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Features
/ 9 years agoSpringboks could call time on Cheika’s reign
COLIN BOAG Crunch time: Michael Cheika faces a difficult match in Perth It has been open season on Australian rugby for...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoStruggling Worcester are put up for sale
EXCLUSIVE By NEALE HARVEY Takeover? Edward Griffiths WORCESTER Warriors are up for sale, with former Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths believed...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoRelegation fodder? No-one’s told Irish!
From BRENDAN GALLAGHER at Twickenham London Irish 39pts Tries: Ojo 23, Bell 30, Treviranus 58, McKibbin 78 Conversions: Bell 31, 59...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoGeorge Lowe forced to retire from rugby
Harlequins have today announced that George Lowe has been forced to retire from the game on medical advice. Lowe made 139...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoBedford strength tells but Club show their spirit
By GRAHAM COX Blackheath …21 Bedford…38 THE pace and physicality of the Championship side succeeded in the end as Bedford scored...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoWe’re ready now says Kennedy as Irish run riot over brave Richmond
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish supremo Nick Kennedy declared his promoted side ready for Premiership duty after a convincing victory over...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoWedlake injury overshadows Plymouth pluck
By MARTIN WOOLLATT Pirates …22 Plymouth …14 ALTHIOUGH it was a pre-season friendly, this first cross-Tamar derby since March 2015 brought...
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Features
/ 9 years ago‘Pinetree’ got his strength by cutting down trees
Brendan Gallagher remembers the great Sir Colin Meads who died last weekend at 81 THE iconic image of Colin Meads is...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoSaints counting on their No.8s
NEALE HARVEY talks to Saints about the loss of Picamoles Northampton coach Phil Dowson has challenged his No.8s Teimana Harrison and...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoOverseas stint may help as Eddie’s successor is sought
By NEALE HARVEY RFU director of professional rugby Nigel Melville has revealed that the search to find a successor to England...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoRichmond set for the drop. Sorry!
Former England scrum-half and London Scottish coach Pete Richards looks ahead to the Greene King Championship season Super talent: Bristol signing...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoIt won’t be a cakewark for Cov’s cash warns Brightwell
NICK VERDIER previews the battle for promotion from National One where big-spending Coventry start as favourites Birmingham Moseley back-rower Chris Brightwell...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoWallabies fire out a warning to Wales
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I WROTE last week how Wales must look at this year’s Rugby Championship and take...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoThe Bok who gave Meads his toughest challenge
THROUGHOUT his career Colin Meads was frequently asked who his toughest and most feared opponent was and although the likes of...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoTom goes toe to toe against his old pals
By GUY WILLIAMS A WEEK today, when Rotherham launch their Championship campaign at home against Nottingham, will be an emotional experience...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoThe green, green grass of home is down to Max
PETER JACKSON Max Boyce casts his mind back to the early Sixties and runs through his playing career at Glynneath. It...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 9 years agoSpringboks maintain their revival to cage Pumas hit by Lavanini’s red card
By NICK VERDIER SOUTH Africa made it five from five in Salta as Argentina saw red in the second round of...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
STUART GRIMES THE FORMER SCOTLAND, NEWCASTLE AND WATSONIANS LOCK I celebrated the highlight of my Scotland playing career with Gregor Townsend...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoOld boy Oakley relishing the opening shot from Bristol
HARTPURY captain Rhys Oakley reckons the club have the right foundations to ensure a successful first year in the Championship. The...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMarler shows the value of ‘old-fashioned’ drinking
JEFF PROBYN Having just read Joe Marler’s take on the British and Irish Lions and what it taught him about rugby,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoBristol pay differentials won’t cause disharmony says Lam
By NEALE HARVEY Probyn: Marler shows value of old-fashioned drinking! BRISTOL supremo Pat Lam insists that motivation will prove no issue...
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Features
/ 9 years agoFrom Sam to Francois, don’t take your eyes of these guys
ANDY GOODE OUR GUEST COLUMNIST LOOKS AHEAD TO THE PREMIERSHIP With the Premiership season nearly upon us, there is a lot...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoHartpury so close to a mighty scalp
By JAMES CANDY Gloucester …41 Hartpury …33 CALLUM Braley spared Gloucester’s blushes as they escaped with a narrow win over Championship...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years ago20 Questions: Arthur Ellis – Ealing Trailfinders openside
How has pre-season been going? Everyone is pretty excited to get started and play some games now after a lot of...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Gavin Cattle – Cornish Pirates legend
I always thought of myself as more of a game manager rather than a game changer, feeding off the good work...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoHartley to Manu and Solomona – Follow code of conduct or pay the price!
England and Northampton captain Dylan Hartley tells NEALE HARVEY why Saints are targeting the Premiership play-offs and how he will never...
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Guest Blogs
/ 9 years agoFive reasons why the Rugby Super League is worth betting on
While betting has seeped into almost every sport such as football and horse racing, rugby is still considered to be relatively...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJonny on rampage Down Under
BRENDAN GALLAGHER REMEMBERS THE OUTSTANDING ENGLAND SCHOOLS TEAM OF 1997 It’s 20 years ago this month that one of the strongest...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMatson has total faith in rejuvenated Lion Joseph
By NEALE HARVEY BATH head coach Tabai Matson reckons Jonathan Joseph’s best is yet to come as the gifted outsidecentre looks...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoPumas must let players go abroad
I HAVE never understood the rationale behind Argenina’s recent insistence on picking only from home based professionals in their Jaguares Super...
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Features
/ 9 years agoCaptaining my beloved Saints should boost England claim
DYLAN HARTLEY ENGLAND & NORTHAMPTON CAPTAIN Q&A England and Northampton captain Dylan Hartley tells NEALE HARVEY why Saints are targeting the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYou won’t outscrum us warns Du Plessis
NEALE HARVEY finds London Irish’s veteran prop star in defiant mood ahead of the new season NEALE HARVEY Indestructible prop Petrus...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 9 years agoYes, it looks like something is really starting to happen for Coetzee’s Springboks
By NICK VERDIER SOUTHAfrica did not have it all their own way like they did against France in the June Test...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoPortuguese pathfinder Vieira quits Italy for Rotherham
IT’S A brave decision to swap the sunshine of the Portuguese coast for industrial South Yorkshire, but that’s the choice of...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMorahan happy Bristol match his ambitions
By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Wallabies star Luke Morahan reckons Bristol’s signing of former All Black Charles Piutau has reinforced his decision...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoBedford toughening up for promotion bid
BEDFORD player-coach Alex Rae reckons adding grit to his side’s traditional running game will ensure Championship favourites Bristol do not have...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoGrace: Plymouth can make mark in six-way title race
By NEALE HARVEY RETURNING Plymouth back rower Eoghan Grace reckons his side are ready to give big-spending Coventry a run for...
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Features
/ 9 years agoPiratical Cully plots to storm Chiefs
HARRISON Cully is bidding to follow in the rapid footsteps of Stuart Townsend and Sam Simmonds by progressing from the bench...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCipriani not giving up on his England ambitions
By GARY FITZGERALD DANNY CIPRIANI approaches the ripe sporting age of 30 utterly convinced the best years of his troubled rugby...
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Features
/ 9 years agoCheika has to sort out his sorry Wallabies – and fast
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK It is not all doom and gloom yet for Australia despite that 54-34 hammering by...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoRandall runs rings around Rosslyn Park
By TOM LYONS Hartpury …66 Rosslyn Park …12 HARTPURY College were back at their attacking best yesterday scoring ten tries on...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoProtheroe stars in first half before Scarlets bring on the heavy mob
By STEFFAN THOMAS Bristol…26 Scarlets …33 SCARLETS scored 21 unanswered points to inflict a second preseason defeat on Bristol. Wayne Pivac’s...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoPremiership planning for 22-match A-League
By NEALE HARVEY LEICESTER chief Simon Cohen says he would welcome plans to revamp the Premiership A-League by making it a...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoYarde ‘hurt’ by Eddie’s snub says Kingston
By GARY FITZGERALD Harlequins…47pts Jersey Reds…21pts JOHN Kingston admits Marland Yarde is “hurting” after being snubbed by Eddie Jones again for...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoEngland tour was just what I needed after Lions setback
England lock and Wasps captain Joe Launchbury tells NEALE HARVEY how he has overcome his Lions disappointment and is targeting silverware with...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Cricket lost out in battle of tortoise and Hare…
Had everything gone the way he and others planned it, Dusty Hare would never have played rugby for England. He would...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams: Quest for Autumn success starts now
The Rugby Championship is a tournament I’ve always enjoyed watching. Its brilliant rugby, played in great conditions and it involves some...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Ross Grimstone – Richmond hooker
1. Slow golfers I play quite a bit of golf, off 14, and I struggle being on the same course as...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoGary Gold: Time now for Boks to unleash wonderkid
The wave towards the 2019 World Cup is gathering pace and while the wily old veterans will be in situ for...
International Rugby
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