All posts tagged "Nick Cain"
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Letters
/ 3 years agoBetter ways to combat concussion problem
THE RFU’s ill-conceived law trial banning tackles above the waist again highlights the failure of rugby’s administrators to end the injuries...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoWith this record, it’s time Sweeney headed to the exit
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Bill Sweeney will be looking over his shoulder as the Six Nations gets...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years ago‘New’ England need to take their chances
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK A SIX Nations slip-up on home turf to Scotland in his first match...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime this autocratic RFU is held to account
NICK CAIN The warning signs that the RFU’s administrative standards have plumbed the depths became a red flashing light on Friday...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoRFU has no right to deliver this low blow
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The RFU has just introduced one of the biggest changes to the game...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoSeason 2 Episode 1 – Picking an England XV with Lewis Moody
Happy new year! The Rugby Paper Podcast is back for its second season, and at the turn of World Cup year,...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEngland need scrum firing on all cylinders
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Here is a New Year prediction. The scrum will be hugely influential in...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime to ban the curse of the caterpillar
NICK CAIN The stop-watches are in play with a view to speeding-up the game by putting time limits on goal-kickers, setting...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoSelection maze the big test for Borthwick
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Borthwick’s brave new world, launched on Monday when he was confirmed as...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoEpisode 44 – The Sackings Special
In a momentous week for home nations rugby, we bring you a special episode of The Rugby Paper Podcast. Host Ollie...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 3 years agoSouth Africa’s power machine crushes England into submission
By NICK CAIN England............................... 13pts Tries: Slade 72 Conversions: Farrell 73 Penalties: Farrell 14, 46 South Africa..................... 27pts Tries: Arendse 33,...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoJohnson’s 2003 team better than Eddie’s lot
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There are those who believe that today’s international players are bigger, better, faster,...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEngland’s all-court game was not good enough
NICK CAIN England showed great dignity – captain Sarah Hunter in particular – after being beaten 34-31 by New Zealand in...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime for ruthless focus and an iron discipline
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The 2022 autumn series is within touching distance, and with it comes a...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEngland facing toughest test yet
NICK CAIN England are the favourites to win the Women’s World Cup, but they will only be put to the acid...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBaron calls for radical review to save game
By NICK CAIN Francis Baron, one of the most authoritative figures in Rugby Union administration, has called for a radical root-and-branch...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoDitch the skulduggery and dismantle the cartel
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The most critical element of any reorganisation of England’s professional club league structure...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoWaltzing Dempsey’s false step
NICK CAIN Crash ball: Jack Dempsey playing for Australia against Fiji at 2019 World Cup PICTURE : Getty Images The last...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoWasps demise a ‘very sad situation’ – Fitzpatrick
New Zealand legend Sean Fitzpatrick expressed his sadness as at the news of Wasps going into administration, on this week’s The...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoEpisode Thirty-Six with Sean Fitzpatrick
For episode 36 we have a full house of columnists (Nick Cain, Brendan Gallagher and Chris Hewett) joining host Ollie Little,...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoMake sure the laws are applied fairly
BOTH Nick Cain and Paul Rees addressed (9/10/22) the high scoring nature of games so far this season which includes a...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoAmnesia in rugby’s corridors of power
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Then there were 12. Less than a month into the new season, the...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Thirty-Three with Mark Evans
Some very sad and alarming news this week as Worcester Warriors went into administration amidst a financial crisis in the Gallagher...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 3 years agoIn Sunday’s Rugby Paper
It’s a huge weekend of rugby, as the Rugby Championship reaches its conclusion, and there are some big games in the...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime for England to get Sevens game in order
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is no nation in the Rugby Union family that was not disrupted...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoOspreys can reach play-offs – Booth
Ospreys boss Toby Booth has set his sights on the URC play-offs this season, after his side earned a place in...
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Podcast
/ 3 years agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Thirty-One with Toby Booth
Ahead of the United Rugby Championship getting underway this weekend, host Ollie Little and columnists Nick Cain and Chris Hewett are...
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Latest News
/ 3 years ago£500m debt could bury 13-club cartel
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK If Premiership owners had made the same mistakes in the multi-million pound enterprises...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTime for England to get act together
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK We are a year out from the 2023 World Cup – and three...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoEngland’s Jersey trip leaves RFU all at sea
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK English club rugby has never been more in need of coherent, strong, farsighted...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 3 years agoIn this week’s Rugby Paper – available on Sunday
Though it might seem this has been something of a quiet week for rugby with the new season yet to get...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSo unfair that Ireland are on this path of pain
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Ireland have become the green giants of the game after doing what no...
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Columnists
/ 3 years agoMayor ban highlights dangers of HGH
NICK CAIN The four-year ban given to Chris Mayor (right), the former Sale, Northampton and Wasps centre, after the RFU charged...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoShow us the money men in Premiership
NICK Cain wrote about ‘the complete contradiction at the heart of the Premiership of having a salary cap at the same...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoLawes the enforcer as England take series
By NICK CAIN Australia............17pts Tries: Wright 25, Fainga’a 66 Conversions: Lolesio 26, 67 England ..............21pts Penalties: Lolesio 31 Tries: Steward 40+1,...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoA veil of secrecy which keeps us all in the dark
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is a complete contradiction at the heart of the English Premiership having...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoAll square as England bring down Wallabies
By NICK CAIN Australia............17pts Tries: Tupou 37, Kerevi 48 Conversions: Lolesio 39, 50 Penalties: Lolesio 54 England ............25pts Tries: B Vunipola...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBeware promises in the land of the free
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE USA may bill itself as “the land of the free, and the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoLife in the front row is tough for Stuart
NICK CAIN All Test props have to relish the head-to-head confrontations with their opposite number, and the chance physically and psychologically...
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Columnists
/ 3 years agoEngland need to rewrite the script quickly
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The roll call for England’s three-Test tour of Australia reads as follows: two...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoEddie beware! This beast holds all the keys
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK IN the last fortnight Eddie Jones and his England squad have had a...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoFrance are the giants, Prem just sleeping
NICK CAIN THE English Premiership has just been described as a “sleeping giant” of sport by Simon Massie-Taylor, its chief executive....
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoPlan for life without Manu
NICK CAIN MANU Tuilagi’s latest knee operation, which rules him out of England’s summer tour to Australia, shows just how precarious...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 years agoEurope’s elite clubs are facing trip into unknown
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE European Cup final in Marseille was not billed as a watershed moment,...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoEurope’s best too hot for England
NICK CAIN IT took the 2022 European Cup until the quarter-finals before it delivered in terms of the quality and drama...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoBucketloads of tries not a winning formula
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK AT the same time as Bath collapsed to a record 64-0 defeat against...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoOverseas players leave little room at 12
NICK CAIN IF you are perplexed by England’s lack of choice when it comes to big inside centres as potential replacements...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoNo place in the game for abuse of officials
NICK CAIN THERE was a recent commentary that referees are over-protected and should not be immune from criticism, particularly by pro...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoShake up tired Six Nations fixture list
NICK CAIN THE Six Nations chief executive, Ben Morel, is not slow to pat himself on the back, over-hyping the last...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoWhat to find in Sunday’s The Rugby Paper
The Rugby Paper returns this Easter Sunday as we once again focus on the European Champions and Challenge Cups. What can...
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