All posts tagged "Championship"
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoGatland: We must seize this Slam bid
WARREN Gatland urged Wales to go out and live their dreams when they face Ireland in Saturday’s Grand Slam showdown. The...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoKeep the same team and land that Slam!
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Delight: Wales players celebrate at the end of the Murayfield match RELIEF. That’s my overriding...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoHenderson fired-up for Schmidt’s swansong
By JOHN FALLON Winning streak: Ireland second row Iain Henderson has not lost to France PICTURES: Getty Images TEAMS IRELAND: Ireland:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLam’s right to make voice heard, fans should follow suit
I WAS struck by Nick Cain’s reference, in his well-balanced piece on the World League, to Pat Lam’s statement that the...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoGame-changer Joe proves he’s too hot to handle
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Needs a rest: Tom Curry Prolific: Jonny May scores THERE is still so much to...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoEaling have a ground fit for the Premiership if Irish slip up
Championship contenders are working on contingencies to meet Premiership stadium criteria
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLeaders Pooler make it a sweet sixteen
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD PONTYPOOL extended their lead at the top to 11 points but were made to work...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSo who would be the real world champions?
COLIN BOAG Not so super: Chiefs clash with the Sunwolves in Super Rugby yesterday Last week details leaked out about World...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEaling have a ground fit for the Premiership says Ward
By NEALE HARVEY EALING have a stadium on standby and would be able to take a place in the Premiership if...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoExiles replace head coach Rouse with Steadman
By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE NIC ROUSE is looking for new opportunities after being told he is to be released as London...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWales have a way to go to emulate JPR’s record
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ferocious: JPR Williams on the Lions tour of 1971 The sideboards are still...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWe can still turn up the heat on Irish says Burns
WING-HEELED Ealing pivot Jordan Burns pledges to pile the psychological pressure on London Irish as he plots a route back into...
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Features
/ 7 years agoGermany’s call just too good to ignore
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Doncaster’s new international prop Toby Williams Toe to toe: Toby Williams packs down for Germany PICTURE: Bruno...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoPacific island players’ union to explore nuclear option of boycotting 2019 Rugby World Cup in light of proposed ‘World League’
Fiji, Tonga and Samoa have all qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup
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Featured
/ 7 years agoChris Pennell FEATURE: I’d be crazy to leave Worcester Warriors
One-club man Pennell says there is a collective building at Worcester after a number of first-teamers extend their deals
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoScott takes charge of new-look England
By SAM JACKSON Captain’s call: Harlequins second row Abbie Scott ENGLAND centre Emily Scarratt will sit out the women’s Six Nations...
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Features
/ 7 years agoI’d be crazy to leave Warriors now my vision is taking shape
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Worcester’s loyal servant Chris Pennell ahead of a huge game with Newcstle JON NEWCOMBE Warrior through and...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoSteele eyes big finish to stop-start season
By NEALE HARVEY Making strides: Irish No.9 Scott Steele SCRUM-HALF Scott Steele aims to lay down a marker ahead of the...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoMay’s braced for Pirates backlash
By NEALE HARVEY Aiming high: Ealing fly-half Laurence May FLY-HALF Laurence May says Ealing have the scent of silverware as they...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER HARLEQUINS, BRISTOL, MOSELEY, NEWBURY, LONDON SCOTTISH, EALING AND ROSSLYN PARK CENTRE ANDY REAY I think of myself as a...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoOpen season as rivals swoop on troubled Carnegie
RIVAL Championship clubs are poised to raid Yorkshire Carnegie’s squad while budgets at Headingley for the 2019/20 season remain unknown. In...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTwo for Vokes as Bridge move up
By CARL FIELD Welsh round-up NEW BRIDGE hauled themselves out of the WRU National Championship drop zone after recording a terrific...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEddie Jones and England froze in that second half
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JEREMY GUSCOTT Master of getting results: Warren Gatland yesterday I’ve said before there is no Plan B...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoHungry Joe will feed off the frenzied Welsh fans
By GARY FITZGERALD Preparing for Cardiff: Joe Launchbury hits George Kruis during England training this week PICTURES: Getty Images Rout: Jonny...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoOwens: We must start fast or they’ll teach us
By ALEX BYWATER Confident: Ken Owens KEN Owens has vowed to get stuck into England but warned Wales Eddie Jones’ side...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPooler make it 40 in a row to stay clear
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD PONTYPOOLremain eight points clear at the top of the Championship after claiming their 40th consecutive...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWarren has to establish a half-back partnership
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Starter at 10: Wales need the kicking expertise of Dan Biggar against England PICTURE: Getty...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNo World League without global season says Burger
By NEALE HARVEY SCHALK Burger predicts World Rugby’s grand plans for a Nations League will lie dead in the water unless...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBraley to swap his allegiance to Italy
GLOUCESTERscrum-half Callum Braley has been called into Italy’s training squad ahead of their Six Nations game against Ireland on February 24....
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoEngland ‘have found two amazing flankers’
Jon Newcombe talks to Serge Betsen, the great former French flanker about Sunday Destructive: Tom Curry, left, has all the attributes...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoKids need to get a rugby ball in their hands
ONCE the nemesis of English rugby, Serge Betsen is looking to strengthen rugby at grass roots level in his adopted country...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoPicamoles pumped up for his Vunipola challenge
By GARY FITZGERALD LOUIS Picamoles is relishing the prospect of pitting his skill and strength against his counterpart Billy Vunipola. The...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoEngland outmuscle the world champions
By GARY FITZGERALD Let’s get physical: Ollie Lawrence charges into Julien Delbouis GLOUCESTER flanker Aaron Hinkley produced a dynamic display as...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoLet’s have relegation in women’s Six Nations
CATHERINE SPENCER Like fine wine: Katy Daley-McLean gets better with age Round one of the women’s Six Nations followed expected form...
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Six Nations
/ 7 years agoHere’s one football story rugby men should heed
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK PREMIERSHIP owners are partial to borrowing from the professional football model when it...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRingfencing expected to take at least another year
By NEALE HARVEY PREMIERSHIP Rugby plans to prevent relegation this season look doomed. At a summit meeting last week, Premiership Rugby’s...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoDurable Burcham brings up his 150
By NEALE HARVEY BLACKHEATH skipper Markus Burcham has his eyes on promotion after achieving a remarkable personal record of consecutive league...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoOtters narrow the gap with 7-try thrashing
Welsh round-up By CARL FIELD NARBERTH moved to within a point of second spot in the Championship with a magnificent seventry...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoKeatley stops off at Irish en route to Treviso
Exile: Ian Keatley IAN KEATLEY’S departure from Munster has been brought forward after London Irish snapped up the fly-half on a...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoReds won’t block Biljon if top-flight come calling
JERSEY chairman Mark Morgan says he would not stand in the way of rugby director Harvey Biljon taking a top job...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoYachvili: The players did ‘sack’ Lievremont
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Star turn: Dimitri Yachvili kicks the conversion for France during the 2011 World Cup final PICTURE: Getty...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNeath heading for the drop but Bramwell won’t let them wither
■By ALEX BYWATER Captain fantastic: Neath’s Aaron Bramwell THEY are doomed to Principality Premiership relegation and are enduring their worst season...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoItaly’s Six Nations place safe despite desperate run
RELEGATION will not be introduced to the Six Nations, according to tournament chief Ben Morel, who also says there is no...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoPremiership self-interest set to repeat
JEFF GAGE Europe’s second tier: Saints skipper Dylan Hartley “It’s time the rest of English rugby woke up to the fact...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoQuality of soccer’s second tier is streets ahead
HAVINGread Nick Cain’s piece picking at Steve Lansdown last Sunday, I can’t help but object to his ridiculous argument about why...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoA-Team Six Nations needs resurrecting
Getting up to speed: Dan Robson in Saxons action WITH the Six Nations just kicking off I have a question: Just...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoDismayed at these reasons to ring-fence
AMI alone at being dismayed at some of the arguments being used to support ring-fencing (Stephen Rodgers, Jan 27). His reasoning...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoReferees must simply stop ignoring the laws
I WAS RFU President in 2013/14 and spent a few weeks with England U20s as they went on to win the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWhy should we bail out SANZAAR? It’s their own fault
COLIN BOAG Twitter spat: Brian Moore commentating In crisis: Warratahs’ Jed Holloway on the attack during the Super Rugby semi-final in...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoVaughan: Close the league but prepare for expansion
■By NEALE HARVEY GLOUCESTER chief executive Stephen Vaughan says Premiership Rugby must get their head around an expansion system if they...
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