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/ 5 years agoChief Holmes heads home
PROP Greg Holmes is to leave Exeter to return to his native Australia. The 37- year-old, who played in the 2015...
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/ 5 years agoKlim latest to join revamped Reds
JERSEY Reds have signed Namibia international wing Lesley Klim ahead of the 2020-21 Championship season. Klim, 25, played twice at the...
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/ 5 years agoPhillips wants rebirth of Ospreys galacticos
By ADAM ELLIS Glory days: Kristian Phillips playing for the Ospreys PICTURES: Getty Images KRISTIAN Phillips hopes the takeover of the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoYOUNG GUNS
GWILYM BRADLEY CARDIFF BLUES NO.7 When Gwilym Bradley suffered a serious wrist injury that wiped out his 2018/19 season and caused...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoChampion class of 2020 maintaining the highest standards
IT can’t be easy living up to brilliant teams of yesteryear but this season’s Wellington 1st XV have been right up...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoSo stylish even Sir Clive came for a lesson
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools THERE are very few rugby clubs that can claim to have...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoJantjies strikes a blow for the shamateurs
AS VARIOUS factions within the English game traded insults over accusations of players being forced to sign reduced contracts, a plaintive...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoDream debut …then tutor to a rock star
IRELAND had never beaten anyone from the southern hemisphere when the Wallabies turned up at Lansdowne Road in January 1958. A...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoAll Black-slayer Carwyn deserved better than this
WHAT Carwyn James achieved during successive seasons had never been achieved before, nor since. He coached three teams to celebrated victories...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoLeinster’s glory trail runs into a roadblock
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had the season run its natural course, one team might well by now have succeeded...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoSerevi was a showboat but also a serial winner
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring photographs, and explains the story behind the iconic image What’s happening here?...
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/ 5 years agoWe must make our clubs more user-friendly for the local fans
Q&A JOHN INVERDALE ON THE RECORD John Inverdale, star broadcaster and president of National Two Esher, has just taken on the...
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/ 5 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 5 years agoJenkins comeback gives Blues fans needed boost
By ROB COLE Leader: Ellis Jenkins ELLIS Jenkins is set to return to action when the Cardiff Blues squad reassembles on...
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/ 5 years agoJohnson urges against banning rugby anthem
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the RFU announced it would review...
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/ 5 years agoSwing Low was song of tribute to black star
THERFU stand accused of many crass decisions and incompetencies over the decades but they really do not have to get their...
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/ 5 years agoSoper was All Blacks’ star prospect – better than Meads
ALISTAIR ‘Ack’ Soper died aged 83 in Invercargill this week, an uncapped All Black tourist (number 590) but probably not a...
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/ 5 years agoFine margins swung the series Lions way
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Imperious: Martin Johnson in the first Test against South Africa...
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/ 5 years agoGatland’s spoilt for choice for speed
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… WINGS THE 2021 Lions...
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/ 5 years agoLEWIS LUDLUM ON…
…The dedication of his dad, Arron My dad had never been involved in rugby at all, but after England won the...
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/ 5 years agoI was called some bad names but it never held me back
Lewis Ludlum explains his attitude to racial abuse in this exclusive interview LEWIS Ludlum’s story is a beacon of hope as...
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/ 5 years agoGatland must find a Tartan talisman
WARREN Gatland is already thinking about next year’s Lions tour of South Africa, on which he will be confronted by a...
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/ 5 years agoSaint-Andre will like ‘man with money’
MOHED Altrad, the moneybags of Montpellier, has been talking up the talents of Philippe-Saint Andre, the latest man charged with bringing...
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/ 5 years agoLeo is the Rashford figurehead for rugby
When it comes to set texts for students of the game - the unredacted script of Pitbull’s Punch-Ups, for instance, or...
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/ 5 years agoClarke joins the cast in Dallas adventure
Alex Bywater talks to former Ospreys head coach Allen Clarke about his move to US Making a point: Ospreys then head...
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/ 5 years agoBuchanan fights on to save future for Llanelli
NEWS EXTRA By ROB COLE A YEAR ago Anthony Buchanan launched an ‘SOS’ appeal to try to safeguard the future of...
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/ 5 years agoTest cauldron was relaxation for undercover cop Crowley
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at the best rugby-playing police officers 1. Dan Crowley (Queensland and Australia) A...
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Shane Williams
/ 5 years agoChiefs have look of Euro champs
Europe crown awaits: Sam Simmonds scores Exeter’s fourth try against La Rochelle PICTURE: Getty Images NOW WE know the PRO14 will...
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Shane Williams
/ 5 years agoKiwi crowds show they back their players
Igot to speak to Warren Gatland last week in the wake of rugby’s return in New Zealand. He was in great...
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/ 5 years agoGoneva signs for swansong season in France
FORMER Premiership Player of the Year Niki Goneva is heading back to France after his contract with Harlequins runs out. The...
