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Features
/ 6 years agoTakeover soap opera rumbles on at Beziers
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Rivals: Christophe Dominici and, inset, former Toulouse president Rene Bouscatel Alot can happen in a month. A...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaints partner up with Blues
BEDFORD Blues say they have been ‘given a lifeline’ by Northampton. The new partnership will see the clubs cooperate on a...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKirwan will add his ferocty to Nottingham cause
By JON NEWCOMBE Excited: Carl Kirwan CARL Kirwan is delighted to be back in the Championship after signing a part-time deal...
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/ 6 years agoRegrets? Robshaw bows out with a few to mention
By JON NEWCOMBE Champions: Quins lift the title in 2012 PICTURES: Getty Images CHRIS Robshaw says Harlequins’ failure to build a...
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Latest News
/ 6 years ago‘Heartland’ competition will renew old rivalries
By NEALE HARVEY Realist: Jon Sharpe Proposal: Ed Griffiths COVENTRY chairman Jon Sharp says a new ‘Heartland’ competition could provide salvation...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLam has the ability to turn his Bears into champions
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Spectacular: Semi Radradra playing for Bordeaux PICTURE: Getty Images Iwouldn’t underestimate anything about Pat...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTyro No.10 McBryde ready for battle with the Knights
NEWS EXTRA BILLY McBryde is using Josh Adams as his inspiration as he keeps on working his way north to try...
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Features
/ 6 years agoExpand the Prem to 16 clubs and PRO14 to 20
Expansion: Let the Jaguares join a new PRO20 PICTURE: Getty Images ■ HAVING a global season is all well and good....
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Features
/ 6 years agoShould it really be a ‘Wild West’ shootout?
THEREis no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed much in our lives as well as the sports arena. Rugby has...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBiased Booy must step down
THE administrative shortcomings at the professional end of the game in England have been highlighted by the failure of the Professional...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A – John Inverdale: We must make NCA clubs more user-friendly to local fans
The new chairman of NCA Rugby talks about the areas where National League clubs require immediate attention
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoThe four biggest rugby events for betting
Rugby is one of the most popular sports around and there are dozens of events for you to enjoy. Rugby is...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLewis Ludlam interview – I was called some bad names but it never held me back
The England and Northampton flanker talks in-depth about his experience as a mixed-race British man and his education at St Joseph's
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Tell the south to keep their hands off our jewels
Moving the Six Nations and domestic leagues towards the summer would see rugby's exposure diminish, not be enhanced, writes Nick Cain
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGlobal season talks hit stumbling block as Premiership and Top 14 oppose summer shift
LNR president Paul Goze believes summer rugby would be a sacrifice made to satisfy the southern hemisphere nations
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens sign fly-half Will Hooley after leaving Bedford Blues
15-cap USA international says it was an 'easy decision' to join Saracens
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland lock Maro Itoje pledges his future to Saracens
The Saracens lock has been widely tipped to captain the British & Irish Lions next summer in South Africa
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGloucester to name George Skivington as their new head coach
London Irish forwards coach set for top job at Premiership rivals
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTed Hill signs long-term extension with Worcester Warriors
The flanker has signed a further extension to the one he agreed last December
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/ 6 years agoWalker rides 50k a day to be up running for Trailfinders
By NEALE HARVEY Italian adventure: Charlie Walker DETERMINED former Harlequins wing Charlie Walker is clocking up the bike miles in a...
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/ 6 years agoBright: If you are in good shape age is just a number
By JON NEWCOMBE Veteran: Mark Bright is still going strong aged 41 EVERGREEN No.8 Mark Bright has plenty of examples to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWinter rules
I CAN’T believe Jerry Guscott does not like watching rugby in the winter because it’s too wet and cold. As a...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoTell the south to keep hands off our jewels
WHERE World Rugby’s plans for a global season are concerned there is a growing sense that the tail is wagging the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBig guns snub call for rugby in summer
By PETER JACKSON Non! Paul Goze THE English and French clubs are refusing to sacrifice their traditional winter game on the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoItoje pledges his future to Saracens
Committed: Maro Itoje. Inset, Will Skelton MARO ITOJE is set to confirm he is staying with Premiership and European champions Saracens...
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Shane Williams
/ 6 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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Features
/ 6 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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Features
/ 6 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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Features
/ 6 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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Features
/ 6 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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/ 6 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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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRing-fence could reduce the drain on RFU funding
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Ireally enjoyed last week’s article interviewing Plymouth Albion commercial manager Chris Bentley and his...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMandela effect unites a nation as Boks put the brakes on Jonah
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union THE 1995 World Cup is a story...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDismal England needed radical shake up and Carling delivered
TIME offers up perspective and what has become known as the ‘Carling era’ looks ever more important with the passing years,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDriven by desire for Bristol’s champagne!
MY LIFEIN RUGBY HAYDN THOMAS THE FORMER EXETER CHIEFS, GLOUCESTER & BRISTOL SCRUM-HALF THE other day we had a 10th anniversary...
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Features
/ 6 years agoShaun Edwards interview – Coming to France has probably taken me out of the Lions job
In such little time, Shaun Edwards has helped France deal with the intensity of sporting cauldrons
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens’ Alex Lozowski aims to conquer England after Montpellier stint
The Premiership and Champions Cup winner talks to TRP after securing his future at Saracens but agreeing a loan to Montpellier
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby anthems countdown: 15-11
The passionate national anthem of Argnetina features on Brendan Gallagher's countdown
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Dan Leo: We won’t be silenced in our fight to weed out corruption
Pacific Rugby Players Welfare chief Dan Leo talks in-depth about Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and World Rugby's governance
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoMoving the Six Nations will work for rugby – Conrad Smith
The former All Blacks centre is now playing a key role with the International Rugby Players' association
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoClear out flankers to improve flow of game
Turnover kings: England flankers Tom Curry and Sam Underhill suffocated New Zealand at RWC2019 PICTURE: Getty Images THE CALLS for law...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRobshaw agrees to stay until season end
TRANSFER WRAP CHRIS Robshaw will finish the remainder of the postponed Premiership season with Harlequins after agreeing a contract extension. The...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEdwards: I talk to them with body language
NICK CAIN CALLS A VILLAGE IN FRANCE TO TALK TO THE MAN HELPING FIRE LES BLUES Off: Mohammed Haouas punches Scotland’s...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWinless Namibia escape the repechage
WORLD Rugby have finalised the qualifying procedure for RWC2023 and although the dislocation of Covid-19 means it must remain a little...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLittle Jonny’s huge hits were game changers
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring photographs, and explains the story behind the iconic image Iconic Rugby Pictures:...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWe will not be silenced in our fight to weed out corruption
Q&A DAN LEO ON THE RECORD Regret: Dan Leo says Samoa should not have played against England in 2014 PICTURES: Getty...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CHRIST TSHIUNZA EXETER BACK ROW/LOCK From war-torn Congo to the top of international rugby, that’s the dream of 18-year-old back row-cum-lock...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFive Nations free-for-all after Welsh dominance
THE 1980s, with Wales no longer on their lofty perch of the 70s, was an unpredictable decade in the Five Nations...
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/ 6 years agoIt’s time to get real and ring-fence Premiership – Bentley
By NEALE HARVEY Realist: Chris Bentley Reaching the top: Chris Bentley was part of the Exeter side promoted in 2010 PICTURE:...
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/ 6 years agoKiss: We have to protect league rugby
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish head coach Les Kiss says World Rugby must not sacrifice league rugby on the altar of...
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