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Latest News
/ 3 years agoURC Friday and Saturday preview: Round 12
In a week where they suffered a chastening defeat at the hands of a 14-man Scarlets team and finally sealed the...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoAll the Details You Need to Know About the 2023 Rugby World Cup
2023 will see a host of major rugby tournaments take place around the world, and chief among them is the tenth...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoNo return for Howley in Gatland’s new Wales
By PETER JACKSON Wales have decided against making any formal move towards renewing Rob Howley’s Grand Slam-winning alliance with Warren Gatland....
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Premiership
/ 3 years ago‘I want warriors like Sam at Bath’
Having secured the services of Sam Underhill on a new contract, Bath director of rugby Johann van Graan wouldn’t change the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWith Borthwick, we can be world beaters again – Owen
By LUKE JARMYN Perfect: New England coach Steve Borthwick A NEW coach with a new voice picking new young hungry players...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoWigglesworth: I love challenge
Moving up: Richard Wigglesworth Richard Wigglesworth says there will be no ripping up of Leicester’s foundations after taking over as head...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoKirsten set to join exodus from Exeter
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Exeter Chiefs are likely to lose another big player next...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTime to use technology to help out referees
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The noxious abuse of referees is one of the most urgent issues confronting...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years ago15 sparklers shining out of a tough year for rugby
CHRIS HEWETT Bernard Laporte, Wasps and Worcester, the online victimisation of Wayne Barnes, the financial trials of the English Premiership, the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoQuartet hoping to impress Gatland
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It doesn’t take much to change the mood of Welsh rugby. A win here, a...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBristol stand firm as heroic defence keeps Quins out
■ By BEN JAYCOCK Harlequins ....................12pts Tries: Bassett 19, Murley 57 Conversions: Allan 59 Bristol .............................15pts Tries: Thacker 15, Ibitoye 38...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoWhy it’s time for a world in union
Paul Rees says this season's Heineken Champions Cup highlights the need for a Global, joined up season Nothing highlights the need...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTurnbull calls for another Welsh scalp as rivals clash
CARDIFF back row Josh Turnbull has been impressed with his side’s strength of character in recent weeks and wants more of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoDoddie and Benny lead list of heroes we have lost
Brendan Gallagher remembers those the game has lost over the last 12 months Phil Bennett (Felinfoel, Llanelli, Wales, Barbarians, British and...
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Moment In Time
/ 3 years agoNo stopping the Baa-Baas’ game
MOMENT IN TIME SPECIAL REPORT BY NEIL FISSLER LEICESTER vs THE BARBARIANS, 1973 Where are they now? BACK ROW Chalky White:...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoBorthwick facing a tough start to the year
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Happy New Year and let’s hope it’s a good one. What a...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years ago2023 Rugby World Cup Pool Stages Preview
With the final pool stages being confirmed for the 2023 Rugby Union World Cup, betting sites around the globe have started...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoRFU right to get rid of Jones – Cotton
By PETER JACKSON One of England’s all-time greats has backed the RFU over Eddie Jones with one reservation – that they...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBaxter: We change the game at our peril
By PAUL REES Rob Baxter says Premiership Rugby needs to be careful as it plots a relaunch of the league from...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBath in the mood to face Exeter challenge
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Exeter v Bath Saturday December 24. Kick-off 3pm Vision: Bath coach Johann van Graan Johann Van Graan...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoSelection maze the big test for Borthwick
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Borthwick’s brave new world, launched on Monday when he was confirmed as...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoFalling player numbers the real issue
BURIED deep in the RFU website is its “2022- 23 – Targets”, which is a woefully inadequate document because it fails...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBarmiest fixture list that makes no sense
YOU don’t get to be Jake White if you’re wrong more often than you’re right. The South African, currently in charge...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoBorthwick’s challenge is to lift England hearts again
Paul Rees looks back on a rugby year which was very good for some, but not so good for others... At...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoAndre the giant wins it for Quins
By NATHAN EDWARDS Harlequins ............. 14 Racing 92 ............... 10 ANDRE Esterhuizen scored a crucial second-half try for Harlequins to edge...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWhen the old European Cup was just the ticket
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER This column has been warning about the decline...
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Features
/ 3 years agoThe survivors – what happened next
Heroes: Nando Parrado, left, and Roberto Canessa Roberto Canessa: An alpha male by any criteria, the team’s star winger, dashing medical...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Kevin Yates: ‘I waited ten years for my next England cap!’
The former England, Bath, Sale and Saracens prop Man in black: Kevin Yates playing for Saracens PICTURE: Getty Images When my...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoChristmas time and things are in a mess
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As the song goes, it’s Christmas time, a time when everyone is...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoEngland confirm Borthwick as new head coach
The RFU has confirmed the appointment of Steve Borthwick as Eddie Jones‘ successor. Borthwick, 43, was the Australian’s forwards coach between...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoHarlequins battle hard to edge 14-man Racing
Harlequins 14-10 Racing 92 Harlequins produced a spirited performance in dire conditions to earn an important win against Racing 92. Quins...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoSharks look for repeat performance over Toulouse
By JON NEWCOMBE Fully fit: Sale’s Akker van der Merwe in action Akker van der Merwe admits Sale Sharks will have...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoHarlequins in the mood to gain revenge against Racing
By PAUL REES It feels like a new club: Quins coach Nick Evans The last time Harlequins faced Racing 92 at...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoTweak format of Six Nations to grow the sport
THE letter from George Cansino in TRP’s December 4 edition regarding an expanded Six Nations contained some good points, however I’d...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Andy Northey
The Former North of England, Northampton, St Helens RLFC, Waterloo, Rotherham & Sedgley Park centre chooses the best XV he has...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoCowan-Dickie puts Chiefs in command
By MIKE SINCLAIR Exeter................................. 44pts Tries: Ewers 11, Cowan-Dickie 16, 30, 46, Slade 36, Kata 56 Conversions: J Simmonds 11, 30,...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoJones had no right to take England to finals
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK It is predictable hearing England players who were virtually given selection sinecures by...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoCaptain Rogerson: We’re disappointed to come up short
London Irish captain Matt Rogerson is taking the positives from their defeat to the Stormers. “There’s a lot of good stuff...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoIt’s time to look at a new route to Europe
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ONE Sunday afternoon in Watford 20 years ago, Saracens hosted a match designed...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoLaporte does not forgive – or forget
Peter Jackson Once upon a time, during the early stages of his seven-year reign as France head coach, Bernard Laporte strode...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoSimpson on his way back to Saracens
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Gareth Simpson is set to return to Saracens next season after impressing in a two-week...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoAu revoir! French not captivated by Europe
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST ENGLAND’S elite clubs barely saw the French for dust in the early years of the European Challenge...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoCowards who hide on the internet
CHRIS HEWETT It would be inaccurate to say that the Pau coach Sebastien Piqueronies’ manhandling of the Scottish referee Sam Grove-White...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoBig names will help the game develop in Japan
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND THE season kicked off in Japan yesterday and I was delighted to see my old...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoThe gobby Australian who still had more to give
Paul Rees says the RFU should have stuck with Eddie Jones, just like the FA kept fait with Gareth Southgate England...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoFirst-half blitz puts Scarlets on right course
By DAVID ROBERTS Cheetahs ..........26pts Tries: Hartzenberg 3, Fortuin 63, Kapepula 68, Oliver 73 Conversions: Pienaar 3, 68, 73 Scarlets ..............
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoMillfield squeeze through to take Shield
By ELISE HAMERSLEY Millfield lifted the World Schools Festival Shield after seeing off Cardiff and Vale 15-11 in the final. The...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoConviction that spells the end for Laporte
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Bernard Laporte’s future as president of French rugby’s governing body has to be untenable after he was...
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Guest Blogs
/ 3 years agoRugby World Cup 2023 – Everything to Know
If you are looking for information about the 2023 Rugby World Cup, then you have come to the right place. Below...
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Guest Blogs
/ 3 years agoThe Best Five Rugby Teams Of All time
A sport that has captured the hearts and minds of millions around the world, rugby is among the most entertaining and...















