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/ 8 years agoStreet-smart Ireland top of the world
NICK CAIN PICKS HIS WORLD XV BASED ON No.7 specialist: Sam Underhill PICTURES: Getty Images 15. Damian McKenzie 14. Teddy Thomas...
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/ 8 years agoMorgan has best answer to Pichot’s foreign rant
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Once upon a time long ago when players could switch allegiance almost as...
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/ 8 years agoRory is still clambering along the peaks to his rugby Everest
RORY Best’s double falls into the unbeatable category, beating the All Blacks in Dublin one day and appearing at Buckingham Palace...
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/ 8 years agoMantle holds his place alongside St Helens’ mightiest
AS a teenaged all-rounder of prodigious ability growing up in the Fifties, John Mantle excelled as a track-and-field athlete, captained the...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: Exit of RFU CEO Steve Brown exposes growing split in rugby
Nick Cain explains how the RFU's agreement with the Premiership and the revamp to Twickenham's East Stand caused headaches
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: Wales must find more to beat the Springboks
Wales have put the fright on South Africa in their past three meetings, but things have changed
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoHow English rugby shattered the All Blacks mystique on the same anniversary as their 2003 World Cup triumph
November 22 is a big day for some in the North West Counties...
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: England must beat Wallabies in convincing fashion
Jeremy Guscott questions whether the players who were given a chance against Japan will be trusted against the Aussies
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: England are finding their courage again
Tenacious performance against the All Blacks is building hope again
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/ 8 years agoCain column: Don’t sacrifice Lions Tour for a duff cup competition
Killing off the Lions Tour is criminal, writes Nick Cain
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/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Wales will be ready for the Aussies now
Limit the game to forwards play and Wales can be victorious over Wallabies
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: How Melon made a real prune out of Ronan O’Gara
A whopping 134 Tests epitomised by one moment of prop brilliance in 2005
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoGallagher column: Where have Eddie’s bullying forwards got to?
Time is running out for Eddie to sort out his pack
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: Mike Brown wins the new ‘Bionic Elbow’ man
The ever-present Harlequins full-back has reached 301 appearances
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoGallagher column: I still feel the stress of that French fightback in 1999
New Zealand 31-43 France, a match that had the heart racing even for the neutrals
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Alex Goode and Liam Williams can be European Player of the Year nominees when they set the Champions Cup alight
Jeremy Guscott makes his picks of players to watch in this season's Champions Cup
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: Berwyn Jones paid the price for putting family first
Peter Jackson looks at when rugby's amateur days were overshadowed by the riches available in professional sports
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: Courtney Meredith stands alone from Wales 1953 heroes
Peter Jackson on the sole remaining survivor of Wales' 1953 All Blacks victors
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: The time has come to pick Owen Farrell as England’s 10
Jeremy Guscott on why the Ford-Farrell format is 'flawed' for England
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: Trailblazing Bee-Gee who twice broke Welsh hearts
Peter Jackson throws things back to 1999 when Apollo Perelini took Samoa to glory
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/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Sale Sharks young flyer Paolo Odogwu
Badly worn shoes A couple of boys in the team don’t put their shoes on properly and stand on the backs...
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Eddie must get Joe Cokanasiga in his side straight away
Jeremy Guscott believes the Bath & England wing can be a threat anywhere on the pitch and is a must-start in...
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/ 8 years agoIs England’s scrum doomed ahead of the World Cup? The architect of the 2003 world beaters shares his view
Phil Keith-Roach explains why the time for change may have arrived at the feet of England's front row
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Eddie must pick a backline and stick with it through to Japan
Jeremy Guscott outlines who he would start with the World Cup less than a year away
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/ 8 years agoCain column: Hold a World Cup just for Tier Two nations
By Nick Cain SOME of the leading lights in World Rugby appear to be struggling to work out which way is...
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/ 8 years agoWilliams column: England need virtuosos like Chris Ashton and Cipriani
Ashton and Cipriani are off-the-cuff entertainers, writes the former Wales wing
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoRonan O’Gara leads the latest list of players inducted to rugby’s Hall of Fame
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the inductees
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Why England don’t make fly-halves like Beauden Barrett
The New Zealand 10 can spot gaps and fly through them like few of his northern hemisphere contemporaries can
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Nottingham and Saracens back Tim Streather
The ex-Sarries centre talks about how back and knee injury proved an obstacle too difficult to overcome
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/ 8 years agoShane Williams column: It’s right to let regions take control once more
Is the timing right to move past National Dual Contracts?
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: A back-row conundrum that even has Sam Warburton scratching his head
Peter Jackson on the multiple combinations used by Wales in the lead up to Japan
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoBristol win will intensify ring-fence campaign
Bristol Bears downed Bath at Ashton Gate last Friday, and Nick Cain writes why that will fuel a debate that has...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: My hope is Paul Gustard gets Harlequins playing without fear
If successful at the Stoop, Jeremy Guscott writes why he can see no reason for Gustard to eventually return to the...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoPuma cubs looks set to play in Currie Cup
GETTING quality game time for their younger or developing players on the way up has always been a problem for Argentina...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoSevens link will make England stronger
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Culture: Simon Amor FAIR play to England for integrating their Men’s and Women’s Sevens programmes but it does rather...
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/ 8 years agoBarretts join the brothers in arms through the ages
Brilliant Barretts: Jordie, Scott and Beauden WE can agree, I think, that the remarkable Barrett brothers constitute the greatest rugby playing...
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/ 8 years agoCain column: Eddie Jones has no grounds to dump his bad boys
The end of Eddie Jones' "clean slate" approach?
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: Johnny Sexton has become invisible in the PRO14
Peter Jackson points out that Johnny Sexton has played in one PRO14 match in Wales over the past two years
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/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Deafening WRU silence over the future of Cardiff Arms Park worries me
Shane Williams gives his take on the future of a ground with grand standing in the history of Welsh rugby
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Aussies look like a junior team
Michael Cheika's future as Wallabies coach has been called into question Down Under
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: John Mitchell’s got the means to increase England’s intensity
Jeremy Guscott would not be surprised to see John Mitchell look further than being a defence coach while at the RFU
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoLeo column: Unearth the root causes to end off-field violence
Dan Leo highlights the skirmish between Amanaki Mafi and Lopeti Timani as one instance of how Pacific Islander physicality can take...
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/ 8 years agoVenter column: Bold move going for John Mitchell but Eddie’s got to go for broke
The former London Irish technical director and Springboks coach shares his views on what Eddie Jones needs to do to get...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoTwickenham under attack: Button for the nuclear option may be pressed
The RFU have a sizeable debt stacking up
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/ 8 years agoPeter Jackson column: RFU miss the boat again for Shaun Edwards
England miss another chance to join forces with a coach who has won everything there is to win in Union bar...
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/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Ashton is back but he’s got big competition before he can wing it for England
Jeremy Guscott's take on Eddie Jones' pre-season training squad – will we see Ashton and Michael Rhodes in the autumn?
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoQuality bristles through this improving league
SHANE WILLIAMS Great signings: From left, Blade Thomson, Ross Moriarty and George North PICTURES: Getty Images SLOWLY and quietly, the PRO14...
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/ 8 years agoSpencer column: Forget the Olympic dream or Red Roses will wither
By Catherine Spencer San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Bridge and this year’s Sevens World Cup, was not so Golden...
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/ 8 years agoJackson column: The PRO14 say ‘bah, Humbug’ to festive rugby fans
No Boxing Day fixture to come this winter...
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