All posts tagged "Nick Cain"
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: England’s U20 stars would thrive at Rio Olympics
Here’s hoping that the GB Sevens side for the Rio Olympics which was announced last week come back from Brazil with...
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/ 10 years agoNick Cain talks to Nigel Wray and Simon Halliday about the Club v Country crisis
When the new club-country accord between the RFU and the Premiership is announced on Monday, unless there is a cast-iron clause...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: European scales look finely balanced at last
Where’s the ‘pool of death’? That’s the first thought that struck me when looking at the European Cup draw announced this...
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/ 10 years agoNick Cain marks the England touring party
Test players Dylan Hartley (c) Top-quality leadership. Attended impressively to the core skills of hooking, and the longer he stayed out...
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/ 10 years agoNick Cain: Now England must strive for sustained excellence
If outside praise makes you as weak as Eddie Jones says, then England are in grave danger of shuffling out on...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoShakespeare lover Paul Hill is writing his own drama
Paul Hill is a 21-year-old who has relished being stuck between a rock and a hard place during England‘s victorious tour...
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/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: ‘Respect’ is the key to James Haskell’s rejuvenation
James Haskell is proof that you can’t keep a good man down. The sheer storm-force belligerence with which he bowled over...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Eddie Jones turns the tables on his Aussie tricksters
England have won the Test series…and head coach Eddie Jones has won the mind games just as conclusively. Yesterday’s succes in...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Slave-driver Eddie Jones will whip squad into shape
Phil Kearns is no shrinking violet, and this week he launched a clever strike aimed at destabilising the England squad coached...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain looks at the Wallabies’ key personel
All’s fair in love and war – and baggage searches – when England play Australia in any sport. That’s why, after...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Self-policing the salary cap wrong from the off
The salary cap “investigation” surrounding Saracens and Bath last season, and the stampede by almost every other club in the Premiership...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain’s Team of the Year
When Saracens became the first Premiership side to win the European Cup for eight years in Lyon a fortnight ago, they...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Lions tour schedule devised by donkeys
A year from now the 2017 Lions will be travelling to the other end of the world with the aim of...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Wallabies will be formidable on fast ground Down Under
George Smith has always defied convention, and the 35-year-old veteran Aussie openside continues to do so, capping his first – and...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Mercenaries under fire as Agustin Pichot cries foul
Agustin Pichot was always a visionary scrum-half and the former Argentine captain has wasted no time in getting stuck into the...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Saracens can batter down the gates of Europe
Two years ago Saracens hit the wall. Then, as now, there was a European and Premiership double for the taking, but...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: This jealous snub only undermines the awards
There is something badly amiss in the shortlist for the 2016 Players’ Player of the Year award. The absence of a...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Andrew Cosslett’s new broom sweeps out Rob Andrew
Rob Andrew’s departure from the RFU as their professional rugby director may have been presented as a long-planned exit, but his...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Joe Lauchbury is fixing a steely gaze on his new challenges
Joe Launchbury knows what it is like to be the young, blue-eyed boy of the England pack. The Wasps lock also...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Mercenaries must be mixed with local talent
Jake White’s mercenary march at Montpellier has been gathering a head of steam. South Africa‘s 2007 World Cup-winning coach may have...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain: Nathan Hughes must prove he has the clout to withstand the wolfpack assault
When it comes to individual clashes the Wasps against Saracens line-ups in the European Cup semi-finals at the Madejski flash like...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain: No bluffing, Eddie Jones wants improvement– and fast!
If anyone was under any illusions about the relentless work-rate that Eddie Jones expects of himself, and, more significantly, of those...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain Column: Refs must crackdown to prevent this abuse
The growing unease in English Rugby Union’s refereeing ranks about the rise in football-style abuse of officials, as well as a...
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/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Gypsygate opens a can of worms for World Rugby
Where does offensive, derogatory or discriminatory language, or behaviour, begin and end? That is the question that World Rugby are going...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: James Haskell can add muscle to GB’s bid for Rio gold
Great Britain’s campaign to become the first team to win Sevens gold at the Rio Olympics is in such dire straits...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain talks to Eddie Jones about the way ahead for his Grand Slam team
Eddie Jones clearly believes in the saying that “success starts on Monday”. No sooner had the England head coach returned from...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain picks his Lions team based on their Six Nations form
It may still be some 14 months before the British & Irish Lions leave these shores to take on the formidable...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Lay off Joe Marler, PC brigade – boys will be boys!
When did the word gipsy, which has been used to describe Romany people in Britain for centuries, become non-permissible? To my...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoSean Fitzpatrick: Lions will have the talent to test All Blacks
Sean Fitzpatrick and Jason Robinson come from different sides of the rugby spectrum in every sense, but this week the indestructible...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain’s column: Kurtley Beale’s hit jackpot, now he must deliver
Kurtley Beale has made a habit of unsettling Australia‘s rugby suits, and he was at it again this week with the...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Cage this monster by downsizing the game
The biggest monster facing the healthy future of Rugby Union is the ‘Nanny State’, and it is far more dangerous than...
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/ 10 years agoChris Robshaw: I’ll blank out RWC pain to beat Wales
Chris Robshaw has more reason than any player on the planet to bear a grudge against Warren Gatland‘s Wales. The two...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain talks to Quins’ Aussie hard man James Horwill
James Horwill is part of an Aussie invasion that has taken English rugby by storm this season. However, the big former...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: No prizes for tact, but Eddie Jones was honest about Jonny Sexton
The attempt to bracket the Eddie Jones comments about Jonathan Sexton over the fitness of the Irish fly-half to play Test...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Nothing Super about these new franchises
It’s the start of the new, expanded Super 18 season next weekend, but the rumblings of discontent south of the equator...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoEddie Jones – We’re playing with the big boys now
The second division instalment of the Six Nations is over, and, despite away wins over Scotland and Italy, England have done...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Bonus points would make Six Nations even better
The World Cup has them, and so does the European Champions Cup. So, too, does the Rugby Championship, the Southern Hemisphere’s...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: All that cash is going down Bath plughole
Is money the root of all evil at Bath? It was something for their fans to ponder as last season’s Premiership...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain talks to former hard man hooker Graham Dawe about what he brought to red rose training
Graham Dawe was the incarnation of uncompromising. That is one of the reasons why Eddie Jones invited the grizzled former Bath...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain: My arrows of desire point to an anthem for England
Having (reluctantly) once had to regale a packed Marseille restaurant with a solo rendition of God Save the Queen on the...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain: Eddie Jones starts off with a laugh, but will the joke be on England?
Just as Eddie Jones and Dylan Hartley were about to hold forth about England’s preparations for Murrayfield a huge gust courtesy...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Can Guy Noves make the real France stand up?
Is Guy Noves a greybeard version of D’Artagnan arriving to put the cut and thrust back into French rugby, or an...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Could Johnno make Lions roar again in New Zealand?
Martin Johnson has not attended many Press conferences since he resigned as England manager just over four years ago. However, he...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain – It’s a breath of fresh air as Eddie Jones gives us his exciting tale of the unexpected
It’s simple, mate: if you’re not in the squad you haven’t done enough to get there. That’s the Eddie Jones approach...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain talks to Gloucester coach Laurie Fisher about the making of world class opensides
If opensides like Australia‘s David Pocock and Michael Hooper, and the recently retired double New Zealand world champion, Richie McCaw, proved...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Good luck to Ian Peel, but don’t forget 2003 guru
Ian Peel has come from the ranks of the RFU’s coaching pathway to being named as England‘s new scrum coach this...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain: Here’s how Eddie Jones could make some big changes
Never underestimate the electric-shock speed at which things can change in our sport. It is just under three months since England...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: Chris Robshaw has to earn his shirt wherever he plays
Chris Robshaw‘s credentials as an honest man were burnished this week when, in his first post-World Cup interview, the incumbent England...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain suggests new England coach Eddie Jones should seize his chance to revamp the scrum
Eddie Jones may have stepped into the Twickenham tunnel with his eyes wide open, but already he is having to negotiate...
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Nick Cain
/ 10 years agoNick Cain column: ‘Gutted’ George Ford will soon get his stuffing back in place
George Ford has had a rough few months. Having been given the vote of no-confidence just before England‘s decisive World Cup...
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