All posts tagged "Japan"
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Features
/ 6 years agoItoje can compete with the Bok giants
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… LOCKS Outstanding: Maro Itoje...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoDon’t mess up this crucial changeover
Different eras: Bill Beaumont, and Agustin Pichot in their playing days PICTURE: Gettty Images As everybody in sport, and in particular...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoReward for Knoyle
SCRUM-HALF Tavis Knoyle has become the latest player to commit his future to Dragons. Director of rugby at Dragons, Dean Ryan,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGlobal season must happen to make rugby a world sport
Q&A ALAN SOLOMONS ON THE RECORD Stifled: World Cup quarter-finalists Japan need more top level games to progress PICTURES: Getty Images...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Riches of Japan spell big trouble for players in England and Wales
Growth of game in the Far East will leave unions short given selection criteria, writes Shane Williams
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 15-11
Trouble seemed to find its way to Bakkies Botha on the rugby pitch...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoExclusive: Plans to hold Six Nations in FULL this autumn
Peter Jackson reports on the contingency talks for a second Six Nations in November
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Canada, Sale, London Welsh and Esher utility back Phil MacKenzie
Three relegations haven't dampened the Canadian's outlook on his time in English club rugby
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEllis is living proof of the old 80-minute rule
By PETER JACKS0N Going the distance: Ellis Genge played the full 80 for England against Wales during the World Cup warm-up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby must speak with one voice -like Apollo 13
For the space buffs among you rugby aficionados, this last week has been an extraordinary trip down memory lane as we...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWasps must play without fear to get the fans behind us
Q&A LEE BLACKETT ON THE RECORD New head coach Lee Blackett tells NEALE HARVEY how he intends rising to the challenge...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoO’Gara still hates me for the treatment I gave him
MY LIFEIN RUGBY PAUL VOLLEY FORMER WASPS, CASTRES, HARLEQUINS AND LONDON SCOTTISH OPENSIDE I’M sure he won’t like me saying it but...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Parkes will be missed but Owen Williams bigger loss
After his own experience in Japan, Shane Williams can understand why Hadleigh Parkes would move to Japan
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Thinking cap back on please, Laporte!
Bernard Laporte made some outlandish claim to ditch the Champions Cup without any evidence of its limitations
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership clubs keen to offer Australia aces way out
Recruitment hasn't been shut down for some Premiership clubs
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDeal for Saracens’ Richard Wigglesworth to join Sale Sharks is off
Not making the switch north to Premiership rivals
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: I’m glad Eddie Jones has got the job… who else was there?
The World Cup is the only thing that has eluded Eddie Jones so far
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThe past was a different country for rugby thrills
Classic: Philippe Bernat-Salles scores as France stun the All Blacks in 1999 I’ve watched a couple of cracking matches recently and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBlackett gets the nod for top job at Wasps
WASPS have appointed interim boss Lee Blackett as their new head coach. The 37-year-old has been in charge since director of rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRing: Patchell can plug the Parkes gap in midfield
By ALEX BYWATER Physical fly-half: Rhys Patchell RHYS Patchell is tipped to be the man to get Wales’ backline moving, but...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoI’m glad Eddie’s got the job…who else was there?
THERE were not too many alternatives open to the RFU when it came to reappointing Eddie Jones as England coach through...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThinking cap back on please, Bernie!
ONE of Rugby Union’s greatest failings is that it often does not recognise the value of what it has until it...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKings of the Jungle where wild beasts come to play
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s feared enforcers 1 Jacques Burger (Namibia) The King as far as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBeware of changing too much, Eddie
EDDIE Jones bagged himself another set of headlines by anticipating a 60 per cent change in the make-up of his England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBring back those real tours -by bus and train
How it was and could be again: Leicester’s Clive Woodward tackles New Zealand’s Eddie Dunn at Welford Road in 1979 The...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU chief says England tour of Japan could be moved to October
Bill Sweeney has said the RFU may look to rearrange fixtures into packed October and November schedule
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJapan set to overtake Top 14 and Premiership to become No.1 destination
The Top League is attracting players from the world over - and that won't stop says ex-Gloucester lock Tom Savage
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoJapan’s Top League comes calling for Wales star Hadleigh Parkes
Could a big payday be coming to the Wales centre?
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Now World Rugby has to help out the needy
Shane Williams on the severity of the situation facing Welsh rugby, but believes the WRPA is much-improved from his playing days
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoI would have liked to see Rob Baxter take charge of England, says Moody
Baxter's development of Exeter should have been tested on England according to the former flanker
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Earn your wedge, Eddie by enthusing Joe Marler to carry on
Eddie Jones will have to make it a priority to keep Joe Marler around
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWales’ All Blacks tour faces the axe
NZ virus lockdown In the balance: Nick Tompkins’ move to Cardiff Blues has hit a problem – see Blindside P10 PICTURE:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTompkins’ move to the Blues hits problems
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Versatile Parkes is wanted in Japan KOBE STEEL are leading a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNow World Rugby has to help out the needy
THE FINANCIAL situation rugby in Wales is facing is bleak – but the Welsh Rugby Union and their players are taking...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWales beat All Blacks and the old controversies start to rage
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union AS the rugby world hurtled towards the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoMoody: I would have liked to see Baxter take charge
By GARY FITZGERALD Baxter fan: Lewis Moody LEWIS Moody would have plumped for Rob Baxter to take over the England hot...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoEddie Jones signs contract extension through to 2023 Rugby World Cup
Eddie Jones now stands to become England's longest-serving head coach in history
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWe must go down, reprieve would cause bitterness – Saracens coach Alex Sanderson
In our extensive interview with Saracens defence coach Alex Sanderson, he tells TRP it's only right they are relegated
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Features
/ 6 years agoRated: The 5 alternative options at scrum-half for England
Former London Irish and England scrum-half Pete Richards marks Dan Robson as the next No.9 for England
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoTime for these slow-goers to get a move on with their kicks at goal
Clocking the players who take their time kicking penalties - who is the worst culprit?
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Taine Basham leads charge for Wales’ next generation
Shane Williams casts his eye over Wales' crop of emerging Test talent, and feels Taine Basham is up to the task
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Lions must be ready, Springboks will only get better
For a third consecutive tour of South Africa, the British & Irish Lions will be facing a world champion team
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWe must go down,reprieve would cause bitterness
NICK CAIN TALKS TO SARACENS COACH ALEX SAN DERSON ABOUT THE WAY AHEAD FOR THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS ALEX Sanderson says Saracens are...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTOP10 RUGBY DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH IN SELF-ISOLATION
By WARREN MUGGLETON Coronavirus has now brought a halt to all rugby in England, with the rugby community encouraged to practice social...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLions must be ready, these Boks will only get better
THE 2021 Lions tour of South Africa will be harder to win than the one I was on in 1997 because...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGriffiths certain Boks will head west
THE financial impact of the global coronavirus epidemic should concentrate minds like never before when it comes to resolving some of...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRehab in Austria, texts from Eddie, and an Exeter double – we talk to Jack Nowell
The Pumas try cost me dear but it was a beauty! Jack Nowell is chomping at the bit to be back...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoMichael Cheika opens up on rollercoaster ride with Wallabies
Michael Cheika has reflected on his five-year tenure with the Wallabies, saying the shortcomings of 2019 still 'hurts'
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Features
/ 6 years agoFrustrating to win only the one cap
MY LIFEIN RUGBY ROGER WILSON THE FORMER IRELAND, ULSTER AND NORTHAMPTON No.8 AS a Belfast schoolboy, going to Ulster matches at...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoJonny’s brewing up a storm for the Chiefs
■ By NEALE HARVEY Jonny Hill CIDER-making Exeter lock Jonny Hill aims to become the apple of Eddie Jones’ eye just...
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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