All posts tagged "Australia"
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/ 7 years agoRugby Championship: A look at the Springboks
Is it still a matter of rebuilding under Rassie Erasmus for South Africa?
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/ 7 years agoRugby Championship: Argentina team profile
Who else is on the Ledesma hype train?
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The Rugby Championship
/ 8 years agoMario must stop this Pumas freefall
BRENDAN GALLAGHER runs his eye over the Rugby Championship contenders ahead of next weekend’s big kick-off Big job on: Argentina coach...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHansen right to decide that Beauden’s still tops
GLENN DELANEY, defence coach at the Highlanders and former London Irish and Nottingham coach, runs his expert eye over the Rugby...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRoberts is my dark horse for selection
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Wants the ton: Jamie Roberts PICTURE: Getty Images THE start of the new season is...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoLack of pool stage spoilt World Sevens
MOST people seem to agree the recent Sevens World Cup was a great success, but there was one element that caused...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAll Blacks must lose Rugby Championship
COLIN BOAG Kings again: All Blacks are crowned last year The Southern Hemisphere’s Rugby Championship starts next weekend, and unlikely though...
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/ 8 years agoMitchell’s got the means to increase England’s intensity
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Loud and clear: John Mitchell gets his point across in England training 1998 PICTURE: Getty...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWallabies will pose real threat in Bledisloe opener
THE current All Blacks are a very talented team and boast the ability to go unbeaten during the Rugby Championship. Their...
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/ 8 years agoTop Rugby Players of All Time
Rugby is a full-contact team sport played using an oval ball with 15 players on each team. The sport uses a...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPressure time as Burke gets own back on Guscott
RUGBY’S version of the Ryder Cup may have had a subterranean profile compared to the real thing but for one player...
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/ 8 years agoTigers strike for Kyle but Toomua’s off
Off to Tigers: Kyle Eastmond KYLE Eastmond has joined Leicester Tigers following his departure from Wasps, but Matt Toomua will leave...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDavies’ exit put me in at the deep end
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER LLANELLI, LEEDS AND WALES FLY-HALF COLIN STEPHENS Calling the shots: Colin Stephens in action for Wales...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoSpencer column: Forget the Olympic dream or Red Roses will wither
By Catherine Spencer San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Bridge and this year’s Sevens World Cup, was not so Golden...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years ago‘It’s the worst injury I’ve ever had’ says Jonathan Davies
The Scarlets & Wales centre explains the difficulty of overcoming his foot injury and what he wants to win most
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: The PRO14 say ‘bah, Humbug’ to festive rugby fans
No Boxing Day fixture to come this winter...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLion Haydn dies at 81
FORMER Wales and British and Irish Lions flanker Haydn Morgan has died at the age of 81. Morgan won the first...
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Features
/ 8 years agoStar Tiger Toomua set to sign for Rebels
By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER centre Matt Toomua is on the verge of shock Test recall in the Bledisloe Cup...
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/ 8 years agoFAMOUS GAMES AT CROSS GREEN
THE NORTH 21 NEW ZEALAND 9 NOVEMBER 17, 1979 With an estimated crowd of over 10,000 crammed inside Cross Green and...
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/ 8 years agoJess: Cuthbert can come again on Exeter’s ‘yellow brick road’
By JON NEWCOMBE Renaissance man? Cuthbert could regain form FORMER Exeter fans’ favourite Matt Jess believes the Chiefs’ secret formula for...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSuper Rugby must cut teams to 12 to survive
COLIN BOAG Air miles: The Japanese Sunwolves would need to do most of the travelling July is always the most boring...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoMichael Cheika must find remedy for tactical shortcomings
A crux of high penalty counts and finding a replacement for the retired Stephen Moore
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoYou did it Sam, you’re a true Lions legend now
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ambition achieved: Sam Warburton with the Lions in NZ PICTURE: Getty Images ■...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGive Piutau a reprieve after early capture by All Blacks
DAN LEO EXPERT ANALYST ON PACIFIC NATIONS The annual Pacific Rugby Players Welfare (PRPW) Board meeting took place in Bristol last...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSiam Cup rivalry ‘more intense than any other’
FOR many years the Siam Cup – started in 1920 and thought to be the second oldest Cup competition in the...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 8 years agoWales & Lions captain Sam Warburton retires from rugby with immediate effect
Legendary flanker calls time on his career before reaching the age of 30
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMelbourne Rebels come down hard on pair who were involved in nightclub altercation
Forward Amanaki Mafi appeared in court on Monday and his club have taken action
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Features
/ 8 years agoIt’ll be tough but expect some upsets
JAMES BAILEY Medal contenders: England celebrate bronze at the Commonwealth Gamess At the start of the season we were well aware...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSamoa ensure safe passage to World Cup
By SAM JACKSON Double: Ahsee Tuala SAMOA qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup after beating Germany 42-28 for a second...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoSymons excited by link-up with Horwill
By NEALE HARVEY New Quins enforcer: Matt Symons PICTURE: Getty Images MATTSYMONS is certain underachieving Harlequins can become winners again as...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoUtter nonsense to suggest replacing red card system
COLIN BOAG Views Flashpoint: Semisi Masirewa is sent off after dropping Bernard Foley on his head Which is more important, applying...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAbbie: Let’s end season on a high
By NEALE HARVEY Leading from the front: Abbie Brown CONFIDENT England women Sevens captain Abbie Brown wants her team to embrace...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSmith injury will send the Bears a tremor
Father Time catches up: George Smith is 38 this month PICTURE: Getty Images BRISTOL coach Pat Lam will have winced when...
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/ 8 years agoFund the TMOs properly to end the guessing game
THE TMO system is being pilloried, and justifiably, after a series of decisions over the summer internationals which have highlighted its...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS Zimbabwean protest was really just a cry for help
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Rough treatment: Zimbabwe players sleep on the streets of Beja...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSan Fran can put Sevens World Cup back on map
BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks at how the World Cup Sevens has evolved since its 1993 inception World beaters: England celebrate their success...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWhen unfancied England stormed to the first title
HE days of a first choice Test prop captaining his national Seven to a ‘world title’ are probably long gone but...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHansen’s moan shows Lions effects still linger
NICK CAIN looks at New Zealand rugby a year on from that epic drawn series Ruling the roost: Crusaders pack have...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Lack of TV coverage makes referees the fall-guy
Peter Jackson uses the recent aerial incidents involving Israel Folau and Benjamin Fall to show how referees are sometimes tied up...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSummer rugby way forward for the minis
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND AS a parent I read with interest the Welsh Rugby Union’s plan to trial mini...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWelfare is still key but refs need more empathy
I’VE watched a lot of rugby this summer and I have to raise my concern over players competing for the high...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLack of TV footage makes refs Fall-guys
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Benjamin Fall goes up for a high ball and his midair opponent, Beauden...
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Features
/ 8 years agoGold’s Eagles have found wind beneath their wings at long last
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to Dan Lyle about the changing landscape of rugby in America OVER the years we have heard so...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWorld rankings bit of a mystery to me
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk THE World Rugby rankings...
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/ 8 years agoBarbarians return to Twickenham this December for Argentina grudge match!
The Barbarians team packed full of global superstars, will light up the stadium with their unique brand of rugby, proving perfect...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: Eddie Jones has a plan for life without Billy Vunipola
Any coincidence that England's 2018 losing streak came when Big Billy was out injured?
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Dylan Hartley will be back as captain for the autumn
Jeremy Guscott gives his verdict on England's tour of South Africa
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Features
/ 8 years agoAcid test awaits against All Blacks
NICK CAIN sits down with former Springboks captain Gary Teichmann – a hero in South Africa and Newport… Cornerstone: Tenda Mtawarira...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDavies after a fresh start under Boyd
By NEALE HARVEY New challenge: Charlie Davies is hungry for action after being frozen out at Dragons PICTURES: Getty Images New...
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