All posts tagged "Fiji"
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEngland scrape through after shock loss toWales
World Sevens Series From ANTON CLARKE SINGAPORE SEVENS Counting their lucky stars: England captain Tom Mitchell in action for England in...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFiji still kings of Hong Kong while Ireland join the party
HONG KONG WRAP FIJI turned on the style to claim a fifth consecutive Hong Kong Sevens title with an unstoppable display...
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Sevens World Series
/ 7 years agoTry-star Norton puts England into quarters
By ANTON CLARKE HONG KONG Record man: Dan Norton excels in Hong Kong Scorer: Phil Burgess Fiji flyer: Vilimoni Botitu NOT...
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Sevens World Series
/ 7 years agoVictory in Vancouver has got Blitzbokke believing
■ By ADAM ELLIS Confidence boost: South Africa triumph in Vancouver ENGLAND have fallen further from contention for the World Rugby...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoProbyn column: World Cup is still the best way to gain exposure for Tier 2 nations
A big meeting to come this month on World Rugby's Nations League concept
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLam’s right to make voice heard, fans should follow suit
I WAS struck by Nick Cain’s reference, in his well-balanced piece on the World League, to Pat Lam’s statement that the...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoPacific island players’ union to explore nuclear option of boycotting 2019 Rugby World Cup in light of proposed ‘World League’
Fiji, Tonga and Samoa have all qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNo World League without global season says Burger
By NEALE HARVEY SCHALK Burger predicts World Rugby’s grand plans for a Nations League will lie dead in the water unless...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBowen’s brace claims bronze in Sydney
ENGLAND took bronze at the Sydney Sevens with a 19-17 defeat of Rio 2016 Olympic champions Fiji. Tom Bowen scored two...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPenny cashes in early but Blue & Blacks win the jackpot
By IAN GOLDEN Cross Keys ….18 Cardiff …………21 EVERYONE was reaching for the record books in Ystrad Mynach on Friday night,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWhy should we bail out SANZAAR? It’s their own fault
COLIN BOAG Twitter spat: Brian Moore commentating In crisis: Warratahs’ Jed Holloway on the attack during the Super Rugby semi-final in...
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Sevens World Series
/ 7 years agoBlitzbokke lie in wait for England
■By LUKE JARMYN SYDNEY SEVENS TWO tries by Dan Norton in a man of the match display against Japan set up...
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Sevens World Series
/ 7 years agoFiji on top as England earn consolation prize
WELLINGTON WRAP ENGLANDwon the second tier Challenge Trophy in the New Zealand Sevens last weekend with a 36-7 success over Kenya....
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoCan England 7s end their wait for a Sevens Series crown? We talk to Ollie Phillips
Phillips is undertaking a sizeable challenge to Mount Everest in April... and he's taking a rugby ball with him!
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoNtamack can make Les Bleus great again
FRENCH COLUMN DAVID BARNES Poster boy for French youth: Romain Ntamack French rugby supremo Bernard Laporte says his country will find...
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Features
/ 7 years agoHIGHEST CLIMBERS:
And the Oscar for the steepest climb up the World Rugby rankings over the course of the year goes to…the United...
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Features
/ 7 years ago3 weeks for Kockott
CASTRES scrum-half Rory Kockott has received a three-week ban for making contact with the eye area of the Munster flanker Chris...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoGlasgow Warriors wing Niko Matawalu a target for two Welsh regions
Niko Matawalu has emerged as a shock transfer target for both the Cardiff Blues and Scarlets. The two Welsh regions have...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoFirst half double from Fiji Warrior Matawalu keeps heat on leaders Saracens
■By GARY HEATLY WINGER Niko Matawalu ran in two tries as Glasgow Warriors completed the double over Lyon in Pool 3,...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoPirates scrum Irish into the mud at Mennaye
■By MIKE SINCLAIR JOINT-COACH Alan Paver revealed that the Pirates had done absolutely no pre-match analysis on London Irish before pulling...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWelsh regions battle for Matawalu
■By STEFFAN THOMAS NIKO Matawalu has emerged as a shock transfer target for both the Cardiff Blues and Scarlets. The two...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoLate Glover score secures bronze medal for England
DUBAI SEVENS By ADAM ELLIS ENGLAND fought their way to a bronze medal finish in Dubai in leg one of the...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoMatavesi: French victory has us all believing
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY WATCH out Wales, Fiji are coming to get you! That’s the warning from hooker Sam Matavesi...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoSam Burgess lets rip at ‘selfish players’ who cost England at the 2015 World Cup
Former England and Bath centre has his say on players who had their 'own agendas'
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoAphiwe Dyanti and Malcolm Marx added to cosmopolitan Barbarians squad for Argentina clash
Rassie Erasmus has named 13 of his South Africa tourists into the Barbarians group preparing to face Argentina on Saturday. They...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoWales team to wear rainbow laces in show of support to Gareth Thomas
Wales make act of solidarity to LGBT community following attack on 100-cap Thomas
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Latest News
/ 7 years ago‘Historic day’ as Islanders join world Council
By SAM JACKSON WORLD Rugby has welcomed Fiji and Samoa onto an expanded Council, while Burkina Faso and Lebanon were accepted...
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Features
/ 7 years agoTwiggy’s Rapid Rugby may be fashionable in Oz
COLIN BOAG Ducking the issue: Jerome Garces let TMO Marius Jonker take control Super Rugby, the Southern Hemisphere’s troubled and unloved...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoThis All Black attack on Shields is just hogwash
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE prospect of Brad Shields lining up to play for England against New...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSecond string Blues put Los Teros to the sword
URUGUAY lost against a reserve Cardiff Blues side at the Arms Park on Tuesday night. Wales will face Los Teros in...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWallabies call for Tiger Polota-Nau
TATAFU Polota-Nau has been drafted into Australia’s squad for the three-Test tour of Wales, Italy and England this month. The Leicester...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoMatavesi in frame for Fiji
CORNISHPirates hooker Sam Matavesi is in line to add to his three caps for Fiji after being named in the Autumn...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSamoa to follow Fiji route to Australia
YOU sometimes worry about Samoan rugby – not just the habitual financial problems and the draining rugby politics – but their...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPresident Laporte on passport control
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN When can a foreigner play for France these days? When Federation president Bernard Laporte says so, that’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTaqele sure Boyd’s ‘super’ style will bring success
By NEALE HARVEY Feeling at home in Northampton: Taqele Naiyaravoro GIANT Northampton wing Taqele Naiyaravoro admits his fitness must improve if...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoCornish Pirates hooker Sam Matavesi gets Fiji call-up
Fiji's 30-man squad to take on Scotland, Uruguay and France next month
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSemesa Rokoduguni to troop on for Bath after penning new deal
Todd Blackadder high of praise for the prolific wing
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
International opposition getting Blues battle-hard BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points History boys: Oxford University line...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWinter restocks
COVENTRY boss Rowland Winter has added more international class to his squad with the signings of Tonga back five forward Daniel...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRowntree to help Georgia
GEORGIA’S World Cup preparations have been boosted by the appointment of former England prop Graham Rowntree as their forwards coach ahead...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoKinghorn waiting as Hogg is ruled out for Autumn
By GARY HEATLY Young flier: Edinburgh full-back Blair Kinghorn STUART Hogg will miss Scotland’s Autumn Internationals after being ruled out for...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 8 years agoIslanders showcase stars of the future
Talent: Filimoni Botitu THE lack of any involvement from the three major Pacific nations at this year’s best ever Junior World...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoQuins sign Fijian 7s gold star
HARLEQUINS have signed Fijian Semi Kunatani, an Olympic Sevens gold medallist. Kunatani, 6ft 3ins and 16st 8lb, played in all six...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEvergreen Grifiths can’t hear the fat lady singing just yet
Jon Newcombe talks to Doncaster coach Clive Griffiths about the challenges ahead Passionate: Clive Griffiths loves the game CLIVE Griffiths’ passion...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoLeo column: Unearth the root causes to end off-field violence
Dan Leo highlights the skirmish between Amanaki Mafi and Lopeti Timani as one instance of how Pacific Islander physicality can take...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoLeo column: Give Charles Piutau a reprieve after early capture by All Blacks
If an issue affects one Pacific Island, it affects all...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMurphy’s living the dream in Americ
By NEALE HARVEY Advice: Nick Kennedy FORMER London Irish academy No.9 Connor Murphy can hardly believe his luck as he prepares...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoGareth Baber must deliver success for Fiji after Ryan’s golden glory
After missing out on the Sevens World Series, how much pressure is there on Welshman Baber?
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWe believe England can win it, says talismanic forward James Rodwell
James Rodwell is not short of confidence aheading to the Sevens Rugby World Cup in San Francisco
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