Search results for "championship"
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEllis Genge’s rare feat in the Six Nations shows how props are changing
Willie John McBride told TRP last week props weren't built like they used to
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNorthampton in advanced talks to sign South African flanker based in France
Former Bulls back row closing in on move to Franklin's Gardens after two years in France
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoFive advantages of indoor sports games
While referring to indoor sports games, we usually mean online gaming, which has gained enormous popularity these days. In this kind...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Presidents scrap over playoff principle
The 'hellscape' facing France's Top 14 with TV and player welfare ramifications
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Features
/ 6 years agoHolmes calls halt to become a city slicker
By JEREMY BLACKMORE NOTTINGHAM skipper Tom Holmes has called time on a 13-year career in the wake of the Championship funding...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoGood news for Boris, the right is might again
Best wing in the world? Cheslin Kolbe PICTURE: Getty Images The Prime Minister rather enjoys his rugger: indeed, he attended last...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoDon’t mess up this crucial changeover
Different eras: Bill Beaumont, and Agustin Pichot in their playing days PICTURE: Gettty Images As everybody in sport, and in particular...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGlobal season must happen to make rugby a world sport
Q&A ALAN SOLOMONS ON THE RECORD Stifled: World Cup quarter-finalists Japan need more top level games to progress PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWales cap Will owes so much to Boden
By NEALE HARVEY Reaching the top: Will Rowlands making his debut for Wales against France PICTURES: Getty Images NEWLY-capped Wales and...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCross Green’s home to generations of Melvilles
MY CLUB OTLEY WE SPEAK TO A NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN RUGBY FIGURES ABOUT THE CLUB THEY CALL THEIR OWN, THIS WEEK...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBrave new world after lockdown? I doubt it
Old style: Rob Andrew playing for Yorkshire in 1987 County Championship Another week of lockdown and, with no rugby to write...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAu revoir France as Home Unions assert their power
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Hired hands: The Quillan rugby team made...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFlying start grinds to halt after Lions refuse to field a replacement
Wild spirit: Blair Mayne was a Lion and a founding father of the SAS THE British Lions staged two major tours...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoIt’s the good life now for the family Yapp
On a sheep farm in Shropshire, NEALE HARVEY talks to Tony Yapp and his sister Jo about their careers in men’s...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPresidents scrap over playoffs principle
Breaking ranks: Toulouse president Didier Lacroix If a week is currently a long time in everyday pandemic-era politics, it’s an aeon...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoStep up for James at Saints
NORTHAMPTON Saints have signed Doncaster scrum-half Tom James for next season. The 26-year-old was the Knights’ top scorer in 2018- 19...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoQuestion time at Twickenham
SPECIAL REPORT by NICK CAIN GRAEME Cattermole, the former chairman of the RFU, has written an explosive letter to a member...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSeilala champions case for reversal
By STEFFAN THOMAS Plea: Seilala Mapusua FORMER Premiership player of the season Seilala Mapusua has backed Sir Bill Beaumont’s bid to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoNeither Beaumont nor Pichot are right
Same old: Billy Beaumont and Agustin Pichot COLIN BOAG Everyone knows the problem with elections: candidates come up with good ideas,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFair play? I struggle to see it
A COUPLE of weeks ago a reader stated that before a Championship side could be promoted they must be financially sustainable....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU must not waste this chance to reset
IN last week’s Rugby Paper Steve Grainger described how the RFU were meeting rugby’s needs during the coronavirus crisis. The Director...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 5-1
The hard men who wouldn't take a step back on the rugby pitch
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Big guns will back Bill Beaumont to save them cash
Jeff Probyn contemplates what Bernard Laporte's running for World Rugby vice-chairman means for Bill Beaumont's bid to be re-elected
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoKpoku brothers pose twin threat in Saracens engine room
Neale Harvey talks to Joel and Jon Kpoku on their rise through Saracens' player pathway to the first team
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWill Hurrell harbours dreams of being defence commander after stroke ends playing career
The Bristol Bears centre talks to TRP's Neale Harvey after his retirement announcement last week
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Lee Blackett: Wasps can show the director of rugby role isn’t essential
Wasps head coach Lee Blackett wants his squad to play to his philosophy of 'attacking fear'
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNational One in conflict over salary cap reduction
Not everyone in National League One is in favour of a financial reset
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLeicester Tigers fend off interest for another international in their backline
After losing Jonny May to Gloucester, Tigers face another fight to keep hold of winger
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDoncaster Knights deducted five points for breaching RFU’s rules on agents
Championship club found to have breached intermediary regulations and docked points
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEx-Gloucester prop Gareth Denman one of two signings set to hit trail to Ealing
Neil Fissler reports on the two players set to switch Championship clubs, plus Exeter Chiefs extend deal for veteran
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 15-11
Trouble seemed to find its way to Bakkies Botha on the rugby pitch...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoExclusive: Plans to hold Six Nations in FULL this autumn
Peter Jackson reports on the contingency talks for a second Six Nations in November
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Canada, Sale, London Welsh and Esher utility back Phil MacKenzie
Three relegations haven't dampened the Canadian's outlook on his time in English club rugby
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed to the battlefront and died heroes with VCs
FOR three decades or more before 1914 the young men of Britain and its extended Empire had been fighting generally good...
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoCoronavirus leads to lull in sports betting
The coronavirus pandemic has ended up delivering a lethal yet unexpected blow to the sports betting industry. According to many industry...
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoRugby betting guide for beginners
Watching sports, including rugby, can make you a happier person, at least if you don’t take losses personally. On the flip...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPlan to hold Six Nations in full again in autumn
Compensation issue By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations are in the process of finalising contingency plans for an emergency tournament to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSalary cap cuts are thrown out by big three
Billy’s boost from Italy By NEIL FISSLER Young: He’s set to stay with Wasps Wales’ flanker Thomas Young seems certain to stay...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHooley on his way to new-look Saracens
SARACENS have been busys napping up Championship players ahead of spending next season in the second tier. Blind side understands they...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTigers must repel raiders for Jonah
Wanted: Jonah Holmes THE DRAGONS are keen on making a cross border raid on Leicester Tigers to sign Wales international winger...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoProp Heffernan keen to stay in England
NOTTINGHAM prop Oisin Heffernan, right, is back on the market after the Championship side hit financial problems. The former Ireland U20...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDay the Old Boys’ drinking club beat the mighty Sarries
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest upsets 1= Old Reigatians 12 Saracens 10 (John Player Cup, 1987)...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHaag hankers for return to pro game
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Martin Haag, one of rugby’s very best ‘lost’ coaches DEAN RYAN’s tenure at the RFU was a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPoles call for more ranking events
By ADAM ELLIS POLAND head coach Duaine Lindsay has called on World Rugby to increase the number of fixtures Europe’s emerging...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEllis is living proof of the old 80-minute rule
By PETER JACKS0N Going the distance: Ellis Genge played the full 80 for England against Wales during the World Cup warm-up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNational One in conflict over salary cap reduction
By NEALE HARVEY BATTLE lines are being drawn among National League One clubs after Chinnor chairman Simon Vickers demanded a swingeing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWasps must play without fear to get the fans behind us
Q&A LEE BLACKETT ON THE RECORD New head coach Lee Blackett tells NEALE HARVEY how he intends rising to the challenge...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBig guns will back Bill to save them cash
“What Pichot hopes for is the dream of Tier Two nations, but this can never be achieved” And so it begins,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWakefield leads charge as England claim four Grand Slams in the 20s
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union In the immediate aftermath of World War...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoQUINS DOMINATE THE NEW MIDDLESEX SEVENS COMPETITION
A MAJOR development in the 1920s was the establishment of the end-of-season Middlesex Sevens which were organised by a London Scot...
International Rugby
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International Rugby
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