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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMcManus holds his nerve to seal win
South West Premier A KYRAN McManus penalty enabled Barnstaple to maintain their unbeaten start to the season with a dramatic and...
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National League One
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoKirby and Wilson keep Billingham top
Northern Premier BILLINGHAM are still at the top the table after beating Ilkley 41-7 at Stacks Field. Matt Kirby and Luke...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoYet more late heroics as Foresters dent the leaders
By TIM FORRESTER CINDERFORD are getting used to producing late shows, according to director of rugby Paul Morris, after another last-gasp...
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National League 2E
/ 7 years agoSorry Lions tamed by merciless Titans outfit
By NICK CROWE A GALLANT Westcliff succumbed to a highly-disciplined and formidable Taunton side at Aviation Way, fighting tooth and nail...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoHalf-century for Caldy as Jones at the double
By COLIN FREE A MUSCULAR Otley side provided stout opposition at Paton Field as they held Caldy for 20 minutes before...
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Premiership
/ 7 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
/ 7 years agoEaling power up in first half but then switch off
By LUKE JARMYN EALING kick-started their season with a record win over Jersey to redeem themselves after last Sunday’s surprising opening...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoGlory day, but Japan in Six Nations is a non-starter
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME If ever there was a sense of poetic justice in the game...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoBack row brilliance sparks Mose to battling win
By PAUL SMITH LED by outstanding backrowers Buster Lawrence and Morgan Monks, Birmingham Moseley fought to victory over Canterbury. But the...
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National League 2E
/ 7 years agoDiscipline costs TJs in historic Hawks win
By GARETH WITHERS TONBRIDGE Juddians’ head coach Peter Dankert was left to rue his side’s ill-discipline after Henley Hawks clinched a...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoPark life awake after the break
By STEVE SMITH SEDGLEY Park took advantage of extraordinary Chester generosity to come from 17-0 down at half-time and win on...
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Premiership
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 years agoDu Preez aiming high after horror throat injury
RUGBY EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY TWELVEmonths after fearing his rugby days were over, braveheart back rower Cornell du Preez aims to...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoUp-tempo Blood and Sand end home woe
By STEVE JACKSON CAMBRIDGE deservedly took four points for their first home win since March against a Rosslyn Park side looking...
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National League 2E
/ 7 years agoRaiders bashed as eight try OAs run riot
By BRIAN QUINN OLD Albanian stormed home with eight tries to extinguish the faint hopes of Worthing Raiders and cruise to...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoSperes points Greens attack
By ANDREW SMITH RESOLUTE Wharfedale cruised to an away win in the all-Yorkshire clash at Lockwood Park. Two quick-fire tries midway...
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Premiership
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 years agoLudlam’s success has given us all a lift – Vesty
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY NORTHAMPTON coach Sam Vesty is backing his ambitious brat pack to defy second season syndrome by...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoDaly duo helps Club win ugly
By GRAHAM COX THIS wasn’t the prettiest of matches and both sides will look back and rue the missed opportunities that...
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National League 2E
/ 7 years agoJames the saviour to seal late thriller
By MATT BALDWIN THOMAS James was the late hero as his last-gasp try gave Esher victory in a scintillating game at...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoIreland puts a steer on the Dore Moor ship
By MATTHEW SMITH SHEFFIELD Tigers overcame a sluggish start to come out on top in a nervy game at Dore Moor,...
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Premiership
/ 7 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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English Championship
/ 7 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
/ 7 years agoS&C guru PJ helping Mercer hit new PBs in the gym
By NEALE HARVEY HUMAN dynamo Zach Mercer insists he is bigger and stronger as he bids to underpin Bath’s title charge...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoDMP soar past faltering OE’s
By KEVIN ROBINSON DARLINGTON Mowden Park comfortably overcame Old Elthamians, who simply ran out of steam in the last quarter. OE’s...
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National League 2E
/ 7 years agoShepherd secures bonus-point glory
By BILL HOOPER TWO second-half tries from full-back Matt Shepherd put Redruth on the road to a deserved bonuspoint win. Bury...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 7 years agoVenner treble as Warriors overwhelmed
By DUNCAN WOOD GLOUCESTER-Hartpury Women put Worcester to the sword in a ruthless half-century display, with full-back Mia Venner notching a...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 years agoJapan players will be humble even if they beat the Boks
By TOM BRADSHAW NEVERMIND the so-called Miracle of Brighton in 2015, when Japan stunned South Africa with their lastminute 34-32 win,...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 years agoMarler becomes a PR for Saracens
JOE Marler kept a lid on his disappointment in Beppu this week after losing out to Mako Vunipola as the starting...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoForceful Fylde keep unbeaten run going
By STEFFAN JAMES FYLDE continued their winning record with a bonus-point win away on the road at struggling Midlands side Hinckley....
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Premiership
/ 7 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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English Championship
/ 7 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
/ 7 years agoAce Ezcurra out to catch the eye with Barbarians
NEWS EXTRA ARGENTINAcentre Bautista Ezcurra is keen to stay on British shores after he tours England and Wales with the Barbarians...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 7 years agoFindlay delighted by perfect blend
By MATT VERRI CO-HEAD coach Karen Findlay saluted her side’s backline as they fired Harlequins to a fifth consecutive bonuspoint victory...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 years agoScottish fans call for Townsend head but he’ll get Six Nations
By NICK CAIN at Yokohama Stadium Irrepressible: Keita Inagaki evades Stuart Hogg to score Japan’s third try THE knee-jerk reaction after...















