Search results for "championship"
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Pat Lam knows what it takes but he’s got a tough job
Jeremy Guscott picks two soon-to-be-out-of-contract players who can help Bristol stay up next season
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoJoe Cokanasiga set to join Bath on loan from London Irish
Fijian born Cokanasiga to join Bath on a season long loan deal for 2018/19
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSam Hidalgo-Clyne signs for Scarlets
Edinburgh scrum-half to move on when his contract comes to an end this summer
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAnxious Skewen edging closer to the drop
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD SKEWEN’S National Championship safety is hanging by a thread after a 22-19 defeat to Rhydyfelin....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoFour-team playoff would ensure fight until the death
AS an Ealing Trailfinders supporter my colours are firmly nailed to the ‘No Ringfencing’ mast, but I do have some sympathy...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRevive the County Cup or scrap it
JEFF GAGE The Bill Beaumont County Championship begins in May. What ought to be the climax to the season for the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLam knows what it takes but he’s got a tough job
James Haskell and Danny Cipriani (inset) would boost Bristol’s chances of survival PICTURES: Getty Images IT would have been a shift...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTupai urges caution over pursuing top flight dream
Been there, done it: Bedford enforcer Paul Tupai AMBITIOUS Championship clubs must beware following London Welsh into the financial abyss in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBooy’s sure his Bears will thrive in new environment
By NEALE HARVEY BRISTOL’S planned new £10m training ground will underpin the club’s rise to the top echelon of domestic and...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPaice calls for reaction from Irish youngsters
By NEALE HARVEY RETIRING London Irish hooker David Paice has urged the club’s youngsters to pick up the baton and right...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoDouble at the death sees Tupai off in style
By MARK WOOD A GRANDSTAND finish saw Bedford score two tries at the death to claim a bonus point victory and...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoSlow start lets Slowik set pace for Jersey
By GUY WILLIAMS Tense: Thomas James beats Kieran Hardy to score IN AN extraordinary end of season game at Castle Park,...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoMerciless Bristol give Premiership performance
By EMMA SMITH PROMOTED Bristol enjoyed a champagne send-off as they hit back from 17-7 down to romp to a 61-24...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoMagnificent 7 for resurgent Pirates
On fire: Chris Morgan of Cornish Pirates surges for the try-line PICTURE: JackDawe Photography By RHOD MITCHELL IT WAS a magnificent...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoFans bring the glory days back to Pooler
Saying thanks: Ben Jeffreys takes the trophy to see Pooler volunteer Pat Sheppherd During the half-century since his Pontypool debut as...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow Negri climbed from BUCS league to the Six Nations
Back row tyro Seb Negri tells Brendan Gallagher the benefits of a more scenic route to Test rugby High on the...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoCoventry are set to sparkle now says Nilsen
By NEALE HARVEY NEWS EXTRA TOP-CLASS facilities and a host of impressive new signings will ensure Coventry thrive in next season’s...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoYoung Gun – Wasps scrum-half Will Porter
The on-loan Rotherham back talks Wasps and his hopes of making the England U20 World Cup squad this summer
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoStirling wants Yorkshire Carnegie to savour local favour
(Photo: Getty Images) By Jon Newcombe AS Chris Boyd stands by to usher in the winds of change at Northampton, another...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoDon’t block Cornwall’s rise with ring-fencing
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Pirates in control: Alexander Day puts his backs away...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
WILL PORTER WASPS SCRUM-HALF Spending time on loan at relegationbound Championship outfit Rotherham might not be every 19-year-old’s dream. For Wasps...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBrilliant Barnes seal league title in style
London & South East Premier BARNESsecured the London Premier Championship with a 7-52 victory at Sutton and Epsom. Rob Mulaney, Robbie...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFeehan retires after 16 years of progress
RUGBY SHORTS JOHN Feehan has stepped down from his role as CEO of Six Nations and British & Irish Lions with...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAusterity re-think as Exiles return to full-time
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY CHAMPIONSHIP strugglers London Scottish are set to up the ante in the recruitment market after revealing...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRouse is new Exiles boss after a Titanic showing
NEWS EXTRA By SAM WILSON NIC ROUSE, the man behind the late-season revival of Rotherham Titans, has been appointed London Scottish...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMet still in drop zone after 4-try defeat to Bedlinog
Welsh Championship round-up CARDIFF Met remain in real trouble near the bottom of the National Championship after a 26-20 defeat to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoStirling wants Yorkshire to savour local flavour
In his first interview since being unveiled as Yorkshire Carnegie’s new DoR, Chris Stirling tells Jon Newcombe of his first impressions...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIf Exiles struggle, it will be easier to ring-fence
Going down: London Irish are about to be relegated COLIN BOAG After all of the indications that Premiership promotion and relegation...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoRacing 92 are my Gallic Barbarians
Brendan Gallagher traces the romantic history of the famous French side which play with panache Influential: Maxime Machenaud PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 8 years agoKalamafoni wants to be ton-up boy at Twickers
LEICESTER’S Sione Kalamafoni knows victory over Newcastle this Friday is nonnegotiable if he is to earn a shot at completing a...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWe’re aiming for Prem, Ealing warn ring-fencers
BEN WARD, rugby director of ambitious Ealing, has hailed the achievement of Cornish Pirates. And he has maintained his own club’s...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTeen star Joseph lands a double to save Ealing
By JON NEWCOMBE Held: Carnegie’s Tom Bullough is tackled PETE LYDON has predicted a bright future for Reon Joseph after the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFront five are crucial to Bristol’s survival
LOOKS AT NEXT SEASON’S PROSPECTS FOR THE PREMIERSHIP’S NEW BOYS Champions: Bristol enjoy their bubbly – but will it be a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThis is how we beat them, reveals Biljon
HARVEY Biljon has the satisfaction as rugby director of Jersey Reds of being the only team in the Championship to defeat...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoHeroic Harrison had spirit of St George
TOMORROW – St George’s Day – is the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Arthur Leyland Harrison, the only...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: RFU may need to pay to get more English coaches
Is it time for the RFU to offer incentives to Premiership clubs when it comes to English representation among coaches?
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoArctic chill descends on Dorking as Sweden turn up to play 2nd XV
Michael Young tells the story of how Swedish rugby sought to rebound from European Championship North form with a trip to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCrane: Bristol better placed now to thrive
By NEALE HARVEY BRISTOL No.8 Jordan Crane believes Pat Lam’s newly-promoted side are better equipped to tackle the Premiership now than...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEaling building case for Premiership
By JON NEWCOMBE FIJI international prop Campese Ma’Afu will be the next Premiership player to head to Ealing Trailfinders at the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRandall signs on from rivals Gloucester
FORMER England U20s scrum-half Harry Randall has signed a two-year deal to join Bristol from West Country rivals Gloucester. Randall, 22,...
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Features
/ 8 years agoJersey boy Jerry aims to make it a Sexton double
JON NEWCOMBE talks to the younger Sexton brother aiming to crown his own season Pack leader: Jerry Sexton JERRY SEXTON will...
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Features
/ 8 years agoProp star Williams to swap Titans for Knights
LOOSE-HEAD prop Toby Williams has signed for Doncaster from relegated Rotherham for next season. Williams, 31, arrives with a wealth of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCattle: Rugby needs a knockout cup
CORNISH Pirates coach Gavin Cattle has called for a FA Cup style knock-out tournament to replace the British & Irish Cup...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoCheshire helps Titans go down with a bang
By GUY WILLIAMS RELEGATED Rotherham bid goodbye to home matches in the Championship in truly dramatic style with an amazing victory...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoPromoted Coventry humbled by Amps
By WARREN KAY Ampthill …22pts Coventry …10pts Threat: Ampthill’s try-scorer Joe Bercis makes a break PICTURES: Tim Bartlett AMPTHILL head coach...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JACK OWLETT EXETER PROP You could say Exeter tight-head Jack Owlett faces stiff competition. Harry Williams is vying with Dan Cole...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPowerful Pooler make it tough for Rhydyfelin
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD THE relegation fight is likely to go down to the wire following Rhydyfelin’s 40-7 defeat...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU may need to pay to get more English coaches
EREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JOHN Kingston’s imminent departure from Harlequins will leave the count at just three Englishmen in...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoHaskell: We’ve got a title in us
WORCESTER failed to banish their relegation worries and boss Alan Solomons said: “The 15 minutes before half-time killed us and if...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoPremiership relegation cost London Irish £3m
By NEALE HARVEY THE cost of relegation from the Premiership is starkly illustrated by London Irish declaring losses of almost £3m...
International Rugby
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