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Latest News
/ 12 months agoThe future looks bright for versatile players – Danny Care
By Ben Jaycock Super sub Danny Care built a 100-cap England career off the back of impacts from the bench but...
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Premiership
/ 12 months agoNewcastle Falcons 15-39 Sale Sharks: George Ford leads from the front for sharp Sale
By Luke Jarmyn Newcastle Falcons ........15pts Tries: Neild 21, Palframan 80 Conversion: Connon 22 Penalty: Connon 32 Sale Sharks ..................... 39pts...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoTom Curry wins my Six Nations True Grit award
By Nick Cain The “True Grit” award for the 2025 Six Nations has to go to Tom Curry. I will...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoChristophe Ridley deserves credit for England’s scrum
The data-driven fanfare for England’s scrum after the Six Nations is overblown, especially when you consider much of it is based...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoThis Premiership cartel is strangling our game
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Welcome to gridlock. Everything that is wrong with the English club...
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Chris Hewett
/ 12 months agoTwo point tries for rolling mauls? The giants who are spoiling it for all of us
Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Poor old Italy came up with plenty of solutions to the problems posed by Ireland in...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 12 months agoUnited Rugby Championship: Harri Millard snatches it for Cardiff
By Roger Panting Cardiff ...............20pts Tries: Donnell 21, Millard 63 Conversions: Sheedy 21, 63 Penalties: Sheedy 31, 50 Lions................... 17pts Tries:...
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Miscellaneous
/ 12 months agoLaughton signed the best
NEVER in the once troubled conflict between the codes can anyone have made life so uncomfortably hot for the RFU and...
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National League One
/ 12 months agoNo sympathy as Darlo crushed
■By JON MEADOWS B Moseley ..............69 Darlington MP .......14 WITH their relegation from National One confirmed, it was a depleted Darlington...
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Features
/ 12 months agoYoung Guns – Isaac Keller
NEWCASTLE FALCONS PROP Isaac Keller has a checklist of achievements he wants to make in the game over the next 12...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 months agoEngland still need to have a plan B
By Jeff Probn - A front row view of the game Well, what a Six Nations we have just had with...
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Guest Blogs
/ 12 months agoCarbon Capture and Storage Technologies
The carbon emissions from the world yearly amount to 36 billion tons, which are released into the atmosphere. The atmosphere receives...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoSix Nations 2025: Team of the Tournament
France have been confirmed as Six Nations champions after their win against Scotland at the Stade de France, but that doesn’t tell the...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoTom Curry urges George Martin to avoid the phone
By Adam Hathaway Tom Curry has told sidelined George Martin to stay off his phone as the Leicester lock bids to...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoSix Nations: Rampant England find new ways to impress against Wales
By Nick Cain Wales ..................................14pts Tries: B Thomas 31, 77 Conversions: Anscombe 32, J Evans 77 Tries: Itoje 3, Roebuck 10,...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoEngland’s three-card trick comes up trumps in Six Nations finale
Paul Rees England have long been advised to use their heads and how they did as they turned what was expected...
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Six Nations
/ 12 months agoSix Nations: It is no surprise to me but Maro Itoje proves his captaincy credentials
By Brendan Gallagher It was Eddie Jones who insisted that Maro Itoje was not captaincy material, an opinion that seemed plain...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoWales all washed up with nowhere to go…
By Peter Jackson Every living English Grand Slam captain, from Sir Bill Beaumont to Dylan Hartley via Will Carling and Martin...
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Six Nations
/ 12 months agoSix Nations: France in seventh heaven
By Bryn Palmer France................... 35pts Tries: Moefana 18, 62; Bielle-Biarrey 43, Ramos 57 Conversions: Ramos 18, 44, 58 Scotland ............ 16pts...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 months agoJeremy Guscott: Time to shrug off the straitjacket, England
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken & unmissable every week... If you put the England backs behind the French pack would they...
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Miscellaneous
/ 12 months agoLet me tell you a secret (…but keep it quiet)
HISTORIC! Momentous! Unique! Extraordinary! You know it’s a British and Irish Lions year when the word “extraordinary” fails to secure a...
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Features
/ 12 months agoMatthew Tait Should I have focused on one position? I don’t know
Paul Rees looks back at Mathew Tait’s career and finds out how he - and his family - are now living...
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Club Rugby
/ 12 months agoLouw agrees deal with Sale
SALE Sharks have signed South African centre Marius Louw on a two-year deal from the Lions. Louw, 29, said: “It’s such...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoLiam Belcher: Cardiff are heading in the right direction
By Simon Thomas By his own admission, it’s been a nightmare season for Liam Belcher so far, but now the Cardiff...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoKing’s rally to take the honours
by Tom Jeffreys King’s Glouc......29 King Edward’s..16 KING’S School, Gloucester staged a stunning second-half comeback to beat King Edward’s School, Birmingham...
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Podcast
/ 12 months agoPODCAST (S4, E26): France target Six Nations title and Wales target England scalp with Alex Cuthbert
After a cracking weekend of rugby in which the championship tilted in French favour following their stunning win in Dublin, Ollie...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoJack Boyle – Ireland’s future front row star
By Pete Ryan You won’t find a position quite like the prop in any sport. It is a position defined by...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoRugby’s social media moments of the weekend
By Charlie Elliott As always, rugby delivered some great moments this weekend, with the Six Nations taking so many twists and turns. ...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoSix Nations stock Risers and Fallers: Ireland the biggest losers after missing huge Grand Slam opportunity
It was another brilliant weekend of Six Nations action, in which France climbed up to pole position with one round to...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoOllie Lawrence out of Six Nations finale and fearing season-ending lay-off
Ollie Lawrence will miss England’s Guinness Six Nations finale against Wales and could struggle to play again this season after suffering...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoWe must pull together to grow game – Rob Baxter
By Mark Stevens Rob Baxter believes that the responsibility for growing rugby – both financially and in terms of interest –...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoFit-again Josh Hodge keen to kick on with Exeter Chiefs
By Paul Rees Josh Hodge is getting a kick out of life at Exeter as the fullback looks to put himself...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoI play at my best when I’m vocal, says centurion Jamie George
By Adam Hathaway Man of the moment Jamie George insists not much has changed despite being stripped of the England captaincy...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 months agoSix Nations: Wales edge closer to unwanted record
By Peter Jackson At Murrayfield 70 years ago, Wales played the role of polite guests to perfection, enabling their supposedly hopeless...
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Dream Team
/ 12 months agoDream Team – Josh McNally
Josh McNally, the Cardiff, RAF and former England, Bath, London Irish, London Welsh & Henley lock, chooses the best XV he...
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Features
/ 12 months agoJosh Matavesi: I just loved sport, it was my get-out, my freedom
The former Fiji, Exeter, Racing 92, Worcester, Ospreys, Newcastle, Bath & Toyota Shokki Shuttles centre/fly-half Josh Matavesi For the last season...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoEligibility journey of Benhard Janse van Rensburg
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know At Eden Park on June 20, 2014, the cream of England’s...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoMaverick Marcus Smith has role to play
Steve Borthwick explained the dropping of Marcus Smith to the bench today by saying he wanted to unleash the Harlequin when...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 months agoGeorgia’s flyer Akaki Tabutsadze on his way to the top
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points, By Brendan Gallagher It's the Rugby Europe Championship final...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoDr Bill Mulcahy put his college on the map
Ireland lock Dr Bill Mulcahy will be remembered for many things not least being a rumbustious Ireland lock who also won...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoGloucester bring in Venter
GLOUCESTER have signed South African back row James Venter from the Durban-based Sharks. The 28-year-old began his career at Lions in...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoLarkham delight as Brumbies rule
By BEN JAYCOCK Try time: Declan Meredith dives over to score for Brumbies against Blues and, inset, head coach Stephen Larkham...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSix Nations: France and Ireland combined 23-man squad
By Charlie Elliott Ireland host France this weekend in the Six Nations in the biggest match of the tournament so far. ...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSix Nations: Barnstorming Tom Curry shows Ben Earl how it should be done
By Adam Hathaway Being in England camp with Tom Curry has shown Ben Earl what a world class player looks like...
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 year agoKeep your powder dry, Ellis
ELLIS Genge has got a love-hate relationship with the media, with “out of touch” former players in particular getting his goat....
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 year agoJury’s out on Galthie’s collective approach
WHEN it comes to pivotal matches, Ireland’s clash with France in Dublin on Saturday has it all. It will dictate whether...
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Features
/ 1 year agoTime to put foot down and let the turbo kick in
Paul Rees looks back on England’s performances so far and says they should take the hand brake off and race ahead...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 1 year agoURC: Jack Walsh keeps his nerve as Ospreys down Glasgow Warriors
By Luke Jarmyn Glasgow ............ 31pts Tries: Mann 20, Schickerling 34, 40; Cordero 71, McBeth 78 Conversions: Weir 21, 40+1, 79...
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Features
/ 1 year agoYoung Guns – George Pearson
Tigers back three player George Pearson made his England U20s bow by scoring a try in last week’s win over Scotland....
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Miscellaneous
/ 1 year agoForthcoming fixtures
Week beginning Sunday, March 2, 2025 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs SUNDAY, MARCH 2...
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