All posts tagged "England"
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoSweeney urged to battle the ‘fat cats’
■ By NEALE HARVEY TAKING an axe to Premiership funding would earn RFU boss Bill Sweeney applause from the community game,...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoTurnover king Willis wants a response after Sharks mauling
■ By NEALE HARVEY Hard edge: Jack Willis wants gainline dominance WASPS back rower Jack Willis cites improved discipline and increased...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoSkivington calls for big guns to shoot down Tigers
■ By SAM JACKSON GEORGE Skivington has reverted to his experienced XV for the clash with Tigers following Wednesday’s defeat to...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoNo contest as Bristol 2nds are thrashed
■ By NICK CAIN Rout: Sam James scores Sharks’ fifth try THIS may have begun as third versus second in the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBrown’s got blueprint for long-term success
■ By NEALE HARVEY Rookie head coach: George Skivington, left, watches on as Gloucester warm-up for the Worcester match last week...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoLuke Cowan-Dickie credits Brits with reinventing hooker position
Neale Harvey catches up with the man who can't stop scoring tries for club and country
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Features
/ 6 years agoNick Cain names his England team to claim 2023 Rugby World Cup glory
Plus five players who Eddie Jones needs to take a look at this autumn
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoSaracens prop Alec Clarey calls for return of England Students
The England Students programme is on hold while the RFU exacts cutbacks in funding
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Featured
/ 6 years agoChris Boyd delighted to have senior coaches agree Saints stays
Phil Dowson, Matt Ferguson and Sam Vesty have all signed extensions
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoHarlequins seek to ease loss of Jack Clifford with imposing South African
Clifford was forced into retirement last week after trying to work his way back from two major shoulder surgeries
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoExclusive: The club which tried to sway Jack Willis to play for Ireland and not England
An offer was made to the Wasps flanker this summer to lay on the chance to play for Andy Farrell's team
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoNovelty of Blackbird wearing off for Henry Purdy amongst Bristol’s newcomers
Soon after arriving at Ashton Gate, Purdy turned a six-month agreement into a full-term commitment
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Autumn Internationals
/ 6 years agoWales ditch Twickenham plans and turn to West Ham’s Olympic Stadium
The WRU are racing to find a venue to host their Six Nations match against Scotland on October 31
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoKiwis make our game look utterly pedestrian
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The Sale coach and former hooker Steve Diamond, honorary life member of the Front Row Union, thinks...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoPlayers must act as they see fit on racism
ANTHONY Watson was bang on the money in arguing that pre-match responses to the Black Lives Matter movement should be a...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoIt’s time for changes,Eddie
NICK CAIN STICKS HIS NECK OUT AND PICKS HIS ENGLAND TEAM FOR THE 2023 WORLD CUP Ben Spencer, , Joe Simmonds...
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Features
/ 6 years agoQuins in search to replace Clifford
Retired: Jack Clifford HARLEQUINS have started the search to replace Jack Clifford following the announcement that the England international back row...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWillis says No to Ulster as he waits for Eddie
England ambitions: Jack Willis JACK WILLIS rejected a move to Ulster this summer because he wants to force his way into...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoClarey calls for return of students’ stepping stone
By NEALE HARVEY Progress: Alec Clarey SARACENS prop Alec Clarey believes the RFU must find a way of resuscitating the England...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWilliams stars for Scarlets on debut
By ROB COLE Scarlets…………………………………32pts Tries: Kennedy 4, Evans 22, 43, Lousi 49, McNicholl 56 Conversions: Halfpenny 23, 50 Penalties: Halfpenny 32...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNurture English lads or it may be trouble
This law is an ass! THE ruck law needs to change now. This picture shows it’s currently just a joke. Dick...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBristol underdogs…? that’s just barking mad
COLIN BOAG The new interpretation of the existing breakdown laws is working fairly well, although it looked as though the players...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoRadradra shows his class but work to do for Bristol
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Unstoppable: Ben Earl goes over for Bristol’s fifth try PICTURES: Getty Images BRISTOL, and in particular Semi Radradra,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Harvey Biljon: I’m proud to see so many of my players in the Premiership
Neale Harvey surveys long-term Jersey director of rugby Harvey Biljon on the state of affairs in the second tier
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoStop the nit-picking and depowering of the scrum, Dan Cole warns World Rugby
England and Leicester tighthead Dan Cole offers his views on the scrum after watching Super Rugby this summer
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoBath’s Zach Mercer adds on 6lbs to muscle his way into England fold
Conditioning is key at No.8 for Eddie Jones, that's why Mercer has bulked up to compete with Vunipola and Curry
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Overseas players are both cheaper and always on call
Jeff Probyn analyses Chris Boyd's claim that England's senior Men's team should have more English coaches and how its relative to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo
Former Cornish Pirates, Yorkshire Carnegie and Benetton back Di Bernardo reflects on his career
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Battered Dylan Hartley bitter ode to the dying of the light
Dylan Hartley's new book will detail the rigours of intense training under England head coach Eddie Jones
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoThe Effects of Gambling on Rugby Union
The game of rugby originated in Warwickshire, England around 1823. It’s said that it began with a football match in which...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Neal Hatley has the know-how to make Bath contenders
Jeremy Guscott responds to Bath's promotion of Neal Hatley to head coach
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoSt Helens sensation Regan Grace could be Eddie’s new Billy Whizz
A hat-trick to marvel at has got everyone talking about the Port Talbot native being a possible code convert
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoEngland Sevens flyer Dan Norton becomes latest London Irish signing
The World Sevens Series tries record-holder has been on the circuit for the past 12 years
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoLate penalty try keeps Bears on the title trail
By MIKE SINCLAIR Last gasp: Bristol celebrate their penalty try in the dying minutes PICTURES:Getty Images On the run: Ben Earl...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDon’t mess with scrum warns ‘old man’ Cole
■By JON NEWCOMBE New-age prop: Kyle Sinckler Warrior: Dan Cole gets on the ball for Leicester PICTURES: Getty Images HAVING been...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoNew breakdown focus will keep the jackals on straight and narrow
NICK CAIN NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE breakdown is back at the top of the refereeing agenda...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBlackett: Exciting time for young English hopefuls
■By NEALE HARVEY Fittest: Ben Velacott Talent: Charlie Atkinson WASPS head coach Lee Blackett believes a postlockdown surge of homegrown talent...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoBattered Hartley’s bitter ode to dying of the light
DYLAN Hartley might have preferred something more poetic when he was axed as England captain by Eddie Jones. Something like the...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoBrilliant Ben gets his Rec life off to a great start
■ By GARY FITZGERALD BEN Spencer showed his international class as he took less than five minutes to create a big...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoBrad’s fighting the sound of silence
■ By NEALE HARVEY BRAD Shields knows he faces a battle to restate his England credentials after admitting he has had...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSad to say but 7s had lost its way
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Rare win: Dan Bibby celebrates with Ethan Waddleton...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoHume worked miracles at Ampleforth
Star: Basil Hume in Ampleforth 1st XV, 1940 IT’S a funny thing but in the 850 odd years since Britain last...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPRO14 restart preview
BENETTON Head coach: Kieran Crowley Captain: unconfirmed Stadium: Stadio Comunale di Monigo Current position: 5th (B) Last five games: WWLLW The...
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Features
/ 6 years agoProud to see so many of my players step up to Premiership
Q&A HARVEY BILJON ON THE RECORD Proactive: Harvey Biljon Former Wasps No.9 Harvey Biljon has forged a successful career in coaching...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
OLLIEWYNN WORCESTER NO.9 Ask Ollie Wynn to reveal his scrumhalf role models and he reels off an impressive list of top...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoBurke’s law has turned Epsom into champions
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Flyer: Kitan Ojo in action against Wellington Inset, below: Paul Burke...
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Features
/ 6 years agoForeign players are both cheaper and always on call
Gone to Premiership: Steve Borthwick, left, and Paul Gustard PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Boyd, a New Zealander, has questioned why England...
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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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Features
/ 6 years agoExtra sessions with Corbs cost us dear
MY LIFEIN RUGBY JON FISHER LONDON IRISH FORWARDS COACH AND FORMER IRISH, BEDFORD, NORTHAMPTON AND BRISTOL BACK ROW Dream start: Jon...
Autumn Internationals
Jamie George: Henry Pollock’s self-belief is inspiring for England
International Rugby
George North signs off with a try double for Barbarians against Wales
Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher: Henry Pollock showing us all he’s the real deal
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