All posts tagged "France"
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThis crowing cockerill can show RFU how to run Tier Two
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE desultory manner in which the Championship clubs have been treated by the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoEscape from Nazis got Olly his Welsh cap
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Six Nations has never been short on journeys of a miraculous nature but this...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoRomain holds glory in his gifted hands for France
By NICK CAIN Power: Paul Willemse scores France’s second try ANY lingering doubts that France are on their way back as...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVolunteers step up to aid clubs caught in the storm
By ROB COLE THE true spirit of Welsh rugby has been revealed in the flood-ravaged community clubs who battled all week...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWales face top two in world rankings
WALES will face World Cup winners South Africa and New Zealand in two of their four 2020 Autumn Internationals. Wayne Pivac’s...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoAll-rounder Kolbe wows Toulouse as a fly-half
FRENCH COLUMN It’s official. There are more active ingredient molecules in a homeopathic remedy than there are things Cheslin Kolbe cannot...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoNorth looked magnificent – for 11 minutes!
PETER JACKSON VERDICT He came blasting out of the tunnel like a man on a mission as if nothing would stop...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoHeartbreaker Shaun is the difference
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Crunch: George North collides with Gael Fickou PICTURE: Getty Images Flashback: Emile Ntamack of France...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoCaptain Hogg showshis class on Roman holiday for the Scots
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER End of a 17-phase siege: Chris Harris goes over for Scotland’s second try PICTURES: Getty Images IT WASN’T...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEx-RFU chief raps Tier Two cash cuts
By NICK CAIN ‘It’s poor’: Cattermole GRAEME Cattermole, former RFU chairman, has added his criticism to the slashing cuts to Championship...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years ago‘I wasn’t going to mess up that one’
SCOTLAND captain Stuart Hogg was delighted to bury the memory of his butchered try against Ireland – and even more pleased...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPivac blast at ref in row over Wales ‘penalty try’
WALES boss Wayne Pivac slammed the refereeing of Matthew Carley after his team’s Six Nations title hopes came to an end...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoScarratt: England are a team for all seasons
By ADAM ELLIS High hopes: England’s Emily Scarratt TEAMS ENGLAND: McKenna, Dow, Scarratt, Reed, Breach, Daly- McLean, Riley; Cornborough, Davies, Bern,...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoItaly plot a new shock victory over Russell-less Scotland
Scotland are a team Italy know they can beat, writes Brendan Gallagher
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: England need to get smart or pay the price against Ireland
As we reach the half-way mark of the Six Nations, Jeremy Guscott writes of the significance of the Twickenham clash
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoTop 14 column: Second coming of Jules Plisson is down to TLC of O’Gara
It’s astonishing what careful and empathetic player management can do. Jules Plisson – remember him? – returned to the club where...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoCallard fears rugby may be losing its core value
By JON NEWCOMBE Concern: Jon Callard RUGBY must clamp down on the growing lack of respect for officials or risk losing...
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Features
/ 6 years ago2020 is no comparison to the thuggery of 1980!
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Clash: Wales lock Geoff Wheel, left, and England...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIrish high-ball bombardment will test out the fumblers
Keeping your nerve: George Furbank is challenged for the high ball by France centre Gael Fickou ENGLAND’S Six Nations campaign is...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAdvent of Adams puts North at big risk
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW True Test class: Josh Adams takes on Ireland’s Andrew Conway PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoTraining with Eddie driving U20 standards says Dickens
By NEALE HARVEY England ‘apprentice’: Josh Hodge ENGLAND’S chances of achieving a first U20s Six Nations Grand Slam since 2016 have...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEddie’s insults may have lost the players
It may not have been pretty, but at last England have kickstarted the journey to France 2023 with a much-needed win...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Game in Spain flying high after Rugby World Cup anguish
Brendan Gallagher insists Spain shouldn't be disappointed by their defeat to Georgia last weekend, as they close the gap in the...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBen Youngs told to take pay cut if he wants to stay at Leicester
The scrum-half is out of contract at Welford Road at the end of the season
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Fabien Galthie and the new-look France set to maximise potential
France have a rich depth of talent to pick from in the Top 14. James Harrington examines JIFF rules and Galthie's...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVickery: Embrace being England and show what you are made of
"I am still excited by this team, and also by the talent coming through in English rugby" - Phil Vickery
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Lions eye 2021 tour warm-up in Cardiff
The Lions plan on facing the Barbarians on home soil before jetting off to South Africa in 2021
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBracken: Saracens’ Lions tour hopefuls should be looking to leave
Kyren Bracken believes Saracens' elite players should move elsewhere next season
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Featured
/ 6 years agoCain column: Enigma of Eddie Jones is a problem for England
Is this England team veering from one extreme to the other after the World Cup defeat?
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWRU target homecoming for two Welsh exiles currently in the Premiership
Leicester's Tommy Reffell and Bristol's Mat Protheroe are targets to bring to a Welsh region for the WRU
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: England will need much more to beat Ireland
England needed to bore Scotland and kick more than the 47 times they did
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: So many mistakes by Wales, but lessons will be learnt from Ireland loss
Nick Tompkins impressed in his first start, but there were too many errors from Wales in Dublin
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoNew Zealand make it four trophies on the trot
WOMEN’S WRAP ENGLAND finished sixth after two defeats on day two. Following a 33-0 win over Russia and a 26-5 victory...
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Bigi tells Azzurri to play with no fear in Paris By GARY FITZGERALD LUCA Bigi arrives in Paris today refusing to...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoComplacency began after All Blacks victory
Struggling: England concede a try to French captain Charles Ollivon PICTURE: Getty Images I just can’t understand why Eddie Jones told...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGalthie’s new look is Made in France
FRENCH COLUMN Unlike his Six Nations’ counterparts who, on the whole, opted for continuity selections after the World Cup, new France...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoEngland need much more to beat Irish
Done it: George Ford celebrates with Owen Farrell and Jonny May after the match PICTURE: Getty Images IT was so crucial...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoIt’s all a bit blurry says England hero Genge
By GARY HEATLY Winner: Ellis Genge ENGLAND’S matchwinning prop Ellis Genge remembers little about the try that saved England’s season. Genge,...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoTwo big TMO calls put Pivac and Wales down for count in Dublin
By PETER JACKSON WALES had come from so far behind so often on enemy territory as to suggest that their ideology...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPivac: We must get better – and fast!
WAYNE Pivac told Wales they must improve and quickly if they are to stay in contention for the Six Nations after...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoSo many mistakes, but lessons will be learnt
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Colossus: CJ Stander tries to batter his way through Storm Ciara might not have arrived...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoRuthless Galthie will be out to crush Italy
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Enforced change: Arthur Vincent BEFORE the 2020 Six Nations began there was widespread speculation that Fabian Galthie would...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoEnigma of Eddie is a problem for England
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ENGLAND have become an enigma under Eddie Jones, and the signs are that the outcome...
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Nick Cain
/ 6 years agoDoherty’s late dash seals comeback win
By GARY FITZGERALD Clinical: Connor Doherty scores the winning try for England PICTURE: Getty Images ALAN Dickens praised his team’s character...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoChampion Robshaw adds to attraction across the Pond
THE news that Chris Robshaw has been in New York this week fine-tuning a projected move to the Rugby United francise...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIt’s passion that England need – not brutality!
PHIL Vickery knows what it takes to win World Cup finals – as he did as part of England’s 2003 world...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoLions eye warm-up in Cardiff
The Lions will decide at a board meeting this week whether to transfer their next fixture from Twickenham to Cardiff rather...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoItaly’s arrival opens up a hat-trick revolution
Hat-trick: Josh Adams scores his third try for Wales against Italy PICTURE: Getty Images TRY hat-tricks in the Six Nations are...
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoFiji finish off England on route to first Sydney title
MEN’S WRAP ENGLAND finished fourth in Sydney after defeat to USA in the bronze final. Fiji, who had beaten England 17-14...
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