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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoEngland need to get a lot better, very quickly
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK ENGLAND making root-and-branch changes to their coaching team so close to a World Cup...
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Womens Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoFrance secure another bronze
France...............36 Canada................ 0 FRANCE ran in five tries to thrash Canada in the third-place play-off and secure bronze for the seventh...
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Womens Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoIt ends in tears for battling England
By BEN JAYCOCK England............................... 31pts Tries: Kildunne 3, Cokayne 13, 32, 54; M Packer 21 Conversions: Scarratt 4, 15, 33 New...
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Womens Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoMiddleton: Players could not have given more
Having lost one of the most dramatic World Cup finals the game has ever seen, England head coach Simon Middleton was...
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Guest columnists
/ 3 years agoHats off to NZ as they win sixth world crown
ROCKY CLARK ENGLAND WORLD CUP WINNER THE National Grid will surely have got a surge when hundreds of thousands of people...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoWoodburn helps put Chiefs on right track
By MIKE SINCLAIR Exeter Chiefs .................. 22pts Tries: Ewers 11, van Heerden 23, Woodburn 35 Cons: Simmonds 11, 35 Pens: Simmonds...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoKidney: We have to learn to play against good defences
Declan Kidney was heartened by his Irish side’s battling second-half display but he said: “We have to look at the whole...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoIs RFU getting value for money? Not from Eddie
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK EDDIE Jones has become a millionaire courtesy of the RFU, for doing what...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTime to stop petty gamesmanship
NICK CAIN THE high-five cheerleading that breaks out every time a decision or penalty goes England’s way is a sure sign...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoGive some thought to Belize’s struggles
NICK CAIN AS a recession looms, the World Rugby mandarins who jetted to New Zealand in first or business class for...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoFalcons dig deep to keep Gloucester out
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Gloucester......................... 21pts Tries: Seabrook 37, Jordan 62, Penalty 72 Conversions: Barton 38, 62 Newcastle......................... 27pts Tries: Radwan 6,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years ago‘They won all the little battles’
GLOUCESTER’S head coach George Skivington admitted it was a tough afternoon for his side. “We had a disappointing result last week...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoHooker Haywood taking his chances as Saints prepare for showdown with Saracens
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Saracens v Northampton Today. Kick-off 12.15pm, Stone X Stadium BY rights, Southend-born and Colchester raised Mike Haywood...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoButt’s late winner makes it three in a row for Bath
By BEN JAYCOCK Bath...................................... 19pts Tries: Hill 29, Butt 81 Penalties: Bailey 3, 57, 70 Leicester............................ 18pts Tries: Nadolo 5, Cronin...
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Premiership
/ 3 years ago‘We’ve become tough to beat’
BATH head coach Johann van Graan was delighted with the second half display and is pleased they’ve turned into a team...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoDiamond may look at recruitment
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER COULD Steve Diamond’s next move in rugby be a job in recruitment after he indirectly...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoToulouse leading the race for Willis
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ENGLAND flanker Jack Willis looks set to head to France...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoMa’asi-White heads for Sale
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER FORMER England U20 international Rekeiti Ma’asi-White is on the verge of agreeing to a deal...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoBaxter’s keen for Nowell to decide
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Coach: Rob Baxter ROB Baxter is pushing England and Lions winger Jack Nowell for an...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoDREAM TEAM
HENRY THOMAS, THE MONTPELLIER AND FORMER ENGLAND, BATH & SALE PROP, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST......
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoOne-sided games do no favours for anyone
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST DEVOTEES of the union game have spent decades laughing at the idea of the “other code” staging...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoFailing to select a kicker is a major sin
CHRIS HEWETT BACK in the day, rugby had its own version of the Seven Deadly Sins: biting, gouging, bag-snatching, head-stamping, shaving...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWinters’ boys are starting to warm up to it
NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK OPTIMISTIC Peter Winterbottom says he is encouraged by the character of his Esher side – and...
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Features
/ 3 years agoSkiing trip prompted rapid rise to the top
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER NOTTINGHAM, STADE FRANCAIS, WASPS, DRAGONS & NORTHAMPTON SCRUM-HALF CHARLIE DAVIES I WAS 16 and on...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoHow Kevin kept 1991 pioneers on right track
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW KEVIN O’Brien grew up within walking distance of Cardiff docks, round the corner...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSinfield shows he’s in a class of his own
PETER JACKSON THERE are an elite group of impressive men involved in English rugby and then there is Kevin Sinfield, the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoNo surprise to see more trouble
PETER JACKSON ANOTHER match at the world’s biggest pub and another outbreak of crowd trouble, this one over a fight between...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoIrish referee Brace kept Itoje in line
PETER JACKSON MARO Itoje had a lot to say for himself during England’s non-performance against Argentina last Sunday. His verbosity extended...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSupport growing fo starting with 10
PAUL REES SAYS MONEY WILL BE THE PRIME FACTOR BEHIND THE SIZE OF THE PREMIERSHIP IN THE FUTURE WHEN Gloucester faced...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoMaisey puts the boot into his old Cov mates
By CONOR O’HARA Bedford B...........27pts Tries: Elliott 20, Irvine 43 Conversions: Maisey 44 Penalties: Maisey 11, 51, 59, 64, 71 Coventry...............
