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Features
/ 8 years agoSpecial send off please for a giant of the game
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER Best of the best: Argentina legend Juan Martin...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWigan may beat England to deal over Edwards
Return: Shaun Edwards could be on his way back to League SHAUN EDWARDS could be set to make a return to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoU20s tackle height lowered to ‘below the nipple’
WORLD Rugby is to trial two new tackle laws at the upcoming U20 World Championship in a bid to combat risk...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCarleton try snatches famous win in Tbilisi
Heroes all: England Counties U20 celebrate their famous win over Georgia By JON NEWCOMBE MATCH-WINNING hero Tom Carleton is glad to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIreland face tough task of keeping Folau quiet
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for the big Southern Hemisphere tours set to depart in June Challenge: Michael Cheika THIS summer...
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Features
/ 8 years agoNamibia are big favourites with Bothma back to lead
AS was the case for RWC2015 the CAR African Championship will double up as the RWC2019 qualifying tournament for Africa 1,...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoTonga’uiha sure Pacific franchise would be smash hit
NEWS EXTRA SOANE Tonga’uiha reckons a combined ‘Pacific Force’ Super Rugby team could quickly challenge the old order and become a...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDeclan Kidney appointed director of rugby at London Irish
Declan Kidney takes the top job at London Irish
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLucock should be next to step up says Davies
By JON NEWCOMBE BATH signing Alex Davies has backed former Yorkshire Carnegie team-mate Pete Lucock to follow him and make the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoScrap this apprentice policy for game time
MARCUS Smith is still 19, and the Harlequins flyhalf is eligible for the England U20 side that will compete in the...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoWarks to take on Durham in final after win
By RICHARD ISAACS Division Two Round-up WARWICKSHIREmoved into the Bill Beaumont County Championship Division 2 final after an enthralling 31-24 win...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoBingham hat-trick fires Lancs to HQ
By ALLAN FOSTER Lancashire…64 Cheshire……23 ANTHONY Bingham helped himself to a hattrick as Lancashire ran in nine tries to see off...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoSurrey rebuild as Glos let slip chance of glory
By TONY FIELDING Surrey…………13pts Gloucestershire…11pts Chip and chase: Tom Hunt collects a kick ahead and runs on to score for Surrey...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoEight-try Herts are off to Twickenham
By DAVID WILLIAMS Herts ………50 Cornwall ……0 HERTFORDSHIRE produced a brilliant performance to book their place at Twickenham in next week’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDeclan Kidney can ‘revive’ London Irish spirit, says Donncha O’Callaghan
Having been coached by Kidney as an 18-year-old into his pro years, the retired lock says things are sure to pick...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRussia qualify after Spain, Belgium and Romania sanctioned
Russia qualify for the World Cup in Japan as a result of sanctions handed to Spain, Belgium and Romania
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSurprising Eddie didn’t rest more of his Six Nations flops
JEFF PROBYN Vital role: Brad Shield’s experience of South Africa will be hugely beneficial PICTURE: Getty Images PICTURE: Getty Images I...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPowell’s double helps Otters go second
Welsh round-up By CHRIS SMART NARBERTH secured second spot in the WRU National Championship with a 43-7 home victory over already...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
MATT WILLIAMS LONDON IRISH CENTRE In the rush to write off London Irish as a potential Premiership force, it easy to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoAll-English Cup is a must now Welsh have pulled out
WITH both the unloved Anglo-Welsh and British and Irish Cups dying due to lack of interest and lacklustre Welsh region participation,...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoNo fireworks but Leinster willpower wins the day
By NICK CAIN Cutting through: Robbie Henshaw on the charge LEINSTER won their fourth European title, equalling Toulouse’s record haul, but...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoNo place in cup for Tier Two
THE Anglo-Welsh Cup is to be replaced by a new Premiership Rugby Cup from next season. The new competition will include...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoKidney ‘will revive Irish spirit’
By NEALE HARVEY DONNCHA O’Callaghan says Declan Kidney is the ideal man to revive London Irish after revealing how the head...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPremiership rivals raid Irish gems
TRANSFER WRAP BATH have confirmed the signing of London Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga on a three-year deal. Cokanasiga, part of Eddie...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLe Bourgeois latest to graduate from Rayer’s elite finishing school
POPULAR centre Mike Le Bourgeois will leave Bedford with a heavy heart but says the offer to join Wasps was too...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDemolition job at Quins puts Chiefs in pole
Brendan Gallagher sets the scene for next week’s Premiership semi-finals … and picks his winners WE may have purred at many...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoRigby hails the early power show by Lancs
By MAX CHESTERTON Touchdown: Phil Mills beats Mark Roberts and Mike Ayrton to score for Lancashire PICTURES: Gareth Lyons Lancashire…52pts E...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoNorthumber’d 21 Nolson notches double for Yorks
By DAN COOK Yorkshire …38 Northumber’d 21 YORKSHIRE maintained their 100 per cent record in this season’s Bill Beaumont Senior Men’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBumper crop of Tier Two are set to make the step up to Premiership
Bristol won't just be relying on the international stardust of Steven Luatua next season, actually they have an armoury of Championship...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLondon Irish seek to bounce back with Stephen Myler signing
33-year-old Premiership winner join Kidney and Kiss' mission at Exiles
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Featured
/ 8 years agoIreland coaches sign contract extensions
Ireland tour Australia in June and have locked down the futures of some of their coaching staff
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBanahan shows Bath what they’ll be missing
By ROB COLE Hero’s send-off: Matt Banahan is chaired from the pitch PICTURES: Getty Images WHAT a way to finish! Matt...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBlackadder’s Euro premonition comes true
TODD Blackadder was a relieved man after the game having secured a Champions Cup spot on the final day of the...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoON THE BLING SIDE
Bath set to confirm Cokanasiga deal BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Bath-bound: Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga BATH are...
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Babcock Trophy
/ 8 years agoNavy assault torpedoed by Matavesi’s mad red
By SAM JACKSON Army 22 Navy 14 Done it again: The Army boys celebrate retaining the Babcock Trophy in front of...
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Babcock Trophy
/ 8 years agoJersey sign Premiership youngsters
GLOUCESTER forward Charlie Beckett and Bath scrum-half Will Homer are to join Championship side Jersey Reds. The pair, both 22, have...
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Babcock Trophy
/ 8 years agoDe Jongh will get down and dirty
MIDFIELD linchpin Juan de Jongh knows Wasps’ must shore up their defence if they are to claim the Premiership title. Wasps...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBig rewards for Lam’s lads who put league to slaughter
BRISTOL won the league at a canter but they’ve not got it all their own way in our correspondents’ Dream XV...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBumper crop from Tier Two make step up to Premiership
By JON NEWCOMBE Happy shopper: Pat Lam FOR all the talk of chairman Steve Lansdown’s treasure chest and bigname signings like...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
European farce has forced Samoa to play waiting game BRENDAN GALLAGHER Weekly look at the game’s other talking points Frustrated: Samoa...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoWarks back to winning ways at long last
■By HENRY HOLLAND Division Two Round-up WARWICKSHIRE failed to secure a victory in the Bill Beaumont County Championship last season but...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoRayner is too late to rescue Mids
■By DAVID BIRD East Mids …19 Eastern Co …22 EASTERN Counties held on to beat East Midlands despite Lawrence Rayner’s late...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoCloud nine for Herts after victory
■By GRAHAM COX Hertfordshire 59 Kent …21 NINE tries gave Hertfordshire the perfect start to their County Championship campaign. Kent had...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFarcical that players must quit their club for England
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Farcical situation: London Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga must leave the club to...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFive-try Quins take the title in fine style
Welsh Division One round-up MAESTEG Quins sealed the One West Central title in style with a 47-28 victory over Bridgend Athletic....
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNervy draw ensures Students’ safety
■By CARL FIELD Welsh Championship round-up CARDIFF Metropolitan University secured their WRU National Championship status after picking up two points from...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAndrew Trimble to retire from professional rugby at the age of 33
Ulster legend calls time on professional career at the age of 33
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGloucester pair head list of nominees for Land Rover Discovery of the Year
Four back row nominees are included in the Land Rover Discovery of the year award shortlist
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Fans bring the glory days back to Pooler
Pontypool's unbeaten season is being celebrated with a trophy tour after winning 22 games out of 22
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWorcester Warriors’ Max Stelling and Ben Howard to leave Sixways
Worcester academy duo to leave Sixways at end of the season
International Rugby
Heartbreak for England as Thomas Ramos snatches the Six Nations title for France
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