All posts tagged "Japan"
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The Rugby Championship
/ 6 years agoLealiifano back for Wallabies after cancer
By SAM JACKSON Recall: Brumbies captain Christian Lealiifano Out: James O’Connor CHRISTIANLealiifano is back in the Wallabies set-up for the first...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 6 years agoBoks take it slow with captain Kolisi
Injured: Siya Kolisi SOUTH Africa will ease Siya Kolisi back into action this summer with the injured team captain likely to...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 6 years agoErasmus’ squad can do serious damage
New star at No.9: Herschel Jantjies For the first time since 2015, there was no South African representation in the Super...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoOwens: We’ll run ourselves into the ground
By ALEX BYWATER KEN OWENS will take a mantra of ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ into Wales’ World Cup...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoOverseeing the development of Delon Armitage and Charlie Ewels has been one of my proudest achievements, says Toby Booth
In this lengthy feature, we talk to the departing Bath assistant coach about his time at the Rec and his past...
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/ 6 years agoWarren’s in line for World Cup double
Warren Gatland has put himself in position to win the World Cup with Wales this autumn and again with New Zealand...
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/ 6 years agoWilli joins exiled Kiwis good enough to take on allcomers
Japan chance: Willi Heinz has been called up by England PICTURE: Getty Images IF WILLI Heinz makes the cut for Japan,...
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/ 6 years agoCarre can be a breakout star in Japan for Wales
By ALEX BYWATER Mentor: Rhys Gill Apprentice: Rhys Carré RHYS Gill insists fellow loosehead prop Rhys Carré can follow in his...
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/ 6 years agoWales can win it, says Roberts, but there’s more to do
By STEFFAN THOMAS High hopes: Jamie Roberts playing for Wales WALES might be Six Nations Grand Slam champions, 14 games unbeaten...
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/ 6 years agoBarbarians put Eddie in charge
ENGLAND boss Eddie Jones will coach the Barbarians against Fiji at Twickenham in November, just two weeks after the World Cup...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSinckler is a lethal weapon England are going to need
World class: Kyle Sinckler has become a vital cog in the England machine PICTURE: Getty Images Kyle Sinckler has become so...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChasing pack is closing on All Blacks says Price
By ROB COLE BACK-TO-BACK champions New Zealand have gone off the boil and have left the door wide open for another...
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/ 6 years agoBraley making his pitch for big prize with Italy
By GARY FITZGERALD Decisions: Conor O’Shea CALLUM Braley feels he can offer a new dimension to Italy’s attacking options as he...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoWarren can conquer the world in stages!
World’s best: Warren Gatland coaching Wales Chiefs: Sam Cane and Anton Lienert-Brown PICTURE: Getty Images ITHOUGHT Warren Gatland was going to...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoEwels: It took too long to settle but we’ve learnt our lesson
ALEX BYWATER CHARLIE Ewels admits it took Bath 12 months to finally learn their lesson but the lock insists his team...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 6 years agoEddie Jones to take charge of Barbarians in clash with Fiji
Twickenham match will be the first time Jones will have been head coach of the Baa-Baas
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDanny Cipriani set to get England recall for training camp
One last chance for Cipriani to impress prior to 4 July's training squad announcement?
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/ 6 years agoSam gets new job as the joker
SCOTLAND scrum-half Sam Hidalgo-Clyne has joined Racing 92 to provide cover during the World Cup. The 25-year-old left Scarlets by mutual...
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/ 6 years agoLions give Gatland punch line
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW WARRENGatland ‘joked’ on more than one occasion about the RFU not being able...
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/ 6 years agoDombrandt leap as big as Olympic hero Lynn
This time last year the English rugby public at large had never heard of Alex Dombrandt, let alone seen him in...
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/ 6 years agoDelaney forecasts Scarlets resurgence
By STEFFAN THOMAS GLENN Delaney believes the Scarlets’ new coaching team will have no trouble adapting to the rigours of the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 6 years agoWales face All Blacks in 2020
WALES are set to play two Tests in New Zealand in July 2020. The trip to his home country will be...
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/ 6 years agoAll Blacks happy to give break to Barrett
BEAUDEN Barrett will make an announcement on his playing future after the end of the Super Rugby season as he weighs...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWorld Cup is the start of properly taking the game global
I’VE spent the last week or so in Japan as there are now less than 100 days to go until the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRetallick chooses Land of Sun rather than rain
BRODIE Retallick’s explanation for his next career move post-World Cup amounted to an admission that playing in Japan is a piece...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMaking amends for my Wales mess up
JON NEWCOMBE talks to former England lock Geoff Parling about his new role as a coach Highs and lows: Geoff Parling...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKiwis will be Care Home XV in Japan
THE Dad’s Army jibe aimed at Martin Johnson’s 2003 England World Cup winners by their Southern Hemisphere rivals could come back...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHalfpenny at 15 but give Liam a free role
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Sensational season: Liam Williams PICTURE: Getty Images LLIAM Williams can now rightly lay claim to...
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/ 6 years agoNew Welsh coaches will inflate payroll
By ALEX BYWATER THE PRICE of pre-planning is set to hit the Welsh Rugby Union this summer to the cost of...
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/ 6 years agoMarchant: Quins need to match try rate of top two
By NEALE HARVEY HARLEQUINS will use the bitter disappointment of their late season collapse to fuel next year’s drive for silverware...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBaa-baas were sideshow compared to the Final
COLIN BOAG Beanfest: An England XV beat the Barbarians 51-43 The feast of rugby at Twickenham last weekend had something for...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoSaracens star Will Skelton declines Wallabies World Cup call
The Melbourne Rebels had shown interest in Skelton, writes Neil Fissler
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Features
/ 7 years agoON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Tigers turn attention on Borthwick STEVE BORTHWICK is the latest name being considered by...
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Features
/ 7 years agoBattle of wounded knee is a must-win
DYLAN Hartley is looking increasingly like a gamble in a position in which, at this juncture, England do not want to...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCipriani has to go to Japan insists Guscott
General: Danny Cipriani in action for Gloucester EDDIE JONES has to take Danny Cipriani to the World Cup this autumn, according...
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Features
/ 7 years agoI’d pick Dombrandt for the World Cup says Winterbottom
Power: Alex Dombrandt Praise: Peter Winterbottom with Raging Bull’s Georgette Ryan ALEX Dombrandt is a must-pick for Eddie Jones for this...
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Features
/ 7 years agoNear misses will give Bath a ruthless streak to be winners
On the up: Joe Cokanasiga, taking a high ball during the final day win over Leicester, is one of the young...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoHalfpenny’s stronger for his injury hell
ALEX BYWATER finds Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny has new focus to fuel his drive for World Cup glory Sickener: Leigh Halfpenny...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Sorry George Ford, the thought of Cipriani coming off the bench is too good to go to waste
Take three fly-halves if you must, but reality is England can only take two
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/ 7 years agoFans warned of beer shortage at 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan
The stuff of nightmares
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Features
/ 7 years agoEddie’s Twickenham opt out is Baa-king mad
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ENGLAND are about to embark on their final phase of preparation for the...
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/ 7 years agoFor Ospreys to fire they must sort Alun Wyn
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Priority: Ospreys must get Alun Wyn Jones under contract PICTURES: Getty Images Who would have...
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/ 7 years agoWhite’s aiming big after his upgrade at Exeter
By NEALE HARVEY ACE scrum-half Nic White says the chance to banish bitter memories of World Cup rejection by Australia in...
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/ 7 years agoInsurance change frees Wales players for early duty
WELSH World Cup hopes received a boost this week with England-based players available to Warren Gatland for as soon as he...
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/ 7 years agoOllie’s inspired to find the gains Eddie wants for place in Japan
■By NEALE HARVEY Driven to succeed: Gloucester flyer Ollie Thorley PICTURES: Getty Images GLOUCESTER wing Ollie Thorley has total belief in...
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/ 7 years agoAnthony showed guts, he’s a real fighter insists Blackadder
By GARY FITZGERALD TODD Blackadder expects to see Anthony Watson up close in Japan this autumn wearing an England jersey and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoCipriani has shown he must go to Japan ahead of Ford
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Unique ability: Danny Cipriani can make something out of nothing PICTURE: Getty Images IF you judge...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoLozowski: We weren’t perfect – we’ll be better against Chiefs
By NEALE HARVEY Hunger to improve: Alex Lozowski ALEX Lozowski says Saracens’ insatiable appetite for silverware will be the driver for...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoI’m looking to play at 13 for Saracens, says Elliot Daly
The versatile Wasps back on where he sees himself playing in Mark McCall's plans
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Featured
/ 7 years agoRevered flanker George Smith announces retirement
Evergreen back row calls it a day with 111 Australia caps to his name
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