All posts tagged "New Zealand"
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoHow Clem seized once in a lifetime opportunity
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Even now, more than 20 years after his death, Clem Thomas remains as...
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Features
/ 9 years agoShields pins his colours to Wasps
HURRICANES captain Brad Shields is understood to have signed for Wasps in a bid to make England’s World Cup squad. Following...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoEngland will improve this year, but so will All Blacks
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Improved carrying force: Joe Launchbury took it to Australia PICTURE: Getty Images To close the...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoIreland turn the screw with three-try flourish
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER IRELAND, with a performance of growing authority and excellence, dismissed South Africa from their presence to get their...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoBig place in history for the famous Lithuanian émigrés
LOUISWashkansky and Cecil Moss shared something in common before their paths crossed almost exactly 50 years ago in a way neither...
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Features
/ 9 years agoAussies offer acid test of Eddie’s back row mobility
Payback. It’s 4-0 to ‘English’ Eddie Jones on Michael Cheika’s watch, and that bashing by the Poms will be more toxic...
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Features
/ 9 years agoIt’s a night of Lions magic…
SPECIAL OFFER IT’S a unique occasion – two great Lions captains brought together for a night of stories to remember. Willie...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoWatson closes in on Brown for vote at full-back
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JEREMY GUSCOTT Impressive skillset: Anthony Watson, tackled here by Emiliano Boffelli, shone at full-back PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoEngland warned over new Aussie star Alaalatoa
By NEALE HARVEY ENGLAND’S front row must brace for a torrid time from up and coming Wallabies tight-head Allan Alaalatoa at...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoIt’s the same old song for Wales but they do hit some high notes
By ALEX BYWATER THE HOODOO continued as Wales suffered a 13th straight defeat to Australia who again emphasised their dominance over...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoDon’t despair, Wales moving in right direction
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS New 10-12 axis: Owen Williams and Dan Biggar combine CLOSE, but no cigar!...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoGatland’s boys unveil new tricks but Beale’s Gatland’s boys unveil new tricks but Beale’s
PETER JACKSON PETER JACKSON COMMENT Magician: Wallaby full-back Kurtley Beale As part of their pre-match entertainment, the Wales management treated their...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoHansen recalls Kieran Read to All Blacks squad for Paris visit
New Zealand coach makes 12 changes to matchday squad to take on France
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoCain column: World Cup vote would save Springboks from disaster
(Photo: Getty Images) By Nick Cain With South African rugby on the road to the cliff-edge, the Rugby World Cup board...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoGuscott column: Still time for Yarde to turn his image around at Sale
Jeremy Guscott on the shootout between Yarde and team-mate Denny Solomona to win Jones' favour
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoGet your fire back, Jones tells Courtney
By GARY FITZGERALD Gee up: Courtney Lawes EDDIE Jones has given Courtney Lawes a verbal kick up the backside and told...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoTonga first up for Jones’ would-be world beaters
By SAM JACKSON Champions: New Zealand kick off their defence against South Africa PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND’S opening Pool C game...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoNICK CAIN
World Cup vote would save Boks from disaster READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK With South African rugby on the road...
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/ 9 years agoReddin could get England pack back to 2003 standard
THE decision by Eddie Jones to court Dave Reddin, England’s 2003 World Cup-winning conditioning guru, shows just how difficult it is...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoGreats who starred on and off the field
Cheers: Terry McCashin ONE of the great things about amateur rugby is that so many players enjoyed notable and accomplished lives...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
How Canucks could do with Charron nowadays BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points CANADA have...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMaturing Basta is now model of consistency
Brendan Gallagher makes the case for a recall of Mathieu Bastareaud Toulon’s Mathieu Bastareaud has added skills to his power game...
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Features
/ 9 years agoAnything can happen if France go off piste
BRENDAN GALLAGHER recalls the big upsets as France prepare for next week’s All Blacks clash Mastermind: Jean-Pierre Rives We sometimes get...
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Features
/ 9 years agoBrive’s man of steel was the architect of All Black slaying
Points machine: Christophe Lamaison CHRISTOPHE Lamaison had absolutely no gas and you can count on the fingers of one hand the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWatson ready to home in on Scots No.7 role
By GARY HEATLY HAMISH Watson knows the upcoming Autumn Tests are a chance for the Scotland team to show supporters how...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJEREMYGUSCOTT
Still time for Yarde to turn his image around at Sale OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK New start at Sale: Marland Yarde...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoLook North, Barbarians, before it all goes South
From NICK CAIN at Tiwckenham Opener: Richie Mo’unga scores the first try THIS was more like a New Zealand trial match...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoAbsent England players missed great chance says Baa-baas coach Deans
BARBARIANS coach Robbie Deans, right,insists England missed an opportunity to test their players against New Zealand by preventing them from representing...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoHas any coach ever had more riches to choose from than All Blacks’ Hansen?
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT The All Blacks might only have prevailed by nine points against a wonderfully spirited and inventive Barbarians but...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoWilliams column: Give Owen Williams the reins to drive brave new dawn for Wales
Wales and Lions legend Shane Williams looks at the Wales squad for the autumn internationals and suggests who should start
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 9 years agoRob Howley talks O’Brien, Byrne and his future after the 2019 World Cup
The Wales and Lions coach made peace with Sean O'Brien in 20 minute phone call
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 years agoSet an example with more cash for struggling Samoa
With no mandatory obligation to cough up more money, Colin Boag writes why the RFU should offer cash-strapped Samoa a higher...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoJackson column: Shameful that Newport’s big day is in cold storage
Peter Jackson recalls the forgotten by the masses moment Newport beat the All Blacks
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoEngland set for live scrum test with Wales
By GEORGE LAWRENCE EDDIE Jones will prepare his squad for the rigours of the autumn schedule with live scrummaging sessions against...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoGiveWebb a reprieve demands Rowlands
By PETER JACKSON On the up: Christian Wade celebrates his try for Wasps in their defeat of Northampton PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoGive Owen the reins to drive brave new dawn
Deserves a chance at 12: Gloucester centre Owen Williams PICTURE: Getty Images Finally, my prayers have been answered! I’ve banged on...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoEdwards: No more excuses, we have to get up to speed
By STEFFAN THOMAS TOUGH-TALKING Shaun Edwards has fired Wales an early autumn warning, insisting they can’t afford yet another slow start...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoShameful that Newport’s big day is in cold storage
Winners: Brian Jones and, below, ‘Dick’ Uzzell’s dropgoal goes over Only four club teams have ever beaten the All Blacks and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoWhy Kiwi Parkes will feel at home
HADLEIGH Parkes will be following a well-trodden path when he makes his bow for Wales against South Africa on December 2...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoTime to start the fine-tuning two years out from Japan
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for another intriguing autumn and picks his stars to watch Giant-killers: Scotland beat Australia in the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoFive to follow…
Leone Nakarawa (Fiji): There is a very good case for voting this other worldly Fijian second row as World Rugby player...
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Features
/ 9 years agoTwenty page Lions dossier can help close the gap on All Blacks
EDDIE Jones says that his request for England’s 15- man Lions contingent to write their own reviews of the 2017 tour...
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Features
/ 9 years agoEDDIE JONES ON.…
…Beach training in Portugal We have got a couple of different coaches coming up. Physically some players need something different, mentally...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoSavea set for battle against All Blacks
JULIANSavea will play for the Barbarians against New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday. The winger was left out of New Zealand’s...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCrossword
ACROSS 1. Aussie-born Scotland lock with Edinburgh, Leinster and Sale from 1999 5 3. Saracens and England second row - a...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoAki gets green light as Zebo bombs out
By SAM JACKSON Qualified: Connacht centre Bundee Aki NEW Zealand-born centre Bundee Aki has won his first Ireland call-up for the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoSharks ace McGuigan earns Scotland call-up
By GEORGE LAWRENCE SALE wing Byron McGuigan has forced his way into Gregor Townsend’s Scotland squad with his supreme try-scoring record...
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Features
/ 9 years agoSet an example with more cash for struggling Samoa
COLIN BOAG Making a fist of it: Samoa should be well rewarded for their Twickenham date The new chief executive of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoDanny Hearn – 50 years on: No regrets for the man of steel who beat the odds to walk again
50 years on from breaking his neck against New Zealand, The Rugby Paper meets the England centre to see how that...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWin tickets to see the Barbarians take on New Zealand!
The latest instalment of one of rugby’s greatest rivalries takes place at Twickenham next Saturday, November 4 when the Barbarians face...
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