All posts tagged "Bristol"
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBurns brilliance puts end to Saints revival
By NEALE HARVEY Final flourish: Hooker Ross Batty goes over for Bath’s third try FORGOTTEN England fly-half Freddie Burns produced a...
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National League 2E
/ 8 years agoKevern class act as Reds victorious
By ROGER OPIE Clifton 6 Redruth 26 REDRUTH gained their first away win of 2018 thanks to their forward power, ball...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Trailfinders are on long trek towards Premiership BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points COULD Ealing...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEastmond’s No to France gives Sale hope of signing
Staying in England: Kyle Eastmond KYLE EASTMOND has turned down a move to France next season where Toulouse were keen to...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 8 years agoBeckett’s score earns maiden win for Firwood
By STEVE BROOKS Five tries: Hartpury-Gloucester’s Kelly Smith SARAH Beckett helped secure Firwood Waterloo’s first victory in the Tyrrells Premier 15s...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoJames Haskell to leave Wasps at the end of the season
England flanker has been linked with a move to a Premiership rival
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoTrailfinders miss bonus after naïve first half
By LUKE JARMYN Boot: Alex Walker clears for London Scottish STOIC Scottish defence kept them in touch of second-placed Ealing until...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoLate acrobatics from Hardy rescues win for Reds
By TOM INNES JERSEY’S Kieran Hardy followed his own chargedown to score the winning try at the death to overcome a...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoBuckle braced for another big scrap
YORKSHIRE Carnegie were shocked by the newlypromoted pack when the two sides met earlier in the season and hooker Joe Buckle...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoLay boosts Bristol front row stocks
NEWS EXTRA SAMOA prop James Lay has joined Bristol on a short-term loan to cover Pat Lam’s injury-hit front row resources....
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Features
/ 8 years agoForget ring-fencing and just cut wages instead
THE price of freedom in Rugby Union, as with freedom in a wider context, is eternal vigilance. Nothing underlines this more...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoBlues blasted by Bristol’s big guns
Bristol…68 Cardiff Blues …0 ■By MIKE NICHOLS BRISTOL ran ten tries past Cardiff Blues in a match between the pool’s two...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoItaly get dumped on, but at least they have a great venue
Venue: Velodrome, Marseilles IT’S tough being Italy. Guess who are the one team in this year’s Six Nations required to play...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPearce at the double against old team
F Waterloo …0 L’boro …29 ■By HELEN DUGGAN CHARLOTTE Pearce came back to haunt her former club as Loughborough Lightning produced...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPury take the derby honours despite the rain
Glos-H’pury …34 Bristol …17 ■By LOTTIE HIGGINSON First try: Ellie Kildunne GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY took the West Country spoils after a hard fought...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHeat builds on coach O’Connor at Tigers
ON THE BLING SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler LEICESTER TIGERS head coach Matt O’Connor is fighting to...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Hartpury production line set for more Test success BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Making strides:...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoGriffiths rages after Knights let Bristol off
By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster 2pts Bristol 37pts THE outcome of this remarkable game leaves Doncaster with a chance of qualifying for...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSmith double stretches Crusaders’ lead
South West Premier DINGS Crusaders increased their lead at the top of the South West Premier to 11 points following a...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoKiwis left short at No.10 as Sopoaga signs off
NEWS EXTRA ALL Blacks coach Steve Hansen is disappointed at Lima Sopoaga’s decision to leave New Zealand and sign for Wasps....
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoTeenager Sam beats cancer to sign deal at Knights
NEWS EXTRA By GEORGE LAWRENCE DONCASTER Academy flanker Sam Jones has completed the most remarkable comeback to pen a professional contract...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoTheRUGBYPaper
‘We’re giving everyone else’s coaches experience’ By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Cornish Pirates director of rugby Ian Davies has branded the RFU’s...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTop four? No, we’re in it to win it – Woodward
By NEALE HARVEY GLOUCESTER have set their sights high and have no interest in being the ‘best of the rest’ behind...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWhirlwind year for new Irish prop star Lovejoy
By NEALE HARVEY AFTER beating England cricketer Gary Ballance to become Zimbabwe’s UKbased sports person of the year for 2017, unheralded...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRory’s rise just goes on and on in France
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Rory Teague is brandishing a torch abroad as the only English head coach in the Top 14,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWe want to win it for Les – Piutau
PREVIEW… Ulster v Munster Monday, January 1, Kick-off 5.35pm ULSTER recall fly-half Christian Lealiifano for their derby with Munster as pressure...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER WORCESTER, BRISTOL, ROTHERHAM & DONCASTER SCRUM-HALF CHRIS HALLAM It took me until the final game of my 11-year career...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoKoster in as Pirates target big home win
Preview Cornish Pirates v Jersey Reds Today, Kick-off 2pm PIRATES have lost their last four fixtures against the Islanders and coach...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoBristol cut loose with Williams hat-trick
By LUKE JARMYN Power play: Steven Luatua forces his way through to score for Bristol PICTURE: Dante Kim Try time: Luc...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoJones drives over to keep Trailfinders in the hunt
By MATT WRIGHT LLEWELYNJones’ late try completed a remarkable comeback from Ealing as they edged a thriller against a fired-up Bedford...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLet TMOs automatically make a call on ALL tries
COLIN BOAG Correct call: Dialling up the TMO should be mandatory for deciding tries The New Year is the time for...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVui banks on Bristol to make him a world star
By NEALE HARVEY Powerhouse: Chris Vui in action for Bristol against Doncaster PICTURES: Gareth Lyons ULTRA-CONFIDENT Samoan Chris Vui aims to...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoBristol wrap up Christmas bonus within half an hour
By WILLIAM CARPENTER Bristol…56pts Tries: Vui 2, Morahan 13, Leiua 18, Pisi 28, Lam 55, Joyce 63, Protheroe 66, Jeffries 79...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAMES DUN BRISTOL FLANKER When your dad played in the back row for Bristol, Wasps and England, Chris Robshaw attended the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoKid Smith sparkles but Quins swamped after break
By RONAN O’BRIEN European Champions Cup JOHN Cooney scored 27 points as six-try Ulster punished Harlequins late on at Kingspan Stadium...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWarriors whittle it down to three
WORCESTER are believed to now have a threeman short list for their next director of rugby. Blindside understands that Jim Mallinder...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoFerocious start sees perfect Leinster march on
By LEE JONES Leinster A…….50 Bristol ………….15 LEINSTER took a huge step toward the quarterfinals with a fourth straight bonus point...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFE IN RUGBY
THE RICHMOND DoR & FORMER OXFORD UNIVERSITY DoR AND BLACKHEATH No.8 STEVE HILL A defeat in the Varsity match is much...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDragons capture Thomas long term
By STEFFAN THOMAS THE DRAGONS are set to make Nicky Thomas’ loan move permanent with the Scarlets prop having agreed a...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMiddle Matavesi brother swaps ships for Pirates
By NEALE HARVEY ROYAL Navy back rower Sam Matavesi has revealed his ambition to follow brothers Josh and Joel into the...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoLeinster made us pay for mistakes says Lam
By WILL CARPENTER Bristol 35 Leinster A 46 LEINSTERwithstood a late Bristol fightback to seal a bonus-point victory at Ashton Gate...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWilliams confident of filling Webb role for Wales
CRACKERJACK Bristol scrum-half Rhodri Williams believes Rhys Webb’s defection to Toulon will offer him a route back into a Wales jersey...
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Features
/ 8 years agoInternational caps are all at sixes and Sevens
COLIN BOAG The recent Rugby League World Cup showed just what a joke the 13-man game’s eligibility rules are – basically...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoVarsity: Seven-timer Briggs is Light Blues brigade history maker
Brendan Gallagher picks out the stars to watch in this week's Varsity match showpiece
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Features
/ 8 years agoPiutau could stand in way of England World Cup bid
ENGLANDwill be on a World Cup collision course with the most expensive wing in the game if Tonga succeed in repatriating...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHartpury wilt after Ealing’s three-minute double strike
By ANDREW BEACHAM EALINGTrailfinders maintained their challenge to leaders Bristol with a five-try, bonus point win over Hartpury. Two tries, either...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBristol stay on track but Knights put up a fight
By GUY WILLIAMS Defiant: Doncaster’s Curtis Wilson scores LEADERS and promotion favourites Bristol completed the first half of their Championship campaign...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England and Bath No.8 Dave Egerton
Dave Egerton reflects on his career with England & Bath, where motivation was borne out of a desire to be considered...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoSo far so good for England but scrum coaching must be reviewed
JEFF PROBYN COMMENT Still winning: Eddie Jones after Samoa victory With the autumn internationals drawing to a close, what have we...















