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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Clear the air? No, Fartgate only left a very nasty smell!
It was 20 years ago today – the Sunday of the early May Bank Holiday – that one of the strangest...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Let’s unhitch this truck and trailer for good
The truck-and-trailer maul has been the scourge of the modern game. In a nutshell, it allows a wedge of offside players...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoWatch us finish World Sevens Series with a flourish, says Tom Mitchell
England Sevens captain warns rivals that, having been good enough to win in Tokyo, they will be in much better shape...
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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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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Ring-fencing would damage potential World Cup legacy
The almost universal acceptance by the media that ring-fencing the Premiership will actually take place, even if it’s just for a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s feature: Never call Carl Hayman a mercenary… he’s been a galactico!
Three giants of the game – metaphorically and physically – depart the European scene at Twickenham on Saturday as the clock...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain examines the implications of Australia’s U-turn on overseas players
The tectonic plates shifted this week not just in the Pool A fight between England, Wales and Australia for their tripartite...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoSemesa Rokoduguni’s form warranted a fairer crack blasts Neal Hatley
Bath win must not become a ‘one-cap wonder’
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoHarlequins to face USA in pre-season friendly
Harlequins will prepare for next season with a pre-season tour to Philadelphia culminating in a unique friendly against the USA at...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: Wallabies were always going to pick star names
New Zealand will not be panicking as much as Australia about the talent drain to Top 14, Premiership and Pro12 clubs...
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Dream Team
/ 11 years agoDream Team: Aaron Penberthy – Jersey and former Cornish Pirates fly-half
1. Alan Paver – He’s very respected down at the Pirates for what he’s done for the club over the years....
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Young Gun
/ 11 years agoYoung Gun: Josh Caulfield – England U18s and Exeter lock
Representing England was always Josh Caulfield’s dream but to do so next to his best friend Curtis Langdon made it even...
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Shane Williams
/ 11 years agoShane Williams: Judgement Day will act as Warren Gatland’s World Cup trial
Warren Gatland might not be there in person but next week’s Judgement Day could be just that for so many Wales...
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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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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andy Gomarsall – former Wasps, Bedford, Gloucester, Quins, Leeds & England scrum-half
I’ll never forget getting the phone call telling me I was in the final squad of 30 for RWC 2003. I...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoNorthampton sign Pat Howard from Stormers
Northampton Saints have today announced that Pat Howard will be joining the club next season. The 23-year-old centre will join from...
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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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Latest News
/ 11 years agoHarlequins confirm Tim Swiel return
As revealed by Neil Fissler in The Rugby Paper on Sunday, Harlequins have brought back Tim Swiel on a full-time contract...
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Featured
/ 11 years ago“England still need Martin Johnson” – Brian Smith
England would be in better shape if Johnson were still in charge according to former Red Rose attack coach.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s comment on France: This will drive Dr Mias back onto the bottle
In reaffirming their status as serious title contenders, Wales plunged France into such a state of despair that their most revered...
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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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Featured
/ 11 years agoHendre Fourie: England have the right mix
James Haskell may favour playing in the seven shirt but former England openside Hendre Fourie believes the reason he’s playing his...
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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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Latest News
/ 11 years agoWales recall George North for France Test
George North has been recalled by Wales to take on France in the third round of the Six Nations on Saturday....
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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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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Lions legend Graham Price takes a prop shot at Adam Jones axe
As the only tighthead on the planet to have propped the Lions through 12 consecutive Test matches, Graham Price knows a...
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Guest Blogs
/ 11 years agoSpringboks Sweat Over Fitness of De Villiers
By Craig Simpkin South African captain Jean De Villiers is in a race to be fit in time for the start...
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Dream Team
/ 11 years agoDream Team: Chris Brightwell – Moseley & former Sale and Birmingham No.8
1.Matt Long – He was an old school campaigner for Birmingham. A solid scrummager and a good team man to have in...
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Young Gun
/ 11 years agoYoung Gun: Jack Stanley – Exeter prop
Schoolboy Jack Stanley knew he was going to pack down alongside grown men when he made his debut for Taunton three...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The demons of Cardiff that will forever haunt England
England have found the going tough in Cardiff over years both at the Arms Park and the Millennium Stadium. Indeed at...
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20 Questions
/ 11 years ago20 Questions: Ian Davies – Cornish Pirates head coach
Opinion of Pirates’ season? Probably where we thought we would be: new group of players, sprinkling of old legs and a...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoKockott handed first France start
Rory Kockott will make his first Test start for France in their Six Nations opener against Scotland on Saturday. The Castres...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Mark Regan – former Bath, Leeds, Bristol, England and Lions hooker
Throughout my career I always played for the name on the front of the jersey not on the back and gave...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoWarburton to win Wales’ 50th cap against England
Warren Gatland makes two changes ahead of Six Nations opener.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Tom Who? can make a name for the Exiles
Tom Coventry’s appointment as the new coach of London Irish following the early departure of Brian Smith has probably prompted a...
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Young Gun
/ 11 years agoYoung Gun: Curtis Langdon – St Paul’s & London Irish hooker
Curtis Langdon might only be 17 but he knows what he wants and that is to help St Paul’s become only...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The Test job? It’s a real loss but mavericks need not apply
Last November Jim Greenwood, who died in 2010, was voted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame and next week his...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoNorthampton snap Jamie Gibson from Leicester
Northampton Saints today announced that Jamie Gibson will be joining Franklin’s Gardens ahead of next season. Gibson joined the Tigers in...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoAnscombe included in Wales’ Six Nations squad
Gareth Anscombe has been named in Wales’ squad by Warren Gatland ahead of the Sxi Nations. The former New Zealand U20s...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Give promoted teams more money to level playing field
Here we are at the start of another year and, as usual, the hopes and aspirations of all rugby players and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Get ready for a crescendo…. just like the Olympics
Suddenly it’s World Cup year and the tournament is hurtling towards us as the pace quickens. No longer can we talk...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain meets Jamie Gibson who has left academia to chase his rugby dream
Jamie Gibson is a scholar and a gentleman, a true blue Oxford University-educated boffin who, inspired by the philosophy of Socrates,...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Bring back rucking and watch the game take off
My New Year’s rugby resolutions start with a return to rucking. To this day I don’t understand why rucking ever changed....
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Young Gun
/ 11 years agoYoung Gun: Conor Dolan – Wellington and Wasps centre
Taking on the best schools in the country on a weekly basis is no mean feat but that is what Conor...
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20 Questions
/ 11 years ago20 Questions: Dan Montagu – Nottingham lock
Surprised Nottingham are flying so high? It’s certainly a much better place to be than this time last year, but we...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoNo England costs Wales £5m World Cup bonus
Peter Jackson reveals the full extent of Wales’ financial calamity at losing their pre-World Cup matches against England.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain gives his post-autumn verdict on where England are with just eight games to go until RWC2015
When Stuart Lancaster was asked about the one added extra he would have wanted in his England team for the autumn...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Ritchie keeps the faith with Lancaster…for now
Ian Ritchie delivered an intriguing line in double-speak as he delivered his verdict on England‘s autumn return of two losses and...
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