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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: I’m puzzled why women’s game needs a World Cup
With the women’s World Cup starting this week, hope is the excitement that the tournament will generate could be great for...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoCatherine Spencer: These professional Red Roses are red hot favourites to defend title
In 2008 we played France away in the Six Nations and recorded England‘s biggest victory over Les Bleus, winning 31-0. We...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoAction man Alun-Wyn is charging towards record
If his track record is anything to go by, Alun-Wyn Jones will pass another landmark towards the end of the coming...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoFarewell to Melville, a trendsetter and an honest one
ERIC MELVILLE deserves room in that special place reserved for those global trendsetters who changed the course of rugby history. The...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoWizards weaved magic on field and off it too
EVERY club has its share of characters but only one can lay claim to a Labour life peer as president (Baron...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: Replace women’s contracts with individual match fees
As I prepare to write this article, I have a feeling of impending doom as the last time I broached this...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Johnny lost to Wales because of his colour
They carried Johnny Freeman from St. Mary’s church last week and out of what used to be Tiger Bay on a...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoDan Leo: Charitable mindset has held back Pacific rugby
Much of the kiwi media-fare leading up to the third test between New Zealand and the Lions focussed on Kieran Read...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher previews the Women’s World Cup
The memory of 2014 in France might still be fresh with us but women’s rugby has moved on apace and, a...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoMike Ford: My love of risk-taking has landed me in the USA
The opportunity to try something new appealed to me when Dallas Griffins owner Phil Camm asked me to head up the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: England have only two world class players in their squad
This week heralds the announcement of the 45- strong England EPS squad and it feels like a big staging post, the...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams: Break the bank to keep Biggar at Ospreys
Here’s my message to the Welsh Rugby Union; you have to try and pull out all the stops to help keep...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoJohnny lost to Wales because of his colour
Halifax record-breaker: Cardiff’s Johnny Freeman They carried Johnny Freeman from St. Mary’s church last week and out of what used to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoFixtures putting players in impossible position
WHEN Perpignan reached the 2009 Top 14 final, Perry Freshwater made a stand. The England prop put club before country and...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoCharitable mindset has held back Pacific rugby
Fifty up: Akapusi Qera, with insets David Lemi, Census Johnston and Nili Latu PICTURE: Getty Images Much of the kiwi media-fare...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoReplace women’s contracts with individiual match fees
World cup captain: England No.8 Sarah Hunter, World Rugby’s player of the year for 2016 PICTURE: Getty Images As I prepare...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoBreak the bank to keep Dan at Ospreys
Key man at Ospreys: Dan Biggar PICTURE: Getty Images HERE’S MY message to the Welsh Rugby Union; you have to try...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoOnly world beaters will get tickets for this ride
THIS week heralds the announcement of the 45- strong England EPS squad and it feels like a big staging post, the...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoFar from fun as Wild era kicks off in controversy
In the spotlight: Stade’s Fijian wing Waisea Nayacalevu PICTURE: Getty Images It wasn’t quite what Dr. Hans- Peter Wild ordered this...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoHandling of expansion has become a shambles
I COVERED the expansion of the Guinness PRO12 in my column last week, but seven days later we’re no closer to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoAbington celebrates the life of Saints hero Mobbs
THE 100th anniversary of Edgar Mobbs’ death at the Third Battle off Ypres falls tomorrow and the town of Northampton will...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: Baxter must join Eddie’s team if he’s to succeed
One of the most vexing issues that all four Home Unions have had to face over the last eight years is...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoAndy Goode: You’ve got to be a big noise now, Demetri!
The fly-half merry-go-round has been in full swing throughout a frenetic last few months with a host of No.10s switching clubs in...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoDan Leo: Samoa left with mountain to climb after All Blacks error
After a brutally long season the ever-dwindling holiday period is finally upon us. Four weeks to rest those aches and pains,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: Baa-baas ‘Test’ would solve the Lions tour conundrum
Sometimes you have to ask why people ask questions when something has already been decided upon and accepted by all. I...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams: Leigh needs future sorted double fast
I really feel for Leigh Halfpenny. What a situation he’s in. To be without a club at this stage isn’t ideal...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoGary Gold: Boks reborn with Venter working for the defence
The fact that the All Blacks drew the three-match series with the British and Irish Lions would have been of concern...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott: Liam’s electric but he must sharpen focus at Saracens
Liam Williams’ move to Saracens from the Scarlets is one of this summer’s biggest transfers, and one of the big talking...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: Without doubt, Ford’s found fresh gears since Bath exit
Welcome to the new, improved, Ford. In this case, however, the model is called George rather than describing the latest product...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: How Leigh Halfpenny went from hero to zero offers in less than six months
Six months ago Leigh Halfpenny found himself under a veritable bombardment of offers on an ever-escalating scale over his next move....
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoWales must start planning for life after Gatland now
By Wales and Lions legend Shane Williams The Lions tour told us many things about Northern Hemisphere rugby. It showed our...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoJacko column: Warburton an invaluable role model for all
By Peter Jackson No matter what happens from now on, nothing will stop Sam Warburton taking up permanent residence in that...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoNow we have hope about RWC 2019
NICK CAIN SPELLS OUT WHAT EACH OF THE HOME UNIONS CAN LEARN FROM THE LIONS TOUR IN the stock-take of one...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoBE PART OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST RUGBY AWARDS
Determined: Hartpury No 9 Jake Polledri on the march towards the Rosslyn Park try line in National 1 THE AWARDS This...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoJudgement: The Fox was simply outstanding in all three Tests
Player of the Tour: Wales‘ Jonathan Davies, below, played every minute of the Tests and was in world class form throughout....
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoGarces moved beyond see-no-evil culture when it comes to Kiwi misdemeanours
By Peter Jackson Sonny Bill Williams probably thought he would get away with it just as generations of All Blacks had...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoReview: Slow start saw Lions move from strength to strength before springing into life
Match 1, June 3: Provincial Barbarians 7 British and Irish Lions 13 Okara Park, Whangarei, 19,951 Barely 72 hours off the...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoVocal sea of red prove rugby still has its romance, says Lions legend John Taylor
It was Ian McGeechan, long before he was knighted, who said one of the most difficult things you have to come...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoRef Poite got it wrong but Warburton worked his diplomatic magic
By Shane Williams THIS WAS an incredible achievement by the Lions. I don’t understand those people who are saying it was...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoGuscott column: Faletau came of age and put Read in his shadow
IT’S been one hell of a series and no-one involved with this Lions team should feel anything other than immense pride...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: Lions should have taken 45 players in first place
Replacement strategies are becoming the bane of Lions tours, as the furore around the ‘Geography Six’ – the late call-ups to...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams: Sexton and Farrell are certain to get better and better playing together
It was a privilege to be in Wellington to watch this thriller of a game; it was right up with the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: One match to go, and these Lions could end up legends
With the mid-week games over and just one game to go, I am already suffering from Lions fatigue and can’t wait...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: As the pressure ramped up, so cool Gatland kept his nerve
This Test was not only a compelling thriller which instantly claims its place in Lions folklore but a game which neatly...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott: Lions prove they have stomach for the battle
To beat an All Blacks side that have lost only six games since the World Cup in 2011 – and not...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s all-time All Blacks Maori XV
1. Billy Bush – William Kingita Te Pohe to give the Napier and Canterbury prop his full name. Wild looking, heavily...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: McGeechan warned of Lions meltdown 24 years ago
Long before they knighted him for services to the game, Sir Ian McGeechan raised an issue serious enough to threaten the...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: Farrell has become Mr VIP for the Lions
Owen Farrell is the embodiment of the ‘all for one, one for all’ ethos that is the foundation for winning Lions...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoFine margin between pain and privilege of touring
Now the club season is over let the summer tours begin and by the time you read this, the first of...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoCockerill: Prem best would find Top14 tough
Tough talk: Richard Cockerill coaches his Toulon side PICTURE: Getty Images Richard Cockerill, who tonight has a tilt with Toulon at...
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