All posts tagged "England"
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoCipriani out to get the Shed singing
By TOM BRADSHAW Still improving: Danny Cipriani PICTURE: Getty Images DANNY Cipriani arrived at Kingsholm via a surfing holiday in Malibu...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSorrell excited to see how far Alex can go
ENGLAND Saxons wing Alex Lewington has been challenged to increase his workload to break into the Saracens first team. With Sean...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoCodling backs Care to lead the charge
By NEALE HARVEY Well rested: Danny Care has enjoyed his first summer off in years EDDIE Jones’s decision to rest livewire...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years ago10 Championship players who have gone on to become Premiership stars
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the conveyor belt...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Ashton is back but he’s got big competition before he can wing it for England
Jeremy Guscott's take on Eddie Jones' pre-season training squad – will we see Ashton and Michael Rhodes in the autumn?
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Featured
/ 7 years agoFEATURE: Johan Ackermann reflects on his first year in the Premiership with Gloucester
The Gloucester head coach talks Cipriani, team set-up and his vision for the Cherry and Whites
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Featured
/ 7 years agoTop Rugby Players of All Time
Rugby is a full-contact team sport played using an oval ball with 15 players on each team. The sport uses a...
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Features
/ 7 years agoFoundations in place, now we must take it to the next level
Q&A ON THE RECORD JOHAN ACKERMANN Star signing: Danny Cipriani will bring X-factor to the backline Pictures: Getty Images Gloucester head...
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Features
/ 7 years agoDavies’ exit put me in at the deep end
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER LLANELLI, LEEDS AND WALES FLY-HALF COLIN STEPHENS Calling the shots: Colin Stephens in action for Wales...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPressure time as Burke gets own back on Guscott
RUGBY’S version of the Ryder Cup may have had a subterranean profile compared to the real thing but for one player...
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/ 7 years agoClubs to get protection from academy poachers
PREMIERSHIP Rugby are set to close a loophole which enables clubs to poach England Academy Players (EAP) from other sides and...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSam signs up for fresh start at Tigers
By NEALE HARVEY Bulking up: Sam Aspland-Robinson in action in the Premiership 7s PICTURES: Getty Images FORGOTTEN wing Sam Aspland-Robinson has...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBainbridge relishing fresh lease of life under Carnegie’s new Kiwi boss Stirling
By JON NEWCOMBE JOSH BAINBRIDGE admits that the arrival of Chris Stirling as Yorkshire Carnegie DoR towards the back-end of last...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNo room for slackers in Gustard’s regime
By NEALE HARVEY Midfield general: Ben Tapuai decide to quit Bath for Harlequins PICTURES: Getty Images BUSTLING Ben Tapuai is relishing...
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Features
/ 7 years agoEnglishgamemay stagnate if top-flight are untouchable
Jeff Gage, rugby expert and author of Rugby‘s Blazered Buffoon Questions: Former All Black prop Ben Franks during his time with...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTigers strike for Kyle but Toomua’s off
Off to Tigers: Kyle Eastmond KYLE Eastmond has joined Leicester Tigers following his departure from Wasps, but Matt Toomua will leave...
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/ 7 years agoAtkins on gym diet in bid to replace Watson
By NEALE HARVEY Injured: Anthony Watson CONFIDENT flier Darren Atkins is ready to repay the faith Bath have shown by proving...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CHARLIE CHAPMAN GLOUCESTER SCRUM-HALF Fresh from representing Scotland U20s at the recent Junior World Cup and skippering Gloucester in the Premiership...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoSpencer column: Forget the Olympic dream or Red Roses will wither
By Catherine Spencer San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Bridge and this year’s Sevens World Cup, was not so Golden...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: New half-back pairing key to Saints’ revival
Can Reinach and Biggar do the business for Northampton?
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Features
/ 7 years agoHoward tries life as an OEs City boy after Sixways exit
Probyn: Tackle change is a start but must go further By NEALE HARVEY FORMER England U20s full-back Ben Howard is relishing...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoKvesic admits England days are numbered under Eddie
By NEALE HARVEY England incumbent: Sale flanker Tom Curry FRUSTRATED flanker Matt Kvesic admits his “ship has sailed” as far as...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoEngland to play Wales in Japan warm ups
By PETER JACKSON ENGLAND and Wales are finalising plans for a pre-World Cup double header with the potential to gross £10m....
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoJess: Cuthbert can come again on Exeter’s ‘yellow brick road’
By JON NEWCOMBE Renaissance man? Cuthbert could regain form FORMER Exeter fans’ favourite Matt Jess believes the Chiefs’ secret formula for...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoContact area has to be next on the list
CONCUSSION is one of the biggest problems in the game right now and any attempts to minimise the number of incidents...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFranks questions Championship’s long-term future
By NEALE HARVEY Critic: Ben Franks in action against for Irish HAVING twice suffered the agony of being relegated with London...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoLion Haydn dies at 81
FORMER Wales and British and Irish Lions flanker Haydn Morgan has died at the age of 81. Morgan won the first...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLooks like it’s up to OEs to rectify Kent’s under-achievement
NEALE Harvey’s article on Page 1 last week ought to cause the Kent RFU to sit up and take notice. Sadly,...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoNew half-back pairing key to Saints’ revival
JEREMY GUSCOTT Bath IN: Jackson Willison (Worcester Warriors), Lucas Noguera Paz (Jaguares), Victor Delmas (Colomiers), Darren Atkins (promoted Academy), Ruaridh McConnochie...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSuper Rugby must cut teams to 12 to survive
COLIN BOAG Air miles: The Japanese Sunwolves would need to do most of the travelling July is always the most boring...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoAspiring Addison bidding for Test call
By SAM JACKSON WILL Addison is confident he can break into the Ireland set-up after moving to Ulster from Sale. Addison,...
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/ 7 years agoTigers turning Exiles into masters of deception
LONDON Scottish are ready to sink their claws into the Championship after gearing up for the new campaign with the aid...
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/ 7 years agoIt’s life, but not as you normally know it
Response: Harinordoquy YOU must be careful with the prickly PC brigade these days but it was hilarious at the Tour de...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTen out of ten for those wonderful San Fran Sevens
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points RUGBY MATTERS Touch of class: England’s rising star Harry Glover...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoCan Lee light blue touch paper?
NICK CAIN TALKS TO WASPS ATTACK COACH LEE BLACKETT ABOUT HIS STAR-STUDDED BACK LINE INTERVIEW Right fit: Lima Sopoaga puts the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoStar Tiger Toomua set to sign for Rebels
By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER centre Matt Toomua is on the verge of shock Test recall in the Bledisloe Cup...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSharks gunning to become the biggest fish in the Premiership
SIMON ORANGE ON THE RECORD Q&A Big plans: Simon Orange Try-scorer extraodinaire: Chris Ashton will put bums on seast at AJ...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFoden signs on as player-coach at New York franchise
FORMER England and Northampton full-back Ben Foden has signed a deal with Rugby United New York and will play in the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoGoosen’s all set to face Racing boo boys
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Montpellier man: Johan Goosen scores for South Africa against England PICTURE: Getty Images The fixture compilers of...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TOM EMERY NORTHAMPTON FULL-BACK Tom Emery is trying to follow in the footsteps of Northampton legend Ben Foden in more ways...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoI’ve no doubt we would have won a World Cup under Johnno, says former England coach
John Wells talks coaching alongside Martin Johnson, England under Eddie and Newcastle Falcons
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Will Chudley can be the key to get Bath firing again
Jeremy Guscott on what the ex-Chief can do to steer Todd Blackadder's backline
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Featured
/ 7 years agoFEATURE: Saracens star Schalk Burger wants the Springboks to join the Six Nations
Lengthy read where the 35-year-old talks retirement and the Saracens back row
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Features
/ 7 years agoSo near but yet so far for All Black sub Bono
THE World Cup Sevens this weekend calls to mind the strange tale of Benjamin Bono, the Uruguayan who found himself drafted...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCould Sam be the man to boost Eddie’s England?
RENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points RUGBY MATTERS Vacancy: Paul Gustard with Eddie Jones MANY have...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoYou did it Sam, you’re a true Lions legend now
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ambition achieved: Sam Warburton with the Lions in NZ PICTURE: Getty Images ■...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoDon’t knock us for promoting rugby says Exeter Uni boss
By NEALE HARVEY KEITHFleming, rugby director at Exeter University, has slammed traditionalists who claim college sides should have no place in...
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Features
/ 7 years agoI’ve no doubt we’d have won a World Cup under Johnno
JOHN WELLS Q&A ON THE RECORD Missed opportunity: Martin Johnson should have stayed on as England coach says John Wells Pictures:...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGive Piutau a reprieve after early capture by All Blacks
DAN LEO EXPERT ANALYST ON PACIFIC NATIONS The annual Pacific Rugby Players Welfare (PRPW) Board meeting took place in Bristol last...












