All posts tagged "Montpellier"
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPicamoles escaped but Montpellier did not …
BACK in the day when Tommy Smith, Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris and their apprentices ruled English football with a rod of iron...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoCockerill rues the famous victory that got away
By PETER WILLIS EDINBURGHmissed a golden chance to cause a major Champions Cup upset in Montpellier after dominating their hosts. As...
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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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Latest News
/ 7 years agoCockerill relishes Warriors’ big European challenge
By GARY HEATLY Tough: Richard Cockerill EDINBURGH Rugby head coach Richard Cockerill has a long history with the Heineken Champions Cup...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoCastres send Euro warning to Premiership
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Gloucester and Exeter had better beware of French title-holders Castres when they both face them in the...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoClermont go crashing to end stress for Teague
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Flawless: Baptiste Serin’s immaculate kicking helped get Rory Teague’s Bordeaux home The vultures circling above the controversial...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoItoje rubbishes French talk and stays at Sarries
New deal: Maro Itoje MARO ITOJE is set to pledge his loyalty to Saracens by penning a new three-year contract with...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoOh for Jonny is lament of Toulon’s sad faithful
DAVID BARNES Off the bench for Toulon: All Black Julien Savea PICTURE: Getty Images Just two games in and a twittered...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoDeano: It’s bubbling here but we need to scrap on
By GARY FITZGERALD Salute: Falcons’ Vereniki Goneva celebrates scoring like Alan Shearer at St James’ Park DEAN Richards admits his Falcons...
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Features
/ 7 years agoThe Fijian Beast could be coming to feast at Bath
Explosive: Josua Tuisova ARE Bath about to break the bank to land Toulon’s superstar winger Josua Tuisova to replace injured England...
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Features
/ 7 years agoFree agent Qera hopes for a joker
BY NEILFISSLER FORMER Gloucester player of the year Akapusi Qera is leaving French side Agen but doesn’t have any plans to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoGoosen’s all set to face Racing boo boys
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Montpellier man: Johan Goosen scores for South Africa against England PICTURE: Getty Images The fixture compilers of...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoBarnes column: The golden generation give hope to Bernard Laporte
David Barnes reacts to Les Bleus Under-20 World Championship victory on home soil
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Features
/ 8 years agoThe golden generation give hope to Laporte
Prodigy: Jordan Joseph was best player of the Junior World Cup PICTURE: Getty Images French rugby boss Bernard Laporte has glimpsed...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEl Abd’s in dreamland after latest miracle job
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Dad’s a hero: Joe El Abd with his children Maya, 6, Gabriel, 8, and Zachary, 4, at...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoApprentice Hansen can be master of Wales
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Four New Zealanders have been touted for the imminent vacancy of running Wales,...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoAshton loses his golden touch at wrong time
DAVID BARNES Dismay: Chris Ashton missed two chances to score, costing Toulon defeat PICTURE: Getty Images FRENCH COLUMN The sureness of...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoJuan Figallo and Duncan Taylor pen new deals at Saracens
Argentinian tighthead extends his stay in North London till 2021
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoChiefs’ red hot rivalry taking Nic to new level
By MIKE SINCLAIR EXETER Chiefs had already won their first Premiership title when former Australia scrum-half Nic White arrived at Sandy...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSpedding dumped by new French red tape
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Outcast: Scott Spedding is finding it impossible to sign for a new club PICTURE: Getty Images Top...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLegends quit Toulon but future is so bright
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Not so happy ending: Wonder wing Bryan Habana is leaving Toulon with a sense of grievance PICTURE:...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoJackson and Olding face bigger trial among public
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK What happens next to Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding is less about them...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoErasmus brings in de Bruin for June campaign
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON LIONS head coach Swys de Bruin will join the Springbok coaching staff on a consultancy basis...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFormer Racing 92 fly-half Johan Goosen to end retirement saga by playing for Cheetahs
25-year-old Goosen set to play rugby for the Cheetahs before joining Montpellier at the end of the season
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Features
/ 8 years agoThat defeat by Clermont will drive Leinster says Lancaster
By NEIL HARVEY LEINSTER backs coach Stuart Lancaster is wary of a Saracens backlash, which comes just a fortnight after their...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSteffon stars but Stade continue to feel the pain
Man of the match: Steffon Armitage starred for Pau against Oyonnax Stade Francais, the one-time giants of French rugby, launched a...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHumiliation for Carter as Racing come back
Racing president Jacky Lorenzetti describes the merger that never was with Stade Francais a year ago as the most painful episode...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoQuins ace is battle-ready after fighting for his life
By NEALE HARVEY Ordeal over: Demetri Catrakilis in action against Newcastle PICTURE: Getty Images Close call: Catrakilis is carried off in...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoNadolo gets behind bid for Pacific Islanders franchise
ISN’T it odd how things come full circle. Back in the supposedly bad old amateur days, the Super Ten competition was...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 8 years agoBrunel rap for putting Jalibert in harm’s way
Mega-boot: Lionel Beauxis is back at fly-half PICTURE: Getty Images It didn’t take long for the club v country rows that...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPacific is washing in waves of talent
WHILE many T1 nations continue to plunder the South Pacific, it might be timely to highlight France’s increasingly fruitful rugby relationship...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFrance find it difficult to feel love for Altrad
DAVID BARNES Montpellier chairman Mohed Altrad, born to a Bedouin tribe in the desert, has built a global empire that turns...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAshton’s alive and kicking at full-back
Showman: Chris Ashton showed some fancy footwork for Toulon PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Ashton hasn’t always shown the fancy kicking that...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLima to Wasps gets NZ alarms buzzing
WITH two seasoned All Black fly-halves, Aaron Cruden (Montpellier) and Colin Slade (Pau), already playing in France’s Top 14, the decision...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoMontpellier outwitted as Leinster nous earns top billing
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER LEINSTER swept into the quarter-finals as top seeds with a clever win over Montpellier, changing their tactics at...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLeaders of Top 14? Chiefs just blow them clean away
By MIKE SINCLAIR Hard yards: Exeter try-scorer Don Armand trucks it up PICTURES: Getty Images In the thick of it: Sam...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoBaxter: Woody is great finisher
ENGLAND boss Eddie Jones has yet to be convinced but Exeter boss Rob Baxter believes that Olly Woodburn and Don Armand...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoKiwis left short at No.10 as Sopoaga signs off
NEWS EXTRA ALL Blacks coach Steve Hansen is disappointed at Lima Sopoaga’s decision to leave New Zealand and sign for Wasps....
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Featured
/ 8 years agoLeinster and Ireland dealt injury blow as Ringrose ruled out for over a month
Centre out for remaining Champions Cup pool matches and first two Six Nations matches
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoStats don’t lie, Chiefs were certainly form team of 2017
By NEALE HARVEY Challenge: Will Chudley SCRUM-HALFWill Chudley insists hard work and humility will ensure Exeter build on a superlative 2017...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRory’s rise just goes on and on in France
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Rory Teague is brandishing a torch abroad as the only English head coach in the Top 14,...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWales advised to consider Vern Cotter as successor to Gatland
Mike Ruddock urges the WRU to consider the former Scotland boss he describes as a 'class act'
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Features
/ 8 years agoGlasgow monstered by unstoppable Nadalo
By JAMES CANDY GLASGOW were powerless to stop Nemani Nadolo from inspiring a European Champions Cup double as Montpellier kept in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoAuthorities must clamp down on thugs ruining game
I WAS delighted to see Glasgow hooker George Turner cop a four-week ban for his ridiculous off the ball shoulder into...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLeinster defeat shows we’re still learning our lesson in Europe – Rob Baxter
The Exeter Chiefs boss reacts to his side's first defeat at Sandy Park in a year
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRFU funding for EQPs gives England a big advantage
JEFF PROBYN Money bags: Top 14 contenders Montpellier have a raft of Test stars including François Steyn and Nemani Nadolo PICTURE:...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCastres hit Toulouse for six in clash of day
FRENCH COLUMN DAVID BARNES Castres team boss Christophe Urios went to Toulouse with the threat of suspension hanging over his head...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoSuper sub Keatley kicks Irish to victory
By DECLAN ROONEY IAN Keatley showed admirable nerve to kick two late penalties and deny Fiji a first win over Ireland....
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRevenge so sweet for Clermont boss Azema
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Clermont boss Franck Azema confessed he found Lyon annoying for signing up his players. His prop Raphael...












