All posts tagged "England"
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoArmand eager to build on his Ireland cameo in South Africa
Abrasive: Exeter back rower Don Armand EXETER back row Don Armand says being restricted to just 13 minutes of Six Nations...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoSimmonds holds nerve to sink Bath fightback
By NEALE HARVEY Match-winner: Joe Simmonds on the break for Exeter PICTURES: Getty Images Workhorse: Exeter’s Don Armand battles for the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMallinder focused on wearing No.15 jersey
Choice: Harry Mallinder HARRY Mallinder is ready to launch a bid to oust Mike Brown and Anthony Watson from England’s starting...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoAll-action Obano in message to Eddie
TODD Blackadder admits Bath’s top four hopes are remote. He said: “I’m proud of the effort and our defence was outstanding,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoEddie must adopt Japan style
I AGREE with Jeff Probyn’s points regarding the coaching and selection of the England team over the past 12 months, especially...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoAxed Ford will roar for Tigers predicts Toomua
By NEALE HARVEY Challenge: George Ford is back for Leicester PICTURE: Getty Images CHASTENED England fly-half George Ford bounces back into...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIreland got rub of the green
WOULD Ireland have won the Grand Slam if four things had been different on Saturday. 1. The TMO had checked properly...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSorry, Steve, your fatigue factor does not stack up
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW England’s Six Nations’ implosion has prompted the resurrection of a myth masquerading as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoDrop the tired Lions
AH, pity poor England who have to pick their Lions even though they are tired out and shadows of their former...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWe need to remember the heroes from Grand Slams past
GRAND Slams these days come awash with tickertape receptions, medals and cash, enough in Ireland’s case to have earned their triumphant...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWhy not expand Premiership but split conferences?
ANY reformatting of the Premiership has to take into account many conflicting requirements. Ring-fencing the league is an aim for many...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRory Best and Rob Kearney extend IRFU contracts
Grand Slam winners sign new deals with Ulster and Leinster
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEllis feeling lean and mean after injury nightmare
Fit again: Tom Ellis BATH flanker Tom Ellis has drawn inspiration from Exeter’s Sam Simmonds ahead of today’s final, in which...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoStudy of Einstein could fix Eddie’s breakdown woes!
Halted: England’s Chris Robshaw goes down in the tackle against France PICTURE: Getty Images Isn’t it strange how every time the...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoJust a week for Harrison
NORTHAMPTON back row Teimana Harrison has been banned for one week after being sent off in last week’s Anglo-Welsh Cup defeat...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
CHRIS WALKER THE FORMER ENGLAND U20 CAPTAIN AND YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE FLANKER It was in a small, idyllic Yorkshire Dales village, watching...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoCome on Eddie, it’s time to show you’re worth it!
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Wasted talent: Ben Te’o is not being used the right way by England England find...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoLes Bleues seal Grand Slam with six-try rout of Wales
■ By GEORGE LAWRENCE Wales Women …3 France Women …38 Grand! France celebrate PICTURE: TRP photographer FRANCE regained the Women’s Six...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoIreland hardly hit top gear and they’re only going to get better
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT World class: Conor Murray People have short memories, even your correspondent! Two months ago at the annual Rugby...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoSlow down Eddie and do job you are paid for
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK EDDIE Jones tipped a frying pan of egg over his face this week...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoVictors Wales finish off with a lap of honour but this was poor fare
By ALEX BYWATER WALES’ narrow victory over France in front of a sell-out Cardiff crowd secured them a second-place Six Nations...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoRolland must act to end this mis-use of his refs
HAVING made the crass error of allowing an assistant referee for England- Ireland, Marius van der Westhuizen, to referee an England...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRomania boss Howells blasts RWC qualification imbalance
By JON NEWCOMBE LYNN HOWELLS has called for European qualification for the Rugby World Cup to be run over one year...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoStodgy England need change fast
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I’M very concerned about...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoEddie needs to up his pack speed
EVERYTHING is about pace nowadays in rugby and England’s first eight pack is a little slow. When I saw the back...
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Features
/ 8 years agoToo many poor games in this year’s Six Nations
COLIN BOAG All week there were adverts on television proclaiming that the Six Nations was the best rugby tournament in the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU’s shameful treatment of North
JEFF GAGE Eddie Jones says lessons will be learnt following England’s abysmal defeat against France. But the big lessons won’t be...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAlun-Wyn gets the ideal deal
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Staying in Wales: Alun-Wyn Jones is mob-handed by England PICTURE: Getty Images A...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDays when Griffiths was an outcast in his own country
Clive Griffiths witnessed the evils of apartheid South Africa during a rugby tour there almost 40 years ago and thought he...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHorstmann on mission to bow out as a winner
NEALE HARVEY finds two Exeter Chiefs back rowers desperate to finish the season in style Skipper: Kai Horstmann PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Time has come to end the Ford-Farrell 10-12 axis
The once pivotal combination is now fractured, writes Jeremy Guscott
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoEngland lose the plot and their title in French farce
■ From NICK CAIN at Stade de France Done it: The French celebrate victory High tackle: Anthony Watson catches Benjamin Fall...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSaints job for Vesty as Boyd reshapes Warriors
NORTHAMPTON have appointed Sam Vesty as their attack coach from the start of next season. The 36-year-old former Leicester, Bath and...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoWales are hunting £2m Italy bonus
■ By PETER JACKSON WALES will be chasing a crock of gold in Cardiff today that promises to be worth as...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Welsh leave for Varndell SCARLETS have signed Bristol wing Tom Varndell on a short-term deal until the end of the season...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoCaptaincy can take Faletau up to new level
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Leadership role: Taulupe Faletau PICTURE: Getty Images WALES will beat Italy this afternoon. There’s no...
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Sevens World Series
/ 8 years agoEngland get six-try lift-off
■ By GEORGE LAWRENCE VANCOUVER Hat-trick man: Dan Norton PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND opened day one of the World Sevens Series...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLock Parisse in to prolong career and free up Negri
Questions: Conor O’Shea Strong man: Sergio Parisse PICTURE: Getty Images Italy captain Sergio Parisse, who makes his 64th Six Nations start...
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Sevens World Series
/ 8 years agoBarrett and Baker show they will bring double trouble from the USA
LAS VEGAS WRAP DANNYBarrett scored two tries to lift the United States to a 28-0 win over Argentina in the final...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoHardwick finds range to set up Ireland shootout
■ By SAM JACKSON Sliding in: Cameron Redpath scores for England TEAMS ENGLAND U20S: James Grayson (Northampton Saints), Gabriel Ibitoye (Harlequins),...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoEngland crash to last minute Tremouliere try
Heartbreaker: Jessy Tremouliere scores the late winner TEAMS ENGLAND: Kildunne; Dow, Burford, Reed, Waterman; Daley-McLean, Riley; Cornborough, Cokayne, Bern, Scott, Taylor,...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoPhillips confident Wales will rise to expectation
PREVIEW Wales v Italy Today. Kick-off 11.45pm WALES women head coach Rowland Phillips believes his side is close to realising its...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSearle off to understudy Sopoaga
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler WASPS have completed the signing of Bristol fly-half Billy...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCentre Williams set to join Irish exiles at Bath
England ambitions: Johnny Williams PICTURE: Getty Images BATH are set to bolster the number of former London Irish players in their...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMake Italy play-off for right to stay in Six Nations
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ITALY may be making progress, as Conor O’Shea insists, but their performance in...
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Features
/ 8 years agoKeith-Roach tribute to scrum guru who helped beat world
PHIL Keith-Roach, England’s 2003 World Cup-winning coach, will travel to Exeter on Tuesday to pay his respects to Tim Francis, the...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWe have to keep winning mindset say Nottingham
■ By ROB WILDMAN IAN Costello hopes this win in the mud on a filthy wet night will give his Nottingham...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFun Bus gets set to roll out one more time
■ By MATTHEW EMERY Rival: Mike Ross Marathon man: Jason Leonard, ‘The Fun Bus’, on his way to his record 114...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoNamibian star Klim will add speed to Ospreys line
■ By STEFFAN THOMAS THE Ospreys have signed Namibian international wing Lesley Klim on a twoyear deal. Doncaster Knights flyer Klim,...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoQuins edge rivals in front of record crowd
■ By CHARLES REED Harlequins …14pts Richmond …12pts HARLEQUINS did just enough to beat local rivals Richmond in front of a...
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