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Premiership
/ 5 years agoEnd of the road for villainous Victor
SO rugby is bidding farewell to Clermont and Georgia flanker Victor Kolelishvili who, after struggling with concussion issues for the best...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoJacek’s stats don’t lie, drop the box kicks!
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Tedium: Ben Youngs puts up a box kick...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoJames targets return to glory days
By JON NEWCOMBE Hunting silverware: Sharks centre Sam James SAM JAMES hopes the Premiership Rugby Cup can serve as a catalyst...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBig job for Joe to stop Sharks getting a sniff
By NEALE HARVEY Praise: Paul Gustard JOE Marchant returns to the city where he won an U20s World Cup with England...
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/ 5 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 5 years agoRavens swoop for another of Cardiff’s stars
BRIDGEND Ravens are set to sign Cardiff full-back Edd Howley as the capital side’s playing stock continues to plummet. With Cardiff...
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/ 5 years agoSolomons: Players will go from feast to famine
By NEALE HARVEY WORCESTER supremo Alan Solomons fears player development will be halted in its tracks unless Championship and National League...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSharks find the local waters are none too friendly
IT IS tempting to suggest that if South African-laden Sale are serious about leaving their current home in Salford in favour...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWeakened sides could sabotage title run-in
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST You did not need to be Inspector Maigret to work out that Agen were up to no...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPete’s lucked out with dream move to Falcons
By JON NEWCOMBE Step up: Falcons new signing Pete Lucock PETE LUCOCK would probably class himself more in the mould of...
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Features
/ 5 years agoScarlets pushing Hardy’s claim for Wales
■By ALEX BYWATER KIERAN Hardy is the “full product” ready to make the step-up to international rugby with Wales for the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoFIVE OTHER YOUNG PLAYERS TO WATCH…
Gabriel Oghre While Wasps youngster Alfie Barbeary has stolen the recent headlines, hooker Gabriel Oghre is another of the club’s academy...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSolomons: Edddie knows all about him
ALAN Solomons is confident Ollie Lawrence would shine brightly on the international stage if Eddie Jones gives the explosive centre a...
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Features
/ 5 years agoOllie thanks lucky pants for bringing him this far!
TOM VALE TALKS TO WORCESTER WARRIORS’ EXPPLOSIVE YOUNG CENTRE OLLIE LAWRENCE Respect: Worcester’s young captain Ted Hill Worcester Warriors’ highlypromising young...
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Features
/ 5 years agoParling joins the ambitious exiles
THERE is no bigger home bird than me. I still live in the village in which I was born and home...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLet’s hope Georgians leave their guns in dressing room!
WE ALL know what the Georgians are going to bring to the Nations Autumn Cup - real fire and brimstone from...
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Features
/ 5 years agoAll eyes in South Africa will be on the Lions
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND If you are a fan of the British & Irish Lions then the signs from...
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Features
/ 5 years agoChiefs capture two more Welsh young guns
By ROB COLE TWO MORE Welsh age grade internationals have been snapped up by Exeter and been given the chance to...
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Features
/ 5 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Comeback: Henson Henson hops codes for run out at Raiders FORMER Wales centre Gavin...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoCaptain Tom chasing glory finish to year of progress
By NEALE HARVEY Focused: Tom Youngs LEICESTER’S quarterfinal clash with Castres today was cancelled after three of the French side’s players...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoDragons slayed by ‘soft’ penalties
DRAGONS centre Jamie Roberts says ‘soft’ penalties cost his side dearly. “Tactically we were very good in the first 15 minutes...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoEdinburgh crash out after gifting Bordeaux 14-point start
By BRYN PALMER Scorer: Damien Hoyland EDINBURGH slumped to a fifth consecutive knockout defeat in three seasons under Richard Cockerill as...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoSemi sizzles as seven-try Bears cruise into last four
By ROGER PANTING Action man: Ben Earl dives over to score Bristol’s second try PICTURE: Getty Images SEMI Radradra produced another...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoSuper-sub Louis sinks Scarlets’ European dream
By ALEX BYWATER Victory kiss: Try-scorer Sergio Parisse embraces Charles Ollivon SCARLETS suffered a heartbreaking Challenge Cup quarter-final defeat and have...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoSaracens hit by Euro humbug
OUR sport is no stranger to hypocrisy, and this was illustrated clearly in the build-up to the European Cup quarter-final between...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoGriffiths’ plan needs the Prem to play fair
IT was a near certainty that the English Championship Proposal was not going to get unanimous approval, and two of the...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoCrafty Boks try to get the best of both worlds
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK lished Celtic sides, the participation of those sides in the European Cup could...
