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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoCan Wales half-backs hit it off like Gareth and Barry?
AN UNCANNY piece of Celtic history will be repeated in Cardiff next Saturday after exactly 50 years. When Wales and Scotland...
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National League 2E
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
SAM NIXON BATH PROP Having enjoyed a close-quarters view of Beno Obano’s rise to the top with Bath and England, tight-head...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHartpury show better form as Trent are hit by weather again
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP NOTTINGHAM Trent will be fizzing to get on the paddock next week as their fixture once...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBarclay, the enemy within for Wales, joins a select quartet
IT’S not every day that the Scottish captain skippers his country against Wales at Cardiff while enjoying a spell playing for...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPreparation for Premiership begins now says Morahan
AUSSIE flyer Luke Morahan says Bristol must hit top-flight levels of performance over the remainder of the season to ensure they...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFowkesy right man to lead us forward – Hooper
By JON NEWCOMBE NEWS EXTRA NOTTINGHAM prop Ben Hooper is confident the club will have a smooth transition under forwards coach...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoClinical Keys ease through to last eight after downing Bedlinog
By PAUL HOPKINS Cross Keys ….41 Bedlinog ……….7 CROSS KEYS booked their place in the Cup quarterfinals with a comfortable victory...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoJones on song as magnificent Pooler dump Quins out of the Cup
By JAY BAYFORD Pontypool ……23 C’marthen Q ….8 NATIONAL Championship leaders Pontypool shocked Carmarthen Quins to progress to the Cup quarter-finals...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoChief Warlow expecting tough last 16 test from Wizards
By CARL FIELD PREVIEW Newport v Aberavon Sunday January 28. Kick-off 2.30pm NEWPORT tackle Aberavon at Rodney Parade this afternoon with...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLlanharan hit for six as Holley racks up 27-points
Welsh Division One round-up GLAMORGAN Wanderers went top of One East Central with a five-star 33-13 bonus-point home victory over Porth...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAshton’s alive and kicking at full-back
Showman: Chris Ashton showed some fancy footwork for Toulon PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Ashton hasn’t always shown the fancy kicking that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCut squad bugets… invest in grass roots
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk DUSTY Hare’s comments last...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoPromotion play-off
THE bottom two teams in the Premiership should play each other and likewise the top two in the Championship. The winners...
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Features
/ 8 years agoForget ring-fencing and just cut wages instead
THE price of freedom in Rugby Union, as with freedom in a wider context, is eternal vigilance. Nothing underlines this more...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: French teen-star Matthieu Jalibert can light up the Six Nations
The Bordeaux-Begles fly-half has been turning heads in the Top 14 this season
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER CARDIFF, PONTYPRIDD, TREORCHY, NEATH AND BRIDGEND FLANKER JUSTIN BURNELL I’m thoroughly enjoying my third spell back at Pontypridd, having...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoItaly get dumped on, but at least they have a great venue
Venue: Velodrome, Marseilles IT’S tough being Italy. Guess who are the one team in this year’s Six Nations required to play...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGriggs double seesTata climb up the table
Welsh Championship round-up ■By JAY BAYFORD TATA Steel took advantage of the top-of-the-table postponement to climb up to second. The clash...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBrynmawr narrow the gap to just one point
Welsh Division One round-up ■By JAY BAYFORD BRYNMAWR closed the gap on One East leaders Brecon to three points after beating...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoMore marketing required to boost national leagues
DURING 2016-17 season the average attendance at an FA Premier League game was 35,822. The same figure for an Aviva Premiership...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTeen-star Matthieu can light up Six Nations
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Anew fly-half is on schedule to do something beyond the most revered No.10’s,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCup king Burrows learning from the waiting game
By JON NEWCOMBE TRANSITIONING from goto man at Yorkshire Carnegie to Newcastle new boy has been tough to take at times,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoYes, we CAN win this year says upbeat Townsend
SCOTLAND GREGOR Townsend insists Scotland have a chance to win this year’s Six Nations but knows his side must win four...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAmid all the tension and turmoil French rugby had its finest hour
Brendan Gallagher recalls the times rugby exploded in France with the 1968 Grand Slam Heroes: How the French media hailed the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThe class of 68 – the team that took the Grand Slam in Cardiff
I5 Claude Lacaze (Angouleme): A fixture in the French side during most of the 60s until he retired in 1969 with...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoFrom Jersey journeyman to England contender
By NEALE HARVEY GARY Graham’s potent mix of determination and “edge” will see him thrive on the England stage, according to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoRugby Matters: Hartpury production line set for more Test success
Brendan Gallagher on why the Gloucestershire college isn't just creating international players for England anymore...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTHE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RUGBY CLUBS IN THE COUNTY OF GWENT
Abertillery (Founded 1883): Early rugby hotbed, the town boasted five separate rugby teams before they amalgamated to form the one club...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHooley’s dreaming big after choosing American route
By JON NEWCOMBE BEDFORD Blues fly-half Will Hooley’s call-up to the US Eagles squad for the upcoming Americas Rugby Championship (ARC)...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoWhat a shock as leaders Cov are hit by hail of tries
By GRAHAM COX Blackheath…61pts Tries: penalty try 2, Burcham 10, 63 Bate 22, 53, 56 Lloyd 26, 44, Fielding 30, Davies...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoRichmond duo enjoying their double life in the city
NEWS EXTRA By LUKE JARMYN Dynamic duo: Will Warden and Chris Davies IT’S rare to find amateurs at the top end...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
GLOUCESTER HOOKER HENRY WALKER As a schoolboy cricket all-rounder of some repute, Henry Walker was faced with a tough choice: don...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHealy heads new coaching team for Germany after axe falls on Potgieter
By JON NEWCOMBE In: Paul Healy Out: Kobus Potgieter GERMANYhave announced a new coaching team on the eve of the Rugby...
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Latest News
/ 8 years ago…while Harrison has strength of Troy on his side
By JON NEWCOMBE Durable: Sale loosehead Ross Harrison ROSS HARRISON will not tear his hair out if he is overlooked once...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPolledri pushing for Test debut against England
By SAM JACKSON Rising star: Jake Polledri JAKE Polledri was not expecting his Italy call-up so soon but the Gloucester flanker...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGullis hat-trick as Pooler land win No14
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD PONTYPOOL strengthened their lead at the top of after a 14th consecutive win. A hat-trick...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDunvant eyeing a quick return to top flight
Welsh Division One round-up By JAY BAYFORD DUNVANT’S hopes of returning to the National Championship at the first time of asking...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoTop-flight coaches need to branch out
IAN Davies bemoans the recent ‘farcical’ appointments of Alan Gaffney and Alan Solomons while claiming that coaches in the Championship should...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Hartpury production line set for more Test success BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Making strides:...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLeaders of Top 14? Chiefs just blow them clean away
By MIKE SINCLAIR Hard yards: Exeter try-scorer Don Armand trucks it up PICTURES: Getty Images In the thick of it: Sam...
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Features
/ 8 years agoStrettle on way back to Sarries
Return: David Strettle FORMER England winger David Strettle is returning to European Champions Saracens next season. The former Rotherham Titans and...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTrailfinders lose their props to Premiership
Loose-head: Will Davis Tight-head: Lewis Thiede CHAMPIONSHIP highflyers Ealing Trailfinders are set to lose both their frontline props to the Premiership...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoTheRUGBYPaper
‘We’re giving everyone else’s coaches experience’ By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Cornish Pirates director of rugby Ian Davies has branded the RFU’s...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoEddie needs a leader who will be there at bitter end
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points IS Dylan Hartley the Mike Brearley of...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoKenya 7s up the creek after main sponsor pulls plug
Flyer: Nelson Oyoo THE Kenyan Sevens team has always been the standard bearers for the country competing in the World Series...
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Features
/ 8 years ago2018: Rugby year ahead…
Away from the staple diet of Six Nations and The Rugby Championship the international season is dominated by the climax to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFront row warriors bucking the trend
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Carnegie coach Steve Boden about his new endurance athletes Try time: Carnegie hooker Joe Buckle scores against...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBates banking on experience to win England a second Slam
By GEORGE LAWRENCE Champions: England do the Grand Slam in 2017 ENGLAND U20s have named their 32-man Elite Player Squad to...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAberavon …71 Skewen …3
■By HOWARD EVANS National Cup ABERAVON gained a 113th win in 47 years of the Welsh Cup, yet it was their...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoStudents can show talent, says coach Lewis
■By DAVID COLLINS PREVIEW… Cardiff Met v Llanelli CARDIFF Met team manager Aled Lewis has backed the students to rise to...
International Rugby
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