All posts tagged "Japan"
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoO’Driscoll catches eye of the Tiger
High fives: Tiger Woods, left, and Brian O’Driscoll BRIAN O’Driscoll had the moment of his golfing life when he got a...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoConrad gives Wales chat-line
Winner: Conrad Smith DOUBLE World Cup winner Conrad Smith dropped in to meet Wales’ players and told Warren Gatland’s boys what...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoFair play, Scots were the cleanest
Elbowed out: Jaco Peyper brings out the red card for Frances’s Sebastien Vahaamahina ENGLANDhead into the World Cup final armed with...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Momentous days for Japanese rugby but place in Six Nations is a non-starter
Reaching the quarter-finals at the World Cup shouldn't immediately open the door for Japan
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Rebirth of Hiroshima ignored by Rugby World Cup
Peter Jackson's view on Hiroshima being an ample setting for a Rugby World Cup match 74 years on from the devastation...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Let’s hear it for World Cup’s little big men
Nick Cain fixes the spotlight on Japan's diminutive flyers after helping the Brave Blossoms to achieve a team first
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNorthampton flanker Heinrich Brussow forced to call time on rugby career
"I have been battling injuries for some time now" - Brussow
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Warburton red card still haunts me to this day
The semi-final loss at the 2011 Rugby World Cup was the worst moment in the career of Shane Williams and other...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoSaints are keen on Dombrandt
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler NORTHAMPTON Saints are leading the chase for Harlequins back row Alex Dombrandt as they...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoOur beautiful game has become ugly
BEFORE a player is very seriously hurt there have to be some difficult decisions and changes to the game, once beautiful...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTyphoon Hagibis put RWC in perspective
AROUND40 people lost their lives due to Typhoon Hagibis; thousands more lost their homes or suffered unbearable disruption. The cancellation of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJapan should join the Rugby Championship
COLIN BOAG Even as a Scot I was applauding Japan by the end of the match, but I do wonder whether...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoGrayson shows nerves of steel to sink Sarries
By GARY FITZGERALD CHRIS Boyd saluted young James Grayson after the fly-half kept ice cool to ensure Saints left Allianz Park...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoSpencer: Sarries are best club to push my case
NEWS EXTRA BEN Spencer is on a mission to prove Eddie Jones wrong for leaving him at home watching the World...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKamikaze kids can nail champs
NICK CAIN FINDS REASONS TO BE HOPEFUL BEFORE ENGLAND’S MOMENTOUS MATCH WITH NEW ZEALAND Close call: Sam Underhill’s stunning try was...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoNo World Cup regrets insists Ashton, baby comes first
Choice: Chris Ashton declined to be in Eddie Jones’ squad By JON NEWCOMBE CHRIS ASHTON admits watching the Rugby World Cup...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoToulouse god Noves finally calls career over
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN That’s it. A French era is over. Former France and Toulouse coach Guy Noves officially announced his...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoYou are all my aces Naomi tells Blossoms
JAPAN’S players received a good luck message from local tennis star Naomi Osaka, right, ahead of today’s quarter-final against South Africa....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoLet’s hear it for World Cup’s little big men
CAIN OPINION FROM JAPAN EVERY WEEK THE legacy of Gerald Davies and Shane Williams, the sensationally talented Wales and Lions wingers,...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoIt’s about time the law makers got hookers to toe the line
NICK READ HIS EXPERT THE Not-Straight scourge is spreading. Having already devalued the scrum as a contest by allowing scrum-halves to...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoMarler becomes a PR for Saracens
JOE Marler kept a lid on his disappointment in Beppu this week after losing out to Mako Vunipola as the starting...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership kick off! Sale Sharks must show more bite
It's time for Steve Diamond to aim for a top four finish, writes Brendan Gallagher
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Make Pacific Islands rugby’s West Indies
The West Indies cricket team can be selected from 15 Caribbean island nations. Brendan Gallagher asks if the same can be...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland change George Ford’s role for Australia showdown
Eddie Jones makes bold selection call ahead of World Cup quarter-final with the Wallabies
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Featured
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Kamikaze man ‘Shiggy’ has made real impact
Peter Jackson charts role of Shigeru Konno as one of the forefathers of Japanese rugby
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoCancelled France match negates Eddie’s shot at experimenting with Farrell
Nick Cain arrives in Tokyo in find Eddie Jones lacking room to manoeuvre if Farrell or Vunipola suffer mishap
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Featured
/ 6 years agoHagibis was a shock but Eddie did warn us says Jamie George
England hooker Jamie George on the team's move north away from Tokyo to avoid the effects of Typhoon Hagibis
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Semi Radradra has been my player of the tournament
Jeremy Guscott was impressed by Fiji's performance, albeit ending in defeat, against Wales
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Cancelled game will help Welsh chances
WALES are battered and bruised, but they are also battle-hardened for the World Cup‘s quarter-finals and that is where you want...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Crooked feed call has cost Scotland
Jeff Probyn examines Gregor Townsend's comments made about Japan's win against Samoa, a result aided by a call by referee Jaco...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoAmos eager to finally end his role as bridesmaid
By ALEX BYWATER HALLAM Amos made his Wales debut in 2013 and Japan is his second World Cup – but with...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRadradra has been my player of the tournament
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK WALES must be licking their lips with the prospect of France as their quarter- final...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGive us more top level games, plead Uruguay
By ALEX BYWATER URUGUAY captain Juan Gaminara has told World Rugby the South Americans must take on the game’s best sides...
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Features
/ 6 years agoOwen and Billy are Eddie problems
Nick Cain arrives in Tokyo to find Eddie Jones confronted by some big selectorial decisions Not at their best: Owen Farrell,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoForce majeure…life is a calculated risk!
Brendan Gallagher recalls other cases when extreme weather or random events have affected sport THE great and the good, not to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCancelled game will help Welsh chances
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS WALES are battered and bruised, but they are also battle-hardened for the World Cup’s quarter-finals...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAvoiding England could give French a shot in the arm
SO England top the Pool and escape an attritional game and potential injuries by avoiding France, who can rest up ahead...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIt’s a shambles and that’s all down to World Rugby
COLIN BOAG It’s six years since the Oxford English Dictionary first included ‘omnishambles’ in its pages, and there can rarely have...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKamikaze man Siggy has made real impact
Just before the collision it is essential that you do not shut your eyes for a moment so as not to...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoScotland’s law threat is wrong says former star
By TOM BRADSHAW SCOTTISH Rugby are “completely wrong” to have raised the threat of legal action over World Rugby’s handling of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSports lawyer: Sadly, Scots will have to accept it
BEN Ticehurst, a senior associate at Howard Kennedy solicitors in London and part of the firm’s Sports Law group, told The...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoSharks must show more bite in attack
Brendan Gallagher assesses the runners and riders in the new Premiership title race More firepower: Mark Wilson is on a one-season...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoEddie gets a reminder from super Spencer
By GARY FITZGERALD BEN Spencer shrugged off his World Cup snub to showcase his prodigious all-round skills and help secure Sarries...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoBears hunt for Tiger George
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BRISTOL BEARS have made a cheeky enquiry about the future plans of England star...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPR disaster as ‘injured’ Ramos plays for Toulouse
FRENCH COLUMN JAMES HARRINGTON A minor storm, of sorts, is brewing in French rugby, with Toulouse’s international full-back Thomas Ramos at...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRecord for Reinach in Canucks carnage
By GEORGE LAWRENCE COBUS Reinach equalled the fastest hat-trick in Rugby World Cup history as the Springboks booked their place in...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWhat to do about minnows?
The Rugby World Cup has caught the imagination of the spectators in Japan as well as audiences on television across the...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoFrance call for the new poster boy Barassi
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN New star? Pierre-Louis Barassi is hailed as the answer to France’s midfield problems France coach Jacques Brunel...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoFarrell stays so cool as Zen-like England fly under the radar
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Handbags: But Owen Farrell, No.12 far left, stays out of the melee Cast your mind back exactly four...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoPod-life is teeming
THERugby Paper have been sampling down-to-earth accommodation in Kanda in Tokyo this week – living in a pod. The capsules come...
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