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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoDai Young said ‘no’ to national job to stay at Wasps
DoR turned down an international coaching offer before re-signing with Wasps to run their Coventry revolution.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Give promoted teams more money to level playing field
Here we are at the start of another year and, as usual, the hopes and aspirations of all rugby players and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Get ready for a crescendo…. just like the Olympics
Suddenly it’s World Cup year and the tournament is hurtling towards us as the pace quickens. No longer can we talk...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain meets Jamie Gibson who has left academia to chase his rugby dream
Jamie Gibson is a scholar and a gentleman, a true blue Oxford University-educated boffin who, inspired by the philosophy of Socrates,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Ryan Bevington still has time to climb out of the wreckage
The old year took an unusually savage toll of the toughest, meanest, ugliest breed in the game, the prop. From the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoMatt Banahan’s backing Bath masterplan
Winger is adamant Sam Burgess’s Union integration will not detract from Bath’s charge for silverware.
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Bring back rucking and watch the game take off
My New Year’s rugby resolutions start with a return to rucking. To this day I don’t understand why rucking ever changed....
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: C’mon Joel Jutge get a grip of your referees!
Forget New Year wish lists, because where the current crisis in elite refereeing is concerned what we need is a hit...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoArrogance took over in the autumn admits Billy Vunipola
England No.8 opens his heart over the reasons behind his dramatic slump in form during the autumn internationals.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Tom Coventry to be handed London Irish job
Chiefs (NZ) assistant coach to join on three-year deal after Super Rugby season.
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Featured
/ 11 years agoFlying Joe Simpson eager to exploit gap in the No.9s market
Wasps scrum-half knows he has it all to do to claim a place in England’s World Cup squad but his form...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Yes, Henry Slade has England potential – but at fly-half
Henry Slade is one of those naturally talented, instinctive players who coaches will only get the best out of if they...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: OK, relax the cap but make it fair for ALL
There is a cartel-like stench attached to the double standards employed in the English Premiership, and it intensified just before Christmas...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoLuther Burrell has a lethal mix that England need – Alex King
Centre should be England’s starting No.12 during the Six Nations according to Northampton backs coach
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Featured
/ 11 years agoNo England costs Wales £5m World Cup bonus
Peter Jackson reveals the full extent of Wales’ financial calamity at losing their pre-World Cup matches against England.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoDylan Hartley banned for three weeks
Hooker to miss Premiership games but will return for Champions Cup and Six Nations.
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Michael Green gets right to the heart of Coarse rugby
According to my calculations only one layman – ie somebody who didn’t play or coach at the top level or wasn’t...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Progress? Surely not if we are still relying on Manu Tuilagi
Hype, hope and more than a little desperation seems to be the recipe for English rugby as Stuart Lancaster plots the...
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Champions Cup
/ 11 years agoStephen Myler insists Northampton Saints can challenge for Double
Fly-half believes Saints have a squad capable of challenging for both the Premiership and the Champions Cup.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Warren, it’s time to take leaf out of Irish book
Warren Gatland takes his first Southern Hemisphere scalp for six years and immediately talks about Wales winning the World Cup. Across...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain gives his post-autumn verdict on where England are with just eight games to go until RWC2015
When Stuart Lancaster was asked about the one added extra he would have wanted in his England team for the autumn...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoI’m here on merit, Dave Attwood warns his England rivals
England lock believes an impressive series of autumn displays has thrust him into pole position for a Six Nations starting spot.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Ritchie keeps the faith with Lancaster…for now
Ian Ritchie delivered an intriguing line in double-speak as he delivered his verdict on England‘s autumn return of two losses and...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Tyro tens are the big plusses of the autumn
These days it seems to be impossible to make a judgement on any of the Home Union teams without referring to...
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English Championship
/ 11 years agoTier two players must be ‘part of the union’ – Christian Day
Plans to provide Championship players with full trade union support could become a reality in 2016.
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoDisappointing finish for England Sevens in Port Elizabeth
England suffered losses to hosts South Africa and then Fiji on Day Two of the South Africa Sevens in Port Elizabeth....
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Featured
/ 11 years agoDylan Hartley has a huge job to keep Tom Youngs out – George Chuter
Leicester hooker can reclaim his place as England’s starting hooker for the Six Nations, according to former Tigers mate
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Enforcers help to keep the game trouble free!
I’ve always had a soft spot for rugby‘s ‘enforcers’ and will rather miss Bakkies Botha, which is a sentiment I suspect...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Extra Test match is crippling Welsh Regions
The Welsh Rugby Union have stuffed the golden goose over the last four weeks as never before, taking some £15m in...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 11 years agoJonathan Joseph frustrated by lack of opportunity
Bath centre upset at being overlooked during the autumn but believes he is in a better place now than he was...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoEngland Sevens change three for Port Elizabeth
England have made three enforced changes to their squad ahead of the Port Elizabeth leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series....
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Joe Schmidt’s success lies in the simplicity of his method
Ireland have quietly moved into third place in the world rankings without any great fireworks or fanfare. Even their Kiwi coach,...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Pay for a proper TMO system or bin it off
The TMO was introduced into the Premiership just over two years ago, and into international rugby a year later, and the...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoTyro Chiefs are putting hands up for England
Chiefs skills coach reckons Nowell and Co. are staking claims for Six Nations' inclusion.
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Autumn Internationals
/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Samoan president accuses players of drinking culture
Players left raging by president's hint at drinking culture and accusation of not training hard enough.
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoEngland through to Dubai Sevens quarter-finals
England qualified for the Dubai Sevens quarter-finals but they will have take on New Zealand tomorrow morning. Simon Amor’s men lost...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Jacob takes well-trodden Rhodes to Twickenham
So little done, so much to do. They may or may not be the last words of Cecil Rhodes on his...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 11 years agoDanny Care will come out fighting says Conor O’Shea
Quins boss says scrum-half has nothing to prove to anybody but himself.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Richie McCaw’s genius is avoiding the pitfalls
The historical life span of an international rugby captain averages out at six matches, a fact which makes Richie McCaw’s unique...
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English Championship
/ 11 years agoChristian Day demands consistency over concussion protocols
RPA chairman brands inconsistencies in application of concussion protocols at pro level as “stupid”.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Joe Schmidt proves buying British isn’t always best
Look at the most successful sides in Europe, whether club or country, and you will usually find that there is a...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoEngland’s pack is best in world says Dan Cole
Leicester tighthead knows he has a fight on his hand to regain place in the world's premier pack.
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Autumn Internationals
/ 11 years agoTwice as nice for Ben Youngs after post-Lions struggle
Scrum-half out to nail down his World Cup spot after putting post-Lions depression behind him to end the autumn as England’s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Those gallant Dragons who refused to be slain
It was the day that Bleddyn Williams led Wales to victory over the All Blacks and the afternoon Olympic sprinter Ken...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: All Blacks aftermath put Delme Thomas in dark place
More than 40 years have come and gone since the day the pubs ran dry in Llanelli and Delme Thomas still...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: England need a coherent attack to test the top teams
Last Saturday’s game against the All Blacks drew the usual response from Stuart Lancaster and the media. Lancaster extolled the progress...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Sabotage of Samoa is indictment of the IRB
Samoan rugby is in meltdown a year away from the 2015 World Cup, and the fact that a Pacific Island nation...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoJustin Burnell beginning to feel the heat at winless London Welsh
Head coach admits to sleepless nights and concedes his job is under threat.
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s verdict on England: Beating the Wallabies will keep RWC hopes alive
England being ranked fifth in the latest World Rugby (IRB) pecking order is about right. I wasn’t surprised by the adverse reaction...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict on Wales: Wales fluff Buster Douglas moment
Warren Gatland will have left the Millennium Stadium last night with some awkward questions ringing in his ears over Wales‘ inability...












