All posts tagged "England"
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Features
/ 8 years agoCox’s treble is key to Cup success for Loughborough
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP WITH the league wrapped up and the trophy perched in Exeter’s cabinet, attention turned to the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBigger club squads would aid England
Potential stars: Lower league players like Jake Polledri deserve a chance PICTURE: Getty Images COLIN BOAG It’s been open season on...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLund leads from front in play-off decider
By DUNCAN WOOD Gloucester H …36 L Lightning…8 GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY recovered from a lacklustre first half to book the final play-off spot...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCut the number of subs to see the game improve
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK No more of this: England captain Dylan Hartley is substituted after 57 minutes against Ireland...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoSedbergh deny Cranleigh’s triple glory bid
WINNING three major titles on the trot is incredibly difficult – witness England in the Six Nations – and Cranleigh fell...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoItoje takes a nap as fans are put to sleep
From NICK CAIN at London Stadium MARO Itoje may have stolen the headlines with a soft first-half run-in, which he then...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoTahiti find players are ineligible – five years after they started!
WORLD Rugby so reluctant to get involved in the controversial World Cup qualifier in Brussels, acted decisively enough this week to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
LOUIS DEACON FORMER ENGLAND AND LEICESTER LOCK Growing up all I ever wanted to do was to play for my local...
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National League 2E
/ 8 years agoFive-star Rams dominate Titans
By CAMERON TEMPLE Redingens’ns 31 Taunton T’s 15 REDINGENSIANS put in a commanding display to earn victory over Taunton at Old...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoEngland go on the road to find new supporters
By NICK CAIN THE RFU are set to take their England team on the road to make it more appealing to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CONNOR TUPAI NORTHAMPTON SCRUM-HALF As a confident 18- year-old seemingly in control of his own destiny, Connor Tupai has enjoyed a...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoWhy defeat by France was biggest blow of all
NICK CAIN Upper hand: France celebrate victory over England PICTURE: Getty Images THERE has been too much of a shoulder-shrug about...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
FERGUS MULCHRONE, LONDON IRISH AND FORMER SALE, MACCLESFIELD & ROTHERHAM CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST…...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBrown’s ready to ride the wave with Eddie
EDDIE Jones was sacked by Australia after a seven Test losing run in 2005. On Wednesday at Twickenham I asked the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU are right to let Eddie sort out this sorry mess
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Even before the echos of the Fields of Athenry had faded from...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoTough road to success
HOW’S this for an itinerary to help England get their shape back. Three away Tests in South Africa, then an Autumn...
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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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