All posts tagged "Australia"
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoThe £20m circus which led to a World Cup
David Lord would kick off every email to The Rugby Paper during the last years of his life in the down-to-earth...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoYoung guns who are shining for the Chiefs
Paul Rees talks to Exeter DoR Rob Baxter to find out how his investment in homegrown talent is paying off at...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGoing, that bundle of barbed wire, a match for Edwards
SID Going, who died last Sunday aged 80, might have been a man of God but the diminutive scrum-half from Kawakawa...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoResting players for big games isn’t on
JEFF PROBYN - A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It was just a couple of weeks ago that certain people...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoBotham back to push Test case
Having seen his Six Nations campaign cut short at the first hurdle, James Botham will be looking to force his way...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSteve’s call left Clarke out in the cold
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Steve Borthwick has been blasted for the way he axed a key member of England’s backroom staff. Jon...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMcCall: Vunipolas at the heart of all we have achieved
By BEN JAYCOCK Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall says departing stalwarts Mako and Billy Vunipola are ‘two of the keenest...
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Features
/ 2 years agoDean seeks platform
Ross Heppenstall finds out what Dean Richards has been up to since stepping down as Newcastle Falcons boss for more success...
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News Extra
/ 2 years agoA tribute to unlucky Rory…
On the charge: Exeter’s Rory O’Loughlin powers forward against Munster PICTURES: Getty Images Another week ends with another player forced to...
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International Rugby
/ 2 years agoWales star Lake looking towards a brighter future
By SIMON THOMAS It’s been a difficult season for the game in Wales with the Test team suffering a Six Nations...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoLawes is level with England’s greatest
RUGBY MATTERS Members of the Rugby Writers club have recently been voting for the Pat Marshall award which we scribes use...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoMias made his mark in land of the giants als
Lucien Mias, below, who died this week aged 93, was never a giant of a man physically but when the force...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoI put everything into coaching, emotion is key
Steve Hill puts the questions to Pete Davies head coach of Oxford Harlequins who have just been promoted to Level 4 Why...
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News Extra
/ 2 years agoAnscombe unavailable for tour to Australia
NEWS EXTRA Wales fly-half Gareth Anscombe has ruled himself out of the summer tour of Australia. The 33-year-old, who has joined...
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Features
/ 2 years agoReeves driving Brazil’s bid to join global party
Joe Santamaria talks to Brazil technical director Josh Reeves about his adopted country’s mission to qualify for RWC27 Josh Reeves has...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoLeicester have the class to rule again
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Leicester are not where their fans want them to be – and a minority...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoDavies, 36, open to offers
Wales centre Jonathan Davies is leaving Scarlets at the end of the season and hopes for one final opportunity with another...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoBlues hold on in battle at the top
Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK Bluse held on with their backs to their try line as they edged past...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoDon’t only blame RFU for lack of confidence
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IT WAS interesting to read last week’s comments by Simon Halliday in...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoFit-again Ewels enjoying new life under Johann
By PAUL REES When Charlie Ewels suffered knee ligament damage on England’s 2022 tour to Australia, his club Bath were at...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoIt’ll be tough for us but we’ll meet fire with fire, says Care
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Toulouse vs Harlequins Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stadium de Toulouse WHEN Harlequins went to Bordeaux last month they...
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Features
/ 2 years agoWithout referees, there is no game
Paul Rees looks at the pressures on the men and women in the middle and asks what can be done to...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoYou lived on the edge with Scotland
My Life in Rugby with Neil Edwards - The former Scotland, Barbarians, Rosslyn Park, Harlequins & Northampton second row talks about...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoLineout ace Parling joins Wallabies
Former England lock Geoff Parling has joined Joe Schmidt’s Australia coaching set-up as the build-up to next summer’s Lions tour intensifies....
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoNo space for Georgia
Wales will not be playing Georgia this autumn, with Fiji, Australia and South Africa lined up on November 10, 17 and...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Ben Adams
The Cambridge and former Coventry, Bedford Blues, Queensland Country & Australia Sevens back rower, chooses the best XV he has played...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoWales on a mission to survive or decline
Paul Rees asks whether the country which has won 12 Grand Slams can still afford to run four regional sides A...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoTo play for Gosforth & Bath was wonderful
My Life in Rugby with Rob Cunningham - The former Scotland, Anglo-Scots, Boroughmuir, Bath, Gosforth, Tynedale & Northumberland hooker talks about...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoWales no longer the big shots
The schedule of 21 Tests over five weekends in November offers renewed evidence of the spiralling gap between Ireland and Wales....
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoFormer Lions prop O’Shea dies at 83
FORMER Wales and British and Irish Lions prop John O’Shea died last week in Australia aged 83 after a lengthy illness....
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Guest Blogs
/ 2 years agoWales Women’s Rugby – How to Fix after the Six Nations!
When Wales brought in a comprehensive performance last year at Cardiff, they did not expect Ireland to come out strong. Regardless...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoBe quick! McKellar’s lowdown on Leinster
By PAUL REES Northampton had the chance last night to quiz Dan McKellar about their Champions Cup semi-final opponents Leinster but,...
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Summer Tours
/ 2 years agoDomachowski has his eye on top spot
By SIMON THOMAS Corey Domachowski is a man on a mission to be Wales’ number one No.1. The Cardiff prop now...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSaracens get back in the old routine
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Saracens .......................... 46pts Tries: Parton 7, 12, 20; McFarland 41, Willis 56, Hartley 62, Cinti 65 Conversions: Farrell...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoS Africa is crying out for its own league
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IF I remember my A level geography...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMinnows in line for a World Cup boost
By JON NEWCOMBE World Rugby aims to streamline the Rugby World Cup qualification process to give non-high performance nations even more...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoPorter set for Aussie return
England centre Guy Porter looks set to return to Australia this summer with the view to representing the Wallabies. Porter, who...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMan prosecuted for abusing World Cup official
A man in Australia has been prosecuted for abusing TMO Brian MacNiece on social media during Enlgand’s match against Samoa in...
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Sevens World Series
/ 2 years agoHooper helps Aussies reach HK semi-finals
Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper made his sevens debut for Australia in their 12-0 win against Fiji at the Hong Kong...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoQuirke has his heart set on return to England fold
By BRENDAN McGILLIGAN Most Mancunians aspire to represent Manchester for either United or City – but this never enticed a young...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoToo much tinkering is causing confusion
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Rugby Union is in the grip of the “the law of unintended consequences”,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoModernise the scrum, don’t allow it to die
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED IF WE take the Book of Ecclesiastes as our guide – ancient though it may be, it...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoThe day Crane had final word at Cardiff
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Millennium Stadium once staged a trio of penalty shoot-outs in four years...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoVile keeps his record as Care steps down
Tommy Vile and Danny Care were born in the same decade of different centuries, the former in Newport during the first...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoIt’s still all to play for in race to the finishing line
Paul Rees predicts a nerve-racking end to the Premiership season where bonus points will prove crucial THE two-month Premiership break has...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoLondon Irish was just so full of real, good people
David Paice, the former England and London Irish hooker, looks back on his career in the game IT feels like a...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoScarlets prop star Thomas set for Ospreys
PROP Steffan Thomas will leave Scarlets at the end of the season to join Ospreys. Thomas, 26, will join his cousin...
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Guest Blogs
/ 2 years agoHong Kong Sevens Comes Alive in 2024! All You Need to Know!
Rugby Sevens Action will return to the centre stage with the HSBC SVNS Series and the all-important Hong Kong Sevens. The...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoMcNicholl at double as Crusaders break duck
By BEN JAYCOCK Former Wales wing Johnny McNicholl scored a try in each half to help Crusaders coach Rob Penny secure...
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Features
/ 2 years agoRebel life is just the thing for Maunder
By MARK STEVENS Jack Maunder had always been a name synonymous with Exeter Chiefs. Born and raised in the heart of...
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