All posts tagged "New Zealand"
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Features
/ 7 years agoOne big wish for 2019… and I’m certain it can come true
SO IT’S NEARLY the end of 2018 and it’s been a great year for Welsh rugby. What is my Christmas wish...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoMitchell has helped us take big steps towards our World Cup goal says Kruis
By NEALE HARVEY Hitting top form: George Kruis made a big impact in the Autumn PICTURE: Getty Images Lock stocks: Courtney...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoExeter Chiefs revival starts with beating Saracens, says Tom Lawday
The Exeter number 8 on the top-of-the-table clash with Sarries
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Latest News
/ 7 years ago8 scrum-halves who guided their team to World Cup glory
A who's who of nines to have lifted the Webb Ellis trophy
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Featured
/ 7 years agoMako Vunipola: ‘The gap is closing on New Zealand’
The loosehead prop talks competition for his place in the England squad, Saracens and New Zealand's favourites tag for RWC2019
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoJackson column: Steve Hansen has known ups and downs like no other
Peter Jackson looks at Steve Hansen's time at the WRU
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEver-improving Mako’s back to show he’s still England’s No.1
■By NEALE HARVEY Loosehead pecking order: Ben Moon, Ellis Genge and Alec Hepburn MAKO Vunipola believes England are genuine World Cup...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoIt’s who they choose, not howthey coach that counts
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE rehabilitation of Stuart Lancaster and Andy Farrell is in full flow, with...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoHansen’s time over
STEVE Hansen says he’s going. But before he hangs up his earpiece for ‘someone new’, the New Zealand coach with a...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoSteve Hansen to step down as All Blacks head coach after World Cup
Weeks of speculation over World Cup-winning coach's future becomes clearer at press conference
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Nick Cain
/ 7 years agoPromotion stays but 16 teams is good move
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Concerns: Ealing Trailfinders have gates of around 1,000 APremiership table in which there is only...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 7 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Te’o gets time off after his England exertions WORCESTER centre Ben Te’o has flown home to New Zealand for a “break”....
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 7 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Kyle off till New Year LEICESTER Tigers centre Kyle Eastmond has received a four-week suspension for a dangerous tackle on Bristol...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoDe Kock column: Northern hemisphere’s no.9s are getting better and better
Neil de Kock analyses the Lions options at scrum-half
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoLate Glover score secures bronze medal for England
DUBAI SEVENS By ADAM ELLIS ENGLAND fought their way to a bronze medal finish in Dubai in leg one of the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBlack Ferns double up as Roses settle for sixth
ENGLAND Women topped their pool with wins over Australia, USA and China to progress to the quarterfinals in Dubai but a...
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Features
/ 7 years agoStats prove it: Ireland are the best
Peter Jackson chronicles the outstanding achievements of the 2018 season Ringmaster: Johnny Sexton New Zealand end the year clinging to the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoUnderhill: It wasn’t perfect but we have much more to come in 2019
By NEALE HARVEY Influential: Sam Underhil on his way to the line against New Zealand before the TMO call PICTURES: Getty...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup winner shot in Pretoria
NEWS EXTRA SOUTHAfrican World Cup winner Naka Drotske is ‘stable’ in hospital after being shot during an armed robbery. The 47-year-old...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoTesting autumn for All Blacks will turn out to be a gift, says Bath’s Todd Blackadder
The former New Zealand captain on the defeats to South Africa and Ireland being a blessing in disguise
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoAphiwe Dyanti and Malcolm Marx added to cosmopolitan Barbarians squad for Argentina clash
Rassie Erasmus has named 13 of his South Africa tourists into the Barbarians group preparing to face Argentina on Saturday. They...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBlackadder: Testing autumn has been a gift for All Blacks
By NEALE HARVEY Under fire: All Blacks’ Sonny Bill Williams NEW Zealand’s November tribulations against England and Ireland will only strengthen...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWessels favourite at Scarlets
■ SARACENS have appointed former London Irish director of rugby Nick Kennedy as head of player recruitment. The 36-year-old had previously...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCambridge are favourites, but we’ll put heart and soul into it
Feeling the pressure: lineout guru George Robson FOR some reason people on the outside looking in tend to assume that the...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup agony is providing motivation says Amor
NEWS EXTRA SIMON Amor has named his 12-man squad for the opening round of the World Sevens Series which takes place...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Visagie joins Gloucester BULLS hooker Jaco Visagie has joined Gloucester on a short-term loan deal to cover Franco Marais. Gloucester boss...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoRobinson: We need leaders to match Faz’s consistency
By JON NEWCOMBE Winner: Jason Robinson Leader: Owen Farrell WORLD CUP hero Jason Robinson believes it is “only a matter of...
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Features
/ 7 years agoBlow for Tigers as Jones stays at Glasgow
Changed mind: Huw Jones LEICESTER Tigers have been dealt a major blow after Huw Jones had a late change of mind...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoStuart Hogg will take us to the next level, says Exeter Chiefs wing Cuthbert
ALEX CUTHBERT is excited at the prospect of playing in an all-British & Irish Lions back-three at Exeter next season following...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoMichael Lynagh has his say on what England-Australia rivalry means to the Wallabies
There's plenty of history between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere giants
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoWill he stay or will he go? Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt to clarify his future next week
The wait is almost over and Schmidt admits it's 'been a long time coming'
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Featured
/ 7 years agoJackson column: Wales must find more to beat the Springboks
Wales have put the fright on South Africa in their past three meetings, but things have changed
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoHow English rugby shattered the All Blacks mystique on the same anniversary as their 2003 World Cup triumph
November 22 is a big day for some in the North West Counties...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: England must beat Wallabies in convincing fashion
Jeremy Guscott questions whether the players who were given a chance against Japan will be trusted against the Aussies
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoStockdale stunner has Dublin delerious
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER IRELAND, for the first time on home soil, beat New Zealand amid extraordinary scenes at a riotous Avia...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoHong Kong and Canada in decider
REPECHAGE CANADA are one point away from a place at next year’s World Cup in Japan after beating Germany 29-10 in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLineout problems or illegal tactics?
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk IT HAS been suggested...
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Features
/ 7 years agoTwiggy’s Rapid Rugby may be fashionable in Oz
COLIN BOAG Ducking the issue: Jerome Garces let TMO Marius Jonker take control Super Rugby, the Southern Hemisphere’s troubled and unloved...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoHogg’s flair can take us to next level – Cuthbert
By JON NEWCOMBE Star signing: Stuart Hogg scores for Scotland against Italy PICTURE: Getty Images ALEX CUTHBERT is excited at the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBoks will be beastly warns Cassiem
UZAIR Cassiem has warned Wales they will face “a different beast” when South Africa arrive in Cardiff on Saturday. Warren Gatland’s...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoEngland find form to erase their first half horror show
From NICK CAIN at Twickenham THE Wallabies have their difficulties but they will not be wobbling after seeing this England display....
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoIrish sign up Kiwi centre
LONDON Irish have signed centre Terrence He petema. The 26-year-old Kiwi has Premiership and Super Rugby experience. Director of rugby Declan...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoDeadeye Drouin seals maiden win
France…30 New Zealand 27 CAROLINE Drouin’s 15- point haul inspired France to their maiden Test victory over New Zealand in a...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: England are finding their courage again
Tenacious performance against the All Blacks is building hope again
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Features
/ 7 years agoLet battle commence for the final place in Japan
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points THE RWC2019 repechage tournament – the first of...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoFarrell debate rages on, but no doubt over scrum frailty
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Aweek has passed but the controversy continues, was it or wasn’t it?...
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Features
/ 7 years agoAnswering the call…
Brendan Gallagher looks at some of the extraordinary rugby players - individuals from all backgrounds, nations and clubs and of differing...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
ALEXCRAIG GLOUCESTER LOCK Alex Craig’s first team debut for Gloucester against Wasps a fortnight ago was a long time coming but...
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