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Latest News
/ 11 years agoEngland and Australia announce first ever three-Test series
England will play Australia in a first ever three-Test series between the teams Down Under in June 2016. The opening Test...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoDo Team GB have the athletes to win gold?
Mike Friday warns Team GB that they need “to get their house in order” if they are to win a medal...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: Jonathan Davies’ loss more disruptive than Manu Tuilagi’s
With fewer than 100 days until the World Cup, Stuart Lancaster will be far happier than Warren Gatland is right now...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoJon Fisher: Alex Corbisiero can prove doubters wrong, like me
Saints loosehead Corbisiero will leave no stone unturned in his bid to make the World Cup team.
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: Gentle giant Jerry Collins made Ospreys into true Galacticos
Jerry Collins was a typical south-sea islander – a monster on the pitch but a gentle giant off it. I remember...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoClown prince Joe Marler plays it seriously now
TRP sits down with the one and only Joe Marler.
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Featured
/ 11 years agoSix Nations TV deal set to rocket past £50m a season
The next Six Nations television deal is expected to increase by 25 per cent.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoDave Ward: Our new guys will put Harlequins back on top
Harlequins hooker has backed star signings Roberts, Jones and Horwill to kick-start a revival at the Stoop.
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoEuan Murray joins Pau
Euan Murray will leave Glasgow at the end of the season to join French side Pau. The tighthead, who retired from...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: John Mallett – former Bath and England prop
I was fortunate enough to come into the Bath side on the back of the club’s most successful era, playing in...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoCourtney Lawes and Joe Launchbury ‘top locks for England’
Pair must be England’s World Cup starting locks according to Nick Kennedy.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain’s view on England’s World Cup training squad
One of the enduring conundrums of Stuart Lancaster‘s tenure, and that of many England coaching regimes before his, is whether Red...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: No Steffon Armitage means no exile will ever get in
The exclusion of Steffon Armitage and Nick Abendanon had been well documented before the selection of England‘s 50 man World Cup...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: USA Eagles leave rugby’s old world order at Sixes and Sevens
Last Tuesday evening, when Madison Hughes and his American Sevens squad arrived back at the USA Olympic training centre in Chula...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoHarlequins prop Matt Shields now ready for his crack in big league
Rookie Harlequins tighthead Matt Shields has endured a baptism of fire since joining from Darlington Mowden Park in February and emerged...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoChampionship final 1st leg preview: “Our big-hitters must nullify Matthew Morgan” – Ryan Lamb
Defence will decide the outcome of the Championship final, according to Worcester fly-half Ryan Lamb, whose half-back battle with livewire Welsh...
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Dream Team
/ 11 years agoDream Team: Dominic Day – Bath and former Scarlets lock
Dominic Day1. Iestyn Thomas – The old boy at Scarlets who took me under his wing. A good guy who showed...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoAlex Corbisiero set to miss World Cup – Trevor Woodman
Lions prop set for World Cup heartbreak according to former England prop who believes Joe Marler and Mako Vunipola will be...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: What’s the money on Toulon making it four on the spin?
As the dust settles on the first ever Champions Cup and the remarkable but unsurprising success of Toulon in winning their...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: How the RAF revived spirit of Bader and Cooler King
Through adversity to the stars, as the RAF motto proclaims. Taking on the might of the Army and Navy has always...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoNathan Hines to join Scotland coaching team
Former Scotland and British & Irish Lions lock Nathan Hines has been recruited to the national coaching team on a two-year...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Wasps No.8 Nathan Hughes about his international choices
Nathan Hughes is a wanted man. Wanted by England as well as Fiji, the land of his father, and where he...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s verdict on Toulon’s Champions Cup win: The old Sea Wolves are simply majestic
I ceased caring about how many millions Toulon allegedly spend on their squad a long time ago. In fact the more...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams’ column: Lee Byrne paid heavy price for chasing Euro glory
Lee Byrne’s career is both a model and a warning to young Welsh players. For a time, Lee was the best...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoLee Byrne to hang up his boots
British and Irish Lion Lee Byrne will retire from professional rugby on medical grounds. The 34-year-old full-back, who had been at...
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Dream Team
/ 11 years agoDream Team: GJ van Velze – Worcester Captain & former Northampton and Bulls No.8
1. Soane Tonga’uiha – Played with him at North-ampton and he was a great bloke to have a beer with after...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Lyn Jones is happy to foster home-grown Dragons
Lyn Jones and his home-grown Dragons start the most challenging week of their lives today. By the end of it, nobody...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s column: Clermont reap benefits from hunting cleverly
Money invariably encourages envy and bad-mouthing but money per se has never guaranteed success in any sport. Winning is much more...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: Can Saracens exploit scars of 2014?
The two stand-out performances in European Cup history have both come within the last 12 months and on Saturday the two...
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Dream Team
/ 11 years agoDream Team: Tom James – Exeter and former Cardiff Blues wing
1. Cian Healy – The Leinster and Ireland loosehead has an awesome work rate. He loves a carry but he is...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher feature: 125 years of Barbarians
It was 2am on the morning of April 9 1890 that the Barbarians Football club officially came into existence which in...
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Club Rugby
/ 11 years agoQuins continue revamping of squad with addition of Visser
Harlequins have confirmed the signing of Scotland international Tim Visser bringing to an end his six-year connection with Edinburgh. The deal...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature on Alan Hancock’s try against Scotland in 1965
Everybody is famously allowed 15 minutes of fame, but for Northampton wing Andy Hancock that was abbreviated to 15 seconds. That’s...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoHeaslip returns for Ireland
Jamie Heaslip will start for Ireland for the potentially decisive Six Nations clash with Wales in Cardiff. The British and Irish...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andre Snyman – former South Africa and Leeds centre
Missing out on three World Cups, one because of injury and two through politics, were the only real disappointments of a...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoSouth African Michael Rhodes signs for Saracens
As revealed by Neil Fissler in The Rugby Paper on Sunday, Saracens have signed Stormers forward Michael Rhodes ahead of next...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoMaitland and McInallly called up by Scotland
Sean Maitland and Stuart McInally have been called up by Scotland ahead of Saturday’s Six Nations game against England. British &...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Welsh clubs gang up to oust chief executive Roger Lewis
By PETER JASCKON The Welsh Rugby Union had been urged to ‘get rid’ of chief executive Roger Lewis before last Tuesday’s...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain’s column: We’re on the wrong road to Rio with Joe Lydon
Phil Greening is concerned that Great Britain, and their qualification nominees, England, are taking the wrong road to Rio. The former...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: Get your game-heads on, it will be intense from the off
If you match-up the English and Irish backs it appears on form that they are incredibly close, but four out of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: England must take heed of Irish warnings from history!
There is no disgrace losing in Dublin – New Zealand are the only team in the world to have avoided that...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to the England forwards coach Graham Rowntree about the exciting new dynamism of his pack
Graham Rowntree wants a pack for all seasons. An England eight that can grind the opposition like a millstone one minute,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Why Olympic Sevens could prove catastrophic for 15s
With the first round of games about to start in the world’s pre-eminent annual rugby competition, this could be one of...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Why Olympic Sevens could prove catastrophic for 15s
With the first round of games about to start in the world’s pre-eminent annual rugby competition, this could be one of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Mervyn Davies’s lament at putting Phil Bennett on the spot
Long before he passed away, Mervyn Davies confessed that his errant captaincy had cost Wales a third Grand Slam in four...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: When Scotland v Wales filled Murrayfield to the max
It’s always intrigued me, that six digit figure of 104,000 from a Five Nations match 40 years ago. What was that...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoIreland recall Sexton and Heaslip to face France
Jamie Heaslip and Johnny Sexton will make their return to action on Saturday when Ireland take on France in the second...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict: Lights go out for Warren Gatland’s galacticos
England had waited so long in the tunnel for any sign of the opposition that Chris Robshaw asked the referee: “How...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams: Warren Gatland knows how to get George North twinkling
Even the best players need a good size ten up the backside sometimes and George North is no different. George was...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s verdict: No more Mr Nice Guy as Robbo’s men get ruthless
Chris Robshaw isn’t one of rugby’s great smilers but the megawatt beam on his face on Friday night at the Millennium...
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