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/ 5 years agoQuins wing Chris Ashton makes mid-season switch to Worcester Warriors
Ashton makes splashdown at Sixways Stadium, leaving Harlequins after ten months at the Stoop
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/ 5 years agoEngland hit by withdrawal of Launchbury and Marler ahead of Six Nations
Charlie Ewels and Tom West come into the England squad, as Eddie Jones loses 141 caps' worth of experience
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/ 5 years agoTesting times all round
THE order of priorities at the RFU are hard to fathom. The Championship clubs are being told to pay the £5,000...
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/ 5 years agoBig lift for the ref as player gets too familiar
HAVING written a column last week about the dangers of over-familiarity between referees and players, it was instructive to see that...
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/ 5 years agoEaster: Big Billy is still vital to Eddie’s gameplan
NICK EASTER believes Billy Vunipola will still be England’s go-to man at No.8 with Eddie Jones unlikely to shift from his...
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/ 5 years agoFalcons’ camaraderie reminds me of Quins
Jon Newcombe talks to Nick Easter about his new job as Falcons defence coach Massive moment: Toby Flood scores the winning...
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/ 5 years agoHepher expects response from his champions
NEWS EXTRA EXETER head coach Ali Hepher believes his side are over their month of turmoil and ready come out fighting...
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/ 5 years agoCould Ealing be viable in the Prem in London?
COLIN BOAG Up-and-comers: Ealing Trailfinders beat Saracens last weekend When Saracens lost last weekend to the Premiership pretenders, Ealing Trailfinders, it...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoCut funding so PRL fend for themselves
IF Nick Cain ever wants to change his profession then a carpenter he should be for once again he has hit...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoIs copying the Prem best way to achieve self-sustainability?
IS the formation of a company “overnight” really the route to salvation for the Championship, as Coventry’s Nick Johnston suggests last...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoUnfortunately now it’s all about money
THE game developed very quickly after professionalism and was quoted, “Like being in the Wild West” with new owners coming in...
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/ 5 years agoHis ‘controlled aggression’ earns Falcons No.8 Graham a Scottish recall
By BRYN PALMER Leader: Gary Graham NEWCASTLE No.8 Gary Graham has been picked to bring his “controlled aggression” to the fore...
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/ 5 years agoBaxter wins the Writers’ Club vote
EXETERdirector of rugby Rob Baxter has won the Rugby Union Writers’ Club personality of the year award for 2020. The 49-year-old...
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/ 5 years agoWilliams fears for a lost generation of Wales U20s
TRP Probyn: Saracens must stay down for two seasons By ALEX BYWATER Promise: Wales U20 beat France last season WALES U20...
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/ 5 years agoForfeit for Saracens
SARACENSwere forced to forfeit their Trailfinders Cup match against Doncaster after two of their academy players tested positive for Covid. Contact...
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/ 5 years agoWomen get Covid tests
COVID testing will be introduced in women’s Premier XVs. The league had played without testing and some players had voiced concern....
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/ 5 years agoDoncaster sign Sexton
DONCASTER Knights have strengthened their second row options ahead of Saturday’s Trailfinders Challenge Cup game against Ealing by signing Jerry Sexton....
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/ 5 years agoJaco pens extension
FLY-HALF Jaco van der Walt has extended his stay with Edinburgh. The South Africa-born Scotland playmaker, 26, has been with the...
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/ 5 years agoRandox in firing line
PREMIERSHIP Rugby are investigating a number of false positive Covid tests reported by testers Randox Health. Bath self-isolated after 19 players...
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/ 5 years agoNew deal for Danny
RUGBY SHORTS DANNY Care has signed a deal to extend his 15-year stay at Harlequins Care is third on Quins’ all-time...
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/ 5 years agoJAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN Alldritt’s out of running for Italy with knee injury Blow: Gregory Alldritt must await test results La Rochelle put...
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/ 5 years agoRUSSELL EARNSHAW
MY LIFEIN RUGBY Rotherham had real identity - unlike Bath THE FORMER BATH, ROTHERHAM, DONCASTER AND BIRMINGHAM & SOLIHULL FLANKER Professional...
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/ 5 years agoCoetzee set to sign at Bath
BATH are set to raid South Africa again with the signing of Western Province and Stormers loose forward Jaco Coetzee. The...
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/ 5 years agoJEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME To be fair, Saracens should stay down another season Surprise: Saracens lose to Ealing...
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/ 5 years agoPremiership is so brutal, toughest on the planet
Daniel Gallan finds how coming to Irish has changed Nick Phipps’ perceptions Driven: Nick Phipps is determined to push London Irish...
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/ 5 years agoFearless Leahy, the ferocious tackler who went on to lead Tesco’s surge
LIKE many grammar schools of the era, the St Edward’s XV of the mid- 70s was an eclectic mix of many...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoSt Edward’s forged their style in Llanelli
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Hothouse of talent: First XV 1962-63 Young stars: The U16 team...
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/ 5 years agoNAHUMMERIGAN
YOUNGGUNS BATH NO.8 Should it transpire that Zach Mercer leaves Bath this summer, one of the club’s academy products set to...
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/ 5 years agoWomen’s Game in Focus: Saracens scrum-half Eloise Hayward
Sarah Rendell speaks with the No.9 who has emerged as a worthy contender for a Red Roses call-up
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/ 5 years agoRichmond women ensure World Cup lift-off despite zero support from IRB
Inspirational: USA centre Patty Jervey, playing against Ireland in 2006 during her fifth World Cup WOMEN’s Rugby may have plotted an...
