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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCornish on song as Cov too strong for Caldy
By JOHN LYON Caldy .................. 18pts Tries: Gourlay 71, 76, J Dickinson 52 Penalties: Jones 7 Coventry ...........27pts Tries: Cornish 25,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAmpthill pay price for poor discipline
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster K .....35pts Tries: Holling 6, Margetts 17, Daly 24, Holden 36, Kelly 71 Conversions: Dolly 6, 17,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAnfield legend Fowler among Caldy fan club
By BEN JAYCOCK Caldy are ‘relishing and revelling’ in their inaugural Championship season and director of rugby Gareth Davies hopes it...
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Features
/ 3 years agoWasps results for the season to be expunged
RUGBY SHORTS Wasps have been suspended from the Premiership and Premiership Cup for the rest of the season. As with Worcester,...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoDurham crash to heavy defeat at The Rec
BUCS RUGBY ■By NICK POWELL BATH underlined their credentials for title contention with a 40-13 win over reigning league champions Durham...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, October 30, 2022 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoUnderdogs tag suits South Africa – van der Merwe
Flip van der Merwe believes that South Africa’s underdogs tag is “the best place to be” for the team, speaking on...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoDiamond leading charge to buy Warriors
Steve Diamond is leading a consortium interested in taking Worcester Warriors out of administration and back into the Premiership within four...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoSix changes for Scots as Hooper returns
Scotland have made six changes as to face an Australian team that welcomes the return of captain Michael Hooper. Hooper elected...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoSouth Africa and New Zealand to meet at Twickenham in World cup warm-up
World champions South Africa and 2022 Rugby Championship winners New Zealand will meet in a World cup warm-up at Twickenham ahead...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoFrancis Baron’s full, exclusive report
A REVIEW OF THE CURRENT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES FACING THE RFU & PRL WITH PROPOSALS FOR A FUNDAMENTALLY NEW APPROACH BY BOTH...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoIt’s a big year for Fiji, says Matavesi
By PAUL REES Sam Matavesi used to drive dumper trucks for a living – now he dumps defenders and last weekend...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoMy nine-point plan to rescue the game
SO the “old guard” merchants of gloom and doom or not appear to have been correct. Those who rued not professionalism...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoDitch the skulduggery and dismantle the cartel
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The most critical element of any reorganisation of England’s professional club league structure...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoPrem clubs show interest in Rubiolo
ON THE BLINDSIDE Young Argentinean back row Pedro Rubiolo is attracting interest from Premiership clubs who are keen on signing him...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoNot sure if old guard will make World Cup
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WAYNE Pivac named his Wales squad to take on New Zealand, Argentina, Georgia and Australia...
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Features
/ 3 years agoPivac: A win against All Blacks is overdue
Paul Rees talks to the Wales coach ahead of their clash with New Zealand at the Principality Stadium A rivalry lost...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBaron puts it on the line: You will not get out of this mess without radical change
NICK CAIN TALKS TO FRANCIS BARON, THE FORMER RFU CHIEF EXECUTIVE, ABOUT HOW HE WOULD FIX ENGLISH RUGBY Francis Baron has...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHartpury done in by double French
By MICK WILSON Bedford Blues...28pts Tries: French 23, 50; Frost 28, Day 59 Conversions: Maisey 24, 29, 51, 60 Hartpury Uni.........
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHalf-backs in control as Coventry turn on the style
By DAVID LAWRENCE Coventry...........32pts Tries: Cornish 13, 47; Nayalo 19, Talbot-Davies 25 Conversions: Pellegrini 13, 19, 47 Penalties: Talbot-Davies 44; Pellegrini...
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Features
/ 3 years agoHarlequins line up Barbarians fixture
RUGBY SHORTS Harlequins have secured a fixture with the Barbarians. With their match against Wasps on November 13 scratched, they’ll host...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoEdwards penalty rescues Ponty
Championship Cup round-up ■ By ROB COLE A LATE Steff Edwards penalty allowed Pontypool to extend their unbeaten run in the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, October 23, 2022 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoWasps to explore merger with Irish
EXCLUSIVE By NEIL FISSLER Wasps could be set to leave Coventry and make a return to their traditional home in London...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoDon’t hold club games on international days
SURELY there is a time to re-think Premiership rugby, with the disaster of mismanagement at Worcester and Wasps and falling gate...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoRob’s right – bring in a 10-team Prem
THE sad news that both Wasps and Worcester have been suspended from the Premiership is a sorry indictment of rugby union’s...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoShameful evidence of slow strangulation
MAY I offer my heartfelt congratulations to all the minor counties blazers on the RFU Council that have voted through the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoTime to cut salary costs which are burying clubs
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK When Wasps went into self-administration some weeks ago, even from a distance you knew...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoSpreading sense of anger and dislocation
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK It was always odds-on that Lawrence Dallaglio’s recent calls for Premiership clubs to...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoPumas will have inside track on England
NICK CAIN Argentina will know the England players they face at Twickenham three weeks from now better than any of the...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoBroken and broke: Why it’s time to change the way top club rugby is run
Thirteen has not been a lucky number for Premiership Rugby. Wasps are set to follow Worcester into administration and relegation after...
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National League 2N
/ 3 years agoHayes happy to be part of the ‘hunted’
By BEN JAYCOCK On target: Richard Hayes scores for Rotherham RICHARD Hayes is enjoying a stellar season with Rotherham Titans, who...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Northampton Saints centre Ethan Grayson
Ethan Grayson is hoping to follow in his brother’s and father’s footsteps and break into the Northampton Saints first team. Ethan,...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with James Bailey: ‘1995 World Cup left a big impression on me’
Inspired: James Bailey became a real fan of players like Serge Blanco David Campese I come from a very sporting family...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoGeorge: It’s been tougher than I expected
NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK DAN George has been surprised by the competitiveness of National Two East, admitting that he was...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoKeys find route to victory over Met
Championship round-up By ROB COLE IT WAS an exciting opening round of the WRU Championship Cup, as teams look to emulate...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSmith, 20, on his way to Saints
NORTHAMPTON Saints have signed Worcester’s highly rated England U20s fly-half Fin Smith. Smith, 20, became the youngest player to start for...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoSt. Joseph’s Festival Preview: Winter aims for the top as high-stakes festival gets underway
The famous St. Joseph’s College National Schools Rugby Festival gets underway tomorrow, and the hosts’ coach Rowland Winter has high hopes...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoWorcester will appeal against suspension and relegation due to pandemic
Worcester Warriors will appeal against their suspension and relegation on a “no fault insolvency” basis, citing the pandemic as causing their...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoAshley weighing-up move to buy Wasps
By Nick Powell, Digital Editor Former Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is considering buying Wasps as the club continue to look...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoStop bleating about a rising salary cap, says Baxter
By TOM BRADSHAW Premiership clubs should stop “bleating” about the unfairness of a rising salary cap and instead focus on running...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoConcern as 88 matches in lower leagues are classed as ‘walkovers’
By JON NEWCOMBE The participation crisis affecting local league rugby is showing no signs of abating despite a comprehensive league restructure...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoRFU must promote spread of pro game
Might it just be that the lack of investment into the game at Championship level is at least in part due...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoEngland need to prove worth against All Blacks
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE state of the international game with the autumn series only a few weeks...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoTigers have Shillcock in their sights
Wanted man: Jamie Shillcock Leicester Tigers have opened talks with Jamie Shillcock as the bun fight to sign up former Worcester...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoHow the spirit of adventure is taking over
When England were eliminated from the 2011 World Cup at the quarterfinal stage, one voice in New Zealand said farewell by...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoDoncaster hit fifty to halt Blues in tracks
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster Knights ........50pts Tries: Cardew 8, Kelly 25, 66; Smith 34, Ehizode 39, Edgson 47, Holling 80 Conversions:...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoMust-win if Pirates are to stay in title race
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Cornish Pirates v Ampthill Today. Kick-off 2.30pm, Mennaye Field GAVIN Cattle is looking for an ‘emotional reaction’...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCambriani sets his sights on try feast
By BEN JAYCOCK Ampthill's Ben Cambriani has set a clear goal of scoring at least 20 tries this season as the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoRoberts try seals derby win for Cardiff
UNIVERSITY RUGBY By NICK POWELL CARDIFF recorded another narrow away victory as they beat Cardiff Met in a derby that came...
International Rugby
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