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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoItaly have the firepower… if they can win enough ball
Italy Brendan Gallagher finds some reasons to be hopeful of a new dawn for Italy Big loss: Wasps’ Matteo Minozzi has...
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Features
/ 5 years agoIn awe of how Sergio starred on both fronts
MATTEO Minozzi’s withdrawal from Italy’s Six Nations squad citing the stress and dislocation of having to flit between Covid bubbles –...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoToulon’s Louis Carbonel in control but Sale Sharks show fight
Mike Sinclair reports on Toulon edging Sale Sharks in their first match since Steve Diamond left the Premiership club
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoWhatever the criteria, Maro Itoje makes my best XV
Brendan Gallagher analyses the World Rugby Team of the Decade and argues Maro Itoje was a glaring omission
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: Malins, Sheedy and Earl all back for Champions Cup opener
Bristol Bears and Clermont kick off Saturday's action in Round 1 of the new Champions Cup season
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoThe Lone Ranger rides again with Gorgadze
CHRIS HEWETT Watching Beka Gorgadze play England and Wales on his own was an interesting experience, the young Georgian No.8’s carrying...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoSteven Luatua a late withdrawal from Bristol squad
Bristol Bears captain to remain in England to attend birth of his child and miss Challenge Cup final
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoUren: We know Toulon’s history, but we are the team with world-class players now
Bristol Bears No.9 Andy Uren previews the Challenge Cup final and reminisces on his memories of his boyhood club
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoUren: Toulon will be class but we have Radradra!
By JON NEWCOMBE Ally: Harry Randall AS a youngster, Andy Uren stood on the terraces at the Memorial Ground watching the...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoMistake-ridden Tigers are tamed by Toulon
By GARY FITZGERALD TIGERS’ European dreams were well and truly buried on a ploughed Stade Felix Mayol pitch as Toulon set...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: McCall sticks by the Saracens who overcame Leinster
Full teams for the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup semi-finals this weekend
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoSuper-sub Louis sinks Scarlets’ European dream
By ALEX BYWATER Victory kiss: Try-scorer Sergio Parisse embraces Charles Ollivon SCARLETS suffered a heartbreaking Challenge Cup quarter-final defeat and have...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoGeorge Ford back for Leicester Tigers Challenge Cup clash
Team line-ups for this weekend's Challenge Cup action, as Tigers welcome Castres to Welford Road
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Features
/ 6 years agoMr Motivator Telfer scales the peaks of rugby rhetoric
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s ‘goosebump’ moments 1: Jim Telfer’s Everest speech (1997) Like many games...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 Rugby Captains: Part One
Legendary figures of the Six Nations Brian O'Driscoll, Alun Wyn Jones and Sergio Parisse miss out on the Top 10
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Features
/ 6 years agoJohnno played through pain to get Lions over the line
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at the best rugby captains Inspiring: Martin Johnson led from the front during...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: French cash crisis and JIFF rule should halt Racing’s bid for Itoje
Racing 92's recruitment thus far closed their chequebook after the signing of Kurtley Beale, writes James Harrington
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoFrench cash crisis should halt Racing bid for Itoje
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Watch this space: Maro Itoje’s rumoured move to Racing looks doubtful PICTURE: Getty Images For some time,...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoPremiership unlikely to follow Myners’ guidance
As the Premiership digests Lord Myners review I don’t doubt that there will be many people who will take a similar...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: New 50:22 kicking law will fuel more drama
The 50:22 kicking law to be trialled by World Rugby will heighten the importance of positioning, writes Shane Williams
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoNew kicking law will increase excitement
New role: Taulupe Faletau should get more opportunity to carry the ball from deep PICTURE: Getty Images I was really looking...
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Features
/ 6 years agoNo French champions for first time since WW2
JAMES HARRINGTON Big signing: Wallaby Kurtley Beale will join Racing 92 PICTURE: Getty Images The 30 presidents of the Top 14...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExcluding Carling is an insult
THE ten best captains list printed in The Times last week was always going to be controversial with all disagreeing on...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoItaly plot a new shock victory over Russell-less Scotland
Scotland are a team Italy know they can beat, writes Brendan Gallagher
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoItaly plot a new shock victory over the Russell-less Scots
Brendan Gallagher says Italy are plotting victory over the Six Nations team they know they can beat Welcome to Rome: Giovanbattista...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoRuthless Galthie will be out to crush Italy
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Enforced change: Arthur Vincent BEFORE the 2020 Six Nations began there was widespread speculation that Fabian Galthie would...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoVasil pips North to the fastest Test 50
THERE was a notable if sparsely applauded achievement in Tbilisi last week when Georgia scrum-half Vasil Lobzhanidze became the youngest player...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoItaly lined up Franco Smith for months to replace O’Shea
Brendan Gallagher analyses how Italy are shaping up in the wake of the World Cup with a new head coach
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’ts England – if they can escape Paris!
Wise men? From left, Peter Jackson, Nick Cain, Matt Emery and Jerry Guscott The Rugby Paper’s brains trust reconvened for the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFranco was lined up for months to replace O’Shea
Italy Brendan Gallagher charts background of new Italian head coach Franco Smith New broom: Franco Smith with his squad NICK CAIN...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTwenty years of wonder as Six Nations sparkles on
Brendan Gallagher looks back at the glories – and grumbles – from the start of the great tournament WITH the Six...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWig wants at least one more year at Sarries
Hungry: Richard Wigglesworth Eddie urges stars to sort their futures EDDIE Jones will be keen for a handful of his stars...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: New breed of coaches take centre stage in 2020
Only Eddie Jones and Gregor Townsend remain from the World Cup as the Six Nations nears
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCoaches take centre stage in the New Year
Challenge: Franco Smith has taken over the Italian national team Insets: Fabian Galthie, right Andy Farrell, below PICTURES: Getty Images Making...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoThe Rugby Paper’s team of the 2010s
Brendan Gallagher has watched a lot - and we mean, a lot - of rugby this decade. So we asked him...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoRugby’s decade of difference
Brendan Gallager looks back over the past ten years…the good, the bad and the superstars Brendan Gallager looks back over the...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPolledri takes wisdom from Italy’s old guard to hit peak for Gloucester
The Gloucester flanker reflects on his rise from Hartpury to the World Cup with Italy
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Challenge Cup
/ 6 years agoKidney raps ref penalty count against the Exiles
By NEALE HARVEY Touchdown: Albert Tuisue scores London Irish’s first try PICTURE: Getty Images TEAMS LONDON IRISH: Brophy-Clews 6 (Brand 65,...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoPolledri close to peak after meteoric climb
By NEALE HARVEY AFTER a meteoric rise from nowhere to starring for Italy at the World Cup, Jake Polledri now has...
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Challenge Cup
/ 6 years agoTwo reds…but it’s green for go for terrific Toulon
POOL 2 By SAM JACKSON Dynamic: Baptiste Serin scored two tries for Toulon Power: Steve Mafi DECLAN Kidney wants his Irish...
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Sale Sharks and ex-Stade Francais back row Jono Ross
This is just a ridiculous team named by the Sale Sharks captain, who has played in England, South Africa and France
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoOrtega shows France is country for old men
THE years may keep rolling by but Rodrigo Capo Ortega keeps rolling on. The second row whose longevity makes Alun-Wyn Jones...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
JONO ROSS, SALE AND FORMER HARLEQUINS, BULLS, SARACENS AND STADE FRANCAIS FLANKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoThree years of refining Italy, Conor O’Shea got the selection wrong for Azzurri
A look at Conor O'Shea's time in charge of Italy which yielded a 23 per cent win rate in Tests
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years ago89th minute kick hands Scarlets second defeat
By STEFFAN THOMAS Dead-eye: Anthony Belleau kicks the winning points THE Scarlets were left heartbroken as Toulon snatched victory deep into...
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Features
/ 6 years agoO’Shea got selection wrong too many times
ROME was not built in a day and breathing life into Italy’s Test team was always going to be a challenge,...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoMcCaw is within the grasp of Alun Wyn
IF HE stays in one piece for the rest of the season, Alun Wyn Jones has every chance of finishing it...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoVIDEO: World Rugby release shortlist for 2019 Try of the Year
Watch the four tries in contention for the Try of the Year Award 2019
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Cancelled game will help Welsh chances
WALES are battered and bruised, but they are also battle-hardened for the World Cup‘s quarter-finals and that is where you want...















