All posts tagged "Leinster"
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBath may have to choose between glory and safety
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Losing start: Bath took on Toulouse yesterday at the Rec As we...
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Features
/ 7 years agoScarlets can foil six-try Blues final bid
CELTIC CUP ROUND-UP By CARL FIELD A CONFIDENT Cardiff Blues Aside ran in six tries to clinch a comprehensive 42-17 victory...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSuccess may let Sarries and Chiefs rest players
COLIN BOAG Champions: But Leinster players appeared only 6.6 times for their club With the Champions Cup starting this weekend, it...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSaracens need to make a big statement at Scotstoun
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Threat: Huw Jones picks good lines and has gas to burn PICTURE: Getty Images SARACENS’ trip...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoFreddie drops Bath in a real spot of bother
By NICK CAIN He got this right: Freddie Burns scores Bath’s second try Consoled: Stuart Hooper hugs Freddie Burns FREDDIE Burns...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoLeinster launch title defence with brutal 8-try rout
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Star turn: James Lowe scores his second try for Leinster PICTURES: Getty Images Held: Juan de Jongh is...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoYoung upbeat despite drubbing
WASPS director of rugby Dai Young saw positives in his side’s defeat but knows there is much work to do before...
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Dream Team
/ 7 years agoDream Team: London Irish and former Wasps and Leinster centre Brendan Macken
This is some team...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoDean Richards can’t wait for Newcastle’s return to big time after a wait of his own
The Falcons travel to Toulon for Sunday's opener
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoBrian O’Driscoll backs a team not named Leinster or Saracens for Champions Cup glory
Exeter Chiefs strength on home soil gives them an advantage over the other contenders, says the three-time champion
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoChampions Cup preview: A look at all five pools as Leinster seek to retain European crown
Leinster and Wasps kick things off on Friday night at the RDS
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Alex Goode and Liam Williams can be European Player of the Year nominees when they set the Champions Cup alight
Jeremy Guscott makes his picks of players to watch in this season's Champions Cup
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoIt would be special to add Champions Cup title to my Super Rugby medal, says Wasps fly-half Lima Sopoaga
Three years on from winning Super Rugby with the Highlanders, Sopoaga wants to win the equivalent in the Northern Hemisphere
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Featured
/ 7 years agoShane Williams column: High injury toll may scupper Scarlets chances of a Champions Cup repeat
Are last year's semi-finalists down on their luck heading into their Pool 4 opener against Racing 92
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Features
/ 7 years agoCardiff move one point behind Scarlets
By CARL FIELD CELTIC CUP ROUND-UP CARDIFF Blues A put themselves firmly back into Celtic Cup contention with a 26-12 win...
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Features
/ 7 years agoGoode is among my star picks to light up Europe
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK THE European Cup provides us with the chance to see great players rise to the occasion...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSanderson: Toughest test for us this season
SARACENS assistant coach Alex Sanderson hailed his side’s performance before heading into a tough fortnight of European action. “That’s the hardest...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoBaxter: Munster will be a step up
ROB Baxter is demanding his players take their near-perfect Premiership start to the next level when they face Munster on Saturday....
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSexton set for a French swansong
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter:@neilfissler JOHNNY SEXTON is looking to make a return to France for...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWing king Lowe the difference for Leinster
By RONAN O’NEILL JAMES Lowe scored twice as Leinster made it five wins from six to stay top of Conference B...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoO’Brien leads way to famous victory
By RICHARD O’NEILL Ulster…15 Connacht …22 IT COULD get confusing soon on the international scene if Connacht’s Sean O’Brien gets an...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoDominic ends Castres’ clean sheet
CONNACHT had gone more than 300 matches without a red card until a New Zealander left a dirty mark on the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
International opposition getting Blues battle-hard BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points History boys: Oxford University line...
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Latest News
/ 7 years ago…but Doran-Jones backs the old king to return
DISCARDED scrum ace Dan Cole will ensure England’s titanic battle of the tight-heads intensifies this autumn, according to former Red Rose...
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Features
/ 7 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Hartpury strengthen BRISTOL pair James Dun and Charlie Powell have joined Hartpury on dualregistration deals. Back rower Dun –who has featured...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoO’Brien’s back to give Leinster a boost
By DECLAN ROONEY Connacht …3 Leinster …20 LEO CULLEN praised the passion of Sean O’Brien as Leinster graced his return to...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWHO IS THE BEST NO.8?
SO is Sergio Parisse the greatest specialist No 8 ever. I would argue it’s a dead heat between him and Mervyn...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFitzgerald helps Scarlets down the Eagles
CELTIC CUP ROUND-UP By CARL FIELD SCARLETS A returned to winning ways in the Celtic Cup with a 35-19 defeat of...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHot-stepper Jordan crossing size divide
By ALEX BYWATER Pocket rocket: Dragons full-back Jordan Williams JORDAN Williams is the man of Shane Williams’ stature proving size is...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoI’m not concerned about my job security, says Dragons coach Bernard Jackman
Coming off a heavy loss to Leinster last weekend
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Celtic Cup
/ 8 years agoRosser’s five-star show has Dragons roaring
By CARL FIELD LEFT wing Jared Rosser helped himself to five tries as Dragons A chalked up their first win, beating...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHow have Leicester’s last eight coaches fared?
From Dean Richards to Matt O'Connor...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Why England don’t make fly-halves like Beauden Barrett
The New Zealand 10 can spot gaps and fly through them like few of his northern hemisphere contemporaries can
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPriestland: It’s all about Bath for me right now
By STEFFAN THOMAS RHYS Priestland insists he’s put any thoughts of a Wales recall to the back of his mind as...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEvans in hot pursuit of former Wales U20 graduates
By STEFFAN EVANS JARROD Evans hopes to be the next player off Jason Strange’s Wales production line. Former Wales U20 coach...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWhy England don’t make fly-halves like Barrett
Attacking DNA: Marcus Smith is the nearest thing England have to an All Black fly-half PICTURES: Getty Image Danny Cipriani George...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoAccuracy of Halfpenny proves the difference
By ROGER PANTING Tense finish: Gareth Davies scores for Scarlets PICTURE: Huw Evans SCARLETS avenged their two convincing defeats to Leinster,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoConcussion forces Ryan to call time
FORMER Leinster and Leicester forward Dominic Ryan has retired from rugby as a result of concussion. The flanker, 28, who won...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoJonathan Davies to miss Scarlets clash with Leinster
Wayne Pivac says it is 'smart' to not risk the centre against the PRO14 champions
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoScintillating Blues left devastated by late try
By ROGER PANTING Catch me if you can: Ray Lee-Lo of Cardiff Blues gets clear to score PICTURE: Huw Evans BLUES...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMunster revel in ‘perfect’ six-try opener
By DARAGH SMALL Munster …38 Cheetahs …0 IMPRESSIVE Munster winger Darren Sweetnam revelled in “the perfect start” to the new season”...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoStars tell what the Wales jersey signifies
By JAMES WILLIS THE first of a series of films inspired by the Welsh national team jersey and featuring rugby stars...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoIt’s going to be physical at Scarlets says Steffan
By STEFFAN THOMAS Hard edge: Blade Thomson PICTURE: Getty Images STEFFAN Evans has warned the Scarlets’ Guinness PRO14 rivals they won’t...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWest Country foes set to rekindle rivalry in Ashton Gate near sell-out
26,000 tickets and counting have been sold for the Premiership season opener between Bristol and Bath
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoLucky stars should play with smiles on their faces
JEREMY GUSCOTT’S VERDICT THE Premiership has waves of wonderful rugby – but there is not enough of it over the course...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDempsey aims to end Bath’s soft-touch reputation
DETERMINED new Bath attack coach Girvan Dempsey has urged his charges to “find their voices” as the 82-cap former Ireland international...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSexton has one remaining ambition to fulfil in Japan
Alex Bywater talks to the Leinster and Irish playmaker about what drives him on this season At the pinnacle of his...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFalcons’ feelgood factor gives Mowden Park a boost
Neale Harvey looks at the prospects of the teams in National One aiming to climb into the Championship Driving on: Rory...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoFEATURE: Rob Baxter on Exeter’s prospects in the Premiership and Europe and why ring-fencing would be ‘morally wrong’
Is there any part of Exeter Chiefs that director of rugby Baxter doesn't have a role within?
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Johnny Sexton has become invisible in the PRO14
Peter Jackson points out that Johnny Sexton has played in one PRO14 match in Wales over the past two years
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