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Jeremy Guscott
/ 10 years agoJeremy Guscott World Cup XV
15. Ben Smith (NZ) is one of my favourite players, his skillset is of the highest calibre, which affords him the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 years agoBrendan Gallagher comment: Sublime Conrad Smith has a five-star lawyer’s brain and he can hit too
Richie McCaw and Dan Carter deserve every plaudit that comes their way – the golden duo have redefined their positions and...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoEngland moaners should keep traps shut blasts Danny Care
Danny Care has launched a broadside at anonymous members of England‘s failed World Cup squad for airing their personal grievances in...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoVIDEO: New Zealand beat Australia to win third World Cup
New Zealand have become the first country to win the World Cup three times after defeating Australia 34-17 in the final...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: RFU review panel will have zero credibility
Let the whitewash begin! The RFU review panel eventually announced last Monday – two long weeks after England‘s ignominious World Cup...
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Peter Jackson
/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson column: Heroes? No,Wales lost plot when it mattered!
Scotland took their enforced leave of the World Cup in a state of understandable high dudgeon hours after Ireland had beaten...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoJimmy Gopperth backs Alex Lozowski to be best 10 of the lot
Wasps fly-half is destined for stardom according to club colleague.
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain gets the lowdown on Wallaby coach Michael Cheika
Bob Dwyer is a member of one of rugby union’s most exclusive clubs as one of the seven coaches who have...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoMarco Mama hoping to make good on his promise
Striking the balance between loyalty and ambition can be a tricky affair for today’s professional players.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 10 years agoJeff Probyn column: Crucial to reintroduce level between club and country
For the first time since its 1987 inception, the Rugby World Cup does not have Northern Hemisphere side in the semi-finals...
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Shane Williams
/ 10 years agoShane Williams column: Our packs lack skillset of the giants down South
It’s no fluke that this weekend’s World Cup semi-finals are like a UKIP manifesto – with no mention of Europe. Over...
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Peter Jackson
/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson comment: Get ready to crown team for all seasons
And so it has almost come to pass, the All Black coronation of New Zealand as the supreme long-term rulers of...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoHenry Thomas: I’ll state case for England
Overlooked England tighthead has his sights firmly set on a Six Nations recall following the national side’s troubles at the scrum.
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/ 10 years agoGet Warren Gatland in and sort RFU mess says Mike Friday
RFU chiefs must pay whatever it takes to buy Warren Gatland out of his Wales contract, according to former England 7s...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoElliot Daly’s looking to put hand up for England
Wasps centre believes another stellar club season can boost his international claims after overcoming the disappointment of England rejection.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoSam Burgess challenge spurs England hopeful Matt Garvey
Flanker Matt Garvey concedes that the presence of ex-Rugby League man Sam Burgess in Bath‘s back-row has stymied his own international...
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Shane Williams
/ 10 years agoShane Williams: Yes, pain will be unbearable but Wales can hold their heads high
Shut the door, close the curtains and play with the kids. That’s my only advice to those brave Wales players who...
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Peter Jackson
/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson comment: Sorry, Dr Roberts, but the only diagnosis can be that it’s been gruesome
Jamie Roberts described the Springbok experience pre-match in one word: gruesome, as in the context of wounded Lions queuing up for...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: England must move on, without Stuart Lancaster
Stuart Lancaster said he would be looking for some solace this week in the Lake District. Before departing the England camp...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Jean de Villiers close to signing for Leicester Tigers
Tigers set to announce arrival of former Springboks captain before the weekend.
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Club Rugby
/ 10 years agoBristol’s risen Phoenix Gavin Henson is enjoying his revival
The one good thing about hitting rock bottom is that the only way is up – but as Gavin Henson can...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Stuart Lancaster must go now so the healing can begin
This week there was an unavoidable sense of Stuart Lancaster as a hard-working but beleaguered schoolmaster trying in vain to keep...
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Peter Jackson
/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson column: England’s debacle? It’s all fault of Boris Johnson!
Boris Johnson is addressing the great and the good on the occasion of the World Cup draw at the Tate Modern...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s World Cup departed XV
15: Ayumu Goromaru (Japan): Sensational player in attack and defence and the team’s goal-kicker to boot. Burst on the scene over...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 10 years agoJeff Probyn: column: If selection was unanimous coaches should take blame
Well that’s that, time to get out the knives and let the carnage begin, as everybody with an axe to grind...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain previews the Premiership season
The English game is in urgent need of a lift after the Red Rose blight at the World Cup, and, thankfully,...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoBasic errors by Stuart Lancaster cost us says Mike Friday
Critical pre-tournament errors in selection by head coach Stuart Lancaster and a failure to deploy X-factor players during losses to Wales...
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Shane Williams
/ 10 years agoShane Williams verdict: Wales lacked nous at crucial times
I would like to say that was the one that got away – but it has been said so many times...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 10 years agoJeremy Guscott column: Central contracts and fewer games will help us build a far better future
The rugby world is envious of England‘s mammoth financial resources but they are laughing at us now, having seen how ineffectual...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoWales give moneybags England a £1.2m hand-off over Warren Gatland
Wales have issued a ‘hands-off’ warning to England over Warren Gatland. England have been urged to do everything they can to...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain: Blood these youngsters to revive the Rose
Stuart Lancaster and Conor O’Shea have been attempting the defence of England’s 2015 World Cup realm this week by side-stepping the...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoPicking Sam Burgess upset England morale blasts Gareth Chilcott
England’s obsession with Sam Burgess should cost Stuart Lancaster his job.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoMental battle is last hurdle for ambitious Saint Ben Foden
Northampton full- back is targeting silverware, an England recall and a place on the 2017 Lions tour to New Zealand as...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoScott Spedding aims to rule skies in epic battle with Rob Kearney
France full-back Scott Spedding is expecting an aerial dogfight with Ireland rival Rob Kearney. Les Bleus will battle it out with...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 years agoBrendan Gallagher: This golden generation of Pumas WILL top the world
As befits a good Yorkshire man, Les Cusworth is not a betting man. But if he was he would invest heavily...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Kiwi coaches rule – and that’s good for game
Wales have done it with Warren Gatland, and so have Ireland with Joe Schmidt, and Scotland with Vern Cotter. However, England‘s...
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Peter Jackson
/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson column: Brynmor’s lad is still selling to dummies
The man in Seat 54, Row U of the middle tier of the East Stand looked down on a familiar figure...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 10 years agoJeff Probyn column: Hype surrounding Sam Burgess is biggest issue for England
Decisions, decisions, when are they right and when are they wrong? That is a question that all of England has been...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 10 years agoJeremy Guscott column: Ireland’s big name players are enhancing reputations
My forecast for an England Ireland semi-final looks to be 50 per cent true at this stage, with Ireland pretty much...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain takes to the road to find the true spirit of the World Cup alive in Exeter
It was a blessed relief to break away from the the trials and tribulations of the 2015 World Cup‘s most badly...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoJames Horwill: Wales play into Wallaby hands
Wales‘ preference for open, attacking rugby could play into Australian hands on Saturday when the sides meet in Cardiff, according to...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain Inquest: Disastrous failure of nerve and judgement
As England limp out of the 2015 World Cup into the annals of great sporting failure as the first host nation...
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Shane Williams
/ 10 years agoShane Williams column: Finally, Wales are learning from Wallaby heartbreaks
Warren Gatland should have the last 20 minutes of the game against England on repeat in the Wales team room this...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Salary cap cheats will be hammered to protect league’s integrity
Two Premiership clubs set to be fined and deducted points for the 2015-16 campaign.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 10 years agoRelegation fight? I don’t care what you media think says Tom Coventry
Kiwi did not fly half-way around the globe to read predictions putting London Irish at the bottom of the Premiership.
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 years agoBrendan Gallagher recounts the intriguing tale of the ‘first World Cup’
The road not taken is an enduring theme in sport and now, right in the middle of a riotously successful World...
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Featured
/ 10 years agoNehe Milner-Sukker can fire the All Blacks charge
Nehe Milner-Skudder has few peers at this World Cup when it comes to tripping the light fantastic down a rugby field....
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Shane Williams
/ 10 years agoShane Williams column: Give Tier Two heroes games against the best
The underdogs have done their job – now it’s time for World Rugby to do theirs if we’re going to make...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 10 years agoJeff Probyn column: Scrum’s the winner in first week of the World Cup
The first week of the World Cup brought a big shock. No, not Japan beating South Africa (although that was pretty...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Ninja Eddie Jones slew Boks with lethal planning
Welcome to Ninja rugby, the brainchild of Eddie Jones. The Japan coach borrowed from the methods of the covert mercenaries feared...
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