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/ 5 years agoHooper: There are still ‘massive positives’ to take from defeat to Quins
Bath director of rugby looks at the positive side after 13-man Bath fell to a fifth-straight defeat in the Premiership
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoNightmare of The Rec goes on for Bath
By MIKE SINCLAIR Bath ....................15pts Tries: Dunn 43, De Glanville 75 Conversions: Priestland 43 Penalties: Priestland 4 Harlequins........28pts Tries: Dombrandt 8,...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBoyd: We were rotten in last 50
DESPITE picking up a hat-trick of league victories, Northampton director of rugby Chris Boyd was scathing about his side’s performance. “In...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWasps 17-22 Northampton: Yellow fever makes Wasps look sickly
Have Northampton Saints finally turned the corner in their season?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBig freeze at World Rugby | Chris Hewett
SO World Rugby, the non-governing governing body, continues to move at the speed of stasis in reshaping the global calendar. Nothing...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTrue price of getting in bed with money men
BACKin the day, players blessed with the ability to count without using their fingers would follow a well-trodden path from field...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoReturn of the ruck will save our game | Chris Hewett
Bring on the counter-ruck by taking out the 'ball-killers', writes Chris Hewett
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoNewcastle prop Logovi’i Mulipola in transfer riddle
Is the Samoan set to cut short a second stint for a move abroad to France?
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoStormers lock on the move to Prem?
Another giant South African lock could be on his way from Super Rugby to the Premiership this summer...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoExeter Chiefs No.9 Joe Snow to head on loan to Championship
The scrum-half will join Coventry for this season's Championship season
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoFacundo Gigena becomes an Exile
LONDON IRISH’S foreign legion is set to grow with the club about to sign Facundo Gigena. The Argentina loosehead prop moved...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRoom 101: Richmond hooker Toby Saysell
The Richmond hooker selects three of his biggest pet peeves from the rugby universe and beyond
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTV cash puts block on end of drop | Nick Cain
MONEY talks – and when there is a threat of it being withdrawn Premiership clubs and their owners listen. That is...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoAustralia must be the choice for Lions | Nick Cain
With the decision on what the Lions will do this summer still to be agreed, Nick Cain breaks down why moving...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWorld Rugby rule out global calendar until 2024
CHANGES to rugby’s global calendar will not come in before 2024. Discussions have taken place for much of the past year,...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBristol Bears lowest in Premiership charts for EQP
Recent Championship clubs such as Bristol and London Irish sit low on the percentage of England qualified players (EQP)
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWomen’s Six Nations gets new format in April
By SAM JACKSON THE delayed Women’s Six Nations will be played in a reduced format across four weekends in April. Rather...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTom Mitchell eager to pit wits against Premiership’s finest
Tokyo Olympics is first and foremost in Mitchell's plans, but the axing of the England Sevens programme has gave him to...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoPRL delay decision on freezing relegation
BT Sport share reservations over ring-fencing, leading to PRL requesting a delay on crucial vote by RFU Council
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Features
/ 5 years agoThe world leaders in prevarication | Colin Boag
There’s an old adage, ‘When you’ve nothing to say, say nothing’, and it’s one that World Rugby would do well to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoQuins found happy place at the Ricoh
MY eyes were drawn to the headline in Chris Hewett’s column, “Harlequins problem? Their shirts”, suggesting Quins drop the quarters in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRFU inherited this situation, they’re doing their best
IT IS disappointing to read criticism targeted at the present RFU regime, as epitomised by Nick Cain’s piece last week, failing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSigley’s portrayal is not a picture I recognise
I WAS disappointed to read the comments from last week’s article “Worcester had the antichrist of Rugby” and didn’t recognise the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoJake Ball gives Alun Wyn Jones black eye with punch in Wales training
Jake Ball has not been included in Wales' squad to play Ireland, after 'heated' exchange with Alun Wyn earlier this week
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoSaracens ring rust costly for England
By GARY FITZGERALD Dejected: Dan Robson, George Ford and Elliot Daly feel the pain PICTURE: Getty Images Felt good: Jamie George...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAndy Farrell needs a No.10 who will put heat on Sexton
Ireland's fly-half at the 2023 Rugby World Cup appears to be no clear prediction, as an aging Sexton leads the team...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWayne Pivac trusts in old guard to keep him in the Wales job
Wayne Pivac speaks on the eve of Wales' Six Nations kick-off against Ireland, with pressure still very much on the head...
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Nick Mallett: If Webb Ellis was playing now, he’d be kicking the ball
Respected South African television pundit and analyst Nick Mallett tells Neale Harvey how rugby styles should change in the years to...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCian Healy to notch 50th Six Nations appearances for Ireland
Ireland travel to Cardiff to take on Wales in the opening round of the 2021 Six Nations
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoRFU risk the second great schism with wrong vote | Nick Cain
Nick Cain writes on the significant ring-fencing vote the RFU Council will hold on Friday, and its potential to create a...














