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Latest News
/ 2 years agoDallaglio: Get rid of this siege mentality
By GARY FITZGERALD England's failing stars have been ordered to cut out the “siege mentality” and begin “owning their performances”. World...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoHalliday welcomes new-look Prem Cup
By NICK CAIN The latest incarnation of the Premiership Cup, and the most positive because it includes Championship clubs competing against...
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Women's International
/ 2 years agoJoyce keeps her Olympic dream alive
By ROB COLE Jazz Joyce doesn’t believe taking up a full-time contract with the Welsh Rugby Union will jeopardise her dream...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDowson: Things are going to get better
By PAUL REES Premiership clubs get their season underway this weekend with Northampton’s director of rugby Phil Dowson looking confident that...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoVan Rensburg ready to rumble for Bristol
By PAUL REES When Benhard Janse van Rensburg became available after London Irish folded in June, Pat Lam wasted no time...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWillis aiming to be the local villain
By ADAM HATHAWAY Jack Willis headed back to France on Thursday with England aiming to go from local hero to villain...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWarburton: Ball in play time ‘crucial’ in France
By BEN JAYCOCK Sam Warburton believes fitness and management of ball in play time could be the difference in this World...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoFlying Fijians ready to take on the world
By NICK POWELL Fiji winger Jiuta Wainiqolo says his side are not feeling any pressure as they prepare for their critical...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoLondon Irish trio reunite in Brisbane
Former London Irish boss Les Kiss is getting the band back together in Brisbane after taking two of the Exiles’ coaching...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSuitors line up for Sarries star Isiekwe
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England international Nick Isiekwe is being lined up by a trio of clubs interested in...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoNeild on road to Scotland
Cover: Cam Neild Former Sale and Worcester flanker Cameron Neild is moving back to Scotland on a short-term deal at Edinburgh....
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSaints trial for Moore
Back row Izzy Moore, who has been looking for a new club since the demise of London Irish, has joined Northampton...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoBurgess makes Bath switch
Former agent and England team manager Rob Burgess, who was head of recruitment at the Dragons, is leaving to take up...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoTeague goes back to his roots
Former England attack coach Rory Teague has become head coach at his local club, Tewkesbury, who are playing in the Counties...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Dave Tiueti
The former Tonga, Neath, Ospreys & Bristol centre chooses the Best XV he has played with or against 1. Duncan Jones...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoBorthwick seems set on rewarding failure
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK AS England limped into Le Touquet after being beaten by Fiji, the preparations...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoMy England team to challenge Argentina
The wishful thinking that if England beat Argentina it will be a cakewalk from Pool D into the knock-out stages took...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoShould we care about the world rankings?
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED THE way Clive Woodward saw it back in 2003, the International Rugby Board’s new-fangled ranking system was...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoDiamonds on the soles of his shoes
Siya Kolisi? What a man. If rugby is built on the stories it tells about its finest practitioners – the fables...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPlay flankers in the back three
IF England persist in not using our wingers and fullback to attack the opposition and want to continue playing bland, boring,...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWorld Rugby must tackle injury crisis
THE red card fiasco that has seen England’s waywardly competitive Owen Farrell rightly banned but unjustly demonised by keyboard warriors provides...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe should rejoice in Fiji victory
WHAT is it that makes losing to Fiji for the first time in England’s rugby history such a dark day? Do...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoMy blueprint for the future
SOMETIMES the only logical and sensible thing to do is to panic. England’s performance against Fiji was the worst I have...
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Features
/ 2 years agoI was rescued by trip to Sri Lanka
Jon Newcombe talks to Bath flanker Chris Cloete on how he saved his rugby career ROCKED by a badly broken leg,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoMixed reviews on opening nights…
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER NOT long now ... but first comes the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTricky to get the message
So apparently we will be watching something called the Investec Champions Cup this season – all mention of Europe now seems...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPre-season
Northampton... 12 Barbarians...... 48 A YOUTHFUL Northampton side succumbed to a Barbarians squad packed with internationals at Franklin’s Gardens. Tom Wright...
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Premiership
/ 2 years ago22 teams raring to go in new-look Cup
By BEN JAYCOCK THE Premiership Cup returns on Friday in the new-look format involving Championship clubs for the first time. Exeter...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPremiership Cup fixtures
The semi-finals will be held on the weekend of February 16-18 and the final on the weekend of March 15-17 ......
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Duncan Hodge: ‘It was great to score all 19 points v England’
The former Scotland, Edinburgh, Leeds and Watsonians fly-half talks about his life in the game I WAS a mad-keen cricketer growing...
