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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPooler’s perfect start has Ystrad reeling
Welsh Championship round-up By CARL FIELD THE Pontypool juggernaut rolls on. Leighton Jones’ defending champions powered to a sixth bonus-point win...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoJosh is hunting down Shane’s try record
Alex Bywater talks to Wales wing Josh Adams who has scored five World Cup tries so far JOSH Adams never thought...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoEngland defence can win World Cup says Farr-Jones
PETER JACKSON VERDICT Glory day: Nick Farr-Jones lifts the World Cup in 1991 The middle-aged man occupying seat 91 in Row...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWe showed fight roars triumphant Ackermann
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL JOHAN Ackermann and his players celebrated like wild men after a dramatic finale saw Gloucester open their Premiership...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoAlvarez leads the charge to leave Knights shellshocked
By GUY WILLIAMS ANoutstanding individual performance by Pirates’ fly-half Javier Alvarez, finishing with 24 points, ensured his team continued their excellent...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPonty get early drop on butter-fingers Steelmen
By ROB COLE Premiership PONTYPRIDD were singing in the rain at Sardis Road as they picked up a much-needed bonus-point win...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoHuget: My sloppiness killed the mood in Six Nations
YOANN Huget admits the pain of his Six Nations horror show against Wales still hurts as he plans to make amends...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoEddie will need all his cunning to beat these!
From ADAM HATAHAWAY AS WARNINGS to England and the rest of the world this was as emphatic as it gets from...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoNo targets for us say Gloucester, just be best
Boss: Johan Ackermann VICTORIOUS Gloucester boss Johan Ackermann refused to set any targets for the season after his men saw off...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoJob done as Ward’s new boys get 50 up
By NEALE HARVEY AMPTHILL skipper Dave Ward hailed a terrific all-round display as the newcomers hit shell-shocked Carnegie for eight. The...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoFestival of tries as Llanelli grab first point
By CHRIS HUGHES LLANELLI picked up their first point of the season, and only a miraculous tackle on Eray Wilson as...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWarburton red card still haunts me today
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND THERE is a picture of me after our 2011 World Cup semi-final defeat by France....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWe’ve got even more to come – Smith
NEW ZEALAND scrumhalf Aaron Smith claimed the world champions had more in the tank ahead of next week’s showdown with England....
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoDiamond: We won’t let playoff place slip by again
NEWS EXTRA By GARY FITZGERALD STEVE Diamond is convinced Sale have the player power to mount a serious push for the...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoKessell’s injury-time snipe kills off Blues
By DAVID LAWRENCE COVENTRY claimed maximum points from this nerve-jangling clash thanks to a try in the eighth minute of added...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoIronmen can’t wait for coach McIntosh to return
By LUKE FOX ABERAVON made it backto- back wins at The Wern over Merthyr. Despite being hit by a double blow...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoRaise a glass to stickler Gardner
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S that time again. Who deserves a jouer de rugby gallant t-shirt this week for their class...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoAll Blacks were good but Irish looked spent
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT If ever you want a text book example of a team peaking 12 months too early, Ireland and...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWeir lands the points in a tragedy of errors
By ROGER PANTING THIS was a dreadful advert for Premiership rugby but Worcester won’t care a jot as they made it...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoMcConnell marshals his big men to a gutsy victory
By LUKE JARMYN VERY gritty was Neil Fowkes’ succinct description of Nottingham’s determined victory over London Scottish on a wet evening...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTrowbridge’s treble has the Swans flying
By JOE BRIGLY A HAT-TRICK of tries by Nathan Trowbridge condemned Newport to defeat. It was a near-perfect start for the...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoEddie got ‘bullet train’ game back on track
The term ‘bullet train rugby’ – almost too fast for the eye, direct, unstoppable – beautifully describes Japanese rugby at present....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoYou are all my aces Naomi tells Blossoms
JAPAN’S players received a good luck message from local tennis star Naomi Osaka, right, ahead of today’s quarter-final against South Africa....
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWe were nervous admits Solomons
WORCESTER’S director of rugby Alan Solomons was relieved to claim a tense game. He said: “If you start the Premiership with...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoStudents given a physical education
By SAM JACKSON NEWCASTLE made it two wins from two in the league with a dominant display over Hartpury that saw...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDrovers show no mercy as Ravens grounded
By BEN SIMPSON BRIDGENDwere no match for Llandovery as they conceded six tries. Owen Howe marked his 50th appearance for the...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoStortford fightback leaves I’s on a low
By MALLY KNOWLES TWOpoints gained or three points lost for Hull Ionians in this enthralling contest? Ionians held a 26-8 lead...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoLavender & Blacks as sharp as a knife again
By WYN TINGLEY FINLAY Sharp scored twice to help Clifton continue their imperious start to the season and inflict further misery...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoLeitch is new hero for man in sumo suit
Nick Cain looks at the impact Japan’s World Cup giant-killing is having on the whole country THE day after Japan had...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoLet’s hear it for World Cup’s little big men
CAIN OPINION FROM JAPAN EVERY WEEK THE legacy of Gerald Davies and Shane Williams, the sensationally talented Wales and Lions wingers,...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoFully-fit hooker Taylor aims to show what Wasps and England have been missing
By NEALE HARVEY FORMER All Blacks hitman Malakai Fekitoa is handed his Premiership debut as Wasps take on newly-promoted London Irish...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBlue & Blacks battle hard to stay perfect
By GUTO DAVIES CARDIFF made it four wins from four with this bonus-point win. It was Carmarthen, however, who struck first,...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoBacon looks crisp as Titans prevail
By JACK JOHNSON ROTHERHAM Titans ended a two-match losing run as a heroic defensive effort earned victory at Chinnor. The visitors...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoFive-star S&E ease to victory
By JACK FRANCKLIN SUTTON & EPSOM secured a hard-fought away victory against struggling Barnes to clinch their second victory of the...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWe’re a very different team from four years ago warns Pollard
By ADAM HATHAWAY History men: Japan beat South Africa in Brighton in 2015 SOUTH African fly-half Handre Pollard has refused to...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoIt’s about time the law makers got hookers to toe the line
NICK READ HIS EXPERT THE Not-Straight scourge is spreading. Having already devalued the scrum as a contest by allowing scrum-halves to...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoSlimline Hughes has the Bears roaring in
By ROGER PANTING Causing havoc: Nathan Hughes celebrates scoring Bristol’s second try with Mat Protheroe PICTURES: Getty Images In front: Zach...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDrama as Rochford’s run comes to end
London & South East Premier IN the battle of the top two at Barnham Road, it was ding-dong right to the...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoFelinfoel keeping up the pressure in West
Welsh Division One round-up By CARL FIELD IT’S as you were at the top of West with the top two both...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoPack power steers five-star Albion
By PADDY MARSH INJURY-HIT Plymouth Albion produced their best display of the season to record a five-try victory over Sale FC,...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoDevon proves a constant threat
By JOHN WHITE DEVON Constant scored twice as Leicester Lions withstood a late Dings fight-back to secure a bonus-point victory at...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSquad lists all for 12 Premiership teams 2019-20
Take a look at the forwards, backs, coaches and captains which will make for another exciting season of Premiership rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership kick off! Sale Sharks must show more bite
It's time for Steve Diamond to aim for a top four finish, writes Brendan Gallagher
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Make Pacific Islands rugby’s West Indies
The West Indies cricket team can be selected from 15 Caribbean island nations. Brendan Gallagher asks if the same can be...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTommy Reffell will be a star for club and country says Leicester’s Thompson
The future of Wales' back row? Guy Thompson think so after being impressed with the young flanker's displays at Leicester
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoSchmidt: ‘We aren’t going to sneak up on the All Blacks’
Can Ireland reach a first-ever World Cup semi-final by beating New Zealand?
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland change George Ford’s role for Australia showdown
Eddie Jones makes bold selection call ahead of World Cup quarter-final with the Wallabies
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoPolice called to disturbance involving Uruguay players at restaurant
Members of the Uruguay squad accused of assault by restaurant staff and punching mirrors
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDragons tie six academy prospects to extensions
Last week's tryscorer against Connacht Taine Basham pens new deal
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Featured
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Kamikaze man ‘Shiggy’ has made real impact
Peter Jackson charts role of Shigeru Konno as one of the forefathers of Japanese rugby
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