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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWhy RFU’s new season may benefit the Welsh
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Welsh Lion: Taulupe Faletau barges through the New Zealand defence to score a try PICTURE:...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoThoughts arewithWarren,we knowwhat family means to him
I WOULD like to extend my deepest condolences to Warren Gatland this week following the sad passing of his father. I...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWhy altitude sickness is the main Irish enemy now
BRENDAN GALLAGHER IDENTIFIES AN ONGOING SENSE OF CAUTION IN A NATION’S RUGBY PSYCHE Needs starts: Jordan Larmour Ireland and the Irish...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMaori wanderlust thrilling the world for 140 years
Brendan Gallagher is left to marvel at the missionary zeal of the game’s great tourists Famous win: NZ Maori beat England...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoTigers prevail in battle of beasts at Sedgley
■By STEFFAN JAMES Sedgley Park 31 P’boro Lions …29 SEDGLEY Park Tigers got back to winning ways with a narrow bonus-point...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBig fear that season ticket holders may be short-changed
THERE IS no consideration for the fans with these attempts to unify Northern and Southern Hemisphere seasons. With future seasons ending...
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Features
/ 7 years agoTackle flaws have already devalued European Cup
COLIN BOAG No escape: Danny Cipriani just braced himself for impact It is hard to overstate the parlous situation that rugby...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPicking Tuilagi at 12 will give the forwards a target
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JEREMYGUSCOTT Firing on all four: Manu Tuilagi has brought a new dimension to Leicester’s play in Europe...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoNew contract at Munster for Ireland international Keith Earls
70 caps for Ireland and set to make his Munster return after a slight hamstring injury
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoEnglish rugby to introduce mandatory in-season breaks in major boost to player welfare
Details of large-scale player welfare initiative announced, but how will it be marshalled?
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoEddie still the man but risk of another RWC flop looms
I ADMIRE the resilience and confidence of RFU CEO Steve Brown, but there is a real risk that 12 months from...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoYes, Wade is small but his talent is giant-size
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN CHRISTIAN Wade encapsulates English rugby’s irrational fear of the X-Factor players it produces,...
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Features
/ 7 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler SARACENS are weighing up a move for Western Province captain Chris van Zyl as...
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Features
/ 7 years agoLet’s hope we have a bolter like George!
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Left field choice: Leicester wing Jonah Holmes PICTURE: Getty Images OVER the course of ten...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoThe Kiwi conveyer belt keeps coming
WALES pick an Englishman who has never played for a Welsh club in a squad weakened by the omission of a...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSpain begin their reboot after World Cup debacle
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Call for parity: Spain skipper Jamie Nava TO...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoGustard backing Brown to excel this Autumn
Nailed on: Mike Brown MIKEBrown’s courage and adaptability have earned him the right to be England’s first choice full-back, says former...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
FORMER ORRELL AND LEEDS HOOKER ROB RAWLINSON OUR celebrations lasted well into the night when we beat Bath to lift the...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLeicester’s interest in Springbok star rivalled by £900,000 offer from France
Toulon are circling...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoPack power wins the day at Otley
By NICK DOYLE LEICESTER Lions scored two late tries to prevent Otley getting anything, in a game dominated by the rolling...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLeaders downed in scoreless shocker…
By STEVE SMITH HINCKLEY have finally been beaten in National 2 League North – losing in a dramatic game at Chester....
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoJack’s back to fend off Cokanasiga challenge
By HARVEY NEALE Upping the ante: Nathan Earle and Joe Cokanasiga Threat: Jack Nowell goes close against Bath PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSmokin’ Joe tipped to be England’s version of Sivivatu
NEALE HARVEY POWERHOUSE wing Joe Cokanasiga can enter the annals of rugby fame in the way Fijian legend Sitiveni Sivivatu once...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
KIERAN SASSONE HARLEQUINS TIGHT-HEAD Role models play a vital part in any young player’s career and academy tight-head Kieran Sassone could...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoO’Gara soaks it all up for shot with Ireland
By STEFFAN THOMAS Fresh ideas: Ronan O’Gara, centre, with Scott Robertson, right, at Crusaders RONAN O’GARA believes his spell working at...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSaracens need to make a big statement at Scotstoun
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Threat: Huw Jones picks good lines and has gas to burn PICTURE: Getty Images SARACENS’ trip...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoMoriarty deserves chance says Ryan
By PETER JACKSON ROSS Moriarty is being given expert backing in his bid to step into the shoes of Taulupe Faletau....
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoGive Lane a run but continuity is key now
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Test calibre: Cardiff Blues winger Owen Lane PICTURE: Getty Images WARREN Gatland names his Wales...
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Challenge Cup
/ 7 years agoTigers join the hunt for Bok superstar Eben
Best in world: Eben Etzebeth LEICESTER Tigers have enquired about the post- World Cup availably of Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth. The...
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Challenge Cup
/ 7 years agoMontpellier give Skelton yet another option
MONTPELLIER are the latest French club to ask Will Skelton about his plans for next season with his Saracens contract coming...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPointless? Not these streetwise stars
OLD Streetonians in London’s east end profess to having ‘a story like no other rugby club’, one formed by ‘artists and...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoChampions Cup preview: A look at all five pools as Leinster seek to retain European crown
Leinster and Wasps kick things off on Friday night at the RDS
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Alex Goode and Liam Williams can be European Player of the Year nominees when they set the Champions Cup alight
Jeremy Guscott makes his picks of players to watch in this season's Champions Cup
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTime to let Liam wreak havoc from full-back
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND LIAM Williams is on fire with Saracens this season so now is the time for...
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Features
/ 7 years agoLeinster favourites for record fifth title
BRENDAN GALLAGHER casts his eye over the main contenders for this season’s European crown Champs: Johnny Sexton and Rob Kearney with...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSaracens can be first among the equals
NICK CAIN ASSESSES THE CHANCES OF ENGLAND’S TOP CLUBS IN EUROPE THIS SEASON Time to shine: Sam Underhill must galvanise Bath’s...
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Latest News
/ 7 years ago…but Doran-Jones backs the old king to return
DISCARDED scrum ace Dan Cole will ensure England’s titanic battle of the tight-heads intensifies this autumn, according to former Red Rose...
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National League 2E
/ 7 years agoYOUNGGUNS
OSPREYS FLY-HALF JOSH THOMAS Ask 18-year-old Josh Thomas who his role models are and you quickly get an idea that this...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSexton would welcome Autumn tours Down Under
By STEFFAN THOMAS JOHNNY Sexton believes the proposal for rugby’s new global season can take the game’s entertainment to a new...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWoodburn craving solid return after soup diet
By JON NEWCOMBE Traget: Olly Woodburn at the Champions Cup launch LIFE has sucked in the past month for Exeter Chiefs...
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Features
/ 7 years agoEddie’s selection tunnel vision will lead us nowhere
JEREMY Guscott is spot on! Play Owen Farrell in his club position of 10 where he can control the game as...
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Features
/ 7 years agoGoode is among my star picks to light up Europe
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK THE European Cup provides us with the chance to see great players rise to the occasion...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoAmos set to get his Wales wing place back
By PETER JACKSON HALLAMAmos plans to be back on Wales duty next month for the first of 13 internationals leading to...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSexton set for a French swansong
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter:@neilfissler JOHNNY SEXTON is looking to make a return to France for...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWarriors stick on Sixways
WORCESTERWarriors have been taken over by a consortium led by finance specialist Errol Pope and the new owners are keen to...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoJackson column: Courtney Meredith stands alone from Wales 1953 heroes
Peter Jackson on the sole remaining survivor of Wales' 1953 All Blacks victors
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFormer Ulster star signs extension with Brive
Former Ireland and Ulster centre to remain in France
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Premiership
/ 7 years ago‘It’s not great at Tigers right now’ admits Cole
By NEALE HARVEY Work to do: Dan Cole has a big task to get back into Eddie Jones’ England plans PICTURE:...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoChiefs eye up Hogg to replace veteran Dollman
Options: Stuart Hogg SCOTLAND and British Lions full back Stuart Hogg is attracting the interest of former Premiership champions Exeter Chiefs....
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