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Chris Hewett
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CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It is a well-known fact in literary circles that TS Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, first...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoDon’t lose rugby in some tiny corner of cyberspace
CHRIS HEWETT Jeff Bezos is some piece of work. One of a tiny handful of people who can legitimately argue that...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoIf players follow Tipuric’s lead, Wales will be fine
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoTime to invest in women’s game and get better next time
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoOne final chance for AWJ to take out ABs
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoCasualty list which just keeps growing and growing
PETER JACKSON The autumn series kicks with almost 40 missing in action, the majority of whom have been declared unfit for...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoA player’s parents should be the limit
PETER JACKSON Jack Dempsey’s switch of allegiance from Australia to Scotland opens the way for a whole host of international players...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoSharing delight of beating All Blacks
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/ 3 years agoPrepare for a changing of the guard
The autumn international window is meant to cover three weekends but this year it is being played over five as countries...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoSweeney is left carrying the can
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoThe going now gets tough for Toulouse
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN IT’S very much a case of so far, so good for Top 14 leaders Toulouse, who headed...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoNot in the squad but Slade is still my 13
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK There have been some striking statements made by Eddie Jones going into the Autumn...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoDitch the skulduggery and dismantle the cartel
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoWaltzing Dempsey’s false step
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy Ford mustn’t be forgotten by England
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhich side will you back in this inquisition?
CHRIS HEWETT The two organisations at the heart of what is left of the professional club structure in England – the Rugby...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoNot sure if old guard will make World Cup
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WAYNE Pivac named his Wales squad to take on New Zealand, Argentina, Georgia and Australia...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoFlexibility key if we want to keep playing
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoA day in history which will never be repeated
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A dwindling band of noble old-age pensioners will be reunited next week for...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWasps play their part and then disappear
PETER JACKSON THE numbers - 70, 71, 76, 80, 85 - could be misconstrued as a rising tide of support for...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoWhy central contracts are unlikely to be the answer
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WELL I suppose it was just a matter of time before another...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoDavidson’s departure puts Mela on the spot
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoTime to cut salary costs which are burying clubs
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoSpreading sense of anger and dislocation
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK It was always odds-on that Lawrence Dallaglio’s recent calls for Premiership clubs to...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoPumas will have inside track on England
NICK CAIN Argentina will know the England players they face at Twickenham three weeks from now better than any of the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoHow one coach cut through the silence
Saracens coach Joe Shaw back in his playing days at Newcastle in 2003 CHRIS HEWETT English club rugby at the top...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy it’s time to prioritise the players
CHRIS HEWETT SO what does Jack Willis do now? And what control can Eddie Jones, the England coach, and his employers...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoTime for Pivac to put faith in Keelan
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND This week Wayne Pivac will name his squad to take on New Zealand, Argentina, Georgia,...
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Guest columnists
/ 3 years agoHappy it’s Hunter who will take on my baton
ROCKY CLARK WORLD CUP WINNER Captain marvel: Sarah Hunter Influential: Marlie Packer What an encounter! It promised to be special and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe man who kept Wasps on the road
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Malcolm Sinclair holds the distinction of being Wasps‘ first full-time professional, an appointment...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCardiff’s faithful still being kept in the dark
PETER JACKSON YET another Chancellor of the Exchequer has been and gone and still not a peep from Cardiff Rugby Club...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoBroken and broke: Why it’s time to change the way top club rugby is run
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoStaying in the game is what matters most
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoAll past presidents deserve respect
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoLancaster bombs out Giroud at Racing 92
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoEngland need to prove worth against All Blacks
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoJones should focus on effective rugby
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE conundrum facing England, and especially head coach Eddie Jones, is whether the...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoRFU’s Past Presidents deserve respect
Having spent all its financial reserves, the RFU administration is cutting away like Sweeney Todd, and the latest to feel the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoOne-sided victories no good for anyone
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST THE basic mix of marketing ingredients for sporting World Cups is one part exaggeration to three parts...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSorry, Rob, but rugby can’t afford higher cap
CHRIS HEWETT It’s not easy to argue with a man like Rob Baxter, the honest-to-goodness, soil-under-the-fingernails West Countryman whose work with...
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Guest columnists
/ 3 years agoEngland must step it up for Le Crunch
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoHow the spirit of adventure is taking over
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoCardiff are crying out for more leadership
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoStars of the Seventies kept us all informed
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhy are we still waiting for verdicts?
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThompson’s terrible tale
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoRed Roses can give us all something to smile about
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoLabit and Ghezal set to link up in Paris
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoWe need a sustainable model to save the game
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoAmnesia in rugby’s corridors of power
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Then there were 12. Less than a month into the new season, the...
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