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Guest columnists
/ 3 years agoHats off to NZ as they win sixth world crown
ROCKY CLARK ENGLAND WORLD CUP WINNER THE National Grid will surely have got a surge when hundreds of thousands of people...
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/ 3 years agoIs RFU getting value for money? Not from Eddie
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK EDDIE Jones has become a millionaire courtesy of the RFU, for doing what...
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/ 3 years agoTime to stop petty gamesmanship
NICK CAIN THE high-five cheerleading that breaks out every time a decision or penalty goes England’s way is a sure sign...
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/ 3 years agoGive some thought to Belize’s struggles
NICK CAIN AS a recession looms, the World Rugby mandarins who jetted to New Zealand in first or business class for...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoOne-sided games do no favours for anyone
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST DEVOTEES of the union game have spent decades laughing at the idea of the “other code” staging...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoFailing to select a kicker is a major sin
CHRIS HEWETT BACK in the day, rugby had its own version of the Seven Deadly Sins: biting, gouging, bag-snatching, head-stamping, shaving...
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/ 3 years agoHow Kevin kept 1991 pioneers on right track
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW KEVIN O’Brien grew up within walking distance of Cardiff docks, round the corner...
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/ 3 years agoSinfield shows he’s in a class of his own
PETER JACKSON THERE are an elite group of impressive men involved in English rugby and then there is Kevin Sinfield, the...
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/ 3 years agoNo surprise to see more trouble
PETER JACKSON ANOTHER match at the world’s biggest pub and another outbreak of crowd trouble, this one over a fight between...
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/ 3 years agoIrish referee Brace kept Itoje in line
PETER JACKSON MARO Itoje had a lot to say for himself during England’s non-performance against Argentina last Sunday. His verbosity extended...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoThe piano players weren’t in harmony
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Under pressure: Kyle Sinckler is being found out by the opposition and...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoUrios falling out of favour as Marti looks at options
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Under pressure: Bordeaux head coach Christophe Urios overseas training and, inset, Laurent Marti PICTURES: Getty Images A...
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/ 3 years agoOnce ABs get into the kill zone, they’re ruthless
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Unstoppable: Ardie Savea scores for New Zealand despite the attention of Wales’ Will Rowlands PICTURE:...
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/ 3 years agoEngland need to adopt no-nonsense approach
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK EDDIE Jones should pick the best England team he can in order to start...
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/ 3 years agoLooking to learn from tales of the unexpected
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK WHEN it comes to tales of the unexpected, Argentine rugby has few peers....
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/ 3 years agoPuccio’s tragic life -Puma who died in jail
NICK CAIN THERE is one story from Argentine rugby’s annals that is stranger and starker than any. It concerns Alejandro Puccio,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoClass act! Beware the ‘fame first’ approach
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST PICTURE the scene: we are in the final week of the 1997 Lions tour and the world...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIt’s time for Eagles to prove their worth
CHRIS HEWETT ANYONE puzzled by a strange squeaking sound drifting in on a soft breeze from Dubai should know the following:...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhen Ray set records back in the glory days
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ray Glastonbury spent most of his sporting life unaware that he belonged to...
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/ 3 years agoEngland’s awkward encounter
PETER JACKSON NO Greek team can have borne quite as many gifts to a World Cup as their Rugby League lads...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWhen the Munster haka stole the show
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER I’ve never been a huge fan of the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoOne more step in getting the team right for France
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME AT last we can put the woes of the rugby world behind...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoBayonne turning home into a fortress
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN HEADING into the three-week international break, two Top 14 teams in particular will be pretty happy with...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoEngland need more size in the back row
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK If we look at the depth of the international squads of top tier rugby...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime for ruthless focus and an iron discipline
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The 2022 autumn series is within touching distance, and with it comes a...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEngland facing toughest test yet
NICK CAIN England are the favourites to win the Women’s World Cup, but they will only be put to the acid...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhat was that again? Big Dave has trouble with his articulation
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
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND We are a year away from the men’s World Cup and Wayne Pivac is going...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoTime to invest in women’s game and get better next time
SHANE WILLIAMS If there was a degree of inevitability about Wales’ exit from the Women’s World Cup against host national New...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoOne final chance for AWJ to take out ABs
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Alun Wyn Jones will take his last scheduled crack at the All Blacks...
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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
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER There is rightly much focus on the 50th...
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Features
/ 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
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME They always say that hindsight is 20/20 vision, making it easy to...
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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
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The most critical element of any reorganisation of England’s professional club league structure...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoWaltzing Dempsey’s false step
NICK CAIN Crash ball: Jack Dempsey playing for Australia against Fiji at 2019 World Cup PICTURE : Getty Images The last...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy Ford mustn’t be forgotten by England
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The art of forgetting is as fundamental to rugby as the immeasurably finer art of goal-kicking in...
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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
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It's funny how sport and life often come...
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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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/ 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
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Of the three words in Arnauld Mela’s week-old job title ‘interim head coach’ at Top 14 side...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoTime to cut salary costs which are burying clubs
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK When Wasps went into self-administration some weeks ago, even from a distance you knew...
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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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