All posts tagged "Championship"
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoAustralian ace Reid signs at Kingsholm
EALING Trailfinders flanker Jordy Reid is the latest Championship star to step up into the Premiership after signing for Gloucester. The...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBlues are favourites to sign Saracens ace Tompkins
By STEFFAN THOMAS & ALEX BYWATER CARDIFF Blues have emerged as the leading contenders to sign new Wales centre Nick Tompkins...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoRegionalised leagues would strengthen the club game
MARK NELSON LANCASHIRE COUNTY COACH Change is in the air apparently, the structure of league rugby in the English club game...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBargoed on the move at top of the table
Bargoed on the move at top of the table By CARL FIELD BARGOED moved to within five points of Pontypool at...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoIt just makes you regret that display in Paris
JEREMY GUSCOTT Impressive: Anthony Watson scored a superbly executed try ENGLAND have built on their performances week to week throughout this...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: It is about time CVC told us what they are up to
As CVC plot a takeover of major competitions in northern hemisphere rugby, Nick Cain writes about how little is known
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoSix Nations to go behind Sky paywall for £300m
■ By PETER JACKSON EXCLUSIVE Taking over? Sky THE Six Nations is in ‘very real danger’ of vanishing from free-toair television...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExpand Prem and bring in playoffs
THE age old problem of to ring fence or not keeps rearing its ugly head. The fact Newcastle look likely to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFunds aren’t available to follow French route
Decline: Yorkshire Carnegie over-extened to fund huge wage bill PICTURE: Getty Images SO now the answer to English rugby’s problems is...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRude welcome awaits
IN THE wake of RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney’s announcement to slash funding to the Championship and across the 2000+ clubs...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEdwards bedevils old employers
THE stupidity of the WRU in not giving Shaun Edwards a four-year extension came back to haunt them last week. The...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPRO14 bid makes Blackett wait on Cov offer
Decision: Blackett COVENTRY look to have late competition in their bid to land Lee Blackett as they look to replace head...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoIn-form Met bag bumper triumph at home
Championship & Division One round-up ■By CARL FIELD CARDIFF Met made it four straight wins to move up into third in...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJarrod enjoying new voice in Wales camp
NEWS EXTRA ■By STEFFAN THOMAS WALES haven’t had the best of times in the Six Nations, but Jarrod Evans hopes his...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTop 14 shun virus threat to go ahead on schedule
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Hat-trick: Joris Jurand ran in three tries in the first half for Brive Yesterday’s Top 14 matches...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland ought to replicate the French system, says Grimoldby
Ampthill fly-half Louis Grimoldby speaks of the gulf between the Championship and the Pro D2 in France, where he played for...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoI’ll stay as long as Saracens want me to, says Alex Goode
Alex Goode comes to the defence of ex-Saracens chairman Nigel Wray, and says he wants to finish his career at the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Pro D2 can show the RFU how to run a second tier
Former Bath captain and Worcester DoR, Richard Hill, is currently in charge at Rouen in the second tier of French rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBristol Bears’ Welsh exile Mat Protheroe signs for Ospreys
A player capable of making the move into Test rugby by playing under Wayne Pivac's nose?
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoExclusive: Championship threaten to revive play-off system and add to Saracens woe
Life in the Championship next season might not be as straightforward as Saracens were expecting
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland Sevens captain Tom Mitchell feels change in the wind post-Tokyo Olympics
RFU cuts to the Championship have given rise to questions over the future of the England Sevens programme
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams verdict: Shaun Edwards is the difference between Wales and France
Shane Williams analyses France's first win in Cardiff for a decade
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEx-RFU chief raps cuts to Championship
Former RFU chairman Graeme Cattermole questions how the savings on the Championship budget cuts will be used elsewhere
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Six Nations
/ 6 years ago‘I wasn’t going to mess up that one’
SCOTLAND captain Stuart Hogg was delighted to bury the memory of his butchered try against Ireland – and even more pleased...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEx-RFU chief raps Tier Two cash cuts
By NICK CAIN ‘It’s poor’: Cattermole GRAEME Cattermole, former RFU chairman, has added his criticism to the slashing cuts to Championship...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoChampions keep dream of a second Slam alive
By GEORGE LAWRENCE Threat: Theo Dan tries to break Decisive: Max O’Reilly scores Ireland’s fifth try as England’s George Barton closes...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoStrong second half sees Wales earn first victory
By SAM JACKSON MORGANStrong’s secondhalf try helped Wales to their first win of the championship – and their first over France...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThis crowing cockerill can show RFU how to run Tier Two
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE desultory manner in which the Championship clubs have been treated by the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSpare a thought for National League clubs
DID the Championship clubs really not see the RFU funding cuts coming, as all the “shock, horror” reactions would suggest? The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU executives should take pay cut
THE outrageous decision by the RFU to cut funding of the Championship by 50 per cent from next season is a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPerhaps it’s time to boycott the top tier
COULD this season get any worse? The whole salary cap saga proved just how poor the administration of the professional game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPremature relegation devalues competition
THE Saracens debacle and the cut in Championship funding are significant, but are these the main issues to ensure the future...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBracken: England back row will munch them up
EDDIE Jones is preparing to lay a ‘kick and squeeze trap’ for the Irish to fall into at Twickenham today. That’s...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVolunteers step up to aid clubs caught in the storm
By ROB COLE THE true spirit of Welsh rugby has been revealed in the flood-ravaged community clubs who battled all week...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGriffiths puts the boot in for Otters
Championship & Division One round-up A LAST minute Ianto Griffiths penalty sealed a stunning 20-19 win for Narberth against Cross Keys...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoHeartbreaker Shaun is the difference
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Crunch: George North collides with Gael Fickou PICTURE: Getty Images Flashback: Emile Ntamack of France...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoRFU CEO Bill Sweeney responds to outcry from Championship clubs
Sweeney justifies cuts to Championship funding in reply to clubs' letter voicing grave concerns
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Championship should go down legal route in this bloody battle
Nick Cain questions whether Bill Sweeney is doing the bidding of the Premiership's shareholders
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland prop Harry Williams anticipates damaging impact on second two
The Exeter Chiefs prop speaks out about how cuts to the second tier 'are not ideal'
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoChampionship cuts: Concerned chairmen issue open letter to Bill Sweeney
The Championship Clubs Committee (CCC) write to RFU CEO Bill Sweeney in The Rugby Paper
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Features
/ 6 years agoLozowski closes on his move to Bath
West country recruit: Alex Lozowski SARACENS centre Alex Lozowski was last week spotted in Bath ahead of a potential move to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAdvent of Adams puts North at big risk
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW True Test class: Josh Adams takes on Ireland’s Andrew Conway PICTURE: Getty Images...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoHarlequins hunt Ealing Trailfinders front-row trio
Harlequins scrum coach Adam Jones set to have more than just Wilco Louw coming into the front row
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWorld Cup man Mark Wilson back on track with Sale Sharks
Wilson knows there's plenty of work to be done to add to his 18 England caps
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJamie George to stay at Saracens when club is relegated to Championship
George signals his intention to stay put with GK IPA Championship-bound Saracens, even with 2021 being a Lions year
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoHarlequins announce signing of Stormers tighthead Wilco Louw
Quins have found their replacement in the pack when Kyle Sinckler heads to Bristol
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJersey Reds typify Championship disbelief with damning condemnation of RFU
Jersey Reds chairman Mark Morgan criticises Bill Sweeney for ill-thought actions and lack of clarity given to Championship clubs by RFU
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Lions eye 2021 tour warm-up in Cardiff
The Lions plan on facing the Barbarians on home soil before jetting off to South Africa in 2021
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBracken: Saracens’ Lions tour hopefuls should be looking to leave
Kyren Bracken believes Saracens' elite players should move elsewhere next season
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU and PRL slash funding to the Championship by 50%
Championship clubs hang on a cliff edge as funding from central power is cut from £8.1 to £4.3m
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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