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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCockerill captures tight-head Millar-Mills
By JON NEWCOMBE EDINBURGH boss Richard Cockerill has swooped for Yorkshire Carnegie tighthead, Elliot Millar-Mills with immediate effect. Millar-Mills has impressed...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWhen best of the best turned out to honour Sam
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to JPR Williams 40 years on from the famous Sam Doble Memorial game CHARITY matches, gala occasions and...
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Features
/ 8 years agoInjury set-back for Wales back rower
RUGBY SHORTS WALES flanker Ross Moriarty has suffered a fresh back injury in training at Gloucester. The 23-year-old has played once,...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLeicester’s Lion Croft forced to call time
LEICESTER forward Tom Croft has announced his retirement from rugby. The 31-year-old, who played 40 times for England and five Tests...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEddie bottled it with his team to face Wallabies
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME You can never judge a man by what he says, only by...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoAussies offer acid test of England’s back row mobility
Nick Cain analyses the challenge of the Wallabies who have a 'score to settle'
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Beal lit up Arms Park long before Twickenham
From Bridgend and Welsh schools to Northampton and the Lions, Peter Jackson speaks with the former full-back
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: Eddie’s tunnel vision over Dylan Hartley is harmful
Nick Cain writes his opinion on how the England head coach has set a precedent that risks locking him in
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National League 3
/ 8 years agoTon-up for Sandback as Bees win again
Midlands Premier BIRMINGHAMand Solihull Beesmade it a perfect ten to open up an eightpoint gap at the top after Peterborough Lions...
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National League 3
/ 8 years agoSo generous of our players to help out the Samoans
The headline stating that the RFU are expected to make a goodwill gesture in the region of £75,000 to the Samoan...
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National League 3
/ 8 years agoScarlets playing waiting game with Moriarty
By STEFFAN THOMAS NEWS EXTRA SCARLETS insist the ball is in Ross Moriarty’s court as they hope to make the Wales...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoNICK CAIN’S PLAYER WATCH…
ENGLAND 1. MAKO VUNIPOLA At the top of his game. Great ball-playing prop, made 20 tackles and multiple hard yards Rating:...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoDon’t despair, Wales moving in right direction
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS New 10-12 axis: Owen Williams and Dan Biggar combine CLOSE, but no cigar!...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoIreland turn the screw with three-try flourish
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER IRELAND, with a performance of growing authority and excellence, dismissed South Africa from their presence to get their...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoEddie’s tunnel vision over Hartley is harmful
CAPTAINCY has often caused controversy in Rugby Union, and there is one which has been brewing for some time with Eddie...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoCash pours in for Doddie
SOME 1,300 people crammed into Battersea Evolution in London on Monday to honour Doddie Weir, the former Scotland and Lions lock,...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIreland response far from ‘positive and respectful’
COLIN BOAG It was a week for sore losers. They haven’t actually lost yet, but the Irish and French Unions threw...
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Features
/ 8 years agoO’Brien’s miracle try gets my vote
Pick: Sean O’Brien try AN outstanding shortlist for the prestigious International Rugby Players Association (IRPA) try of the year has been...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGloucester big guns blast Irish to shreds
By ROGER PANTING Rout: Jake Polledri, left, celebrates with teammates after scoring his late try PICTURE: Getty Images GLOUCESTER have their...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBeal lit up Arms Park long before Twickenham
Over the last 20 years almost as many embryonic Lions have taken their first steps at what must be the most...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSandy was key for Shedden
WAY back in the Seventies when rugby really was a game for all shapes and sizes, the Scotland selectors enforced an...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMurphy, from Bridgend to Berlin
NO shortage of Murphys have flitted across the global stage in their time from Noel Murphy of Munster, Ireland and the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAussies offer acid test of Eddie’s back row mobility
Payback. It’s 4-0 to ‘English’ Eddie Jones on Michael Cheika’s watch, and that bashing by the Poms will be more toxic...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow Boer War camps brought a new breed to the game
BRITISH Prisoner of War camps on St Helena in the mid-Atlantic and even more so in Sri Lanka played a surprisingly...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoI’d have picked Slade at No12 for England in 2015 – Walder
By JON NEWCOMBE NEWCASTLE head coach Dave Walder says England must fight fire with fire when they face Australia in Saturday’s...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Give Liam the key to drive Wales’ attack from full back
Shane Williams is teeming with curiosity how Warren Gatland will experiment with the Wales back three
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: World Cup vote would save Springboks from disaster
(Photo: Getty Images) By Nick Cain With South African rugby on the road to the cliff-edge, the Rugby World Cup board...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Can Wales rise from the Ashes of defeats to Wallabies?
Wales have lost their last 16 matches against Australia
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoCan Wales rise from ashes after 16 losses?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Rout: Bernard Foley runs in one of Australia’s five tries in their 32-8...
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National League 3
/ 8 years agoPoor Halesonians get 90-point mauling
Midlands Premier PETERBOROUGH Lions ran riot against bottom side Old Halesonians while Birmingham and Solihull Bees edged the top-of-the-table clash with...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDon’t write off Jamie, we can still hit 50 mark
By ROB COLE Dropped: Jamie Roberts playing for Wales JONATHAN Davies is one game short of a half-century of international starts...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCrossword
ACROSS 1. Scotland full-back whose 2017 Lions tour was curtailed by injury (4) 3. Former England hooker who, from 2000, played...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWatson ready to home in on Scots No.7 role
By GARY HEATLY HAMISH Watson knows the upcoming Autumn Tests are a chance for the Scotland team to show supporters how...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoLook North, Barbarians, before it all goes South
From NICK CAIN at Tiwckenham Opener: Richie Mo’unga scores the first try THIS was more like a New Zealand trial match...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoHas any coach ever had more riches to choose from than All Blacks’ Hansen?
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT The All Blacks might only have prevailed by nine points against a wonderfully spirited and inventive Barbarians but...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoGet your fire back, Jones tells Courtney
By GARY FITZGERALD Gee up: Courtney Lawes EDDIE Jones has given Courtney Lawes a verbal kick up the backside and told...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoVunipolas in cash boost for Welsh kids
By PETER JACKSON WELSH rugby has found inspiring new sponsors – England’s Vunipola brothers. Their financial support for the grass-roots game...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoNICK CAIN
World Cup vote would save Boks from disaster READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK With South African rugby on the road...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTenacious Tigers hold their nerve in dramatic last quarter
By ROB WILDMAN SOME familiar names demonstrated a characteristic winning edge to successfully start Leicester’s defence of the Anglo- Welsh title....
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Features
/ 8 years agoWasps put Shields on their radar
WASPS are believed to have joined the race to sign Hurricanes No 8 Brad Shields who is looking to come to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSHANE WILLIAMS
Give Liam key to drive attack from full-back WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I’m going to be fascinated by the back-three battle...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBlues blitz Italians to go above Ospreys
By STEFFAN THOMAS CARDIFF Blues scored five tries as they thrashed Zebre in a bonus point victory to jump ahead of...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGloucester’s Ruan Ackermann considers playing for England
The Gloucester back row could be eligible for England in 2020 and says it's a possibility if the Springboks don't come...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Give Owen Williams the reins to drive brave new dawn for Wales
Wales and Lions legend Shane Williams looks at the Wales squad for the autumn internationals and suggests who should start
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 8 years agoRob Howley talks O’Brien, Byrne and his future after the 2019 World Cup
The Wales and Lions coach made peace with Sean O'Brien in 20 minute phone call
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoGiveWebb a reprieve demands Rowlands
By PETER JACKSON On the up: Christian Wade celebrates his try for Wasps in their defeat of Northampton PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Genius Van Vollenhoven, the master of both codes BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points WHEN...
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Features
/ 8 years agoQuins target Savea to replace Yarde
All Black ace: Julian Savea JULIAN SAVEA could be heading to the Premiership and joining Harlequins on a short term contract...
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Shane Williams
/ 8 years agoGive Owen the reins to drive brave new dawn
Deserves a chance at 12: Gloucester centre Owen Williams PICTURE: Getty Images Finally, my prayers have been answered! I’ve banged on...
International Rugby
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