All posts tagged "All Blacks"
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Columnists
/ 6 days agoNick Cain: Selling the soul of the ‘greatest rivalry’
Nick Cain questions the decision to stage the final South Africa v New Zealand Test in Baltimore, USA, arguing tradition and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 6 days agoChris Hewett: Wayne Smith’s ‘new lab’ will be a revelation
Wayne Smith’s return to coaching is a welcome boost for rugby. Chris Hewett explains why the game still needs its great...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 weeks agoChris Hewett: Is Rugby World Cup expansion over-ambitious?
It would be nice to think that at some point this side of eternity, rugby will have created sufficient depth at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 weeks agoPeter Jackson: From death row to a born-again belief for the Ospreys
A sporting city which witnessed a team composed almost entirely of local cricketers beat Australia, not once but twice in the...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 weeks agoIreland wing James Lowe departs Leinster without “fairytale ending” in emotional farewell
James Lowe reflected his time with Leinster and Ireland in an emotional farewell as he prepares for a new chapter in...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 3 weeks agoUmaga’s words set juices flowing
CHILLING statement of the week? No contest. Tana Umaga, one of the more ferocious All Blacks of the modern age, is...
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Latest News
/ 3 weeks agoAussies left with nothing as Kiwis rule semi-finals
By BEN JAYCOCK Aces: Johnny McNicholl scores for Crusaders Below, Chiefs star Damian McKenzie, left, and Hurricanes hat-trick hero Ngane Punivai...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 weeks agoSteven Luatua and AJ MacGinty agree new deals at Bristol Bears
Bristol Bears flanker Steven Luatua has extended his contract into a 10th season with the club.
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Latest News
/ 4 weeks agoCrusaders on course for a Blues battle
Super Rugby Pacific round-up CRUSADERS leapfrogged Blues to secure a home quarter-final next week with a 47-14 victory over Hurricanes. At...
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Latest News
/ 1 month agoSharks snap up Roe from Chiefs
SALE Sharks have signed scrum-half Xavier Roe on a two-year deal from New Zealand side Chiefs. Roe, 27, who is uncapped...
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Latest News
/ 1 month agoDREAMTEAM
WILL GENIA, THE FORMER AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND REDS, MELBOURNE REBELS, STADE FRANCAIS AND KINTETSU LINERS SCRUM-HALF, SELECTS THE BEST HE HAS PLAYED...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 month agoChris Hewett: When fresh ambition takes on old rivalries
World Rugby moves at a pace best described as geological – in a footrace with continental drift, the non-governing governing body...
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Latest News
/ 1 month agoAll Blacks prop joins Ulster coaching staff
ULSTER have appointed former New Zealand prop Clarke Dermody as forwards coach. The 46-year-old, who joins this summer, will replace Jimmy...
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Columnists
/ 1 month agoJeremy Guscott: ‘Home’ advantage can give holders Bordeaux Begles the edge over Leinster
The right teams will be contesting the European Cup final, because holders Bordeaux Begles and challengers Leinster are the best in...
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Latest News
/ 1 month agoChris Hewett: You need to have the right instinct for top-level rugby
So it’s official: the one thing in top-level rugby that sorts the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff,...
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Latest News
/ 1 month agoBrendan Gallagher: Newcastle Red Bulls must find a totem pole player
Much of Newcastle’s rugby has been utterly meaningless and has cruelly mocked those in the Championship such as Ealing
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Features
/ 2 months agoJames Haskell interview: ‘You can lie to everyone else, but you can’t lie to yourself’
In this exclusive interview with the High Performance Speakers Agency, James Haskell discusses goal setting, selection pressure, injury, mental strength and...
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Features
/ 2 months agoAll Blacks great Andrew Mehrtens reveals the simple rule behind making big calls under pressure
Rugby sells itself on pressure, but Andrew Mehrtens is more interested in what happens before the big moment: the habits, trust...
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Columnists
/ 2 months agoPeter Jackson: It cost me £24m to win title – Brian Kennedy
Nobody knows the savage cost of trying to make rugby union pay in Greater Manchester better than Brian Kennedy.
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 months agoMulti-taskers who are pushing out specialists on the World Rugby stage
Contrary to popular belief, hybrid players – those who can play in the pack, as well as the backs – are...
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Latest News
/ 2 months agoSteyn’s Warrior paint has been marked by the Mandela effect
■By MIKE MOORE FROM meeting Mandela to playing for the land of his mother, Kyle Steyn certainly has a tale to...
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Features
/ 2 months agoAfter 18 years, Evans is to leave Quins
EXTRA NEWS Hall of famer: Nick Evans HARLEQUINS’ all-time points scorer and current attack coach Nick Evans is to leave the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 months agoChris Hewett: An epic drama? No, just drowning in tries
A quarter-final classic”, proclaimed the BBC. Hyperbole? Quite the opposite. As the avalanche of superlatives triggered by Bath’s victory over Northampton...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 2 months agoEngland’s Honey Kerslake inspired by memory of her dad – All Blacks great Jerry Collins
Almost 11 years on from New Zealand flanker Jerry Collins’ tragic death, his daughter Honey Kerslake is using his memory as...
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International Rugby
/ 2 months agoRobbie Deans joins Barbarians coaching team for Wales clash at Twickenham
Robbie Deans will return to the Barbarian F.C. coaching team this summer for their blockbuster clash with Wales at Allianz Stadium,...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoDREAMTEAM
BEN FODEN, THE FORMER ENGLAND, SALE, NORTHAMPTON & RUGBY UNITED NEW YORK FULL-BACK, SELECTS THE BEST XV HE PLAYED WITH OR...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoFlankers who can cause problems
A TROUBLESOME breed, openside flankers of the silver-ferned variety – especially the top one per cent. The wonderful New Zealand captain...
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Miscellaneous
/ 3 months agoBears find welcome in the hillsides
THERE used to be a time when every clubhouse in England marvelled at the magnetic appeal of the Welsh club scene,...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoWard happy to put his Kiwi training into practice
By CHRIS COLLYER DARLINGTON Mowden Park’s top points scorer Flynn Ward’s impressive form has seen him play in every game this...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 3 months agoWhat is the Nations Championship? Format, fixtures and how rugby’s new tournament works
The Autumn Nations Series is dead. Whether you think that is a positive or not, or even if you didn’t really...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 months agoGlasgow stretch lead at the top
■By JOHN DAVIDSON Glasgow .........38 Leinster ...........17 GLASGOW earned a bonus-point win over a strong Leinster side to move eight points...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 months agoIt’s ten in a row for Hurricanes
nBy SAM JACKSON WINGER FEHI FINEANGANOFO SCORED A HAT-TRICK AS HURRICANES RECORDED THEIR 10TH WIN IN A ROW AGAINST HIGHLANDERS, 50-7...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 months agoPonty work hard to stay on top
Premiership round-up ■By CARL FIELD Ebbw had taken an ear-Llandovery, in third, break but a dominant sec-a play-off eliminator. PONTYPRIDD remain...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoFast Eddie & Co love tales of the unexpected
THERE are times you cannot help but conclude that some pro coaches have got so much time on their hands they...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoWhen four tries by the Lions were kicked off the park
NEVEN MacEwan, left, played in the Test match which did more than any other to ridicule rugby as a running game,...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 months agoPooler go close but Swansea hang on in the end
By CARL FIELD Round-up PONTYPOOL were made to pay the penalty at Swansea where they went down 20-18 in their rearranged...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 months agoChris Hewett: Dave Rennie should leave Brodie Retallick where he is
Let the fun and games begin. Dave Rennie, freshly-appointed head coach of the All Blacks with a World Cup looming large...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoRobertson is happy to coach Barbarians
FORMER New Zealand coach Scott Robertson will return to rugby by taking charge of the Barbarians this summer. Robertson, whose two-year...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoPeter Jackson: Memories of All Black legend going under the hammer
In the bad old days when too many referees turned a blind eye to all manner of mayhem, Kevin Skinner built...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 months agoChris Hewett: ‘Fast, faster, fastest’ is Fabien Galthie’s new look for France
Rugby is a game of assumptions about the future, rooted in the here and now.
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoItoje hits century in good company
SHOULD he so wish, Maro Itoje could lay claim to completing two Test centuries in barely six months. His 100th match...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 months agoBrendan Gallagher: Award booming huge pens a full five points
We are losing so much from the game as World Rugby dumbs down in the professional era, which is bizarre considering...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoPeter Jackson: Peter Squires, a true local hero
Peter Squires shall forever stand out among England’s true all-rounders, the first county cricketer to play a Test match for the...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoRyan made life tough for 1953 All Blacks
ENGLAND in the mid-1950s, not unlike now, had an abundance of back row talent which probably explains why former Cambridge University...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoWilson happy with law tweaks ahead of the big kick-off
Super Rugby Pacific Preview ■By BEN JAYCOCK Champs: Crusaders celebrate last year’s success PICTURE: Getty Images WALLABIES skipper Harry Wilson has...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoMapletoft set for Irish test
ENGLAND A head coach Mark Mapletoft has named a 26-player squad for the upcoming fixture against Ireland XV on Friday night...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 months agoNewcastle boss Alan Dickens admits uncertainty over his future amid Red Bull rebuild
Newcastle Red Bulls’ blizzard of signings for next season means a number of players will be looking for a new club.
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoTalented duo who shared the same dream
PETER JACKSON HUGH Morris, below, grew up in the Seventies hoping to play No.10 for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 months agoBrendan Gallagher: Small in stature but big on talent
Back in the day it became almost a cliché that All Blacks forwards were all rugged frontiersmen and farmers – world...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoNow the All Blacks need to crack on
THERE is something of the Clive Woodward about Scott Robertson, whose coaching career at international level has just disappeared off a...
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