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/ 4 years agoBrown: Sam’s the right man for Pivac
By STEFFAN THOMAS FORMER Scotland star Kelly Brown believes the brutal nature of Saracens training will stand new Wales prop Sam...
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/ 4 years agoHong Kong skipper lands Nottingham role
New role: Liam Slatem CHAMPIONSHIP side Nottingham have signed Hong Kong captain and scrum-half Liam Slatem as a player-coach. Head coach...
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/ 4 years agoMouneimne: Defences will be revitalised next season
By JON NEWCOMBE NEW Exeter Chiefs defence coach Omar Mouneimne is confident the tide will change back in favour of defence...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoFans will turn their backs on the Boks
I HAVE travelled to most overseas games in the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup in the last 14 years to support...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoWeight of expectation will not lay heavy on the Welsh
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK IN some ways, Wales have nothing to lose going on a summer tour to...
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/ 4 years agoSanderson backs his Oz mission to boost Sharks
By BEN JAYCOCK ALEX Sanderson heads down under this month to ensure his Sale side get over the line for a...
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/ 4 years agoWrite off Cheika’s Pumas at your peril
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARGENTINA under Michael Cheika will be as aware as Eddie Jones’ England of...
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/ 4 years agoHeartbreak for Ulster as Stormers steal victory
By JOHN FALLON Stormers ..........17pts Tries: Kotze 4, Roos 14, Gelant 80+5 Conversions: Libbok 80+6 Ulster..................15pts Tries: Baloucoune 19, Moore 28...
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/ 4 years agoBoks have raised the bar -Cullen
By JOHN FALLON Leinster ............26pts Tries: Sheehan 9, Henshaw 33, O’Loughlin 72, Healy 82 Conversions: Byrne 10, 33, Sexton 82 Bulls....................27pts...
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/ 4 years agoIt’s time to step up or face being left behind
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It’s time for a re-think for the founding nations of the URC feast after the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoGlobal vision for the future takes us into a new dawn
PAUL REES ASSESSES WORLD RUGBY’S PLANS TO MODERNISE THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC GAME The prospect of a global season has always...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoRennie has a healthy selection headache
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST History, we are told, is just one damned thing after another. And by way of rubbing it...
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Features
/ 4 years agoChiefs nab coach Omar
RUGBY SHORTS EXETER Chiefs have appointed South African Omar Mouneimne as their new defence coach. Mouneimne moves to Exeter after leaving...
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Features
/ 4 years agoInspired Borthwick has given back to Tigers the drive to hit former heights
Paul Rees looks at how Steve Borthwick has re-energised his Welford Road troops When Steve Borthwick took charge of Leicester in...
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/ 4 years agoOmitted Conbeer can yet kick on, says Peel
NEWS EXTRA By STEFFAN THOMAS DWAYNE Peel believes inform Scarlets wing Ryan Conbeer was unlucky to miss out on Wales’ summer...
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/ 4 years agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Nineteen with Eddie Butler
Eddie Butler joins host Oliver Little, Nick Cain and Brendan Gallagher on the latest episode of The Rugby Paper Podcast to...
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/ 4 years agoWales name uncapped prop Sam Wainwright as Leon Brown’s replacement
Uncapped Saracens prop Sam Wainwright has been called into Wales‘ South Africa tour squad as replacement for Leon Brown. The Welsh...
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Guest Blogs
/ 4 years ago“Turning Japanese!” Five Reasons Why Rugby Players Are Moving To Japan
Japan is known for its rich culture, unique cuisine, and rugby, a full-contact sport popular in many western countries. Though baseball...
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Features
/ 4 years agoChampionship just isn’t comparable with ProD2
COLIN BOAG Controversial: Sharks and Lions, along with the Bulls, Stormers and Cheetahs, have been added to next season’s European Cups...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 4 years agoQuins have a chance with Danny in the driving seat
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK DANNY Care has always attracted attention as an attacking scrumhalf who can shred defences...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoTen-try Saints have Tigers in their sights
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Northampton ..65pts Tries: Matavesi 9, 23; Cole 18, Mitchell 32, Freeman 40+1, 63, 68; Hutchinson 59, Skosan 73,...
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/ 4 years agoEddie beware! This beast holds all the keys
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK IN the last fortnight Eddie Jones and his England squad have had a...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoDe Klerk bows out with a final flourish
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Sale ....................42pts Tries: Roebuck 7, Van der Merwe 15, Wiese 22, 40, D Du Preez 63, Reed 69...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 4 years agoWade weighs up his options
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER CHRISTIAN Wade has claimed that teams in the Premiership, France, Australia, South Africa and the...
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/ 4 years agoLong list of contenders but will the best man say yes?
PAUL REES LOOKS AT THE RUNNERS AND RIDERS WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING OVER FROM EDDIE JONES If Eddie Jones takes...
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/ 4 years agoFive Boks sides to play in Europe
THE Cheetahs have been invited to play in next season’s European Challenge Cup. It was confirmed this week that the four...
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/ 4 years agoFaf joins Eagles
SALE Sharks scrum-half Faf de Klerk’s move to Japanese side Yokohama Canon Eagles was confirmed this week. The 30-year-old South African...
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/ 4 years agoVan Graan’s time ends with five-try defeat in Ulster
By JOHN FALLON Ulster ......................36 Munster ..................17 JOHANN van Graan said this was a bitterly disappointing way to end his four...
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/ 4 years agoRonan will be in hot demand after RWC
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND The name of Ronan O’Gara is once again on the lips of rugby lovers across...
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/ 4 years agoKayaks revel in rewriting history
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Good value? Cheslin Kolbe has scored only four tries this season PICTURE: Getty...
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News Extra
/ 4 years agoParkes: Wales can give the Boks a test
FORMER Wales centre Hadleigh Parkes believes Wayne Pivac’s side can hit top form on this summer’s tour of South Africa. Wales...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWho’ll be next ace to ‘do a Niniashvili’?
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Is it me or is there suddenly a...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAustralia win keeps heat on Blitzboks
WORLD 7s SERIES By BEN JAYCOCK HENRY Paterson scored a hat-trick including a golden-point try as Australia beat New Zealand 19-14...
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Features
/ 4 years agoPerfect poise and balance of Nepia
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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International Rugby
/ 4 years agoTuilagi misses tour of Australia due to knee surgery
England and Sale Sharks centre Manu Tuilagi will miss this summer’s tour of Australia to have surgery on a knee problem....
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/ 4 years agoSpringbok Faf de Klerk latest Japan Rugby League One recruit
World Cup winning scrum-half Faf de Klerk will be joining Japanese side Yokohama Canon Eagles after leaving Sale Sharks at the...
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/ 4 years agoCuthbert joins list of Welsh casualties
By PETER JACKSON WALES have been hit by yet another blow ahead of their series against the Springboks with Lions wing...
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/ 4 years agoEngland 7s back on track at Twickenham
By BEN JAYCOCK SPURRED on by a 50,000-plus Twickenham crowd, England reached today’s London Sevens quarter finals after finishing second in...
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/ 4 years agoEsterhuizen scoops top Premiership award
HARLEQUINS centre Andre Esterhuizen has been voted the Rugby Players’ Association’s players’ player of the year, getting the most votes in...
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Champions Cup
/ 4 years agoLa Rochelle keep their cool to rule in Europe
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster..............21pts Penalties: Sexton 5, 8, 22, 40+1, 47, 57 R Byrne 65 La Rochelle ......24pts Tries: Rhule...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 years agoTaufua: We won on our defence
LYON captain Jordan Taufua was delighted with the historic win and credited his side’s resilient defence in matching Toulon’s physicality. He...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 years agoEurope’s elite clubs are facing trip into unknown
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE European Cup final in Marseille was not billed as a watershed moment,...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBoks, and Six Nations, must look at the bigger picture
THE Springboks in the Six Nations is a topic that refuses to go away. Rassie Erasmus recently fanned the flames when...
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Features
/ 4 years agoSalary cap alone is not to blame for Euro failure
PAUL REES ASKS SOME EUROPEAN KINGS WHY ENGLISH CLUBS HAVE BEEN OFF THE PACE Every year the Premiership fails to supply...
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/ 4 years agoLaw rediscovers a passion for playing
By BEN JAYCOCK AFTER coming out of retirement last season, Darlington Mowden Park director of rugby Garry Law is loving playing...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBack-to-back Cup triumphs cemented Gosforth’s place as top club in the land
GOSFORTH won their first John Player Cup Final in 1976, and then when the Queen was celebrating her Silver Jubilee 12...
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/ 4 years agoEXPERIENCE THE WORLD’S BEST RUGBY ATMOSPHERE IN MARSEILLE AT RWC 2023
The Heineken Cup final is upon us, and all eyes will be on the famous Stade Vélodrome. Based in the beautiful...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 years agoCheslin Kolbe returns in time for Challenge Cup Final
Springbok superstar Cheslin Kolbe returns for Toulon in time for their European Challenge Cup final against Lyon at the Stade Velodrome...
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Premiership
/ 4 years agoAndre Esterhuizen honoured to win players’ player of the year award
Harlequins centre Andre Esterhuizen has won the Rugby Players’ Association players’ player of the year award. Esterhuizen polled the highest number...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 4 years agoWales flanker Dan Lydiate signs Ospreys contract extension
Ospreys flanker Dan Lydiate has agreed a new deal to stay at the Welsh region for another season. The Wales flanker...
International Rugby
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