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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Stade Francais looking less and less likely to be ready for Top 14 season
The Paris-based club has reported COVID-19 positive players have developed lesions on their lungs
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoRookie Tigers given a bad mauling by Bath
By ROB WILDMAN Too easy: Tom de Glanville races in to score for Bath PICTURES: Getty Images BATH clinically swept aside...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoWe took our foot off pedal says Lam
DESPITE the bonus point win Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam wants his side to tidy up their act. “It was...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoHooper: Ruaridh showed his class
BATH boss Stuart Hooper was full of praise for England’s World Cup wing Ruaridh McConnochie. Watched by England head coach Eddie...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoNo room for ‘Razor’ in Gatland’s Lions set-up
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK SCOTT Robertson is the hottest young coaching talent not just in New Zealand,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoDay the towering red army tasted epic defeat
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSpeed up scrums and ping those who loiter
ANY sport that allows a non-event like the forming of a scrum to last for a minute and a half -...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoNewcastle now have a pack to rival the big boys
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Talent: James Blackett kicks a penalty against Barnard Castle last season...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSaints take advantage of Exiles ill discipline
By ROGER PANTING Race winner: Tom Collins celebrates scoring his chip and chase try for Northampton PICTURES: Getty Images AFTER an...
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Premiership
/ 5 years ago‘Race for top four will go to the wire’
NORTHAMPTON director of rugby Chris Boyd believes the race for the fourth Premiership playoff spot will be a tight one after...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoMasterclass by Farrell unhinges the Quins
By MIKE SINCLAIR Super sub: Paul Lasike breaks away to score for Quins OWENFarrell celebrated his 200th Saracens appearance by kicking...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoCrean heads the Sarries young bloods praised by McCall
Debut: Sam Crean MARK McCall had mixed feelings about the victory over Harlequins but the Saracens director of rugby was delighted...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoIt’s time for changes,Eddie
NICK CAIN STICKS HIS NECK OUT AND PICKS HIS ENGLAND TEAM FOR THE 2023 WORLD CUP Ben Spencer, , Joe Simmonds...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBlackett: Leadership is key in Wasps challenge
By GARY ZITZGERALD Debut delight: Alfie Barbeary celebrates with James Gaskell after scoring for Wasps PICTURES: Getty Images CONFIDENCE, belief and...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSolomons: That first 40 gives us hope
WARRIORS have suffered two losses since the restart, making it eight in a row overall, and Alan Solomons hopes his team...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoKiwis make our game look utterly pedestrian
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The Sale coach and former hooker Steve Diamond, honorary life member of the Front Row Union, thinks...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoPlayers must act as they see fit on racism
ANTHONY Watson was bang on the money in arguing that pre-match responses to the Black Lives Matter movement should be a...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoPlaying the system
THE rewriting of rugby language continues apace, with Bristol’s bench-warmers now cast as “system players”. Will Pat Lam’s seat in the...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoExeter’s power leaves the Sharks floundering
By NICK CAIN Powerhouse: Luke Cowan-Dickie celebrates after he beats three defenders from a tap-and-go to score PICTURES: Getty Images EXETER...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBaxter: Mighty Luke out on own
LUKE Cowan-Dickie’s individual wreckingball try which put the seal on Exeter’s victory earned a special salute from Exeter DoR Rob Baxter....
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoRadradra shows his class but work to do for Bristol
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Unstoppable: Ben Earl goes over for Bristol’s fifth try PICTURES: Getty Images BRISTOL, and in particular Semi Radradra,...
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoStop the nit-picking and depowering of the scrum, Dan Cole warns World Rugby
England and Leicester tighthead Dan Cole offers his views on the scrum after watching Super Rugby this summer
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoWilliams column: Scarlets and Ospreys to win amid fireworks
Shane Williams previews the return of the PRO14 and expectations for the four Welsh regions
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoBath’s Zach Mercer adds on 6lbs to muscle his way into England fold
Conditioning is key at No.8 for Eddie Jones, that's why Mercer has bulked up to compete with Vunipola and Curry
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoProbyn column: Overseas players are both cheaper and always on call
Jeff Probyn analyses Chris Boyd's claim that England's senior Men's team should have more English coaches and how its relative to...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoWill Hurrell targets Premiership return as skills coach
Jack Zorab finds out how the former Bristol Bears centre is progressing in his health after suffering a stroke that ended...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: Malins, Earl and Sinckler all handed first Bristol starts in Round 15
Catch the teams for Friday's Premiership clashes at AJ Bell Stadium, Kingsholm and Ricoh Arena
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Features
/ 5 years agoIs record-setting Test prop Owen Franks off the pace in northern hemisphere scrums?
The Northampton Saints loosehead and All Blacks centurion Franks is operating at a '3 out of 10' by his admission
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: Battered Dylan Hartley bitter ode to the dying of the light
Dylan Hartley's new book will detail the rigours of intense training under England head coach Eddie Jones
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Latest News
/ 5 years ago‘I know I can compete at Premiership level’ – Zac Guildford
Guildford's downfall has been well-documented, but he looks to the likes of Danny Cipriani and Kurtley Beale to know your past...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoCanterbury want no part in shortened National League season
The RFU plans to have National League rugby back in November but with much fewer than 30 games to be played
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoGuscott column: Neal Hatley has the know-how to make Bath contenders
Jeremy Guscott responds to Bath's promotion of Neal Hatley to head coach
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoHarlequins back row Jack Clifford forced to retire at 27
A cruel blow to the former England U20s captain who claimed 10 caps for the senior side
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years ago‘This is my make or break year’ says Christian Wade of Buffalo Bills roster hopes
Wade is listed as the fifth-choice running back at the team who reached the NFL play-offs last season
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoJackson column: Port Talbot wizardry fizzes on in Regan Grace
A hat-trick against Leeds Rhinos in SUper League has got everything talking about Regan Grace
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoPGB introduce player welfare measures for ‘most arduous playing schedule ever’
27 days will separate the end of the current season from 2020-21
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoSt Helens sensation Regan Grace could be Eddie’s new Billy Whizz
A hat-trick to marvel at has got everyone talking about the Port Talbot native being a possible code convert
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: England Sevens scrapping sounds alarm bell for World Sevens Series
Brendan Gallagher believes the England Sevens programme did everyything for player development, but nothing for silverware on the Sevens circuit
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoBen Earl and Max Malins frozen out of Saracens WhatsApp group while at Bristol
Earl and Malins are both on loan at the Premiership challengers
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoDragons boss Dean Ryan won’t give up the ghost on Wasps’ Will Rowlands
A player the Dragons and WRU appear very keen on bringing to the PRO14
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 5 years agoTullow Tank backs Stuart Lancaster for Lions coaching gig in 2021
Sean O'Brien speaks of his first-hand experience of working with Stuart Lancaster at Leinster
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoEngland Sevens flyer Dan Norton becomes latest London Irish signing
The World Sevens Series tries record-holder has been on the circuit for the past 12 years
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoJohn Inverdale and RFU director comment on plans to further regionalise grassroots
A vote will be held on October 2 to determine whether clubs reduce schedule demand in National League One and below
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoImanol goes through pain barrier in Basque country
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoBurke’s law has turned Epsom into champions
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Flyer: Kitan Ojo in action against Wellington Inset, below: Paul Burke...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoLate penalty try keeps Bears on the title trail
By MIKE SINCLAIR Last gasp: Bristol celebrate their penalty try in the dying minutes PICTURES:Getty Images On the run: Ben Earl...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoPenalty count is worry for Lam
SCOTLAND international Sean Maitland described playing in an empty stadium as “weird”. The Saracens full-back admitted: “It’s going to take a...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoNew breakdown focus will keep the jackals on straight and narrow
NICK CAIN NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE breakdown is back at the top of the refereeing agenda...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBattered Hartley’s bitter ode to dying of the light
DYLAN Hartley might have preferred something more poetic when he was axed as England captain by Eddie Jones. Something like the...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoWarriors brushed aside after Nanai’s early red
■ By ROGER PANTING MELANI Nanai’s red card ruined Jonny May’s comeback and any chance Worcester had of returning from lockdown...
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