All posts tagged "Nick Cain"
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoMartyn Thomas – “Mark McCafferty should go – he led us into wilderness”
Ever since the Anglo-French club pact was formed Martyn Thomas has predicted that the Top 14 clubs would fold like a...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: World Cup schedule is IRB-made shambles
The England 2015 Rugby World Cup fanfare gets underway for real at Twickenham on Wednesday when the IRB announce their ticketing...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain uncovers the ticking time bomb of Red Rose tour to New Zealand
The buzz-phrase after the autumn series is that ‘England are building’. However, exactly what structure Stuart Lancaster and his side build...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Nick Mallett about the growing threat of South Africa
Nick Mallett knows a thing or two about being in charge of “the most dominant team in the history of the...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Get scrum right Alain – or be kicked into touch
When Alain Rolland was introduced at the Millennium Stadium last weekend as the referee for the Wales v South Africa match...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Stuart Lancaster ducks his big chance to be bold
Little more than a week ago Stuart Lancaster called the next 12 months a “defining year” for his team. The England...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to World-cup winning coach Wayne Smith about the All Blacks, Australia and England
Wayne Smith is hardwired with the All Black genome from the soles of his feet to the last hair on his...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Leave the subs on the bench for better results
There is a ‘tinkerman’ alive and kicking inside every coach, so here’s a plea to Stuart Lancaster, Andy Farrell and Graham...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain assesses the challenge a warring Argentina will set for England this week
Patricio Albacete is Argentina‘s most experienced forward, and is widely regarded as one of the best locks in the game, yet...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain previews Twickenham’s opening match of the autumn internationals
When it comes to being two-faced, Stuart Lancaster‘s England win the prize hands down. The question is which face will we...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Matt Kvesic must play if he’s going to be special K
Matt Kvesic’s early departure from the England squad to play Australia highlights the thorny problem of how far a head coach...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Warren Gatland about the Lions triumph and autumn challenge
Warren Gatland‘s credentials as the best coach in Northern Hemisphere rugby, and arguably the best in the world, have been writ...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Certitudes for England? I can count only two!
Stuart Lancaster‘s head must be in a spin. This is because with only two weeks to go before England open their...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: The bogus water boys are pouring out advice
With Mike Catt giving England coaching directives while on the pitch during Six Nations matches last season, and Neil Jenkins doing...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Exeter’s captain Dean Mumm about the Heineken Cup and Australia’s autumn challenge
Dean Mumm does not hail from anywhere within 10,000 miles of Devon. Yet, the Exeter Chiefs captain, New Zealand born and...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain looks at the opening rounds of the final Heineken Cup
The 19th Heineken Cup has been billed as the last of its kind, the collector’s edition. And winning it will be...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Let George go, Saints, or risk his goodwill
George North is box office, and although he had to wait until last Friday night for his first try for Northampton...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns about his challenge for club and country
Freddie Burns is the sort of fly-half that scares the living daylights out of English coaches almost as much as he...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: These weakened teams undermine competition
There are occasions when it is hard to fathom the workings, and the culture, of the English Premiership. Why, at a...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Bath’s Dave Attwood about his second coming for England
Dave Attwood has that combination of brains as well as brawn that is a treasured commodity in most sports, but in...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Heineken war could harm World Cup 2015
The battle lines have been drawn around the Heineken Cup – or the territory it once occupied – and there is...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Self-interested coaches should not scrutinise refs
While I have sympathy for Premiership Rugby’s bid to secure a more meritocratic Heineken Cup, the initiative by PRL, the administrative...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Worcester’s new director of rugby Dean Ryan about the challenges ahead
Dean Ryan is realistic about Worcester‘s place in the Premiership pecking order. The Warriors are perched precariously on the lower rungs...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Let’s hope England use attack at key word
The pulse always quickens at the start of a new season, and with the Lions‘ first triumph for 16 years still...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: My Sevens squad for Rio has no Sevens stars
Imagine a Great Britain Sevens team for Rio 2016 picked, using a similar model to the Lions, from the best rugby...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Mike Ford about his vision for the revitalisation of Bath
Mike Ford is not promising miracles. Bath‘s new head coach has been around too long to fall into that trap, notably...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Joubert shows refs can’t rule the scrum
Brett Gosper came up with some marketing waffle this week which illustrates how the International Rugby Board have earned a reputation...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Sevens title could be fool’s gold in Brazil
The suggestion that Sonny Bill Williams and Benji Marshall, two of Rugby League’s biggest stars, could be chasing Sevens gold for...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain gives his expert assessment of England’s latest elite squads
Stuart Lancaster’s EPS selection for the new season reveals that England have just a single option in one of the most...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain looks ahead to the 2015 World Cup showdown between England, Wales and Australia
We are six months closer to the 2015 World Cup Pool of Pain, and the Lions victory over Australia provides a...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: North star needs help to twinkle for Saints
When it comes to buying marquee players for the new season no one in the Premiership has done a better job...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Gatland defies the abuse to hit jackpot
What the 2013 Lions tour revealed is that for all the power inherent in the concept of the four Home Unions...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain says Lions’ selection errors would have proved costly in New Zealand
Sam Warburton says that he has no truck with the defeatist claptrap which says that the Lions cannot win in New...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain’s tour overview: Do not underestimate this wonderful triumph
The 2013 Lions roared in Sydney, mauling the Wallabies by a record score, but there are some embittered souls for whom...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain reflects on the highs and lows of the Lions tour leading up to the pivotal Test
The last round of Wallaby jaw-jaw before the battle for the 2013 Test series came to a climax at the ANZ...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: O’Driscoll was lucky even to be on tour
The notion held by some media pundits and fans – not all of them Irish – that Brian O’Driscoll is a...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain’s tour verdict: Gatland shows he has Midas touch
After the gunsmoke had cleared at the ANZ Stadium, the massed ranks of Lions fans waited to cheer on the 2013...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Horwill’s escape is latest great stitch-up
The James Horwill incident is the straw that broke the camel’s back. When the Australian captain was exonerated by Kiwi QC...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Lions tour? Aussies couldn’t give S***!
On the eve of the Brumbies game there was a Wallabies v Lions gala dinner held in the great hall of...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain sizes up the task ahead of the Lions in Saturday’s first Test in Brisbane
Mike Phillips versus Will Genia is the one clash which seems to encapsulate better than any the differences between the Lions...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Remember Finlay Calder and stick with Sam Warburton
Sam Warburton‘s selection as Lions captain was under serious scrutiny before last night’s crushing of the Waratahs, but the Welsh openside...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: The folly of Foley could kill off the Lions tours
Michael Foley played against the 2001 Lions four times. Once at hooker for the Queensland Reds, and three times for the...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain wonders why the Lions have not turned to the obvious choice as they tackle front row crisis
The departure lounges of airports as distant from each other as Durban and Buenos Aires have been busy over the last...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 13 years agoBritish & Irish Lions overcome feisty Queensland Reds
The British & Irish Lions faced their toughest challenge since the start of their tour of Australian but they remained unbeaten...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Chattering refs led to Hartley’s disgrace
There is no escaping the fact that Dylan Hartley‘s sending-off at Twickenham in the Premiership final last weekend cost Northampton the...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: First blood to Lions as toxic Quade gets ‘axed’
The slabs of red meat are one up already! The sledging war initiated by our Aussie mates ahead of the arrival...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain talks to Leicester’s Tom croft about his double challenge of Premiership final and Lions tour
Tom Croft has an attribute that few international forwards possess, including those back rowers alongside him in the 2013 Lions squad:...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain says the tour party to Argentina represents a sea-change for England
The grass-roots setting of Barnes RFC is an unlikely location for game-changing decisions at the apex of the English elite game....
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Put star players outside salary cap
What has happened to the once proud record of English clubs in Europe? When Saracens slipped out of the Heineken Cup...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain: Football could yet kick RWC 2015 into touch
There were cautionary notes amid the fanfare for England‘s 2015 World Cup when the schedule and venues were announced at Twickenham...
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