All posts tagged "Challenge Cup"
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBurrows loving high life since switch to Falcons
By JON NEWCOMBE Aiming for an 80-minute performance: Ryan Burrows PICTURES: Getty Images Rival: John Hardie RYAN Burrows achieved another memorable...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoSaints pile more woe on underfire Jackman
By NEALE HARVEY Stop that! Taqele Naiyaravoro dives in for Saints PICTURE: Getty Images Down: James Fish tackles Dragons’ Richard Hibbard...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoBlanc score adds late gloss to the Slade show
■By ALEX BYWATER COLIN Slade’s try-double helped end Worcester’s unbeaten Challenge Cup run at the Stade du Hameau on Friday night....
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 8 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Te’o gets time off after his England exertions WORCESTER centre Ben Te’o has flown home to New Zealand for a “break”....
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRansom: I didn’t get enough love at London Irish
The former Exile and Saracens full-back will play in the Varsity match this week for Oxford
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRansom: I didn’t get enough love at Irish
By MATTHEW ROLLER THREE years have passed since Ben Ransom last made it onto the Twickenham pitch. Then a 23-year-old with...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoInjury-hit Catrakilis eager to make a lasting impression in the battle for No.10
■ By NEALE HARVEY PERKY playmaker Demetri Catrakilis believes he is finally hitting his stride as a Harlequins player following an...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCliff: It’s no hardship when Faf comes in
LIKE the rest of the northwest’s rugby public, Will Cliff has welcomed the return of Springbok Faf de Klerk with open...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSolomons fears coaches will burn out, too
Plea: Alan Solomons WORCESTER supremo Alan Solomons says Premiership coaches are at risk of burnout unless steps are taken to align...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
FORMER ORRELL AND LEEDS HOOKER ROB RAWLINSON OUR celebrations lasted well into the night when we beat Bath to lift the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
KIERAN WILKINSON SALE FLY-HALF Sharing your surname with one of England’s greatest players might be seen as a double-edged sword by...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoEvans expects another early onslaught
By STEFFAN THOMAS JARROD Evans believes weathering an early storm holds the key to claiming another famous French scalp as Cardiff...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEuro bosses aiming for Transatlantic exposure
EUROPEAN rugby bosses have revealed they plan to take future Champions Cup and Challenge Cup matches to the USA in a...
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/ 8 years agoEvans in hot pursuit of former Wales U20 graduates
By STEFFAN EVANS JARROD Evans hopes to be the next player off Jason Strange’s Wales production line. Former Wales U20 coach...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoCudd grabs spotlight from Keys marquee signings
By IWAN GABE DAVIES Cross Keys …32 Bridgend …25 AFTER making some star signings over the summer, Cross Keys got their...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWoodward: Danny can help us win the Prem
By NEALE HARVEY Aiming to step up: Jason Woodward PICTURE: Getty Images GLOUCESTER fullback Jason Woodward is backing controversial England fly-half...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoKvesic states case with breakdown dominance
By ROB COLE THEChiefs hammered out a five-try warning to their Premiership rivals that they will be just as difficult to...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoPeter Jackson column: RFU miss the boat again for Shaun Edwards
England miss another chance to join forces with a coach who has won everything there is to win in Union bar...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoOspreys ready for lift off now that ‘Jockey’ has the reins
By STEFFAN THOMAS High hopes: Ospreys centre Cory Allen CORY Allen believes the Ospreys boast a secret weapon who can unlock...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoStrange backing Jarrod for Biggar’s 10 jersey
By STEFFAN THOMAS NEW Cardiff Blues backs coach Jason Strange believes Jarrod Evans’ psychic abilities will increase the pressure on Dan...
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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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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCuthbert: I’m only 28 and have a lot to offer
By NEALE HARVEY Size and speed: Alex Cuthbert in action for Wales against Tonga PICTURES: Getty Images HAVING escaped the critic-filled...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGloucester CEO Stephen Vaughan defends stance over foreign signings
The Cherry and White's chief executive cools scrutiny over the signing of banned steroid user Gerbrandt Grobler
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoAckermann working to eliminate Gloucester’s ‘kamikaze’ moments
By TOM BRADSHAW JOHAN Ackermann will use the impending preseason to improve his side’s hit-and-miss decisionmaking. South African Ackermann joined the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBotha hits back after German club gets the boot
By STEFFAN THOMAS FORMER England lock Mouritz Botha has blasted EPCR’s decision to throw his Heidelberger RK side out of the...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoEllis Jenkins to skipper Wales against the Boks
All four touring Dragons to play in Washington
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoScottish Rugby reveal plans for new 7,800-capacity stadium for Edinburgh
SRU apply for planning permission for new ground to be built on training pitches
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGermany set to storm Europe says Botha
News Coach: Mouritz Botha MOURITZ Botha believes German rugby is on the rise as the European minnows continue to dream of...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoAckermann rues another lost final
FRUSTRATED Gloucester coach Johan Ackermann questioned why decisons were not always referred to the TMO following Garyn Smith’s somewhat controversial score...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWilson’s just reward for playing it like the All Blacks
THE COMEBACK kings! What an achievement it was for Cardiff Blues to claim Challenge Cup glory against Gloucester. The manner of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
BARRY STEWART THE FORMER SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH, SALE AND NORTHAMPTON PROP My journey from medical write-off in my mid-20s to winning Premiership...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEd Slater to captain Gloucester in Challenge Cup final clash with Cardiff
Rested players come back into the starting XV for Gloucester's trip to Bilbao
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBanahan shows Bath what they’ll be missing
By ROB COLE Hero’s send-off: Matt Banahan is chaired from the pitch PICTURES: Getty Images WHAT a way to finish! Matt...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoWayne Barnes to referee Champions Cup final between Leinster and Racing 92
Barnes will be the man in charge in Bilbao, as Challenge Cup officials are also confirmed
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFreestyle has put Gloucester back in the swim
No fear: John Afoa JOHN Afoa is hell bent on leaving Gloucester a trophy winner after revealing how he has revelled...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoJudgement Day must be moved to Easter weekend
JUDGEMENT Day is the highlight of the Welsh rugby calendar and I’m fully supportive of the concept. I think it’s been...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWhirlwind season for Robinson Junior
OLLY Robinson says the prospect of playing for European glory is beyond his wildest dreams. The Cardiff Blues flanker began the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBlackadder is a hero to the players here, he’s got to stay insists Stooke
By NEALE HARVEY Keep him on: Elliot Stooke has flourished under the eye of former All Black back row Todd Blackadder...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoNorth was a great signing for Saints insists Diggin
By JON NEWCOMBE Glory days: George North with Saints in 2013 NORTHAMPTON legend Paul Diggin says George North’s contribution to Saints’...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoWoodward shows he’s England class
By TOM BRADSHAW Teamwork: Tom Marshall dives over for Gloucester’s first try, set up by Jason Woodward, right PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTEAMS: Gloucester v Newcastle Falcons
(Photo: Getty Images) By Jake Jones Gloucester head coach Johan Ackermann has urged his Gloucester side to ‘get out of the...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoJonathan Joseph a doubt to feature in South Africa tour with ankle injury
Bath centre left Allianz Park on crutches after heavy defeat to Saracens
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoClifford out with hamstring horror op
QUINS’ miserable season took a turn for the worse as director of rugby John Kingston reported that Jack Clifford will be...
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Features
/ 8 years agoI’m backing Blues to give Danny the send off he deserves
WHILE the focus is inevitably on the Scarlets, let’s not forget Cardiff Blues. I firmly believe the good times are on...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLewis glad to learn from the old master at Blues
HE MIGHT be a Wales international and old beyond his years, but Cardiff Blues prop Dillon Lewis is more than happy...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoSlater calls for Tiger-like finish to season grind
By NEALE HARVEY Thriving at Gloucester: Ed Slater PICTURES: Getty Images Impressive rise at Chiefs: Jonny Hill ED Slater has ordered...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoUlster still in mix for honours with bonus point win
By RONAN O’NEILL Edinburgh …20 Ulster …32 RICHARD Cockerill blamed a poor first-half showing for the defeat at the hands of...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoStill far too many mistakes – Ackermann
STAR MAN Mark Atkinson was delighted with Gloucester’s win. The centre told TRP: “Irish have run most teams close and we...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVersatile Josh out to prove himself again
By JON NEWCOMBE JOSH Beaumont says he has returned from his latest injury setback stronger than ever as he looks to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDeano will finish job says Falcons boss
By NEALE HARVEY NEWCASTLE chairman Semore Kurdi is confident Dean Richards will finish the job at the resurgent Geordie club. Kurdi,...
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