All posts tagged "Club Rugby"
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThomas fears for ‘lost’ generation
By GARY FITZGERALD GARETH Thomas fears the strict government stance over Covid may cost the game many of its potential future...
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Features
/ 6 years agoNonu bids for unique hat-trick Brian got two passes, then was dropped!
MA’A NONU can claim a hat-trick on a global scale so vast that it has never been done before. His reintroduction...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoZac wants to make a late splash in England
Neale Harvey talks to former All Black wing Zac Guildford about a Premiership switch High point: Zac Guildford scores for the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWitcher wants Valkyries to ride on Roses success
By ADAM ELLIS Big plans: Mark Witcher PORTSMOUTH Valkyries head coach Mark Witcher believes the club is perfectly situated to heighten...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHeads out of the bunker chaps and point the way!
Lady Godiva’s dress-down ride through Coventry; Sir Thomas Fairfax’s rout of the Royalist forces south of Bristol; the first stirrings of...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: FFR agree brutal schedule for Top 14 and Pro D2
James Harrington reports on how the 2020-21 French rugby schedule is shaping up and the outlook for Beziers
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChampions Cup final will be true opinion poll
ONE of the principal signs of club rugby madness,apart from paying silly money to players already earning a packet at international...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFans will remember the players who stayed loyal
COLIN BOAG Leaving: Manu Tuilagi This is a time when you have to try to find some positives somewhere,and as the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKiwis prove derbies pull the crowds
CROWDS for the domestic Super Rugby Aotearoa tournament in New Zealand are more than 100 per cent up on those for...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Mayor bid by Mohed Altrad hit by third cap scandal
Montpellier are being investigated for potentially breaching the Top 14's €11.3m salary cap threshold
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoAltrad’s run for mayor hit by third cap scandal
FRENCH COLUMN Billionaire Mohed Altrad is running to be mayor of Montpellier - a position which would mean giving up the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKiss: We have to protect league rugby
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish head coach Les Kiss says World Rugby must not sacrifice league rugby on the altar of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoTrailfinders bolster backline with top flight duo
Versatile: Max Bodilly EALING Trailfinders have strengthened their squad for next season with the arrival of centre Max Bodilly from Exeter...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Premiership can learn financial fair play from NFL
Jeremy Guscott judges how the salary cap is applied in the NFL to maximise financial and regulatory viability
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBoks new top man ‘may lack know-how’
By JON NEWCOMBE JACQUES Nienaber’s lack of top-level playing experience leaves a question mark against his appointment as the new coach...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRugby can learn financial fair play from America
From outside the Premiership circle it seems that if you have a group of clever people running these clubs, who, in...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Myners report gives sage clarity salary cap has been lacking for years
Nick Cain receives the publishing of the Myners report with acclaim, but says it will do little to address wage inflation
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Features
/ 6 years agoBloodied, bandaged but ready for battle
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSupporters should get a say in new calendar
IN the debate about achieving a global season for the game I have missed any reference to consultation with the supporters,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSpringboks ruled the roost in POW contest
Springbok rugby squad at Stalag IV-B in 1944. Back row, left to right: J Oakley, I Van Huyssteen, Kaplan, Timm, G...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Our Golden Goose is an endangered species
Nick Cain says rugby can come through its most precarious challenge if it becomes more transparent
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: May-day for opponents as Gloucester-bound Jonny just gets better
Jeremy Guscott analyses Jonny May's move to Gloucester and what it means for his England career
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoOptions are drying up for Nick Abendanon who seeks homecoming from Clermont
After six years in France with Clermont, ex-Bath full-back Nick Abendanon had been planning on a return to England
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: End the 50:22 sideshow and sort out the scrum
Jeremy Guscott argues why the proposed 50:22 kicking law is an absurd oversight of the game's more pressing changes required
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoI would have liked to see Rob Baxter take charge of England, says Moody
Baxter's development of Exeter should have been tested on England according to the former flanker
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU declares end to the 2019-20 season in England
The Premiership has not been affected by the RFU's announcements
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPools panel may be created to decide final league positions
Football-style panels could convene to judge the results of unplayed matches
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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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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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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoPremiership Rugby finally break cover over Saracens farrago
Chief executive Darren Childs says Premiership Rugby acted to protect the integrity of the league
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoGloucester whizz-kid Louis Rees-Zammit can speed into Six Nations
Like many others at Gloucester, their rise gathered pace at Hartpury College
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National League One
/ 6 years agoTerrific Tom kicks five out of five to down Club
By TOM HOLMES Midfield punch: Richmond centre Morgan Ward is stopped by Tom Williams PICTURES: Prime Media RICHMOND’S director of rugby...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoHill: Grind of club rugby is killing player numbers
By NEALE HARVEY RICHMONDdirector of rugby Steve Hill claims player numbers will “fall off a cliff” unless the amount of rugby...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: PRL secrecy is an insult to club rugby fans
Nick Cain explains why the drip-drip of information issued by Premiership Rugby on Saracens' salary cap breach is riling fans up
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoPRL secrecy is an insult to all club rugby fans
NICK CAIN IS Premiership Rugby fit for purpose? Is the governing body of the multi-million pound club game in England understaffed,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoGallagher column: Saracens embodied the old pioneering spirit
The Premiership has become safe and conservative, writes Brendan Gallagher
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoTEAMS: One last stand for Warren Gatland and Steve Hansen
Wales and New Zealand face each other in the third-fourth place play-off on Friday, Gatland and Hansen have named their squads
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup is the ultimate test of mental toughness
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Early arrival: England players in Tokyo this week PICTURE: Getty Images As...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoSpencer column: Equality is what the women’s game wants not ‘neutrality’
Catherine Spencer writes on World Rugby's branding change for the Women's Rugby World Cup and Rocky Clark's new career move
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Features
/ 7 years agoThis was the season to scrap Premiership Cup
COLIN BOAG We ought to be getting the replica shirts out of the wardrobe in anticipation of the start of the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFrom factory worker to a shift with the All Blacks
By STEFFAN THOMAS Comeback trail: Declan Smith DECLAN Smith was part of the same Wales U20 squad as Dillon Lewis and...
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Features
/ 7 years agoLucky start with a mentor like Doddie
FORMER ENGLAND, NEWCASTLE AND SARACENS LOCK AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AT GALLAGHER MY LIFEIN RUGBY HUGH VYVYAN Signing off in style:...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWynne aims to shine in Scottish shop window
By NEALE HARVEY ROOKIE London Scottish skipper Lewis Wynne is planning on enjoying a cracking Championship campaign to roar back on...
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Features
/ 7 years agoEx-Tigers coach fills Mooar’s shoes
NEWS EXTRA By ADAM ELLIS FORMER Leicester Tigers defence coach Scott Hansen will replace Brad Mooar as assistant coach at the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoADVERTORIAL
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Features
/ 7 years agoHighs and lows on
Lions tour in ‘74 RIGHT up until my early 20s, when I was playing professionally for Middlesbrough, I seemed to be...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPlay-offs fly in face of player welfare
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Favourites: Newcastle are expected to earn promotion to the 13-team Premiership PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 7 years agoRetallick chooses Land of Sun rather than rain
BRODIE Retallick’s explanation for his next career move post-World Cup amounted to an admission that playing in Japan is a piece...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoNorth has become a wasteland
INTRP on May 26, Jeff Probyn bemoaned the fact that the pathway which enabled him to reach the top was no...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoIt was painful lesson in how to be ruthless admits Slade
By GARY FITZGERALD Undergoing tests: Jack Nowell damaged his ankle HENRY Slade has outlined just what Exeter Chiefs need to do...















