All posts tagged "France"
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/ 8 years agoWasps pair out for two months
ENGLANDwill be without wing Elliot Daly and No.8 Nathan Hughes for at least half of the Six Nations. Both Daly, 25,...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWage cap cheats have been able to prosper
Huge win: Josh Adams is mobbed by Worcester team mates after scoring his second try against London Irish on Friday night...
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/ 8 years agoImhoff’s red for headbutt can’t stop slick Racing
By STEVE EVANS European Champions Cup RACING 92 kept themselves in the hunt for a quarter-final place after overcoming Castres despite...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWarriors whittle it down to three
WORCESTER are believed to now have a threeman short list for their next director of rugby. Blindside understands that Jim Mallinder...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWatson hits turbos to put heat on Toulon
European Champions Cup By BRENDAN GALLAGHER BATH went to the top of an incredibly competitive Pool 5 with this vital win...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Springboks need to pick best XV on ability alone
Time for the SARU to be more welcoming of overseas player selection?
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Features
/ 8 years agoToulon in £500k bid for Taulupe
Wanted in France and Wales: Bath No.8 Taulupe Faletau TOULON are ready to join the race to land Wales and British...
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/ 8 years agoScotland’s resurgence promises top class Six Nations
THE Six Nations looms ever brighter on the horizon with the certainty that the 2018 version will be like no other....
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoYou could select six teams of expatriated Springboks
WHILE Allister Coetzee is fighting for his coaching life with South Africa it is impossible not to sympathise with his predicament...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Cult hero ‘Capo’ craving last hurrah with Uruguay BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Pythonesque:...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRFU funding for EQPs gives England a big advantage
JEFF PROBYN Money bags: Top 14 contenders Montpellier have a raft of Test stars including François Steyn and Nemani Nadolo PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSpringboks need to pick best XV on ability alone
JEREMYGU SCOTT Selected on merit: South African back rower Siya Kolisi PICTURE: Getty Images EVER since South Africa adopted a quota...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCastres hit Toulouse for six in clash of day
FRENCH COLUMN DAVID BARNES Castres team boss Christophe Urios went to Toulouse with the threat of suspension hanging over his head...
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/ 8 years agoFrance need revolution to catch up says Saint-Andre
By NEALE HARVEY Hope: Philippe Saint-Andre PHILIPPE Saint- Andre claims France are now lagging “ten years behind England” and that radical...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTownsend is showing Wales the way to play
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER JACKSON Gregor Townsend last appeared in Cardiff on Six Nations business a long time...
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/ 8 years agoPiutau could stand in way of England World Cup bid
ENGLANDwill be on a World Cup collision course with the most expensive wing in the game if Tonga succeed in repatriating...
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER GLOUCESTER, WORCESTER AND CASTRES WINGER MARCEL GARVEY Winning the Top 14 title in my first season with Castres was...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPhillips bails out injury-hit Scarlets
Kings v Scarlets FORMER Wales scrumhalf Mike Phillips will make a remarkable return to action for the Scarlets ‘ visit to...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGlover gets nod for Dubai
By SAM JACKSON SIMON Amor has named an experienced squad as England Sevens kick-off their World Sevens Series in Dubai next...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: How Clem Thomas seized once in a lifetime opportunity
Ahead of Wales v New Zealand, Peter Jackson recalls when Clem Thomas overcame personal tragedy
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoIt’s a mad, mad world as Bernie bashes Bill
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE international administration of Rugby Union was left embarrassed and in abject disarray...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoSerin’s late try can’t stop the Boks narrow win
By LUKE JARMYN IN A GAME between two under-performing sides it would have been asking a lot for this to be...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoHow Clem seized once in a lifetime opportunity
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Even now, more than 20 years after his death, Clem Thomas remains as...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoSadly Ireland couldn’t match the big money
ONCE those behind the unsuccessful bid to land the 2023 World Cup stop feeling sorry for themselves, Irish rugby will have...
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Features
/ 8 years agoNorthumbria unfazed after Exeter throw down gauntlet
BUCS ROUND-UP By JOE BYRNES EXETER staged a stunning home comeback to leapfrog Cardiff Met in Topsham. The Welsh struck first...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEddie bottled it with his team to face Wallabies
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME You can never judge a man by what he says, only by...
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Features
/ 8 years agoShields pins his colours to Wasps
HURRICANES captain Brad Shields is understood to have signed for Wasps in a bid to make England’s World Cup squad. Following...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoHansen recalls Kieran Read to All Blacks squad for Paris visit
New Zealand coach makes 12 changes to matchday squad to take on France
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: World Cup vote would save Springboks from disaster
(Photo: Getty Images) By Nick Cain With South African rugby on the road to the cliff-edge, the Rugby World Cup board...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTeen-star Jalibert lets Toulouse off hook
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Heartache: Matthieu Jalibert missed a winning kick for Bordeaux An 18-year-old making his fly-half debut in the...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAbendanon staying at Clermont
NICK Abendanon has signed a two-year contract extension with French champions Clermont. The 31-year-old has the option of a third year...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoLook North, Barbarians, before it all goes South
From NICK CAIN at Tiwckenham Opener: Richie Mo’unga scores the first try THIS was more like a New Zealand trial match...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTonga first up for Jones’ would-be world beaters
By SAM JACKSON Champions: New Zealand kick off their defence against South Africa PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND’S opening Pool C game...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoIreland still offers the best ‘rugby tourist’ experience
MY choice for RWC2023 would be Ireland but I accept that when the World Rugby delegates meet to vote on November...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMaturing Basta is now model of consistency
Brendan Gallagher makes the case for a recall of Mathieu Bastareaud Toulon’s Mathieu Bastareaud has added skills to his power game...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAnything can happen if France go off piste
BRENDAN GALLAGHER recalls the big upsets as France prepare for next week’s All Blacks clash Mastermind: Jean-Pierre Rives We sometimes get...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBrive’s man of steel was the architect of All Black slaying
Points machine: Christophe Lamaison CHRISTOPHE Lamaison had absolutely no gas and you can count on the fingers of one hand the...
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National League 2E
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
NICK DAVID WORCESTER FULL-BACK PERSERVERENCE is key to becoming a top class player and exciting full-back Nick David has had to...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: NFL ‘partnership’ will be far from friendly
Nick Cain examines the NFL's growing access to the European market which has seen two matches played at Twickenham this autumn
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 8 years agoRob Howley talks O’Brien, Byrne and his future after the 2019 World Cup
The Wales and Lions coach made peace with Sean O'Brien in 20 minute phone call
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWorld Rugby report recommends South Africa as 2023 host in a blow to Ireland and France
Tight vote sees South Africa the preferred bidder in close race – official decision made 15 November
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTime to start the fine-tuning two years out from Japan
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for another intriguing autumn and picks his stars to watch Giant-killers: Scotland beat Australia in the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFive to follow…
Leone Nakarawa (Fiji): There is a very good case for voting this other worldly Fijian second row as World Rugby player...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoAshton picks way through the chaos to grab 2 tries
At the double: Toulon wing Chris Ashton scored twice against Brive Chris Ashton scored two tries to bring his own total...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSharks ace McGuigan earns Scotland call-up
By GEORGE LAWRENCE SALE wing Byron McGuigan has forced his way into Gregor Townsend’s Scotland squad with his supreme try-scoring record...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoIt’s time the RFU honoured first black international
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the distinguished moment in history set by Plymouth player Jamie Peters
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoSale slip up again in face of French end-game
By DAVID JOYCE Try-double: Sam James SALE Sharks surrendered a 14-point lead in the final 15 minutes as they were beaten...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoBlues build momentum with big win in Toulouse
By ALEX BYWATER IN WHAT must rank as one of the best results in their recent history, Cardiff Blues claimed a...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
It’s time the RFU honoured the first black international BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoMiddle-man Moore has ended up out on his own
BEING slap bang in the middle of the Australia front row has been a thankless task at times over the past...
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