All posts tagged "Bristol"
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoA thrilling ride but now it’s time to call it a day
MY LIFE IN RUGBY CHARLIE BECKETT - THE DONCASTER AND FORMER LEICESTER, LONDON WELSH, GLOUCESTER, JERSEY, AMPTHILL AND EASTWOOD SECOND ROW...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 19/05/24
An enthralling regular season of Premiership rugby rounds off this weekend with seven teams still in the hunt for the play-offs, and you...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPremiership final day preview: All still to play for with play-offs undecided
Northampton and Saracens confirmed their places in the top four last Saturday, but five clubs will battle for the last two...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoI want to win title before I leave Bristol – Luatua
By PAUL REES Few overseas signings have had a more lasting impact in the Premiership than Steve Luatua who looks like...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWarning for Vunipola but Sarries carry on as usual
By BEN JAYCOCK BILLY Vunipola put his club Saracens through a PR disaster when he was arrested in Mallorca but director...
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 2 years agoTiueti out to make most of Cov move
By JON NEWCOMBE Inspired by his old Uni mate Will Rigg, Dafydd-Rhys Tiueti is hoping that joining Coventry this summer will...
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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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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSaracens closing in on finishing line
By PAUL REES Bristol Bears ....................20pts Tries: Batley 4, Thacker 52 Conversions: MacGinty 5, Williams 53 Penalties: MacGinty 11, 20 Saracens...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoFarrell: We play with our heads up
OWEN Farrell said Saracens remained on course for another Twickenham final because of their ability to adapt their gameplan. A close...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoTime to put an end to marquee players
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARE marquee players, or coaches, worth it, or are they just a Premiership...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoPower of the four musketeers
A common theme of last weekend’s Champions Cup semi-finals was the influence of the four scrum-halves, the catalysts of teams that...
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National League 2N
/ 2 years agoImbalance of northern sides may push up travel costs
By BEN JAYCOCK DESPITE his side being shifted back to National Two North, Chester fourth official Martin Buck said it doesn’t...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years ago50 years ago, the Lions start to sweat
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER At the start of the year, this column...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 12/05/24
The Premiership returns with every team in the top seven heading into this weekend still having a chance of clinching a home semi-final,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoChessum out till next season in England and Tigers injury blow
Leicester Tigers lock Ollie Chessum will miss the rest of this domestic season and England‘s summer tour to Japan and New...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoFord loving dramatic end to the season
By PAUL EDDISON George Ford is relishing the ‘do-or-die’ nature of the Gallagher Premiership Rugby run-in as his Sale Sharks side...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBrown will miss two matches
LEICESTER full-back Mike Brown has been suspended for two weeks after he swore at match officials following his red card in...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRFU’s still killing the dreams of investors
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The RFU’s indecision is final. It does not know what to do about...
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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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Features
/ 2 years agoWe had belief in our ability
Mark Stevens talks to Exeter Chiefs legend Gareth Steenson as he embarks on a new chapter away from Sandy Park IN...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSaracens lift Cup
SARACENS women produced a clinical secondhalf display to beat Bristol 31-17 and win the Allianz Cup at Shaftesbury Park. Trailing 12-7...
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Features
/ 2 years agoUniversity pathway to top of the game
By WILLIAM GUPWELL Being named in an England Students squad is among the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a...
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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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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoWales can’t stop England barrage
England ran out convincing 45-5 winners over Wales in a Women’s U20 international at Bristol’s Shaftesbury Park. A first half try...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoItoje avoids ban for Barbeary tackle
Saracens second row Maro Itoje has avoided a ban for the last two games of the regular season of the Premiership...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoI’ll never stop looking for hidden gems – Lam
By PAUL REES Pat Lam says he will never stop plundering the rugby mine of the Championship and the leagues below...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSaracens know how to win – Tompkins
By BEN JAYCOCK With the Premiership run-in hotting up, Saracens centre Nick Tompkins claims ‘experience matters’ in these blockbuster end-of-season contests...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoFalcons face battle to break their duck
By PAUL REES Time is running out for Newcastle as they seek to avoid joining Rotherham and London Welsh as clubs...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLeicester stunned by Bristol late show
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester Tigers .............19pts Tries: Ollie Hassell-Collins 17, 48; van Wyk 63 Conversions: Pollard 18, 63 Bristol Bears ....................21pts...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoThacker made the difference, says Lam
Bristol boss Pat Lam lauded substitute Harry Thacker after his team had overturned a 19-0 deficit to beat Leicester. “This game...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoSharks look to have edge in Diamond derby
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Newcastle Falcons v Sale Sharks Today. Kick-off 3pm, Kingston Park SALE boss Alex Sanderson has thanked Steve...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDiamond still confident he can make a big difference
By PAUL REES Starting: Guy Pepper LAST season’s beaten Premiership finalists would not seem the ideal opponents after conceding a record...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoConnacht work hard for valuable five points
By ROGER PANTING Dragons.............27pts Tries: Hughes 5, R Williams 40, Dyer 54 Conversions: Evans 5, 40, 54 Penalties: Evans 49, 62...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBears ready to battle for silverware
By BEN JAYCOCK Preview Final Bristol Bears v Saracens Today. 2pm Driving: Akina Gondwe in action for Saracens DAVE Ward has...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoExeter in the mood to land bronze
Preview Third place play-off Exeter Chiefs v Gloucester-H Today. 12.30pm EXETER Chiefs will be gunning for third place in this season’s...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoThe boys down west who know how to win
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED The way they see it down Exeter way, only one team is flying the flag for the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoThe day Sir John picked up the bill
Steve Diamond always had a way with words – some of his stories concerning Danny Cipriani during the wayward outside-half ’s...
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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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National League 2W
/ 2 years agoRedruth hopeful they can build on young talent
By BEN JAYCOCK Redruth director of rugby Nigel Hambly questioned if he was taking a school register rather than leading a...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 28/04/24
For the third time in a row England and France meet in a Women’s Six Nations Grand Slam decider, and you...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoKata banned for three games after Dingwall tackle
Solomone Kata has received a three-match ban for his tackle on Fraser Dingwall that saw him red carded in the East...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSharks battle past Quins to keep play-off hopes alive
Sale Sharks…………………………37 Tries: Curry 3, Dugdale 7, Reed 40+2, 64; Quirke 59 Conversions: Ford 4, 40+4 Penalties: Ford 16, 44 Harlequins………………………….31...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoMalins keen to get back into England contention
By PAUL REES Max Malins will use the closing weeks of the season to give the England selectors a nudge ahead...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoWe knew we had to swing the bat – Porter
By PAUL REES Few gave Harlequins a chance at Bordeaux-Begles last weekend, but where there was a Will Porter there was...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with James Flynn
The Ampthill and former Saracens, Jersey, Yorkshire Carnegie & Sale Sharks prop, chooses the best XV he has played with or...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDe Chaves: We need to be ruthless
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Bristol Bears v Newcastle Falcons Today. Kick-off 3pm, Ashton Gate NEWCASTLE enforcer Sebastian de Chaves says the...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLam knows Diamond’s Newcastle will be tough to crack
By PAUL REES Ready: Virimi Vakatawa PAT Lam has told his players to be aware of the Steve Diamond effect when...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoOutsiders aiming for a place in the final
Paul Rees looks ahead to the Champions Cup semi-finals where Quins and Saints are facing an uphill battle BEFORE this season’s...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoCrane: Sinckler’s an emotional guy
By NICK POWELL Hard to handle: Kyle Sinckler in action for England against South Africa PICTURE: Getty Images JORDAN Crane feels...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPremiership previews: Round 15
The Gallagher Premiership returns this week after a two-week Champions/Challenge Cup hiatus, and with teams second through to eighth all on...
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