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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoCardiff facing battle for prop Rae
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Cardiff are keen on signing Bath tighthead prop D’arcy Rae, below, but they are facing...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoRimmer’s top job after race storm
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER At the end of last week, Ralph Rimmer was appointed as an independent adviser by...
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Features
/ 3 years agoHelping to develop the best referees
Paul Rees talks to Chris White about the specialist programme which has trained some of the top refs in world rugby...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTime we got round to telling full story
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST "No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” So said J KRowling, who knows a thing or...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoFreedom of speech cuts both ways
If Steve Hansen did a million things right over the long stretch of a storied career as an All Black think-tanker,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoI love playing in ‘rugby city’, says Williams
By BEN JAYCOCK James Williams has enjoyed a breakthrough season in the top flight with Bristol Bears but is disappointed his...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoStewart steps up for Ireland squad
Ulster hooker Tom Stewart, who set the record for the most tries in a URC season with 16, is one of...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoNo Webb or Carre but plenty of talent
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND We have a summer of international rugby to look forward to before Wales get to...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoOne night in St Helens made us all feel good
SHANE WILLIAMS For all those ‘Doubting Thomases’ out there who keep thinking there is nothing good left in Welsh rugby then...
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Features
/ 3 years ago15 stars of a bonkers season
Paul Rees selects his team of the tournament from the Gallagher Premiership 2022/23 The most emotionally charged Premiership campaign finished as...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoShock for England as Georgia take it
England U20s tour to Georgia By BEN JAYCOCK Georgia...............40pts Tries: Tsirekidze 11, Khutsishvili 14, Tohamiashvili 38, Ohumburidze 49, Dvali 67, 74...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBracken strikes to give Mapletoft winning start
Georgia.............36 England............41 CHARLIE Bracken scored a 78th minute winner to hand new boss Mark Mapletoft a debut win over Georgia last...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoMcCaw tips Wales to cause carnage
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When it comes to talking about ‘carnage’ at the World Cup, nobody is more impeccably...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoKeyboard warriors target Carre case
The Welsh Rugby Union has been bombarded from all directions all year that it seems almost unfair to point out that...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoEddie is putting his mind to it
PETER JACKSON Australia scrum-half Nic White came up with an interesting observation on Eddie Jones finding room for three psychologists in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Allan Jacobsen: ‘Simple Minds? No, I put up posters of David Sole’
The former Scotland prop and all-time appearance record holder for Edinburgh When I was a boy growing up in the 80s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoStunning Munster are the best of the bunch
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points What with an epic Champions Cup final and a very...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoBastareaud deserves his cheering send-off, too
Sergio Parisse’s long farewell has taken centre stage recently but let’s hear it also for Mathieu Bastareaud who also took his...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoAfter 96 years, Kent get to wear a county crown again
Bill Beaumont County Cup Division One By BEN JAYCOCK Kent are seen as an ‘unfashionable county’ with zero of their clubs...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoLancashire woe as Smith’s last-gasp kick goes wide
KENT secured their first Bill Beaumont Men’s County Championship in 96 years with an incredible 39- 37 comeback win over Lancashire,...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoIreland on fire as Oxfordshire too strong for Essex ESS
By MO SHER Division Three Essex......................................................7 Oxfordshire....................................... 42 nBy THE defending champions showed their class in Ealing to eventually overpower a...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoDivision Two
Dorset & Wilts.37 Durham..............15 A BRUISING contest went the way of the men from the south, who combined brutal power, intricate...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoLancashire find it pays to talk
Gill Burns Cup By BEN JAYCOCK Before the County Cup season started, Lancashire women’s head coach Chris Hall encouraged his side...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWallace keeps Bucks at bay
Champions: Lancashire celebrate at Twickenham PICTURES: RFU LANCASHIRE secured the Gill Burns County Championship with a sublime display to beat Buckinghamshire...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Scarlets & Wales U20 scrum-half Archie Hughes
Archie Hughes is looking to show the Scarlets and the world what he can do at the U20s World Championship later...
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National League One
/ 3 years agoHarvey set for life on the other side
By RICHARD KITZINGER After 11 seasons with Taunton Titans, Brett Harvey has decided it’s time to enjoy the game from the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWilkins leaving Saints for France
NORTHAMPTON back rower Karl Wilkins has left to join French second-tier club US Montauban. The 27-year-old made 14 appearances over two...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoInterviews set for WRU chair
INTERVIEWS for a new independent chair are set to start after the WRU finalised a shortlist of candidates as part of...
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Features
/ 3 years agoSleeping giant that is struggling to wake up
Peter Jackson consults his stats book to see which teams are the best-supported in Europe’s big leagues Crowd pleasers: Leicester Tigers...
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National League 2W
/ 3 years agoLuctonians, Lions share spoils
THE BEST XV FROM THE 2022-23 SEASON Ben Jaycock canvassed the views of our National Two West reporters to compile The...
