All posts tagged "Lions"
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Features
/ 5 years agoFoulkes sees Coventry cast off their millstone
MOMENT IN TIME COVENTRY 1982-83 SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MERIT TABLE WINNERS NEIL FISSLER TALKS TO DAVID FOULKS AND PETER ROSSBOROUGH THE Seventies...
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/ 5 years agoRennie to coach the Baa-baas
RUGBY SHORTS AUSTRALIA head coach Dave Rennie and Wales assistant coach Jonathan Humphreys will take charge of the Barbarians against Samoa...
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/ 5 years agoSanderson: Saracens are favourites for Premiership title
ALEX Sanderson has piled the pressure on his old Saracens pals by labelling them firm favourites to lift the title again....
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoQuade Cooper back, just like Morne
MORNE Steyn couldn’t have known that what he did to the Lions last month would become something of a global trend....
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Features
/ 5 years agoIf we had Battle of Gnoll now we’d all be in jail!
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER LIONS, WALES, NEATH, OSPREYS, RICHMOND AND BRISTOL HOOKER BARRY WILLIAMS Good memories: Barry Williams playing...
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/ 5 years agoCliff used diplomacy to get what he wanted
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER ON the 1955 tour to South Africa, Cliff Morgan was absolutely key to the Lions prospects and...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoAussie agents in hot pursuit of Luke Cowan-Dickie
LUKE Cowan-Dickie is on the radar of Australian NRL clubs after Eddie Jones said the Exeter hooker would make a fantastic...
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/ 5 years agoDrake connecting dots at Warriors
By PAUL REES Last league win: Worcester beat London Irish on opening day of 2020-21 season PICTURES: Getty Images WORCESTER have...
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/ 5 years agoBorthwick knows his captains, have faith!
MANY an eyebrow has shifted in a northerly direction since the news broke late last month, but Steve Borthwick knows what...
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National League 2E
/ 5 years agoDebutant Trewin shining star for Redruth
By BILL HOOPER Redruth....................27 Leicester Lions....... 5 REDRUTH got their season off to a perfect start with a bonus point win...
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/ 5 years agoForthcoming fixtures
It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs Weekend beginning Friday September 10, 2021 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10...
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/ 5 years agoZero tolerance is still way forward insists Blackett
■By PAUL REES LEE Blackett believes there should be no let-up in the drive to eliminate dangerous challenges after referees showed...
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/ 5 years agoTwice-retired Swinson sets his sights on silverware
■By GARY FITZGERALD TIM Swinson has twice changed his mind about hanging up his boots due to the strong lure and...
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/ 5 years agoSuperpowers take showdown to tropics
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS cursed Pandemic has taken us down some...
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Features
/ 5 years ago‘We chased the Prem dream and went bust’
LONDON Welsh might have been a powerhouse in the amateur era of the 1960s and 1970s, supplying seven members of the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBoobbyer quit at his peak to aid post war reconciliation
BRIAN Boobbyer was arguably Uppingham’s finest ever rugby player – certainly in modern times – but, as a committed Christian who...
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/ 5 years agoWarriors will attack from the back says Forbes
■By GARY HEATLY COLE FORBES believes the new-look Glasgow Warriors back three will click quickly and play a fast brand of...
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/ 5 years agoLast man standing Moon eyes more glory
■By PAUL REES AND then there was one. Ben Moon is the last survivor from the squad that won Exeter promotion...
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/ 5 years agoMorgan opts for Warriors coaching gig
LONG-SERVING Cornish Pirates player and coach Chris Morgan is leaving the Championship club to take a coaching role at Worcester’s academy....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 5 years ago3 Brand Merchandising Lessons to Learn from Rugby World Cup Tournaments
Organised sports and competitions are an integral part of human civilisation. From the time of the earliest Olympics, men, women, and...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoLions lose their direction in more ways than one | Peter Jackson
As Lions tours grow shorter, their destinations are limited to big cities. Peter Jackson looks at some of the lesser known...
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/ 5 years agoGatland didn’t help himself
WHEN the Springboks suggested a second match against their A team to fill a void in the fixture list, Lions head...
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/ 5 years agoI’ve changed my mind now says Warburton
FORMER Lions captain Sam Warburton says he has changed his view over a concern expressed in his autobiography that a player...
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Features
/ 5 years agoName-change for Cardiff is a home-coming for legend Peter
Q&A ON THE RECORD PETER THOMAS Benefactor: Peter Thomas is Cardiff’s geatest backer Peter Thomas played for Cardiff in the 1960s...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS
Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players LYDIA THOMPSON THIS WEEK... WORCESTER WINGER Winger Lydia Thompson has...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 5 years agoI sat on the bench for four years unused! | Jeff Probyn
Substitutes, replacements, tactical subs, impact players or finishers... whatever you like to call them they are the bone of contention for...
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/ 5 years agoArgentina 10-29 South Africa: Handre Pollard puts boot into the misfiring Pumas telling
A penalty-ridden affair sees the Springboks beat the Pumas for the second-straight week
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/ 5 years agoSuper Hooper deserves to stand with greats
THIRTY years ago, Bishop Wordsworth’s of Salisbury lost a national schools cup final to King Edward VI of Stratfordupon-Avon by the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoAlun Wyn Jones four letter faux-pas | Peter Jackson
TWELVE men – four Irish, four Welsh, two English, two Scottish – have captained the Lions over the last 50 years,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLion king Tony learnt how to be a winner by losing at Belvo
IT’S a close-run thing but Belvo’s most famous rugby alumni is probably still Sir Anthony O’Reilly. O’Reilly was a staggering schoolboy...
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/ 5 years ago‘I want to compete with Marcus’, says Harlequins signing Tommy Allan
The Italy fly-half discusses his arrival at Harlequins this summer and the competition that awaits against Marcus Smith
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoJonathan Davies fighting for his future in Welsh midfield
Captain for Wales this summer, Jonathan Davies sees plenty of competition coming his way in the national team
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/ 5 years agoCut subs to force front five to get fit, says Cardiff S&C guru Trystan Bevan
Trystan Bevan shares the view of Ian McGeechan and Willie John McBride that the number of replacements must be reduced
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/ 5 years agoCardiff strive for more with Bok four looming
CARDIFF chairman Alun Jones has told his team and Welsh rugby as a whole they will have to raise their game...
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/ 5 years agoEnd this Springbok farce says Lions ace
■By GARY FITZGERALD SOUTH AFRICA’S goslow spoiling tactics against the Lions must finally force rugby chiefs into taking urgent action to...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoThe club hoping to make Scotland ace Finn Russell rugby’s richest man
Michael Cheika wants to bring the star of the third Lions Test to Japan
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Features
/ 5 years agoWalter’s old England shirt could fetch £40k
A SHIRT from one of England’s earliest international matches will go under the hammer this week and is expected to make...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoSilence over Erasmus punishment is deafening | Shane Williams
Mixed messages from World Rugby have given the wrong impression of what rugby's core values are, writes Shane Williams
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThe sterile Lions Tests are killing the game | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett on how the boredom set in watching the three Lions Tests this summer
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoNo risk, no reward for Gatland’s stolid Lions | Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson looks at some of the contentious moments on the field during the 2021 Lions tour
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoTimes when the Lions were fouled by the officials
Nick Cain on why the neutrality of referees is imperative to Lions tours, as history can attest
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Features
/ 5 years agoBoycott South Africa until SARU put house in order | Colin Boag
For me the result of the Lions Test series was irrelevant, as the focus in the coming months has to be...
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Former England scrum-half Dewi Morris
Former British & Irish Lions, England, Orrell and Sale scrum-half Dewi Morris chooses the best XV he has played with or...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoLions should ditch Boks slog for Buenos Aires party | Brendan Gallagher
If Rassie Erasmus deems it fit to tarnish the integrity of a Lions tour with his crashing bore of a video,...
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/ 5 years agoWorcester Warriors go green for brighter future
The Premiership club have pledged to reduce their climate footprint, director Peter Kelly outlines how the Warriors are overhauling their ways...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoOwen Farrell Lions snub means he misses a major milestone | Peter Jackson
Owen Farrell stands in some esteemed company as England and Lions fly-half
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/ 5 years agoEven the All Blacks honoured the quality of full-back Terry Price | Peter Jackson
The Welsh full-back revered by the Kiwis during the late 1950s
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoSpringboks are best one-trick pony in world rugby | Jeremy Guscott
Jeremy Guscott on just how difficult the Springboks are to beat
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoBattle-weary Springboks are one of great modern sides | Daniel Gallan
Daniel Gallan wraps up the meaning of the Springboks to South Africa after their triumph in the third Test
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLions series needed Buzz Aldrin at full-back | Chris Hewett
There are those revered for their kicking ability over the decades, but the sport has changed its dynamics and expectations since...
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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