All posts tagged "France"
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoSexton sets Irish eyes smiling with one of the great drop goals
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER JOHNNY Sexton broke French hearts in Paris last night with a match winning 45 metre dropped goal with...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoStockdale and Aki named in Ireland team to play France
Ireland's last trip to Paris in the Six Nations ended in a 10-9 defeat
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Featured
/ 8 years agoJacques Brunel must turn France’s Cup aces into champs
Can the 64-year-old turn France into a team to fear? He's certainly making changes in selection
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Featured
/ 8 years agoDeano: Eddie Jones can do the Slam and win the World Cup if Farrell and Vunipola stay fit
Newcastle Falcons head coach Dean Richards talks England's prospects in Six Nations and beyond
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Scotland can beat Wales if they play fast and error-free rugby
Jeremy Guscott pins Scotland's hopes of victory in Cardiff on the axis of Price-Russell and dangerman Huw Jones
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoSix Nations spotlight – Ireland: Joe Schmidt must unleash his terrifying dogs of war
Ireland head coach spoilt by riches of big-name players and new dynamics brought to the table by young up-and-comers
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Featured
/ 8 years agoHalfpenny’s kicking can win it for Wales, says Sir Gareth Edwards
Wales legend gives his backing to the Scarlets full-back to kick Wales to victory against Scotland
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoTrailblazer Brown aiming to hammer down on Italy
SAM PARKHOUSE talks to the England flanker who’s no stranger to international competition FRANCE Lise Arricastre, Cyrielle Banet, Camille Boudaud, Caroline...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoBriggs is back to guide Irish
Ireland NIAMH Briggs returns to the Ireland set-up after missing last year’s tournament because of injury. The full-back made her comeback...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoFrance
■FRANCE are desperate to get their hands on the title again after a disappointing third-place finish last season. They improved steadily...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoStrange gives Welsh boys licence to thrill
Round-up FRANCE were runners-up last season but must do without 19-year-old fly-half sensation Matthieu Jalibert, who was called up to the...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAshton’s alive and kicking at full-back
Showman: Chris Ashton showed some fancy footwork for Toulon PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Ashton hasn’t always shown the fancy kicking that...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBrits battling to reach milestone in Dublin
ALL-ACTION Saracens hooker Schalk Brits is targeting an earlier than expected return from the serious injury that threatened his hopes of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCut squad bugets… invest in grass roots
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk DUSTY Hare’s comments last...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBigger squad sizes are answer to injury crisis
COLIN BOAG One positive: Freddie Clarke got his chance at Gloucester through injuries In last weekend’s Sunday Times, Stephen Jones highlighted...
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Features
/ 8 years agoForget ring-fencing and just cut wages instead
THE price of freedom in Rugby Union, as with freedom in a wider context, is eternal vigilance. Nothing underlines this more...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLima to Wasps gets NZ alarms buzzing
WITH two seasoned All Black fly-halves, Aaron Cruden (Montpellier) and Colin Slade (Pau), already playing in France’s Top 14, the decision...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: French teen-star Matthieu Jalibert can light up the Six Nations
The Bordeaux-Begles fly-half has been turning heads in the Top 14 this season
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDavid Strettle to make the move back to Saracens after three years with Clermont
Saracens' favourite re-signs after three successful seasons in France
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Features
/ 8 years agoThe class of 68 – the team that took the Grand Slam in Cardiff
I5 Claude Lacaze (Angouleme): A fixture in the French side during most of the 60s until he retired in 1969 with...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThose who also manned the barricades during the 1968 Five Nations
Bernard Duprat (Bayonne): Proud Basque who made over 400 appearance for Bayonne in a 15-year career. Scored nine tries in 15...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTop 14 helps top refs to learn right language
THE France national rugby team might be all over the place at present but French referees are flying the flag in...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNoves’ players are history as well!
Slight: Guy Noves HOW the mighty have fallen. Not only has Guy Noves, boss at Toulouse for over 20 years, been...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
The game must face up to its possible drugs problem BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoItaly get dumped on, but at least they have a great venue
Venue: Velodrome, Marseilles IT’S tough being Italy. Guess who are the one team in this year’s Six Nations required to play...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoMontpellier outwitted as Leinster nous earns top billing
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER LEINSTER swept into the quarter-finals as top seeds with a clever win over Montpellier, changing their tactics at...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHeat builds on coach O’Connor at Tigers
ON THE BLING SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler LEICESTER TIGERS head coach Matt O’Connor is fighting to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTeen-star Matthieu can light up Six Nations
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Anew fly-half is on schedule to do something beyond the most revered No.10’s,...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAmid all the tension and turmoil French rugby had its finest hour
Brendan Gallagher recalls the times rugby exploded in France with the 1968 Grand Slam Heroes: How the French media hailed the...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoFarewell to Hale, one of Cardiff rugby’s favourites
CARDIFF’S oldest player (definitely) and Wales’ most venerable player (arguably) passed away this week when Graham Hale died aged 97. Remarkably...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLeaders of Top 14? Chiefs just blow them clean away
By MIKE SINCLAIR Hard yards: Exeter try-scorer Don Armand trucks it up PICTURES: Getty Images In the thick of it: Sam...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoDonnacha will know all our secrets admits O’Mahoney
Preview Racing 92 v Munster Today, Kick-off 3.15pm SIMON Zebo starts at fullback for Munster against the club he will join...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWhen Bath spoiled the French party in Bordeaux
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to Bath captain Andy Nicol about their European glory night 20 years ago Brive …18pts Penalties: C Lamaison...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoEarning a national jersey is the pinnacle in every sport
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Development tool: Tier Two sides such as Samoa need games against the...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoLeinster and Ireland dealt injury blow as Ringrose ruled out for over a month
Centre out for remaining Champions Cup pool matches and first two Six Nations matches
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBring back magic of Six Nations trial matches
THE first week of January always used to be the occasion of the final England trial at Twickenham – England v...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWhy has the drop-goal gone way of the dodo?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At the Parc des Princes one sunny Sunday afternoon, Jannie de Beer launched...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFagerson injury blow for Scotland
SCOTLAND will be without tighthead Zander Fagerson until at least the Six Nations meeting with Ireland on March 10 after the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRory’s rise just goes on and on in France
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Rory Teague is brandishing a torch abroad as the only English head coach in the Top 14,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoGeraghty: Cipriani among top three No.10s
DANNY Cipriani would be a “big loss to English rugby” should he grow tired of being ignored by England boss Eddie...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLondon Irish urged to keep faith with coaching staff
Former rival coach comes out backing Nick Kennedy and co.
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Featured
/ 8 years agoThe rugby people we lost in 2017
In a series of obituaries, we remember the former players and club personnel who graced the sport
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Features
/ 8 years agoStack knew how to make most of his many talents
BRIAN ‘STACK’ STEVENS (Cornish Pirates, Cornwall, England and Lions tourist) Died October 10 aged 76 Cornish farmer and a rock of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoNorth have stolen a march on southern pace-setters
JEFF PROBYN Big gains: Stuart McNally scores in Scotland’s eight-try victory over Australia PICTURE: Getty Images Well that’s it, 2017 is...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoLes Bleus should have kept faith with their old winning formula
I’VEnever understood the problem appointing the France coach. You consider all your options, compare domestic records and take into account whether...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMore than a tough guy but Meads was tough!
Memorial: Sir Colin Meads and his wife Lady Verna with a new statue of himself Uncompromising: Meads charges down a kick...
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Features
/ 8 years agoJoost faced death with defiant courage
JOOST VAN DER WESTHUIZEN (Blue Bulls and South Africa) Died February 6 aged 45 One of the best scrumhalves the game...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years ago‘I was frustrated by how the ARU dumped the Western Force’ says Tigers arrival Polota-Nau
The Australia international reveals Michael Cheika gave him the seal of approval to move to Welford Road
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDark day for Dan Robson if Cipriani leaves Wasps for France
The Wasps scrum-half praises his team-mate as being 'a joy' to work alongside
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoQuins man Madigan came close to silencing The Lip in Olympics
TONY MADIGAN’S sporting life amounted to a whole lot more than a few appearances for Harlequins in the early 1950’s. He...
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