All posts tagged "Championship"
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoPirates batten down the hatches
Preview Cornish Pirates v Nottingham HIGH-FLYING Pirates will stiffen their defence for the visit of improving Nottingham, vows home lock Toby...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoCope injury forces Carnegie
By JON NEWCOMBE to shuffle the deck GEORGE Watkins, one of the few bright sparks in Yorkshire Carnegie’s disappointing start to...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoImproving Scottish eye another big scalp
By NEALE HARVEY No.15: Joe Luca-Smith FRESHfrom morale-boosting victories over Jersey and Bedford, London Scottish are intent on claiming another big...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 7 years agoBoks left stunned by double at the death
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bear hug: Try scorer Ardie Savea celebrates with Nathan Harris On the run: Damian de Allende of the...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 7 years agoFoley back at 10 for must-win match in Argentina
THE Wallabies’ experiment with Kurtley Beale at fly-half is over with the former Wasps star restored to inside-centre for the must-win...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoAngry Biljon blasts late Irish rejig
By LUKE JARMYN FRUSTRATED Jersey coach Harvey Biljon believes there are a lot of unanswered questions over the peculiar postponement of...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTop players may miss new Cup over tackle ban fears
By NEALE HARVEY ANGRY Championship clubs may withdraw top players from the forthcoming Championship Cup following the RFU’s refusal to facilitate...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
LEE STARLING THE FORMER LONDON WELSH, ESHER AND EALING BACK ROW My wife is American and did not have a great...
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Features
/ 7 years agoTrent leave it late to create their own bit of history
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP BUCS returned with a bang with four Wednesday fixtures, the first kicking off at a sun...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 7 years agoBoks’ fast start stuns Wallabies
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Elusive: Try scorer Faf de Klerk makes a break PICTURES: Getty Images SOUTH Africa maintained their unbeaten record...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoFour-try Poolergo top with Narberth in pursuit
Welsh Championship round-up By JAY BAYFORD PONTYPOOL are now the outright leaders after a 31-17 victory at Rhydyfelin. Alex Watkins, Danny...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSea change at Pirates as Evans builds for top-flight
By NEALE HARVEY CORNISH Pirates supremo Dicky Evans has revealed plans to attract top-class All Blacks like Brodie Retallick and Damian...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoHot-stepper Jordan crossing size divide
By ALEX BYWATER Pocket rocket: Dragons full-back Jordan Williams JORDAN Williams is the man of Shane Williams’ stature proving size is...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTwo Jakes in dreamland on Bristol journey
Jon Newcombe talks to new Bristol prop Jake Woolmore about stepping up a level FOR Bristol’s two Jakes, Armstrong and Woolmore,...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoUren leading the charge of home-grown contingent
By NEALE HARVEY BRISTOL scrum-half Andy Uren is ready to buck the trend by proving the ambitious club can hang on...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoCutthroat Pirates shoot for perfection
Preview Cornish Pirates v Richmond Today, Kick-off 2.30pm WING wizard Robin Wedlake aims to maintain his rich vein of form and...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
CHRIS STIRLING THE YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE DoR AS a player I made over 250 appearances at full-back for my local club, Tawa,...
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Features
/ 7 years agoHartpury kick off hat-trick bid with tough trip to Cardiff
By JAMES COFFEY BUCS PREVIEW BUCS Super Rugby returns this week following another successful showing since its maiden season in 2016....
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Features
/ 7 years agoPontypool’s past glories will live long in memory
BRENDAN GALLAGHER charts the history of Pontypool to celebrate their 150th anniversary BRENDAN GALLAGHER Fearsome: The Pooler front row of 1972...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMet nil the new boys to stay on pace with Pooler
By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Championship round-up IT’S a two-way battle at the top of the Championship as Cardiff Met and Pontypool...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoRed card fever could ruin rugby warns Care
By GARY FITZGERALD DANNY Care fears red cards could wreck top rugby as a spectacle if officials fail to adopt a...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoCain column: Hold a World Cup just for Tier Two nations
By Nick Cain SOME of the leading lights in World Rugby appear to be struggling to work out which way is...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoRassie Erasmus to take charge of Barbarians at Twickenham
Plotting victory with the BaaBaas after beating the All Blacks with the Springboks
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoYes, those All Blacks are beatable England
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER SOUTH AFRICA yesterday sent a message of hope to England and their other World Cup rivals – the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSelf-assured Searle ready for Ford test
By NEALE HARVEY UNSUNG Wasps duo Billy Searle and Joe Atkinson aim to buck conventional wisdom by proving academy routes are...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 7 years agoDollman’s journey can finish with a pot of gold
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW There at the start: Phil Dollman was Rob Baxter’s first recruit at Exeter...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 7 years agoExiles caught in the blocks again by 4-try first half blitz
By ROB WILDMAN AN impressive start fired Nottingham into a winning lead to leave London Scottish dissecting a third successive league...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
BEN DONNELL If London Irish youngster Ben Donnell could be the perfect back rower, it would involve combining the aggression and...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRing-fencing would lead to player exodus warns Boden
By NEALE HARVEY Concern: Steve Boden YORKSHIRECarnegie forwards coach Steve Boden believes ring-fencing the Premiership would leave the Championship ‘dead’. He...
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Features
/ 7 years agoIt’s boom time for northern rugby thanks Agustin!
COLIN BOAG Too dominant: The All Blacks thrash Australia Agustin Pichot, World Rugby’s vice-chairman has issued a warning that the game...
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Features
/ 7 years agoHold a World Cup just for Tier Two nations
NICK CAIN SOME of the leading lights in World Rugby appear to be struggling to work out which way is up....
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Features
/ 7 years agoChamp clubs worth their £650k
THE RFU’s parlous current financial position has led to competition among some grassroots clubs for loan funding, along with resentment that...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoDickson has no complaints with ‘boring’ winning rugby
By MATT WRIGHT A LAST-GASP penalty try gave Bedford a dramatic victory over Jersey and ensured their forward dominance did not...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoKnights go riding high with late power play
By GUY WILLIAMS A STRONG second half performance by Doncaster at Castle Park in their first home match of the campaign...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoEight-try Exiles bring in the bonus by half-time
By RAY CHILD LONDON Irish forwards coach George Skivington was delighted with his side’s resounding eight-try bonus-point victory at the Madejski....
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoJake finds Leeds as good as advertised
By JON NEWCOMBE CANADIAN international Jake Ilnicki is delighted to be following in the footsteps of his international coach Mike Shelley...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoShock and awe in first week, now it should settle down
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Talk it up as much as you like but, to me, last...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoIoane sends out warning to Exiles rivals
By NEALE HARVEY Hard man: TJ Ioane breaks for Samoa against South Africa PICTURE: Getty Images TOUGH-tackling London Irish flanker TJ...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoRef Sara is on the up
SARA COX, below, is being tipped by many observers to become the first female to referee in the Premiership before the...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoBristol win will intensify ring-fence campaign
Bristol Bears downed Bath at Ashton Gate last Friday, and Nick Cain writes why that will fuel a debate that has...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoNowell close to agreeing new Chiefs’ contract
Negotiations: Jack Nowell JACK NOWELL looks set to become the first of the large number of Eddie Jones England squad who...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPremiership promises to be highly exciting
THE 2018-19 Principality Premiership began at the weekend amid a serious discussion over whether the league has any future in Welsh...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRotherham win their pitch battle
By JON NEWCOMBE ROTHERHAM TITANS’ preparations for life in National One were disrupted this week after the club found themselves caught...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoTitanic effort is not enough as Rotherham fall a point short
Stretch: Dominic Lespierre reaches out to score for Old Elthamians PICTURES: G Lyons Photography ROTHERHAM, playing their first game outside the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoHanson: All I’m thinking about is Gloucester
Full attention: James Hanson IN-FORM Aussie hooker James Hanson insists all his attention is focussed on turning Gloucester into champions. With...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTata Steel open their season with a 66 gun salute
By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Championship round-up TATA Steel opened the new season in emphatic style with a 66-29 win over Bedlinog....
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoBattling Glynneath edge their thriller with Kenfig Hill
By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Division One round-up GLYNNEATH made a winning star after edging a tight encounter 41-37. Craig Tennant and...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoWest Country foes set to rekindle rivalry in Ashton Gate near sell-out
26,000 tickets and counting have been sold for the Premiership season opener between Bristol and Bath
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Featured
/ 7 years agoMichael Cheika needs to bridge the gap to the All Blacks, says ARU chief
"I don’t think it’s about changing what we’ve got, it’s about what can we bring"
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