All posts tagged "France"
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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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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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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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Featured
/ 8 years agoFarrell to captain England in Paris as Mike Brown is dropped
Changes at full-back and outside centre for England, as Hartley is ruled out with a calf injury
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: French team is so poor England can recover pride
Jeremy Guscott says England should win in Paris but selection issues ahead of next year's World Cup are clear for Eddie...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoLaunchbury: We’re aiming to put on the Ritz in Paris
By GARY FITZGERALD Falcon in flight: Ally Hogg breaks clear to score Newcastle’s first try against Gloucester PICTURE: Getty Images JOE...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoSix Nations needs no hype – it’s all genuine – and raw – emotion
IF Eddie Jones was not warned by his RFU minders about the pitfalls of buying a standard class rail ticket from...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFrench should have heeded that Mexican Wave
WHEN it comes to the most reliable barometer of spectator boredom, there is still nothing to touch the Mexican wave. They...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHack job that became a must-read for rugby fans
BRENDAN GALLAGHER RUGBY MATTERS A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points RUGBY’S only genuine best selling author, Michael...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoEddie should realise he got his back row wrong
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME While the dust settles after England’s defeat and the Scots are celebrating...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoScotland boys wanted it more, admits Blaze
■By NEALE HARVEY ENGLAND U20s coach Richard Blaze predicts a “huge reaction” from his side when they take on France in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEngland exposed by French pressure
France U18s …27 England U18s …5 ENGLAND U18s were defeated 27-5 by France in their first fixture of the season. They...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Huw’s that guy? Truly a superstar in awaiting
Jeremy Guscott lauds the performance of Huw Jones in Scotland downing England's Grand Slam hopes
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoFarrell in Murrayfield tunnel row with Scots
By GARY FITZGERALD Grand Slam dream over: England’s Owen Farrell and Jonathan Joseph look dejected at the end of the match...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoGatland ready to call up new blood
By ALEX BYWATER WARREN Gatland says he’ll give Wales’ fringe players the chance to impress in the rest of the Six...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Reducing penalty sanctions may resurrect old quick-tap BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Bag of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAll-change as France try 30 sets of half-backs
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER JACKSON New cap: Baptiste Couilloud “Whirring sound of revolving door is caused by failure...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBakewell’s challenge to create new pack legacy
By NEALE HARVEY New generation of prop: Ellis Genge PICTURES: Getty Images NEW Leicester forwards guru Mark Bakewell has vowed to...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoMacc too good as Tigers tamed
By MATT COLERIDGE Macclesf’ld …31 Sheffield …15 MACCLESFIELD proved too strong for visitng Sheffield as they ran out comfortable winners in...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCalcutta king with rugby in his blood
MY LIFEIN RUGBY JON CALLARD FORMER BATH & ENGLAND FULL-BACK AND CURRENT SALE KICKING COACH Victory: Jonathan Callard celebrates after his...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoScots blow the wheels off Eddie’s bandwagon
From NICK CAIN at Murrayfield In the game: Owen Farrell dives over to give England second half hope WINNERS are grinners...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAnother Vunipola climbing England ranks
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON ENGLAND U18s have named their 2018 squad for the forthcoming Six Nations festival. The 42-player squad...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoTEAMS: Round Three of the Six Nations
Rest week over, here's the all the team news ahead of this weekend's rugby
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoCan England take the Six Nations for a third consecutive year?
After a bruising and sometimes scrappy victory over Wales at Twickenham, the Six Nations title – and the Grand Slam –...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Farrell is just stratospheric, a class apart from the others
Jeremy Guscott on the Saracens fly-half proving to be a cut above
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Dream Team
/ 8 years agoDream Team: Former Bath and England full-back Jon Callard
Jon Callard chooses the best he has played with and against...
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoCan England take the Six Nations for a third consecutive year?
After a bruising and sometimes scrappy victory over Wales at Twickenham, the Six Nations title – and the Grand Slam –...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoSix epic encounters on Irish soil
Nerveless: Leigh Halfpenny celebrates after kicking the winner in the 2012 thriller 1914 Ireland 3 Wales 11 Wales were gathering a...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoNathan has powerpower, what about puff?
NICK CAIN says Nathan Hughes can frighten the Scots if he has enough fitness in the tank NICK CAIN Warrior: Scotland...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoAdvantage laws have become a hindrance
THE mania for keeping an already frantic and attack friendly game fluid in the name of entertainment has reached epidemic proportions...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
French break the mould with move to Marseilles BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Formidable...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDrop Italy to bring back the level playing field
COLIN BOAG Snarling: Ross Moriarty, No.6, went over the top With the Six Nations taking a break this weekend it gives...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
JON CALLARD, FORMER BATH AND ENGLAND FULL-BACK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Jason Leonard –...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFarrell is just stratospheric, a class apart from others
JEREMY GUSCOTT Cut above: Owen Farrell slices through the Welsh defence PICTURE: Getty Images THIS Six Nations hasn’t overwhelmed us with...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoWe’re close to letting rip now warns Deano
By ALAN HEDLEY Fast start: Sinoti Sinoti goes over for Falcons’ first try after four minutes PICTURES: Getty Images Acrobatic finish:...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoThomas dropped
FRANCE head coach Jacques Brunel has dropped a number of players who went out in Edinburgh after defeat by Scotland on...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoGatland saga has taken the old hostilities to a new level
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for next weekend’s often spikey encounter at the Aviva BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bragging rights: George North scores...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoEight players axed by Brunel after headline-grabbing night out in Edinburgh
Despite police ruling no crime had been committed by France players on Edinburgh night out, Brunel dishes out the punishment
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoWelcome to Boyd – now let NZ take one of ours
CHRIS Boyd’s track-record is impressive enough to suggest that a Northampton resurgence will be on the cards when the New Zealander...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoNo laughing matter, Finn – get it right!
IT’s not going to be the game either coach, or indeed set of fans, dreamed of – but this afternoon’s ‘auld...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoIn comes Laidlaw as Townsend decides to take a more pragmatic approach
Recall: Greig Laidlaw SCOTLAND head coach Gregor Townsend has made six changes from the side that lost so badly to Wales...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER BEDFORD, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND ENGLAND LOCK BOB WILKINSON Iwent to Wales versus Scotland with a friend last Saturday –...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 8 years agoBrunel rap for putting Jalibert in harm’s way
Mega-boot: Lionel Beauxis is back at fly-half PICTURE: Getty Images It didn’t take long for the club v country rows that...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoAlun Wyn: We can bounce back against Ireland
Defiant: Alun Wyn Jones ALUN WYN Jones vowed Wales will bounce back from their Six Nations defeat to England when they...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPacific is washing in waves of talent
WHILE many T1 nations continue to plunder the South Pacific, it might be timely to highlight France’s increasingly fruitful rugby relationship...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Trailfinders are on long trek towards Premiership BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points COULD Ealing...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoProject players may be thing of the past for new-look French
IT’S going to be a rocky, controversial, ride for France one suspects with Bernard Laporte heading up the Federation, but at...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGatland: Don’t pick a Welshman
WARREN Gatland says it will be hard for a Welshman to follow him as Wales national coach after the 2019 World...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFrance find it difficult to feel love for Altrad
DAVID BARNES Montpellier chairman Mohed Altrad, born to a Bedouin tribe in the desert, has built a global empire that turns...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoHalfpenny is class on another red-letter day for Scarlets
PETER JACKSON VERDICT Marksman: Leigh Halfpenny kicks more points One day soon the scoreline will be enshrined in clubhouses all over...
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