All posts tagged "Bristol"
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/ 8 years agoSarries start with battle at Waterloo
By SAM JACKSON Champions: Saracens won the title last season SARACENS Women will begin their defence of the Tyrrells Premier 15s...
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/ 8 years agoWOMEN’S PREMIER 15s 2018-19 FIXTURES
ROUND 1 - 8 SEP Loughboro Lightning v Richmond Gloucester-Hartpury v Harlequins Bristol Bears v Wasps Darlington MP Sharks v Worcester...
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/ 8 years agoPre-season fixtures
August 17 Edinburgh v Bath 7.45pm Cornish Pirates v Exeter 7.30pm Benetton v Leicester 7.30pm Dragons v Northampton (TBC) Leinster v...
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/ 8 years agoBainbridge relishing fresh lease of life under Carnegie’s new Kiwi boss Stirling
By JON NEWCOMBE JOSH BAINBRIDGE admits that the arrival of Chris Stirling as Yorkshire Carnegie DoR towards the back-end of last...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEnglishgamemay stagnate if top-flight are untouchable
Jeff Gage, rugby expert and author of Rugby‘s Blazered Buffoon Questions: Former All Black prop Ben Franks during his time with...
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/ 8 years agoBirthday boy Billy
ONLY one British rugby player can claim to have scored more tries than Cristiano Ronaldo has goals, not that the man...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoSwitch to 13 earns Neal his chance in top-flight
By NEALE HARVEY NEWS EXTRA POWERHOUSE Wasps centre Ross Neal believes spending last season at London Scottish has put him in...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoNew half-back pairing key to Saints’ revival
JEREMY GUSCOTT Bath IN: Jackson Willison (Worcester Warriors), Lucas Noguera Paz (Jaguares), Victor Delmas (Colomiers), Darren Atkins (promoted Academy), Ruaridh McConnochie...
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/ 8 years agoCan Lee light blue touch paper?
NICK CAIN TALKS TO WASPS ATTACK COACH LEE BLACKETT ABOUT HIS STAR-STUDDED BACK LINE INTERVIEW Right fit: Lima Sopoaga puts the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFranks questions Championship’s long-term future
By NEALE HARVEY Critic: Ben Franks in action against for Irish HAVING twice suffered the agony of being relegated with London...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBristol Bears summer arrival Charles Piutau is relishing his derby baptism
Bath travel to Ashton Gate on the opening day of the Premiership season
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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 agoWhy Jersey is an island of rugby dreams
Brendan Gallagher visits the Channel Islands to find two rugby clubs enjoying fresh success Reds on the rampage: Augustin Slowik scores...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Bruce Reihana – former All Blacks, Chiefs and Northampton back
Now skills coach at Bristol Bears
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
BRUCE REIHANA THE FORMER ALL BLACKS, WAIKATO, CHIEFS, NORTHAMPTON AND BORDEAUX-BEGLES PLAYER When All Blacks coach John Hart rang me up...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLam has the pedigree for putting Bristol back on top
Mastermind: Pat Lam, taking charge of the Barbarians in May Pat Lam is an expert when it comes to putting teams...
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Features
/ 8 years agoPAT LAM ON…
…captaining Northampton to their European Cup triumph in 2000, playing the entire final against Munster with a badly damaged shoulder “I...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoMa’afu to join Tigers not Ealing
By JON NEWCOMBE LEICESTER have made a swoop for experienced Fijian loose-head prop Campese Ma’afu, who had only just signed for...
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/ 8 years agoWallaby speedster wanted in Ireland
Flier: Henry Speight ULSTER have been linked with Brumbies wing Henry Speight, whom they are reportedly keen to lure to the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoBig shame our top stars don’t play 7s
Letters SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I REMEMBER watching...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIt’s friends reunited for new boy Jake
NEALE HARVEY talks to Bristol’s new Kiwi recruit from Connacht, flanker Jake Heenan Physical: Jake Heenan on the ball for Connacht...
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Features
/ 8 years agoArrest this alarming slide in standard
THE lack of top tier homegrown international class coaches coming through in the home nations was highlighted by this week’s announcement...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoCrane confident Pat Lam has assembled a Bristol pack that can go toe-to-toe with Premiership’s best
Steven Luatua, Jack Lam, Dan Thomas and George Smith to mention a few back rowers Bristol can bear with this coming...
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/ 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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Features
/ 8 years agoMaule’s loving life now he’s mentor
ALEX BYWATER talks to centre-turned-agent Gareth Maule about life on the other side Playing prowess: Gareth Maule scores a try for...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoScenic route leads Davis to Saints promised land
By NEALE HARVEY DETERMINED Northampton loosehead Will Davis wants to prove why the conventional is not always best when it comes...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRyan could give Eddie shoulder to lean on
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN EDDIE Jones jokes that since England started losing games on his watch he...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBristol can offer Ash the Splash route back to England
WITH one maverick repaying England’s faith in him, when Danny Cipriani’s magic cross kick bounced kindly for Jonny May in Cape...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRelegation? No, Solomons has Champions Cup spot in his sights
ALAN SOLOMONS ON THE RECORD Q&A Widely travelled Alan Solomons, director of rugby at Worcester, tells NEALE HARVEY his plans for...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Junior Fatialofa – Former Cornish Pirates, Exeter and Bristol centre
One of my earliest rugby memories was watching Western Samoa, captained by my Uncle Peter, beat Wales at the 1991 World...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRugby comes together to support local and national charities in fight against cancer
Bristol Bears forward Joe Batley joins efforts after receiving the news he is in remission for Hodgkin Lymphoma
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/ 8 years agoSmith back for another crack at the Premiership
FORMER Australia international captain George Smith has penned a sixmonth injury cover deal as Bristol embark on a return to the...
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/ 8 years agoMama: Zimbabwe not an option yet
By NEALE HARVEY Leadership role: Worcester’s Marco Mama PICTURE: Getty Images Marco Mama has shone a light on the dilemma facing...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE BAY OF PLENTY, CHIEFS, NEWCASTLE, NORTHAMPTON AND BRISTOL LOCK MARK SORENSON Iwas different to the norm in New Zealand because...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLam can back up big talk – Muldoon
By NEALE HARVEY Defence guru: John Muldoon in action for Connacht PICTURE: Getty Images THOSE daring to write-off Bristol’s chances of...
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Features
/ 8 years ago2011 JUNIOR WORLD CUP FINAL New Zealand 33 England 22 (Padua June 26)
ENGLAND 1 MAKO VUNIPOLA: A force of nature and nothing much has changed since, except his scrummaging is better. Two Lions...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRubbish like last week won’t grow game in US
COLIN BOAG Dud: Wales clash with South Africa in Washington last weekend Did you watch the Wales v South Africa match...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER NEW ZEALAND, ENGLAND AND HARLEQUINS CENTRE JAMIE SALMON Three years after being rejected by Kent at an U19 trial...
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/ 8 years agoEl Abd’s in dreamland after latest miracle job
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Dad’s a hero: Joe El Abd with his children Maya, 6, Gabriel, 8, and Zachary, 4, at...
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Features
/ 8 years agoConnacht avoid red mist yet again
PETER JACKSON looks at the saints and sinners from Europe’s three main leagues For the first time in 15 years, Connacht...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIs Bok takeover at Glos necessary?
FOLLOWING the retitling of Bristol Rugby as Bristol Bears, with six out of eight of their likely first team forwards next...
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/ 8 years agoWoolmore ready for top flight after Jersey blooding
HUNGRY prop Jake Woolmore insists Bristol’s collection of Championship recruits will prove their critics wrong in next season’s Premiership. While Charles...
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/ 8 years agoSopoaga’s not only All Black signing on
Stepping up: Billy Searle PICTURES: Getty Images BILLY Searle once played for the Cornish All Blacks – now the precocious fly-half...
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/ 8 years agoLucock should be next to step up says Davies
By JON NEWCOMBE BATH signing Alex Davies has backed former Yorkshire Carnegie team-mate Pete Lucock to follow him and make the...
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/ 8 years agoYet again Championship clubs have been shafted
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN BRACE yourselves for the Premiership Cup, a tournament which reflects the desperate lack...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBumper crop of Tier Two are set to make the step up to Premiership
Bristol won't just be relying on the international stardust of Steven Luatua next season, actually they have an armoury of Championship...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoThe Rugby Paper’s Championship Team of the Season
Bristol dominate our XV, but there are some worthy mentions for other stars who were certainly in with a shout...
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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