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Featured
/ 12 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Steffon Armitage eyes World Cup chance with France
The original, and Exclusive, story from Neale Harvey on June 29.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoSo far it’s been so-so but David Sisi is set to soar
Giant back row ready to put two years of injury behind him and kick on at Bath.
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years ago“We just have to beat big guns this autumn” – Chris Robshaw
England skipper targeting a perfect international season as the countdown to the 2015 World Cup begins.
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: To Siberia with Keeef Woodie, Dolly, yoga and a hint of vodka
It was the strangest rugby trip of my life and also, in many ways, the most memorable despite chronic jet lag,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Hair Bear goes on the endangered species list
At close of business on Friday, Adam Jones had spent another week out of work without a club to call his...
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Moment In Time
/ 12 years agoMoment in Time: The day London Irish avoided relegation
It would be no exaggeration to say that the future of London Irish was at stake. Powergen Cup winners and fourth...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Joe Lydon and Mike Friday about the GB challenge in the Rio Olympics Sevens
Joe Lydon and Mike Friday used to share the same vision of Sevens when they worked together at the RFU from...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott previews the Rugby Championship: The Boks just want to cut you in half
South African rugby is built around mental fortitude, and although I’ve criticised them in the past for being one-dimensional you have...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Clubs must tune into needs of their fans
One of the most noticeable aspects of watching rugby in the Southern Hemisphere over the course of the summer has been...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Warren Gatland’s contract wish list
Warren Gatland has drawn up a hit list of ten Welsh-based players to be offered dual club-and-country contracts for the coming...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoSpringboks call on Juan Smith
South Africa have called up Juan Smith for the Rugby Championship as injury cover for Victor Matfield. Matfield is ruled out...
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Young Gun
/ 12 years agoYoung Gun: Kieran Treadwell – Harlequins and England U18s second row
It is quite common to see young players with a cross-border heritage gain international caps with different countries, at different levels...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Where are they now? The 2003 RWC-winning England squad
What did rugby and life have in store for England’s triumphant World Cup-winning squad from 2003? Following the recent retirements of...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoChiefs snap up Namibian full-back
Exeter Chiefs have made their eighth signing of the summer in the person of Namibian full-back Chrysander Botha. Joininf from South...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoJohn Spencer to manage 2017 Lions tour
Former England captain John Spencer has been appointed tour manager for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Nick Cain talks to Mike Tindall about THAT night in Queenstown and England’s Future
Mike Tindall was the recipient this week of one of the most striking eulogies given by Sir Clive Woodward to a...
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Dream Team
/ 12 years agoDream Team: Neil Back – World Cup winning England and Leicester flanker
1. Graham Rowntree – He didn’t make the England 2003 World Cup squad but his performances in Australia and New Zealand the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoThe Big Interview: A Q&A with Conor O’Shea
Neale Harvey sits down with the Harlequins boss and discusses preparation for the new season.
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Sevens World Series
/ 12 years agoTom Mitchell: The heat is on – we must get it right or go home
The England 7s Captain gives the inside story from the athletes' village.
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoWaratahs v Brumbies semi-final preview
This Super Rugby season will be guaranteed an Australian finalist as table toppers NSW Waratahs welcome the Brumbies to Sydney. The...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Vermeulen and Namibia, a tale of defiance and pure maths
If Namibia coach Danie Vermeulen could jump for joy he would have been in orbit last Sunday, instead he stayed very...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: George North and Alex Cuthbert are giants, but Fiji have a monster
Nemani Nadolo has been a rock for Fiji and Crusaders, Peter Jackson warns Australia, England and Wales about the 129kg winger.
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years agoWales team in turmoil as Regions crank it up
With an agreement between the WRU and RRW seeming a long shot, the November tests could be in jeopardy
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoThe 2014 Rugby Championship
Formerly known as the Tri Nations, the Rugby Championship is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the Rugby Union calendar....
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Why Rhys Thomas is rooting for US star to win Open
When Erik Compton walks onto the first tee at the Open Golf Championship next week, a Welsh international front row forward...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Professional rugby seriously damages the Scottish team
As Vern Cotter comes to terms with the enormity of the task facing him and his management team in having to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Kenya national side hope to lift the nation
They could be dancing in the streets of Nairobi by sundown tonight, well more than normal. Nearly 1,500 miles away to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: The eternal debate: King John or Benny?
The surest way to start an argument in any clubhouse is to ask one question and then step smartly out of...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoEngland name Sevens squad for Commonwealth Games
England Sevens head coach Simon Amor has gone for tried and tested as he named his squad ahead of the Commonwealth...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoJames Hook is expecting David Humphreys to inspire Gloucester
Welsh star excited by appointment of David Humphreys.
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: it’s time for Stuart Lancaster to decide on his style of forward play
The heat has been turned up following England‘s blackwash in New Zealand with the All Blacks and their cheerleaders in the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoAviva Premiership clubs could lose stars to Sevens call
Premiership Rugby’s battalion of overseas stars have been warned that accepting a call to represent their countries in next season’s IRB...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Aussie man-mountain can Eclipse England
The Aussies are more inventive than most when it come to nick-names, and the one in the news most Down Under...
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20 Questions
/ 12 years ago20 Questions: Jonny Arr – Worcester scrum-half
Manage a holiday in your short time off? A few days in Berlin for Jake Abbott’s stag-do, which involved more than...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoEdinburgh bulk up lock options with Sharks star
Edinburgh today announced the signing of Sharks lock Anton Bresler on a three-year deal. The Namibian-born, who spent the last three...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Let’s lament passing of cricketing rugby stars
Whatever happened to the rugby playing cricketer or indeed the cricket loving rugby player? There was a time when the most...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: At least one England team has belief to beat the world
Character. It’s a hard one to define on a big sporting occasion, but what we do know is that where Nick...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Sorry Wales, but this is becoming inexcusable
And so for all their big-game heroics by the banks of the Crocodile River, somehow it still ended in tears as...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoTest debut for Scotland No.8
Adam Ashe will make his Test debut on Saturday when he starts at No.8 for Scotland against South Africa in Port...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoJapan blossom into contenders
Brendan Gallagher charts the remarkable rise of Japan under coach Eddie Jones.
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoWales prop hit by five-week ban
Samson Lee has received a five-week ban for headbutting South African lock Flip van der Merwe last Saturday. The Scarlets tighthead...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoHandré Pollard handed Springboks Test debut
Baby Boks captain Handré Pollard will make his Test debut on Saturday after being named at fly-half by Heyneke Meyer to...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoIan Evans to join Bristol
Ian Evans will play for Bristol in the Championship next season. The Wales and Lions lock has signed a pre-contract with...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Greatest Lions of all miss their lost mates
At a push, they could pass for a platoon of D-Day veterans rather than the only rugby team to survive three...
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English Championship
/ 12 years agoEXCLUSIVE: National League One Dream Team
Rosslyn Park pushed Doncaster Knights all the way to the final day in National One…and now they have equalled their efforts...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoWales drop Adam Jones for Springboks second Test
Adam Jones has been dropped by Warren Gatland ahead of Wales‘ second Test against South Africa in Nelspruit on Saturday. The British...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Courtney Lawes about England’s welcome strength in depth
Courtney Lawes on the bench? If ever there was a register of the growing confidence and depth of the England squad...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict: Willie-o-the-wisp leads Wales up garden path
Wales were shaking their heads in bewildered search of some explanation for their torment when Willie le Roux rather let the...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoEngland U20s out to set the record straight in JWC final
England U20s are determined to set the record straight when they take on South Africa in the Junior World Championship final...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoVictor Matfield to break Springboks record against Wales
Victor Matfield will become South Africa‘s most-capped Test player on Saturday when he leads the Springboks against Wales in Nelspruit. The veteran...
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