All posts tagged "Lions"
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Features
/ 6 years agoGethin’s a great fit for Sam’s sizeable shoes
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It was a bit of a shock reading the news about Sam Warburton stepping down...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThomas fears for ‘lost’ generation
By GARY FITZGERALD GARETH Thomas fears the strict government stance over Covid may cost the game many of its potential future...
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Features
/ 6 years agoNiall targets first Irish ton at Warriors
TOM VALE talks to Worcester Warriors’ multi-talented hooker Niall Annett Niall Annett must be one of the most respected and admired...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoEaling Trailfinders sign Worcester back row target
Ambitious Championship club Ealing sign bulked back row formerly of Southern Kings
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Features
/ 6 years agoHookey deserves a fitting send-off
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I HAVEN’T bought it yet, but James Hook’s new book Chasing a Rugby Dream will...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWillie John’s view on the Lions will be valid always
WARREN Gatland was back ‘home’ in Wales this weekend running the rule over some familiar faces at the Liberty Stadium. In...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoStockdale shines but Welsh flop before Gats
By ROGER PANTING ULSTER captain Ian Henderson was sent off in the 75th minute but his side were already home and...
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/ 6 years agoQueen’s Birthday Honours for rugby quartet
WALES captain Alun Wyn Jones, former skipper Gareth Thomas, ex-head coach Warren Gatland and former England captain Sue Day are among...
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/ 6 years agoCooney’s left out in the cold by Farrell
ULSTER scrum-half John Cooney has been left out of Ireland’s squad for the final two rounds of the Six Nations. Connacht’s...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHaskell broke the oldest rule
Boys on tour: James Haskell, top left, with clockwise Simon Shaw, Nick Easter, Chris Ashton and Dylan Hartley in 2011. Shaw...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAdams isn’t the quickest in Wales but he’s most deadly
By ROB COLE JOSH Adams is confident of scoring whenever he gets the ball, but he would still never back himself...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoLlandovery’s supply line pre-dates WRU
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Monkey fight: Llandovery do battle with Christ College Brecon in 1961...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoManu Tuilagi facing lengthy lay-off for Sale and England
A big blow for Sale and England as centre is confirmed to have suffered torn Achilles
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years agoPremiership may not return until 2021 in risk to Lions tour schedule
One Premiership chairman has told TRP it could take 'five to eight years' for clubs to recover from financial impact of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoEdinburgh boss Richard Cockerill has his say on the financial threat facing pro clubs
Cockerill talks Monday night PRO14 games and the global emergency facing rugby clubs and unions
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoVunipola: Vincent Koch showed he is the best tighthead on the planet
England prop Mako Vunipola lauds the individual performance of Saracens teammate Vincent Koch in the win over Leinster
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRory’s delight after epic win in All Black country
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 6 years agoBritish & Irish Lions 2021 kit sponsor Vodafone pay up far beyond 1997 tour’s level
Jack Zorab talks to the man who brokered Scottish Provident getting on the centre of the Lions jersey on the tour...
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Features
/ 6 years agoParling joins the ambitious exiles
THERE is no bigger home bird than me. I still live in the village in which I was born and home...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoValue of Lions shirt soars despite coronavirus
By JACK ZORAB VODAFONE’Ssponsorship of the 2021 Lions tour will be in the region of a staggering 1,800 per cent mark-up...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRegions would benefit from having Welsh leadership, says Robin McBryde
Leinster forwards coach Robin McBryde shares his view on no Welsh region having a Welsh head coach
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Handre Pollard a doubt for Lions tour after ACL horror
James Harrington recaps the second round of Top 14 action, in which £1m man Pollard was dealt a cruel blow
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Bill Sweeney’s legacy will hinge on talks with Premiership
Sweeney's skill for collective bargaining will be his biggest test, writes Jeff Probyn
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Features
/ 6 years agoSweeney’s legacy will depend on Prem talks
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Rich pickings: Players are paid more to represent England than any other...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: James Whitcombe keeping the great prop dynasty alive
Four generations of Whitcombes that are steeped in history and, in young Leicester prop James' case, promise
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoFormer Gloucester coach linked with Georgia role
Georgia are being lined up to replace Japan in the Eight Nations tournament this autumn
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoLet Lions play on without travelling supporters
THE suggestion by Jurie Roux, the South African rugby chief executive, that the 2021 Lions tour could be postponed if coronavirus...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhitcombe keeping the great prop dynasty alive
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The cradle of rugby’s oldest bespoke manufacturing business can be found across the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: No room for ‘Razor’ in Gatland’s Lions
Scott Robertson is looking for an out after being overlooked for the All Blacks job by NZ Rugby, writes Nick Cain
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Features
/ 6 years agoBrilliant Logie was the forerunner of modern Sevens
Top talent: Laughland FIJI might be the Sevens kings but it’s worth remembering that Scotland invented the game and, it is...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoBattered Hartley’s bitter ode to dying of the light
DYLAN Hartley might have preferred something more poetic when he was axed as England captain by Eddie Jones. Something like the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoHume worked miracles at Ampleforth
Star: Basil Hume in Ampleforth 1st XV, 1940 IT’S a funny thing but in the 850 odd years since Britain last...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWINTERBOTTOM RATES HIS RIVALS AT NO.8
THE best No.8s Peter Winterbottom played with, and against, reads like a Who’s Who of one of the most influential positions...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBAFTA got it right – ITV were spot on
On camera: Owen Farrell tries to grab try-scorer Cheslin Kolbe in the final PICTURE: Getty Images ONE of the marvels of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby used to be for all sizes
THEgame has changed… if I had a pound for every time I’ve heard that, rich I might be. But has the...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoIeuan Evans joins race to be the next chair of WRU
Incumbent WRU chairman Gareth Davies faces challenges from Ieuan Evans and Nigel Davies
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoJamie Roberts makes return to Wales with Dragons move
Jamie Roberts has made a sensational return to Welsh rugby by signing for the Dragons. The Wales and British & Irish...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Leicester Tigers hooker Archie Vanes
A player likely to be in the England U20s set-up for next year's Six Nations after starring for the U18s
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Features
/ 6 years agoRFU should get grassroots playing again, not the Prem
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Scrum is danger area: Sixteen players in a tiny space breathng the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoLlanelli is breeding ground for Wales – Fisher
By ROB COLE PAUL Fisher has lost count of the number of caps won by the players who have come through...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHewett column: Heads out of the bunker chaps and point the way!
The sound of silence across the spectrum of rugby's powerbrokers is profound during this crisis, writes Chris Hewett
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHeads out of the bunker chaps and point the way!
Lady Godiva’s dress-down ride through Coventry; Sir Thomas Fairfax’s rout of the Royalist forces south of Bristol; the first stirrings of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWebbe had an answer for racism: Laugh at it
Ground-breaker: Glenn Webbe playing for Wales against Scotland Glenn Webbe has never been one to blow his own trumpet. Had he...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRuthless Haden is fighting his final battle
ANDY HADENwould be faintly amused to learn that he has now headed the list of rugby outlaws wanted in Wales for...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoWoodward’s Holy Trinity were just untouchable
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBurnt by Jason, run over by Jonah -I’m not alone!
THE FORMER AUSTRALIA,QUEEN SLAND REDS ANDWORCESTER FULL-BACK ANDCURRENT HEAD COACH OFUTAH WARRIORS -as told to Jon Newcombe MYLIFEINRUGBY CHRIS LATHAM I...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Kiwi knives are out for ‘dud’ Gatland
The Chiefs remain winless in Super Rugby Aotearoa, faring little better than before lockdown
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 6 years agoBritish & Irish Lions tour to South Africa to go ahead as scheduled in 2021
The pandemic nor fixture congestion will impact the Lions tour of South Africa in 2021, as Lions announce tour to go...
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