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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoSaracens lads ‘will thrive in Tier Two’
By NEALE HARVEY High hopes: Adam Powell Home-grown: Joel Kpoku, left, and Ralph Adams-Hale can spark Saracens SARACENS academy coach Adam...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLoader steps in to beef up Ystalyfera forwards
By ROB COLE NEWS EXTRA YSTALYFERA have added former Wales prop Christian Loader to their coaching team for next season as...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGive stars Test fees but keep pay down
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In the money: England players get £25,000 for each Test match PICTURE:...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThompstone left in limbo as the jobs dry up
Concern: Adam Thompstone is fighting to save his career PICTURE: Getty Images LEICESTER wing Adam Thompstone is facing up to being...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoYoung: Life with Lions would be ideal return
By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Wasps supremo Dai Young would love a role with the British & Irish Lions after declaring himself...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoFrance looks the likeliest route for Itoje to take now
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Playing to win: Maro Itoje crashes over to score a try for Saracens during...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAmbition? Lansdown should ask Ealing!
STEVE Lansdown wants to ring fence the Premier League so that the clubs can get their finances in order. Well, we’ve...
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Features
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Mark Mapletoft: Harlequins could improve on bringing through more youngsters
After a decade at Harlequins, academy coach Mark Mapletoft is moving on. We asked him about his time at the Stoop...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoFaith shown by Chris Boyd has seen Fraser Dingwall grow at Saints
The Northampton Saints centre talks to Jeremy Blackmore about his breakthrough season at Franklin's Gardens
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Playing for British & Irish Lions was most special honour for Rory Underwood
England's all-time leading tryscorer played in a World Cup and was a spectator at the 2003 triumph in Sydney
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Northampton Saints No.8 Tui Uru
Uru was signed by Saints after playing for Bury St Edmunds in National Two South
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNorthampton sign back-five forward Nick Isiekwe on season-long loan
The England lock has agreed an extension with Saracens but will not be playing in the Championship
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Takeovers, big moves, life goes on in Pro D2
James Harrington reports on how money is swirling around the second tier of French rugby
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Most marquee players just aren’t worth the money
The Premiership has been a two-team preserve for too long. But Nick Cain questions Steve Lansdown's route to dethroning Saracens
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRemembering Exeter Chiefs’ promotion to the Premiership ten years on
Rob Baxter and Tommy Hayes look back on the success of their Championship-winning season 2009-10
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoMore time needed to plan safe return to training
PREMIERSHIP clubs will not return to training for another two weeks at least, delaying the season’s restart until August at the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRugby must recalibrate by remembering less is more
Q&A MARK MAPLETOFT ON THE RECORD After a decade at Harlequins in various roles, former head coach and academy guru Mark...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSwinging 60s rugby showed its very good, bad and ugly sides
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union FOR rugby the 60s mirrored the pop...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoTakeovers, big moves, life goes on in ProD2
France’s Top 14 clubs are currently pretty quiet. There’s some news of player moves, and updates on planned preseason friendlies in...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoVarndell stays in the game with coaching role at Bury
By NEALE HARVEY TOM Varndell is ready to add another chapter to his x-factor career after joining Bury St Edmunds as...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBoyd’s trust has seen Fraser grow
By JEREMY BLACKMORE Promise of more to come: Fraser Dingwall scores for Saints against Leicester PICTURE: Getty Images SAINTS centre Fraser...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoStar prop Du Plessis gets back in the front line to help the NHS
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Help: Petrus du Plessis, and, inset, in his NHS mask PETRUS du Plessis’ career has come full circle...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBen pushing to have scrum doctor Cron’s eye for detail
By NEALE HARVEY Expert tuition: Mike Cron coaching Ben Franks FORMER detective Mike Cron will provide eagle-eyed inspiration to Ben Franks...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSarries will be exhausted
WITH the Premiership season set to run and run, what happens to Saracens’ remaining fixtures? Will they be expected to play...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoMost marquee players just aren’t worth the money
THE marquee player debate highlights the dilemma that most Premiership owners face in terms of how to reconcile rampant self-interest with...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWindow to finish current Premiership season tightens as PGB agrees two-week delay
Time to finish the 2019-20 Premiership season is running out
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago‘I got a call from Pat Lam saying they’re looking to put together the strongest squad’ – Max Malins explains Bristol loan move
The Saracens full-back explains how his loan move to Bristol came about after a call from Pat Lam
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens keen on adding Argentine points machine as cover for Owen Farrell
The latest on Saracens' squad-building for life in the Championship
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoSpencer column: Cruel for Richmond but the game has moved on
TRP columnist Catherine Spencer reviews the big changes to the Premier 15s which saw Richmond lose out in the audit proces
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Myners report gives sage clarity salary cap has been lacking for years
Nick Cain receives the publishing of the Myners report with acclaim, but says it will do little to address wage inflation
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Autumn Internationals
/ 6 years agoExclusive: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland plot Four Nations contest
Unions move to keep autumn Test window viable as travel restrictions knock out plans with southern hemisphere nations
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Coventry No.8 Ryan Burrows abhors bad drivers
The three pet hates which really grind the back row's gears
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Featured
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Scotland, Leicester, Edinburgh and London Irish back Greig Tonks
The versatile Scotland international lives in the comfort of having no regrets at retiring, aged 30
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU cash to improve facilities will boost numbers
COMMUNITY clubs are necessarily at the forefront of the battle to try and maintain senior men’s playing numbers but need more...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSouthern hemisphere can align with Europe
After seeing the picture of Walkerburn RFC’s new lawn mowers (TRP May 10) I’ve dug this picture out of Welford Road...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNonsense to drop Sarries
THERE seems little point in Saracens playing in the Championship next season. It means that they will be unable to play...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSo far so good, m’lud, but a big stain remains
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK “The same Premiership clubs that are talking about “playing by the same set...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEngland in 4 Nations plan for the autumn
EXCLUSIVE ■By PETER JACKSON Crisis: Brent Impey ENGLAND and Wales plan to finalise fixtures for an emergency Four Nations tournament this...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaracens keen on Socino to strengthen midfield
Ex-Falcon: Socino SARACENS are weighing up making a move for former Newcastle Falcons fly-half Juan Pablo Socino, who is playing in...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSpine-tinglers that fortify fans are the game’s greatest hits
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s best songs and anthems Opening number: Bryn Terfel and Shirley Bassey...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TUI URU NORTHAMPTON No.8 Tui Uru’s name will not be on many lists of ‘England stars of the future’ right now...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLoyalty to Waterloo runs deep for Dick
MY CLUB WATERLOO WE SPEAK TO A NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN RUGBY FIGURES ABOUT THE CLUB THEY CALL THEIR OWN, THIS WEEK...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCruel for Richmond but game’s moved on
CATHERINE SPENCER FORMER ENGLAND WOMEN’S CAPTAIN Star signing: Katy Daley-McLean has become playercoach at Sale Sharks PICTURE: Getty Images For rugby...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEvans’ policy turns erratic England into champions
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union The History of rugby: PART 9 1953-1959...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoMax eyes triumphant end to horror season
■By NEALE HARVEY Ambitious: Bristolbound playmaker Max Malins PICTURE: Getty Images FRUSTRATED Saracens playmaker Max Malins hopes his impending move to...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoPlaying for the Lions was special honour
MY LIFEIN RUGBY RORY UNDERWOOD THE FORMER ENGLAND, LIONS AND LEICESTER WINGER Roaring in: Rory Underwood scores for the Lions on...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGrassroots specialists share skeptical view over RFU £7m aid package
The RFU has been warned by grassroot specialists that its £7m financial aid package will be quickly be swallowed up as...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTRP’s National League One Team of the Season
The season didn't end naturally, but there's still plenty of strong performances to judge in our Nat One XV
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Featured
/ 6 years agoWe’ll use defeat in Japan to come back stronger just as the All Blacks did in 2011, says England’s Anthony Watson
The England and Bath full-back want to win, at club and international level
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoBetindex.bet: Official permission for the Premier League to begin in June
The British government has given official permission for the English Premier League to resume in June. There is currently a ban...
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