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World
/ 3 years agoChessum ready to set standard
World Rugby U20 Championship previews - ENGLAND By BEN JAYCOCK England U20s head coach Mark Mapletoft has named a squad with...
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World
/ 3 years agoMurphy puts his faith in old boys
IRELAND By SAM JACKSON Ireland head coach Richie Murphy has retained consistency in selection from the memorable Grand Slam-winning campaign earlier...
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World
/ 3 years agoBrunello backing his boys to bloom
ITALY By SAM JACKSON Italy head coach Massimo Brunello is hoping his side can build on their ‘best ever’ U20s Six...
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World
/ 3 years agoDynamic duo back for more
SOUTH AFRICA By BEN JAYCOCK Paul de Villiers and Katlego Letebele will return for their second stint with the Junior Springboks,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoA legend, a team-mate and great, great friend
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME SOMETIMES it’s easy to write about the passing of a great sportsman...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years ago2018 Breakthrough Player of the Year Aphiwe Dyantyi to make Sharks return
The Sharks have signed 28-year-old former World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year Aphiwe Dyantyi for the upcoming URC season after...
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Guest Blogs
/ 3 years agoThe wake of the Northern Hemisphere & the Rugby World Cup
The biggest celebration of the oval ball sport is here – the Rugby World Cup 2023 is just a few months...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoGatland to consider sending SOS to second row Ball
By PETER JACKSON The World Cup man-power crisis engulfing Wales will force them to reconsider sending an SOS to Australia for...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoEngland rugby’s ‘annus horribilis’
THIS season has been an “annus horribilis” for English Rugby Union. Three professional clubs have folded because of financial difficulties. In...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoNo more excuses: Time to get serious, England
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK AS soon as Steve Borthwick got the England head coach job he will have...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoBorthwick’s plea for Irish boys to stay
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England boss Steve Borthwick hit the phones last week in a plea to stop London...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTongans have a plan for Ireland
CHRIS HEWETT Interesting rumblings from down Tonga way, where Toutai Kefu, the magnificent Wallaby No.8 who rumbled all the way to...
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Features
/ 3 years agoToo many promises, too little scrutiny
After London Irish became the third club casualty of a brutal season, Paul Rees considers what might happen next If thoughts...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoCrusaders give Gats a blueprint to beat Fiji
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Thank you, Scott Robertson and your Crusaders players for showing Wales the way to beat...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Saracens & England U18 full-back Jack Bracken
Jack Bracken is hoping to replicate his father Kyran’s career but has switched positions from scrum-half to full-back. Bracken, 17, made...
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World
/ 3 years agoMapletoft excited to face SA challenges
By BEN JAYCOCK England have announced their 30-man squad for the World Rugby U20 Championship in South Africa that gets underway...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWhen Kirk took the All Blacks right to the top of the world
Brendan Gallagher begins a series on the star man at each global gathering Being the first in anything often confers iconic...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoHow a boat trip on the Seine swung the vote
The IRB took the momentous decision to stage a first World Cup in March 1985 in strange circumstances. Prior to their...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoJones can fire up Aussies, says Cooper
By GARY FITZGERALD Quade Cooper is bubbling about Australia’s World Cup chances, now they have Eddie Jones back holding the reins....
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWe will have to front up, says Laidlaw
By BRYN PALMER Scotland's players need to swiftly “front up” to the reality of their World Cup pool if they are...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoSanderson: We want to improve and not just be one-off wonders
By PAUL REES Sale took their pain to Spain. The day after the Premiership final defeat to Saracens at Twickenham, the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTime we got round to telling full story
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST "No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” So said J KRowling, who knows a thing or...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoStewart steps up for Ireland squad
Ulster hooker Tom Stewart, who set the record for the most tries in a URC season with 16, is one of...
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Features
/ 3 years ago15 stars of a bonkers season
Paul Rees selects his team of the tournament from the Gallagher Premiership 2022/23 The most emotionally charged Premiership campaign finished as...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoShock for England as Georgia take it
England U20s tour to Georgia By BEN JAYCOCK Georgia...............40pts Tries: Tsirekidze 11, Khutsishvili 14, Tohamiashvili 38, Ohumburidze 49, Dvali 67, 74...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoMcCaw tips Wales to cause carnage
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When it comes to talking about ‘carnage’ at the World Cup, nobody is more impeccably...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Allan Jacobsen: ‘Simple Minds? No, I put up posters of David Sole’
The former Scotland prop and all-time appearance record holder for Edinburgh When I was a boy growing up in the 80s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoStunning Munster are the best of the bunch
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points What with an epic Champions Cup final and a very...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoAfter 96 years, Kent get to wear a county crown again
Bill Beaumont County Cup Division One By BEN JAYCOCK Kent are seen as an ‘unfashionable county’ with zero of their clubs...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Scarlets & Wales U20 scrum-half Archie Hughes
Archie Hughes is looking to show the Scarlets and the world what he can do at the U20s World Championship later...
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News Extra
/ 3 years agoOosthuizen goes home to be a Shark again
NEWS EXTRA SPRINGBOK prop Coenie Oosthuizen will leave Premiership finalists Sale to return to South Africa and re-join URC side the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoScarlets make van den Berg forwards coach
FORMER South Africa lock Albert van den Berg, 49, is the Scarlets new forwards coach, replacing Ben Franks who has returned...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoGeorgia youngsters celebrate landmark win against England
Georgia U20s…………………..40 Tries: Tsirekidze 11, Khutsishvili 14, Tohamiashvili 38, Ohumburidze 49, Dvali 67, 74 Conversions: Khutsishvili 12, 15, 39, 50, Kheladze...
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Guest Blogs
/ 3 years agoRugby’s Road to 2023: A Journey through the Past, Present, and Future
Rugby has a rich past and a promising future. From its humble origins to its current status as a global phenomenon,...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoCardiff battle for ex-Junior Springbok
By PETER JACKSON Cardiff are involved in a stand-off with the Welsh Rugby Union over their bid to sign a stand-off...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoPrime to cover World Cup warm up games
By JON NEWCOMBE Prime Video are planning on broadcasting Rugby World Cup 2023 warm-up matches involving all the Six Nations teams...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoRoss: Ben good enough to lead England
By JON NEWCOMBE Jono Ross believes Ben Curry has the ability to develop into a top-class captain for both club and...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoJones keen to keep his name in the frame for Wales
By GARY FITZGERALD Wyn Jones strolls out at Twickenham today determined to prove a point as he comes to terms with...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoBorthwick must pull off a minor miracle
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Steve Hansen isn’t wrong when he says that the 2023 World Cup draw is...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoFarrell in command as Sharks cut down by incisive Saracens
By NICK CAIN Saracens .......................... 35pts Tries: Penalty 20, Malins 34, Daly 67, van Zyl 71 Conversions: Farrell 35, 72 Penalties:...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoMasterful Skelton is the talk of the town
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST IF Simon Shaw of England was a 20-storey tower block of a lock blessed with penthouse levels...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 3 years agoWe need more time to prepare the 2025 Lions
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I was fortunate enough to go on two tours with the British & Irish Lions...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Byron McGuigan: ‘Nothing could top that 38-38 draw with England’
The former Scotland, Glasgow, Exeter and Border Bulldogs winger, who has just brough the curtain down on his playing career at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoAlarm as Europe just keeps getting smaller
Europe, as defined by European Professional Club Rugby, is in the process of shrinking almost as alarmingly as the English Premiership....
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoMapletoft gets set for Georgia
By BEN JAYCOCK NEW England U20s head coach Mark Mapletoft named his first squad since taking over from Alan Dickens earlier...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoLet’s hope technology passes trial
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER Be careful for what you wish for! World Rugby are carrying out their promise to trial chip...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoEligibility rules have failed the Pacific Islands
THE decision of former England tighthead Henry Thomas to become a Welshman is a relatively minor example of the Test rugby...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoColombe try leaves the Aviva stunned
By PAUL REES Leinster............................. 26pts Tries: Danty 19, Seuteni 37, Colombe 71 Conversions: Hastoy 20, 38, 72 Penalties: Hastoy 42, 49...
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Sevens World Series
/ 3 years agoGB sevens players pondered boycott
By BEN JAYCOCK Several Great Britain Sevens players thought about refusing to participate in this weekend’s London leg of the World...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoMoneybags Racing keen to sign Smith
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Racing 92 are serious about tempting Marcus Smith to quit south-west London for a move...
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