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Features

/ 4 years ago

Chiefs believe they can work through issues at Sandy Park

EXETER are looking to rediscover home comforts to reboot their Premiership campaign and get them off to a winning start in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Jack’s prediction came true, just no one saw it!

MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER BATH, GLOUCESTER, EXETER, ENGLAND A AND BARBARIANS SCRUM-HALF IAN SANDERS Cross-code challenge: Ian Sanders in...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Mercer in top form as Eddie looks on

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The Top 14 returned after a three-week international break for two rounds ahead of the start of...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Hooper rejects claims that his staff face axe

By PAUL REES STUART Hooper has dismissed a report that Bath’s coaches had a month to sort out what has been...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Former France ace Ellis on Rec shortlist

BATH have sounded out former France defence coach Dave Ellis about coming to The Rec. Ellis is well known to head...

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Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Simmonds bulldozes Bath hopes of revival

By MIKE SINCLAIR Bath ....................16pts Tries: Reid 19 Conversions: Bailey 19 Penalties: Bailey 2, 47, 63 Exeter ................23pts Tries: Iosefa-Scott 42,...

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English Gallagher Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Baxter: We need the joy of winning

WHEN back-rower Dave Ewers plays, Exeter win. The Chiefs have suffered four defeats in the Premiership this season but Ewers, absent...

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Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Gloucester young guns smash six past Chiefs for another bonus point

By ANDREW DEERING Gloucester........45pts Tries: Taylor 15, Morris 19, Morgan 26, 32; Barton 44, Reeves 76 Conversions: Evans 15, 21, 27,...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Ring-fenced cup with weakened teams is turn off

LAST weekend’s match report on Gloucester v Bath in the Premiership Cup is headed ‘Bath’s second string destroyed in record defeat...

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Autumn Internationals

/ 4 years ago

Ireland v All Blacks is rugby’s new rivalry

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rugby is defined by its great rivalries: Bath- Leicester and Llanelli-Swansea back in the amateur days; Martyn...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Diamond arrival is good news for Ashton

By JON NEWCOMBE STEVE DIAMOND’s reputation for getting wayward characters back on the straight and narrow could save Chris Ashton’s Worcester...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Lobbe confident Pumas can make history

NEWS EXTRA By ALEX BYWATER ARGENTINA legend and current Jaguares head coach Carlos Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe believes the Pumas can cause...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Premiership highlights show set for Welsh makeover

By STEFFAN THOMAS THE Gallagher Premiership is set to hit Welsh language television with S4C poised to show highlights of English...

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Autumn Internationals

/ 4 years ago

Ice-cool Priestland provide Wales with

By PETER JACKSON Wales ................29pts Tries: Elias 23, Tompkins 48 Conversions: Biggar 24, 48 Penalties: Biggar 6, 16, 38, 65; Priestland...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Tigers join the battle to sign Pollard

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER On the move: Pollard LEICESTER Tigers are locked in a battle to sign Springbok...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Saracens want Obano to link up with cousin Maro

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Wanted list: Beno Obano SARACENS have lined up a move for Maro Itoje’s cousin...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Tigers sure they can fend off Shark attack on Ford

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER LEICESTER Tigers are confident of keeping George Ford at Welford Road next season despite...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Gustard tops Bath defensive wish list

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER In Italy: Paul Gustard BATH are looking for a new defensive coach and have...

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Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Bath’s second string are destroyed in record defeat to Gloucester

By ROGER PANTING Gloucester ........71pts Tries: B Morgan 8, 39, 43; Moyle 13, Ludlow 27, Ackerman 34, Davidson 41, Balmain 48,...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Gleave off to Dallas

RUGBY SHORTS HOOKER Todd Gleave has left Gloucester to join American Major League Rugby side Dallas Jackals. Gleave, 26, joined Gloucester...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Sharks pursue Ford to replace Bristol-bound AJ

SALE Sharks are chasing Leicester fly-half George Ford following AJ MacGinty’s decision to join Bristol next season. Ford, right, is the...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Howieson using League wisdom to spur Tigers

By JON NEWCOMBE SHEFFIELD Tigers DoR Jack Howieson is trying to implement a hybrid brand of rugby that takes the best...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Diamond spotted twice in the West Country

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER STEVE Diamond was spotted by Blindside spies twice in the West Country over the...

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Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Injury-free Ford heaps more pain on Bath

By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ..........40pts Tries: Dolly 10, Scott 27, Ford 57, Cowan-Dickie 80 Conversions: Ford 10, 27, 57, 80 Penalties:...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Not even a bonus point for Hooper

STERN-FACED Stuart Hooper admitted he was thoroughly frustrated by Bath’s latest defeat. “We are leaving here with nothing,” he said. Defeat...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Far East life rekindles Freddie’s rugby fire

By JON NEWCOMBE AFTER his career hit an all-time low at Bath, Freddie Burns says playing in Japan’s Second Division helped...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Education key in bid to diversify coaching says Khan

NEWS EXTRA By TOM SANSOM LONDON Scottish backs coach Ricky Khan has called for better education, and creating young leaders in...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Diamond’s back looking for club

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER STEVE Diamond is ready to make his return to the Premiership and become rugby’s...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

TOM CARR-SMITH

YOUNG GUNS BATH SCRUM-HALF BATH’S problems at scrum-half this season have presented unexpected opportunities for Tom Carr-Smith to travel away and...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

Knee agony for Obano

RUGBY SHORTS BATH prop Beno Obano is facing a long spell on the sidelines after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

Hayden and Co rehearsed their deception

Paul Rees reveals the lengths to which the All Blacks went to avoid defeat by Wales in 1978 It was an...

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International Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Is This the End for the Vunipolas In an England Shirt?

Eddie Jones has swung the axe in controversial fashion ahead of England’s Autumn Series games against South Africa, Australia and Tonga....

By Sam Emery

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Preview: McNally relishing re-branded Rec style

PREVIEW... Bath v Saracens Today. Kick-off 3pm, The Rec FIT-AGAIN lock Josh McNally has welcomed the transformation in Bath’s style as...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Call up for Young is common sense now

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Heading home: Wasps flanker Thomas Young deserves his call up to Wales squad PICTURE: Getty...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

Dawe: It’s all about everyone working as a team

GRAHAM Dawe’s links with Bath remain intact, not least because as head coach of Wellington RFC, the Somerset club promoted recently...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

Martin Johnson interview: Borthwick is reviving Tigers – my mission is to save lives

Alot is made of the advantage England enjoy over most of their rivals in terms of player numbers, commercial clout and...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

Hard to replicate those post-war halcyon days

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools RUGBY success at Christ’s Hospital School over the decades has been...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Stuart Hooper heartened by young Bath talent

BATH director of rugby Stuart Hooper was bemused by some decisions: “At some of the scrums, arms are being pulled before...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Jersey good enough for Lions but not for Prem

JERSEY Reds are top of the Championship. They have outstanding training facilities, complete with altitude training chambers, at the Strive complex...

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