale’s human bowling ball is a very lucky man
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Act in haste, repent at leisure. We’ve all heard the line a thousand times, but you can’t...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSongs that are out of tune with the modern world
Missing it yet? You must be: the anti-woke warriors tell us you are, so no further proof is required. When it...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoSouthern invasion gives no comfort
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When the rest of Welsh rugby kept falling to its knees before their...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoEven acting CEO Walker must wonder how it all came to this
Another week of crisis management brought another damning indictment of the Welsh Rugby Union’s policy to any bone of contention: ‘Say...
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Features
/ 3 years agoGrassroots rugby now in a fight for its future
Paul Rees says both the RFU and WRU are struggling to make the numbers add up and face some hard choices...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoThe game is going back, not forward
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME How things change when money is the main target for doing something....
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoMichalak takes up Racing 92 challenge
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Racing 92 this week confirmed that Freddie Michalak will join the staff as attack coach on a...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoPositives begin to add up for Borthwick
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Assuming that the Wales v England game in Cardiff on Saturday is played despite...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEaling poised to break up cartel
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARE Ealing Trailfinders finally about to break the grip of an RFU-backed Premiership...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoWasps likely to be caught in a tangled web
NICK CAIN The Atlas Group’s purchase of Worcester Warriors from administrators Begbies Traynor, which includes the Sixways stadium, the site, and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTime to change rules about the driving maul
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST As a rule of thumb, rugby folk do not pick an intellectual fight with the great New...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoKing of the team sports? Not from where I’m sitting
CHRIS HEWETT Later this year, when the French go tete-a-tete with the All Blacks in the opening fixture of the glitziest...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoWRU now the laughing stock of world rugby
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Oh, what a week that was! I felt the pain along with every other Welsh...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoBiggar has no one to blame but himself
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Wales only opted to man the picket lines outside Murrayfield instead of...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoIreland show just how farWales have to go
PETER JACKSON • A Ferrari is said to go from a standstill to 50mph in 2.9 seconds. The one seen at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhen the boys of ’68 were set to strike
PETER JACKSON Only two world wars have interrupted the annual England-Wales fixture since its inception on Mr Richardson’s Field in the...
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Features
/ 3 years agoBattle lines drawn up in sideshow showdown
Paul Rees sees two international coaches who are facing very different challenges in Cardiff Wales's biennial Six Nations encounter with England...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoBorthwick must build up England’s armoury
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I have to say last weekend’s Six Nations games disappointed me as...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoReturning to normal seems a long way off
JEFF PROBYN IT seems that the Wasps and Worcester saga continues. Wasps reached the demands the RFU have asked for to...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoTime is running out for Castres
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Pierre-Yves Revol, president of Top 14 strugglers Castres, was in no mood to mince his words this...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoIreland’s passion play in classic confrontation
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Touts were reportedly asking €1,000 for a ticket outside the Aviva yesterday morning ahead of kick off and frankly,...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoEngland need to find some collective drive
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE pressure is on England because Italy started the Six Nations very competitively against...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoTime for real honesty within Welsh set-up
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Returning Wales coach Warren Gatland really knows now the size of the job on his...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoUrgent problems that RFU needs to address
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK England go into the second round of this Six Nations as the only...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoBorthwick right to give Farrell chance at 10
NICK CAIN Steve Borthwick is paid to make tough calls, and credit to him for grasping the Marcus Smith-Owen Farrell nettle...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoParisse, a tower of strength at No.8
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It stank to high heaven at the time, as sins against sporting justice always do, and the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy Coles deserves place at top table
CHRIS HEWETT ON the subject of retirements, the All Blacks hooker Dane Coles says he will call it quits after this...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoItaly benefit from the brotherhood
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER I have a half-baked theory that the comparative...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoGone too soon, a young man destined to be England’s No 1
RUGBY MATTERS Can it really be 20 years since young Harlequins and England scrum-half Nick Duncombe passed away – Friday, February...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoCharlie’s move to roll back the years
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Charlie Faulkner will be remembered for his many achievements; from judo black belt...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoPilgrimage to Murrayfield which is still going after 60 years
PETER JACKSON At six o’clock last Wednesday morning a bus pulled away from the Miners Arms out into Lewis Street on...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoStarting choices up front a surprise
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME HOPE and expectation, two words that have the same goal which implies...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoHot seats which are always on the line
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Who'd be a high-level coach? They’re loved and hated, praised and criticised in equal measure on a...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoPlenty of effort but too much confusion
PAUL REES COMMENT The result may have been familiar, New England in another fall, but the approach hinted at sunnier days....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoA wonder try, one of the best ever seen in Calcutta Cup history
BRENDAN GALLAGHER And hey presto, Scotland will find themselves ranked five in the world on Monday morning when the World Rugby...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoWin at Murrayfield or it will be a long campaign
SHANE WILLIAMS Warren Gatland and his coaching team know they can fix the problems they saw in the performance and the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoFor France, the battle will start in Dublin
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It would be an amazing feat if France can do back-to-back Grand Slams, or...
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