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Letters
/ 3 years agoChance to promote World Cup missed
I ATTENDED, and thoroughly enjoyed, the England/France game at Twickenham last Saturday. Reference was made in the programme as to how...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoRFU is destroying community game
WELL another grassroots season has finally come to a shambolic end all thanks to the RFU. The leagues were changed to...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoReferees set on spoiling the game
IT IS the most difficult side of the game, but despite modern technology there are referees out there determined to spoil...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Ben Glynn
Ben Glynn, The Hartpury and former Bristol, Ospreys, Harlequins, Northampton & Chinnor lock, chooses the best XV he has played with......
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoEngland look too confused in attack
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It has been difficult to see how England want to attack since Steve Borthwick...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoLawrence pounces to grab Cup place
By PAUL REES Bath ..................................... 61 pts Tries: Reid 2, Dunn 12, 51, 54; Obano 33, 42; Cloete 49, Bailey 73,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoVan Graan praises ‘incredible’ triumph
Johann van Graan hailed his Bath players after Ollie Lawrence’s 83rd-minute try earned a team that has spent most of the...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBears win but find the honey has gone
By ROGER PANTING Bristol ................................ 36pts Tries: Naulago 10, Thacker 15, Bradbury 48, Radradra 56, 72 Conversions: MacGinty 10, 15, 56,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years ago‘I’ve seen a lot of good this season’
Bristol boss Pat Lam said he has seen ‘a lot of good’ this season despite the disappointment of missing out on...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoRed for Ashton as Quins hold on
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ...........................17pts Tries: Montoya 15, Reffell 76 Conversions: Pollard 15, Gopperth 76 Penalties: Pollard 45 Harlequins ........................20pts Tries:...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoWigglesworth: Today, Chris wrote the wrong headlines
Leicester boss Richard Wigglesworth said he felt great sympathy for the plight of Chris Ashton. “Decisions are so close these days,”...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoSale get in the mood for Tigers showdown
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Sale .................................... 54pts Tries: Roebuck 8, James 19, 78; Curry 31, Rodd 43, Quirke 55, Penalty 69, Reed...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoTuilagi: It’s only a flesh wound
Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson says Manu Tuilagi will be fit for the semi-final after the England centre left the...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEligibility laws that need to be changed
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE recent international eligibility law that allows Henry Thomas to be selected by...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoHow a pair of English-born props could foil Red Rose
Tomas Francis, the 71-cap Wales tighthead who has been first choice for Warren Gatland in both his incarnations as Wales coach,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoJoy for Kidney as Gonzalez seals it
By GARY FIZGERALD London Irish.....................17pts Tries: Gonzalez 26, 71; Pearson 62 Conversions: Jackson 27 Exeter .................................14pts Tries: Vermeulen 21, Hendrickson 64...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoHepher: We saw plenty of fight
Chiefs coach Ali Hepher felt his side showed plenty of “fight” in their last game of the season without getting the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoNine Lions of Leinster would be in my team
CHRIS HEWETT Mitchell, Aston, Wotherspoon, Rotherham, Bromet, Hammond, Mayfield, Surtees, Thompson: on an early September afternoon in 1891, nine Cambridge University...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoGatland can get Wales on top again
CHRIS HEWETT Few people on God’s earth know more about professional Welsh rugby than Warren Gatland, who successfully coached the Test...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoIrish going in the right direction – Rogerson
By PAUL REES Matt Rogerson is confident that the wage upheaval which last week threatened London Irish’s match against Exeter yesterday...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoChiefs keen to add Boyle to their roster
NEIL FISSLER Exeter Chiefs are in the bidding to bring young Leinster prop Jack Boyle to the Premiership this summer when...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoGlynn out, Nowell in at La Rochelle
La Rochelle, who broke Exeter Chiefs’ hearts in the Champions Cup semi-final last weekend, are set for a one-in and one-out...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoSaracens close in on England wing Watson
Saracens are growing increasingly confident that Anthony Watson will continue his career in the Premiership by joining them next season. The...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoQuins set to get more out of Wilson
Harlequins could be looking to reshuffle their coaching team this summer as they want Danny Wilson, below, to have a bigger...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoMy Team of the Season shows promise for future
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND The silverware for the season is set to be handed out without any Welsh involvement....
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Features
/ 3 years agoLast farewell for the Exe Men
Paul Rees talks to Rob Baxter about 'Incredible times' and new challenges to be faced next season in Devon Exeter's players...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoLibbok leads way for Champs
By SAM JACKSON Stormers ........33 Bulls .................21 Reigning champions the Stormers secured another home semi-final as their dominant display over the...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoLeinster’s double dream is on track
By BEN JAYCOCK Leinster...............35pts Tries: Doris 13, Milne 20, Larmour 23, Deegan 50, Gibson-Park 74 Conversions: H Byrne 14, 22, 24,...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoCarty kicks Connacht to South Africa
By JOHN FALLON Ulster ................. 10pts Tries: O’Connor 65 Conversions: Cooney 66 Penalties: Cooney 21 Connacht ..........15pts Penalties: Carty 24, 34,...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoJordan’s red halts Glasgow
By BRYN PALMER Glasgow................ 5pts Tries: Steyn 67 Munster ..............14pts Tries: Fekitoa 22, Frisch 27 Conversions: Crowley 23, 28 Glasgow's twin...














