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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBill’s right, Six Nations owe SANZAAR nothing
THE gnashing of teeth and wailing from the southern hemisphere unions that accompanied the failure of Agustin Pichot to unseat Bill...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJonny Hill: I’m my worst critic, when I watch myself on TV I cringe
With a Premiership title and Champions Cup knockout stage to fight for, Exeter lock Hill is full of optimism
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoProspect of 100 caps won’t deter Courtney Lawes from interest abroad
The Northampton Saints lock talks to Neale Harvey about his where his focus lies beyond his Lions tour hopes
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Enforced rest period will boost Wales team
The downtime in rugby will be welcome to players who toured with the Lions in 2017, with rest hard to come...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland prop Mako Vunipola let playing waiting game on Saracens future
The loosehead prop reflects on a 'bizarre' nine months in his life
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby shock wins and upsets
Brendan Gallagher recalls rugby’s biggest ever shocks, at club and internaitonal level, and ranks each for the magnitude of the upset....
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Featured
/ 6 years agoCanterbury and Adidas lose out to rival as England confirm new kit sponsor deal
England Men's team, Red Roses, Sevens and age grade teams will no longer wear Canterbury
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoEvergreen Elvis has lots of hits left in him
■By NEALE HARVEY Big engine: Elvis Taoine shows no signs of slowing as he approaches his 37th bithday PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoMako unsure if he’ll stick with Saracens
■By NEALE HARVEY Stand and deliver: Mako Vunipola in action for Saracens against Leicester PICTURES: Getty Images Staying: Billy Vunipola Still...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoForgot Fran
ENJOYED last week’s edition however, in the quiz we were asked for two players who beat the All Blacks for four...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEnforced rest period will boost Welsh team
SHANE WILLIAMS Happy event: George North is preparing for fatherhood PICTURE: Getty Images They say every cloud has a silver lining...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBloodgate was brazen – with comic moments
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest scandals Winker: Harlequins wing Tom Williams walks off with physio...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’m my worst critic, when I watch myself on TV I cringe!
Japan-bound: George Kruis leaving creates an England vacancy EPS choices: Charlie Ewels and Alex Moon JONNY Hill is doing his best...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCourtney is best bet to counter Du Toit
2021 LIONSA YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… BLINDSIDE FLANKER Tried-and-tested: Courtney Lawes’...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoNEXT WEEK …Don’t miss
Leading contenders to be 2021 Lions openside National League One Team of the Season History of Rugby: Post-war glory for Ireland...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago‘It’s a match made in heaven’ – Hogg on Exeter Chiefs
The full-back talks Chiefs and Finn Russell's likely return to the Scotland fold after missing the Six Nations
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoPicking a greatest England team from the four World Cup squads to have reached finals
Nick Cain selects a composite XV mined from the four England teams to have reached a Rugby World Cup final
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Alan Solomons: Global club season must happen to make rugby recognised the world over
We jump straight into the serious point of whether Worcester are financially sound
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Don’t mess up this crucial changeover
Brendan Gallagher points out that no-one from rugby's professional era has chaired World Rugby
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: WRU hard ball killed Test dreams of Steven Shingler
Peter Jackson sheds lights on the 'injustice' which came the way of fly-half Steven Shingler
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEllis Genge’s rare feat in the Six Nations shows how props are changing
Willie John McBride told TRP last week props weren't built like they used to
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Wasps openside flanker Paul Volley
The No.7 talks Jon Newcombe through his time at Wasps, Castres, Harlequins and London Scottish
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Presidents scrap over playoff principle
The 'hellscape' facing France's Top 14 with TV and player welfare ramifications
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Cardiff Blues prop Theo Bevacqua
England-born, loosehead Bevacqua says Wales was always his first choice
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Features
/ 6 years agoThe Principality pointed way perfectly for the new millennium
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s best grounds TOP 20 …RUGBY GROUNDS NEXT WEEK Rugby Scandals Sheer...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoThe best England team in the world
Jonny Wilkinson Phil Vickery Steve Thompson Jason Leonard Martin Johnson Maro Itoje Mike Teague Peter Winterbottom ENGLAND have had four teams...
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Features
/ 6 years agoItoje can compete with the Bok giants
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… LOCKS Outstanding: Maro Itoje...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoDon’t mess up this crucial changeover
Different eras: Bill Beaumont, and Agustin Pichot in their playing days PICTURE: Gettty Images As everybody in sport, and in particular...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGlobal season must happen to make rugby a world sport
Q&A ALAN SOLOMONS ON THE RECORD Stifled: World Cup quarter-finalists Japan need more top level games to progress PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoWRU hard ball killed Shingler’s big dream
Eligibility row: Steven Shingler playing for Cardiff Blues PICTURE: Getty Images Sir Bill Beaumont’s proposal that a host of South Pacific...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRUGBY QUIZ
FORMER LEADING WELSH REFEREE ALUN WYN BEVAN TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE Q7: Frank Hayes playing cricket for England 1. On October 24,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHogg is loving life after Jack’s warm welcome
Scotland star Stuart Hogg tells Neale Harvey how West Country life is exceeding expectations Scotland’s Chief: Stuart Hogg breaks past Alex...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPresidents scrap over playoffs principle
Breaking ranks: Toulouse president Didier Lacroix If a week is currently a long time in everyday pandemic-era politics, it’s an aeon...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFair play? I struggle to see it
A COUPLE of weeks ago a reader stated that before a Championship side could be promoted they must be financially sustainable....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHow could Brendan forget us Shedheads?
Teak tough: Mike Teague CHRIS Hewett (TRP 19/4/20) was quite right to rail against the omission of Mike Teague from Brendan...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 5-1
The hard men who wouldn't take a step back on the rugby pitch
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Features
/ 6 years ago10 great coaching minds currently ‘lost’ on rugby
Martin Johnson had his career in coaching blighted by England's 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSale Sharks and Rohan Janse van Rensburg sanctioned after Gloucester raise dispute
Premiership club given suspended points deduction for illegal approach for centre in 2018
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 10-6
British & Irish Lions icon Willie John McBride enters the list, as we near revealing No.1
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Axed star Peter Larter still doesn’t know why
Peter Jackson journeys back to The Troubles when England went where others at the time feared to tread: Dublin
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: The hustings buzz with the promises of Agustin Pichot
Nick Cain says the campaign to become World Rugby chairman is verging on ageism
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 15-11
Trouble seemed to find its way to Bakkies Botha on the rugby pitch...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: May-day for opponents as Gloucester-bound Jonny just gets better
Jeremy Guscott analyses Jonny May's move to Gloucester and what it means for his England career
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 20-16
Brendan Gallagher begins his countdown of rugby's hardest men
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed to the battlefront and died heroes with VCs
FOR three decades or more before 1914 the young men of Britain and its extended Empire had been fighting generally good...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDay the Old Boys’ drinking club beat the mighty Sarries
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest upsets 1= Old Reigatians 12 Saracens 10 (John Player Cup, 1987)...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCoaches/Managers ‘lost’ to the game
MARTIN JOHNSON Vowed never to become involved in rugby management again following the 2011 World Cup campaign blighted by off-field misdemeanours....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGUEST COLUMNIST
Cooch not on toughie list? It may get nasty! Jacques Burger? No arguments there. Colin Meads? Wayne Shelford? Bang on. In...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEllis is living proof of the old 80-minute rule
By PETER JACKS0N Going the distance: Ellis Genge played the full 80 for England against Wales during the World Cup warm-up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTigers’ Cup winners produced a brains trust of talent
THERE was more retro heaven recently with BT Sport replaying Leicester’s 34-30 Heineken Cup final win over Stade Francais in 2001....
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