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/ 5 years agoDiamond rallies troops with half-time roasting
Midweek matches By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Done it: Jono Ross lifts the Premiership Cup trophy PICTURE: Getty Images FAF DE KLERK revealed...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSharks told to up gears in pursuit of play-offs
NEWS EXTRA By JON NEWCOMBE SALE need to get up to speed and match the form of their play-off rivals if...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBravo boys, you’re giving us a show to remember
IT’S high time for lashings of unambiguous praise for the professional rugby players of this Covid-infected land and in particular how...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHumble beginning but Heineken dreamt big
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SO now, in this most unusual and mind-bending season, we finally have the two finalists for the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSurreal start to life in Warriors’ fast lane
Tom Vale talks to Worcester Warriors’ teenage sensation Noah Heward Ten years ago, Noah Heward found himself on a rugby trip...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHastings aims to be more than just Finn’s stand-in
NEWS EXTRA By BRYN PALMER ADAM Hastings has warned Finn Russell he is not ready to give up the Scotland No.10...
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/ 5 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 5 years agoTributes for tragic East Grinstead coach Matt
EAST Grinstead Rugby Club are reeling this weekend at the tragic death of head coach Matt Ratana who was shot on...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHowley’s challenge
HOW good it is to see Rob Howley back in rugby after his nine-month ban for betting violations. The sport has...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJack makes a real twit of himself over Covid
JACK Nowell is such a likeable sportsman – cheery, engaging, approachable, whole-hearted, courageous, a veritable beacon of positivity and one heck...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLove it or hate it, the scrum still holds key
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Avery senior figure in English refereeing circles who must remain nameless – oh, alright then, Tony Spreadbury...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJet-heeled Josh chasing May’s benchmark
FEARLESS Exeter flyer Josh Hodge vows to continue playing to thrill as his Premiership crash course continues in a Chief side...
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/ 5 years agoZoe jumps Prem ship for job at YouTube
PREMIERSHIP Rugby will need a new marketing chief after Zoe Clapp quit to take up a job with YouTube. Clapp, who...
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/ 5 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Warriors go cold on Bobby WORCESTER Warriors are now unlikely to make a move for Southern Kings flanker Bobby...
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/ 5 years agoIt’s going right down to the wire
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE RACE FOR THE TOP FOUROF THE PREMIERSHIP THE PLAY-OFF LINCHPINS: PLAYERS TO WATCH FOR. THERE was...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoScarlets will be title contenders this season
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Firepower: A fit Jonathan Davies can push Scarlets to the next level PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoQantas call time
RUGBY Australia’s finances suffered another blow as Qantas ended a 30- year partnership with the organisation. The Australian airline has been...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoBulls go on rampage
BULLS ran riot with a 49-28 win in Jake White’s first match in charge against the Sharks. Blitzbok 7s duo Stedman...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoHowley signs for Kingsley’s Canada
NEWS EXTRA FORMER Wales coach Rob Howley has been named assistant Canada coach following his return to the sport after being...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoMistake-ridden Tigers are tamed by Toulon
By GARY FITZGERALD TIGERS’ European dreams were well and truly buried on a ploughed Stade Felix Mayol pitch as Toulon set...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoWhy can I mingle in a shop but not at rugby?
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Contrast: Shoppers mix in the aisles while rugby stadiums remain empty PICTURE: Getty...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoWaste of time if we don’t win it – Lam
PAT LAM wasn’t getting carried away with Bristol reaching their first European final. “We haven’t won it yet, we’ve given ourselves...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoBears kill off Begles in extra-time thriller
By ROGER PANTING Leading the charge: Bristol captain Steve Luatua scores their first try PICTURES: Getty Images BRISTOL scored 17 unanswered...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoBaxter: Incredible win, now finish it off
NOTHING could hide Rob Baxter’s joy last night but “we ain’t won nothing yet” was the message he drummed home in...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoAt long last Chiefs make it to rugby’s Hillary Step
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Power: Sam Simmonds scores Exeter’s second try EXETER Chiefs, anonymous fourth tier trundlers back in 1995 when the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoCrisis in Wales as clubs face extinction
THIRTY Welsh rugby clubs are ‘teetering on the brink of extinction’ as the game lurches towards the bleakest of winters. The...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoTop flight rugby may not return until 2021
By NEALE HARVEY PREMIERSHIP clubs may seek to delay the start of the 2020/21 season until the New Year unless Government...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 5 years agoBritish & Irish Lions 2021 kit sponsor Vodafone pay up far beyond 1997 tour’s level
Jack Zorab talks to the man who brokered Scottish Provident getting on the centre of the Lions jersey on the tour...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-England, Gloucester and Sale wing Tom Beim
Picked for the Tour of Hell in 1998, Beim relives the tough moments of his career which, in a way, offer...
