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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSlade penalty gives Exeter thrilling late derby win
Exeter............................................25 Tries: Tuima 9, Jenkins 33, Townsend 76 Conversions: Slade 10, 77 Penalties: Slade 61, 80+1 Gloucester...................................24 Tries: Clement 29, Thorley...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoSweeney’s PGP plan facing big obstacles
By NICK CAIN The Championship’s unanimous rejection of the RFU’s plans to turn it into a ‘Premiership 2’ franchise league is...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoMcKellar praise for humble Pollard
Leicester Tigers boss Dan McKellar hailed Handre Pollard after the coach’s first taste of a passionate East Midlands derby. The Australian...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBaxter: Focus on all the good stuff
By PAUL REES Rob Baxter believes that the 15 per cent drop in Premiership attendances from last season, revealed by The...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoDorking offering ‘crucial help’
By LUKE JARMYM Dorking chief Armand Roux says that while the Surrey club is fighting for an unprecedented promotion to National...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoUnderhill faces a fight for his place
By PAUL REES Back row is not one of England head coach Steve Borthwick’s problem positions in terms of competition for...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoVakatawa grateful to Lam for giving him a chance at Bears
By PAUL REES Virimi Vakatawa says he feels blessed to be playing rugby again after being told last year that a...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSale captain Curry enjoying return to the ‘hamster wheel’
By JON NEWCOMBE Now he is fit again and back on the “hamster wheel” of training, playing and recovering, everything in...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoLaunchbury happy to be back where it all started
By PAUL REES Joe Launchbury has returned to the club where his career started, and nearly ended, 14 years ago. He...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years ago2025 Lions will be available for the whole tour
All players selected for the 2025 British and Irish Lions to Australia will be available for the whole tour thanks to...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoCarreras on way to Bayonne
Argentina wing Mateo Carreras will leave Newcastle Falcons at the end of the season to join Top 14 side Bayonne. Carreras...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTime to have the same laws across the game
MANY thanks to Paul Rees for turning the spotlight onto the issue of tackle heights in the professional game, containing many...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe keep pressing self-destruct button
It is high time English rugby with its huge resources, in both player and financial terms, ceased pressing the wretched self-destruct...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Nick Fenton-Wells
The former Western Province, Stormers, Saracens, Bedford & Bristol back row, chooses the best XV he has played with or against......
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoRussell has the mastery to push Bath to the top
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Finn Russell is, with out a doubt, an ultra talented fly-half and the Scot...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoWorld Cup winner puts Tigers on top
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester .......................... 26pts Tries: van Wyk 56, Liebenberg 72 Conversions: Pollard 56, 72 Penalties: Pollard 2, 23, 25,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDowson bemoans lack of discipline
Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson said he was frustrated at the afternoon and bemoaned the poor discipline of is team....
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRuthless Saracens demolish Harlequins
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Harlequins ........................ 10pts Try: Esterhuizen 74 Conversion: Smith 74 Penalty: Smith 18 Saracens .......................... 38pts Tries: Gonzalez 19,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoFarrell heaps praise on his pack
Saracens recorded their most impressive win of the season despite the disruption of not one but two injuries in their warm...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLawrence shines on a night of spectacle
By TOM BRADSHAW Bath .....................................20pts Tries: Lawrence 16, Spencer 18 Conversions: Russell 17, 19 Penalties: Russell 12, 70 Bristol .................................19pts Tries:...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoI’m proud of the way our players fought, says coach Lam
Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam was far from dejected after seeing commitment and valour in his team’s performance in their...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoReed races away to steer Sale to the top
By LUKE JARMYN Sale .................................... 40pts Tries: Reed 10, 37; B Curry 28, R du Preez 31, S James 76, Roebuck...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoI saw a lot positives out there – Codling
Newcastle were left with plenty of positives despite their winless run stretching to a sixth Premiership outing. A measured head coach...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDavis keen to put on a show on derby day
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Exeter Chiefs v Gloucester Today. Kick-off 3pm, Sandy Park Aidon Davis has played in all three major...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSkivington: We are going to stay in the fight this time
By PAUL REES George Skivington was lost for words after Gloucester’s second half capitulation to Bath at Kingsholm and expects a...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoWelfare of rugby in England is at stake
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The Championship clubs are standing up to be counted by sticking an iron...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoThe Tank who is adding weight to Bath’s attack
Thomas du Toit may not have featured in as many headlines as Finn Russell, but the South African prop has been...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoWe can’t afford a weak Six Nations
There was a ray of sunshine for the Lions this week when their preparations for the 2025 tour of Australia were...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoLawrence delight as he goes back to Cardiff
Back row Alun Lawrence has rejoined Cardiff Rugby on a short-term contract. The 25-year-old came through the ranks at the Arms...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSmith: I want to join Alex in England team
By JON NEWCOMBE Fin Smith dreams of pairing up with Alex Mitchell for both club and country in the not too...
