All posts tagged "Leinster"
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Latest News
/ 13 years agoIreland v South Africa teams
South Africa-born Richardt Strauss has been handed his international debut after he was named in Ireland‘s team to face his native...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 13 years agoTom Wood: I’m back, taking it one step at a time
For Tom Wood the pain of not being able to play is far worse than the pain he goes through every...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoPremiership round 7 review
Bath (beat Exeter 23-15) In the last derby against Gloucester, Stephen Donald scored after 32 seconds, this time around, they scored...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 13 years agoLions greatest XV: No.8
The position in the middle of the back row is tactically one of the most influential on the pitch, because the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: The Toulouse test will show Tigers where they stand
There’s been a lot of talk about the BT Vision contract signed by the Premiership clubs, and a potential English and...
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Champions Cup
/ 13 years agoHeineken Cup round 2: preview and predictions
Pool 1 Munster v Edinburgh Munster will be disappointed they did not close the game out last Racing Metro last week,...
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Dream Team
/ 13 years agoDream Team: Will Green – Former Wasps, Leinster and England prop
1. Craig Dowd – I’m picking Craig purely because he can squat while standing on a tennis ball one-legged. He’s amazingly...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 13 years agoBaa-Baas welcome Dean Richards back as coach
Dean Richards has been short-listed for a return to the big stage as coach of the Barbarians. The renowned touring club...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoPremiership round 5 review
Bath (beat Sale 31-10) The West Country side were bidding farewell to Olly Barkley who is off to Racing Metro today...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain talks to Exeter blindside Tom Johnson about his remarkable rise from grass roots to Test level
Tom Johnson is not so much a late bloomer as a one-man Indian summer. The Exeter Chiefs blindside flanker was a...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: At last, some skills are returning to club rugby
Is it a coincidence that Premiership teams appear to be playing a more expansive game this season, or that the same...
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Featured
/ 13 years agoRaboDirect Pro12 round 5: preview and predictions
Cardiff v Ulster Second row forward Bradley Davies will make his 100th appearance for the Blues tonight alongside club captain Andries...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Gatland musn’t go looking for problems
I was surprised when Warren Gatland came out with the view that overseas-based players, especially those in France, could rule themselves...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoRaboDirect Pro12 round 4: preview and predictions
Cardiff v Treviso Weslh international centre Jamie Roberts will get his first start since his knee injury on the back of...
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Dream Team
/ 14 years agoDream team: Andries Pretorius – Cardiff Blues No.8 and captain
1. Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira – The powerful Springbok has become one of the best front rowers in the world over the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Watch out if Cowan makes Gloucester’s back line tick
I have a sense of huge anticipation for the upcoming Aviva Premiership mostly based on the rugby I’ve watched over the...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoRaboDirect Pro12 Round 2: preview and predictions
Cardiff Blues v Edinburgh Wales Grand Slam winners Sam Warburton, Leigh Halphpenny, Alex Cuthbert and Bradley Davies all return for Cardiff...
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Peter Jackson
/ 14 years agoPeter Jackson: A spat that ended with an all-Welsh Pro12 punchline
Phil Davies and Simon Easterby go back a long way, to a Third Division scrap in West Yorkshire during the pioneering...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoLions announce Warren Gatland as head coach
Wales head coach Warren Gatland was announced yesterday as head coach for the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia next...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoDylan Hartley says Northampton don’t need Chris Ashton
Northampton captain Dylan Hartley says winger Chris Ashton is gone and forgotten after turning his back on the club to join...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoOakley joins Northampton Saints
Northampton Saints have signed former Wales international back row Rhys Oakley. The 31-year-old has impressed Jim Mallender while on trial with...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 14 years agoBritish and Irish Lions eye Leinster’s Joe Schmidt as Gatland back-up
The Lions are to consider a second New Zealand contender for next year’s three-Test series in Australia – Leinster head coach...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoPre-season friendlies: results
With just a week to go before the start of the season, a string of pre-season friendlies took place tonight. Here...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoNew Exeter signing Ian Whitten is out to prove he’s not just a stop-gap
Ian Whitten spent last season stepping in whenever needed at Ulster – now at Exeter he intends to make himself part...
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoERC “dismayed” over Anglo-French threats.
As exclusively revealed by Peter Jackson in The Rugby Paper on May 6th, English and French clubs have given an ultimatum...
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Latest News
/ 14 years agoCipriani handed first Sharks start
Danny Cipriani will start the for the first time in the Sale Sharks jersey when they face Leinster in their new...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years ago‘Battered’ Sale Shark flanker Hendre Fourie in battle to play again
England flanker Hendre Fourie has suffered another setback in his comeback from a debilitating shoulder injury. The 32-year-old admits that the...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoWaldouck handed first Saints start against Leinster
New Northampton Saints signing Dominic Waldouck has been selected to make his home debut for his new club in tomorrow’s pre-season...
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Featured
/ 14 years agoTommy Bowe is back home to help Ulster maintain momentum
Tommy Bowe is back home with Ulster Rugby and reveals that envy, as much as ambition, will be driving him on...
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20 Questions
/ 14 years ago20 Questions: Tomas O’Leary – London Irish scrum half
How are you settling in at London Irish? It’s been good so far and I’m getting to know the boys now....
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Champions Cup
/ 14 years agoNorthampton captain Dylan Hartley urges Saints to shake off that losers’ tag
Saints captain Dylan Hartley has demanded his side shake off their tag as the nearly men of English rugby. While Northampton...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 14 years agoExeter winger Matt Jess: “Team ethic is only concern for Chiefs”
When Bath chairman Bruce Craig told the club’s end-of-season dinner that there wasn’t a single player in his side whom he...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Quins have the players to create their own dynasty
Harlquins deserve a round of applause. I like the way they play the game. Being prepared to play an attacking game...
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Moment In Time
/ 14 years agoMoment in Time: Harlequins and the 2004 Challenge Cup Final
They enjoy dramatic finishes at Harlequins. And there was none more thrilling than the 2004 Parker Pen Cup final at Reading,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 14 years agoPeter Jackson: Lions’ roar takes on a different sound now
A Lions Test team selected at the end of the World Cup last October would have been a straightforward exercise –...
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Man Behind The Match
/ 14 years agoMan Behind the Match: Brian O’Driscoll and the 2000 Six Nations’ France Ireland
There are certain moments in sport when a realisation dawns that what you are watching is not run-of-the-mill; an extraordinary talent...
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Peter Jackson
/ 14 years agoPeter Jackson: Dead-eye Dan Biggar can be the man for Wales again
He finished the season in thoroughbred style sith seven straight wins, running an attack responsible for averaging almost four tries a...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Come on Stuart Lancaster, make us more like Harlequins than Sarries
Listening to Stuart Lancaster talk about his England rugby team, the words are pretty familiar. There’s nothing unusual, nothing that makes...















