All posts tagged "Premiership"
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSaracens smash six past tyro Tigers
■By DANIEL GALLAN THERE were only a thousand fans in attendance at the rebranded Copthall Stadium, but they found a familiar...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: Will Butler returns from injury for start of Worcester’s Challenge Cup campaign
Selection news for all of the Challenge Cup's opening round of competition, as Worcester Warriors travel to Pau
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Simon Halliday: Revised Euro Cup formats will provide a great narrative
EPCR chairman Simon Halliday opens up on the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup format changes and the prospect of a World...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoHarlequins centre Andre Esterhuizen hit with four-week ban
The Springbok will be unavailable for the next month after catching Gloucester fly-half Lloyd Evans with an elbow
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoExeter captain Jack Yeandle eager for Glasgow Warriors challenge
Yeandle is already looking ahead to the Chiefs' Champions Cup opener against Glasgow after easing past Leicester in the Premiership
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBath weather fly-half storm to canter home
By TOM BRADSHAW A MUSCULAR display by the Bath pack laid the foundations for a bonus-point win that got the West...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoEvans aims to put on a variety show for the fans
By NEALE HARVEY AMBITIOUS fly-half Lloyd Evans says Gloucester will happily eschew a slavish kicking game if his side keep racking...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoPreview: London Irish must up tempo to sap Sharks power
Exiles full-back Tom Homer talks to Neale Harvey ahead of the visit of Sale Sharks to the Brentford Community Stadium on...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSwansong season for Banahan
NEWS EXTRA GLOUCESTER back Matt Banahan will retire at the end of the season. The Jersey-born England international, who won 16 caps...
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Features
/ 5 years agoDiamond says niet
SALE SHARKS boss Steven Diamond has abandoned his bid to tempt a Russian international to move to the AJ Bell Stadium....
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Features
/ 5 years agoAim to be world’s best or quit says Healey
AUSTIN Healy says this is the make or break year for a lot of Leicester’s youngsters and that if they don’t...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoRFU must not cave in to Prem pressure
WITH strong rumours of an attempt to ring-fence the top league at the end of this campaign persisting, it is time...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoCropper’s coming, but not just yet says Deano
By ROB WILDMAN NEWCASTLE continue to defy the pundits and thoroughly deserved this win over a flat and depleted Wasps team....
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBlackett: Gutted as basics let Wasps down
Last season's Premiership finalists fall to successive defeats in 27-17 loss to Newcastle Falcons
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoTigers put up a fight but Chiefs power in for a bonus
By GARY FITZGERALD EXETER’S well-drilled, well-oiled machine ground Tigers into submission with another formidable pack-driven performance at Welford Road. The champions took...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoTEAMS – Round 3: Duncan Weir back for Worcester
Team news for all matches taking place in Round 3 of the Premiership this weekend
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Featured
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Allan Robson: We are home again and want to build our Irish fanbase
London Irish chairman Allan Robson puts into words the significance of the Exiles' return to the capital
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: The control freaks will stifle rugby fans’ interest
Nick Cain responds to Eddie Jones' calls for an end to the 'archaic' rule of naming a squad 48 hours before...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoSouth Africans provide great bang for your buck, says Schalk Brits
There are only two Premiership clubs who have no South Africans amongst their squad
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Features
/ 5 years agoYoung Guns: Saracens back row Ollie Stonham
Neale Harvey speaks to the 19-year-old product of Felsted School in Essex now readying himself for Championship action
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoBristol lead race for out-of-favour Leicester No.10 Tom Hardwick
Hardwick is one of five fly-halves at Welford Road after Tigers recruited heavily at the position this year
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoLeicester prop Ryan Bower hits 50 after ten years at the crease
On the opening day of the season Bower was able to savour a victory on his 50th Premiership appearance
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoThe Lone Ranger rides again with Gorgadze
CHRIS HEWETT Watching Beka Gorgadze play England and Wales on his own was an interesting experience, the young Georgian No.8’s carrying...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoHistory’s on Falcons side
IN THE opening round of the inaugural Premiership in 1997-98, a newly-promoted Newcastle made the long trip to Bath, won against...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoMyth-busting Pumas show Lions the way
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points PERHAPS it’s the boredom of lockdown but I’ve...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWe’re home again and aim to build our Irish fanbase
Q&A ALLAN ROBSON ON THE RECORD London Irish chairman Allan Robson has vast experience in professional club rugby, having previously been...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoGraham chases ‘dream’ season to emulate Dad
By JON NEWCOMBE GARY GRAHAM insists there is no limit to Newcastle’s ambitions this season after they marked their return to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoHigh Wycombe use talent to trump cash
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools IT can be tough work competing against the great private, fee-paying...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoGive Tier 2 countries big games more often
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME With the finals next weekend, the Autumn Nations Cup is all but...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoPhil’s quest for coaching summit starts at Sidmouth
By NEALE HARVEY Player-coach: Phil Dollman FORMER Exeter star Phil Dollman has set his sights on a career in top coaching...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy switch to prop made me a Puma
MY LIFEIN RUGBY ALEX MORENO THE FORMER ITALY, ARGENTINA, LEICESTER, LEEDS, AGEN, BRIVE AND PERPIGNAN PROP IWAS fortune to have some very good...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLoader looks to build rock solid case
By NEALE HARVEY Hot-stepper: London Irish wing Ben Loader PICTURE: Getty Images INSPIRED by the dazzling deeds of England’s Jonny May,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoDitch marquees if you want fair play
Marquee player: Semi Radradra of Bristol Bears COLIN BOAG Last week the Premiership confirmed their new salary cap regulations in a typically...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoThe sizzling Simmonds keep Chiefs steaming on
By GARY FITZGERALD Exeter........................40pts Tries: S Simmonds 11, 30, O’Flaherty 33, Penalty try 62, Hidalgo-Clyne 68, Whitten 77 Conversions: J Simmonds...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoFlood’s late winner nicks it for Falcons
■ By LUKE JARMYN TOBY Flood scored a match-winning try in added time to secure Falcons’ second win on the trot...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoDiamond: We went into panic mode
STEVE Diamond was not a happy man and told his players to sort out their discipline and keep cool heads. Diamond...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoCole relying on Wigglesworth to drive Tigers standards
By NEALE HARVEY LEICESTER prop Dan Cole is backing veteran scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth to help his side surge to their best...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoExiles aim to write a winning first chapter in Brentford
In on the flank: Blair Cowan starts for Irish LONDON Irish make three changes from the side that narrowly lost at...
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Featured
/ 5 years agoSimon Shaw interview – Jamie George has the right temperament to lead Lions
As a two-time tourist with the Lions to South Africa, Shaw explains his thoughts on the players who are captaincy material
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoTEAMS – Round 2: James Grayson and Alex Mitchell to make 50th appearances for Saints
The starting line-ups for all six matches taking place this weekend, with a focus on Northampton versus Harlequins
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoSale Sharks to sign a fourth Du Preez as South African contingent grows
6ft10ins lock JP du Preez is on his way to Manchester from the Cheetahs
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoNew book explains how Rob Baxter’s ascension at Exeter Chiefs wasn’t without detractors
How Tony Rowe offset those doubtful of Baxter to absorb the former lock in his plan for Chiefs glory
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoLeicester Tigers take interest in Harlequins protégé Louis Lynagh
Lynagh is the son of Wallabies great Michael and spent time at Richmond earlier this year
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoHighlights: Six-minute recaps for Round 1 of the Premiership and coach reactions
Video highlights of the opening weekend of the 2020-21 Premiership season
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWe kept our form well says Deano
Happy: Dean Richards ORGANISATION was the key to victory for Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards. “The thing you can’t be...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSimmonds shatters Quins with power show
By GARY FITZGERALD Harlequins ................3pts Conversions: Smith 14 Exeter ......................33pts Tries: S Simmonds 22, 72, 75; Ewers 44, Townsend 79 Conversions: J Simmons...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoGustard: We lost discipline and gave away too many penalties
Mistakes: Paul Gustard PAUL Gustard admitted his side endured a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ at the hands of the clinical,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSharks back in the swim, but, oh, those penalties!
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Sale Sharks ..........32pts Tries: Van der Merwe 6, D du Preez 18, Hammersley 44, MacGinty 59 Conversions: MacGinty...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoHumph backs Louis to take on the world
DAVID Humphreys has revealed his disappointment at leaving Gloucester, but insists the Cherry & Whites can thrive without him with the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoI’ve got a say at Wasps so I’m happy to stay – Gleeson
By NEALE HARVEY Signed: Martin Gleeson WASPS attack coach Martin Gleeson says he was delighted to sign his new contract after...















