All posts tagged "Premiership"
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/ 3 months agoThis funding train could hit the buffers
IT’S bonkers. First, we have an agreement between the RFU and the Premiership where an eight-year PGP deal signed in late...
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Premiership
/ 3 months agoLam likes what he sees on LRZ debut
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Sale ..................................24pts Tries: O’Flaherty 29, Jibulu 51, Hanson 55, Davies 75 Conversions: Curtis 52, 56 Bristol ...............................15pts Tries:...
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Premiership
/ 3 months agoGloucester take their time to get past spirited Exeter
By ROGER PANTING Gloucester .......29pts Tries: Ludlow 21, Llewellyn 35, Edwards-Giraud 55, Innard 62 Conversions: Byrne 21, 35, 62 Penalty: Barton...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 months agoChris Hewett: Ollie Lawrence looks a good fit for 13 shirt
Nearly there. Ollie Lawrence, the talented Bath and England centre, is within touching distance of a return to competitive rugby after...
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Premiership
/ 3 months agoTigers smash Saracens but Parling wants more
By GARY FITZGERALD Leicester ...............20pts Tries: Liebenberg 33, Blamire 55, Ilione 64, Wand 73 Saracens .................7pts Try: Michelow 4 Conversion: Johnson...
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/ 3 months agoLawrence getting back in old routine
Munster...........28 Bath...................28 ■ By ALFIE ROSE OLLIE Lawrence made his return after six months out with an Achiles injury to play...
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Features
/ 3 months agoNorth’s concussion crusade
PAUL REES LOOKS AT THE PROBLEMS THE WELSH STAR HAD WITH HEAD INJURIES AND HOW THE GAME IS DEALING WITH THE...
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Features
/ 3 months agoMy Life in Rugby: James Flynn – Pulling on the Sale jersey was a dream come true
Representing Sale Sharks, my boyhood club, will always be the thing I’m proudest of most in rugby.
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 months agoDavies double sparks Ponty
Premiership round-up ■By CARL FIELD PONTYPRIDD made it two bonus-point wins from two after seeing off Narberth 35-12 at Sardis Road...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 months agoLeicester Tigers: I want players to make decisions, says Geoff Parling
Geoff Parling admits he has “a lot of work to do” as Leicester Tigers’ new boss having seen experienced campaigners Ben...
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Featured
/ 3 months agoRugby’s Social Media Moments of the Week: All Blacks top The Rugby Championship after beating Springboks in Thriller
Rugby fans were treated to another action-packed week, with excitement both on and off the field sparking plenty of conversation online.
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/ 3 months agoAli Hepher is back on board at Exeter Chiefs in performance coach role
Ali Hepher is back at Exeter less than four months after leaving the club. Hepher, 50, was head coach from 2017...
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/ 3 months agoSeb Atkinson: Gloucester have to start the Prem Rugby season fast
Seb Atkinson has told the Gloucester faithful to expect a more streetwise team this season – as they look to add...
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/ 3 months agoThis has been Harlequins’ toughest pre-season ever – Tom Lawday
Harlequins have ramped up the pre-season fitness regime to the max in order to rebound from their worst Premiership campaign in...
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Dream Team
/ 3 months agoDream Team – Josh Bragman
Josh Bragman, the Rosslyn Park and former Ampthill, Hartpury University, Durban Collegians and Durban Crusaders Colts fly-half, chooses the best XV...
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Columnists
/ 3 months agoJeremy Guscott: Henry Arundell can lead charge for Bath’s young guns
You have to give your top players the right amount of rest, and therefore the Prem Cup – which kicks off...
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/ 3 months agoConnacht give Sale runaround
■By DAN ANJOS Sale Sharks ..... 5 Connacht ........40 A YOUTHFUL Sale Sharks side endured a tough evening at Heywood Road...
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/ 3 months agoStephen Varney out to build on Italy connections at Exeter Chiefs
It appears Stephen Varney has a plan – and it’s nothing short of a Premiership heist. The Italian international has set...
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/ 3 months agoBath looking to defend Prem Rugby Cup title in Premiership-only contest
The Premiership Rugby Cup kicks off next weekend, with holders Bath aiming to defend their title in a restructured format that...
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Features
/ 3 months agoNostalgia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
IN THE past the future lies, so the saying goes. Yet everything changes, from politics to sport, as time marches remorselessly...
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/ 3 months agoWill brothers in arms hold the key to success for Stortford?
By BEN JAYCOCK New recruit: Bishop’s Stortford fly-half Jai Johal BISHOP’S Stortford signing Jai Johal says he’s ready to embrace the...
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Features
/ 3 months agoSimon Linsell: Playing at Kingsholm was a dream come true
Simon Linsell The former Hartpury, Gloucester, and Ealing forward, who is now forwards coach at Barnes. I’ll never forget the first...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 months agoNewport begin with humdinger
Super Rygbi Cymru preview By ROB COLE AMID all the noise about how many regional teams there should be in Wales...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 months agoJones snatches it for Merthyr
Premiership round-up By CARL FIELD BEN Jones’ last-gasp penalty snatched a dramatic opening day 22-19 victory for reigning champions Merthyr at...
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/ 3 months agoCharlie Hodgson on Mindset, Resilience and the Secrets of High-Performance Teams
Charlie Hodgson stands out as one of the most accomplished fly-halves in English rugby history—racking up a record-breaking 44-point debut, captaining...
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/ 4 months agoWill Butler – We have still got plenty of X-factor at Gloucester
Will Butler is adamant that life at Gloucester without Santi Carreras dishing out special on-field gifts will remain just as exciting...
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/ 4 months agoIt’s great to have Owen Farrell back at Saracens – Ivan van Zyl
Owen Farrell’s return to his rugby home can help Saracens rise back to the top of the domestic and European tree....
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Dream Team
/ 4 months agoDream Team – David Warwick
David Warwick, the former Wigton, Waterloo, Cumbria rugby union centre/wing and Barrow rugby league player who is now level seven Wigton's...
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Miscellaneous
/ 4 months agoVive La France! At last some scrum sense
THERE is at last a sign of sanity in the otherwise befuddled global administration of rugby union in the shape of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 months agoExeter Chiefs All-Time XV: All hail to best of the Chiefs
What would be the greatest all-time XV your club could field if you could travel back in time and select everybody...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoNew Zealand vs South Africa Preview: Springboks out to storm All Blacks’ Eden Park citadel
Paul Rees looks forward to this weekend's monumental clash between New Zealand and South Africa in Auckland It is no longer...
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/ 4 months agoShanahan the right man for Bury, says Ford
News ■ By BEN JAYCOCK FOLLOWING four successful years in charge of Bury St Edmunds, Jacob Ford has passed the baton...
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Miscellaneous
/ 4 months agoSoak up the best bits from across all sports
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Matt Albinson, below, the director of rugby at Stamford RFC who last season won...
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/ 4 months agoIs there room for two Welsh sides in the Champ?
CHARLES RYLANDS AMPTHILL BACK ROW AS pre-season shifts into matches and the intensity of fitness work begins to ease slightly, there’s...
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Features
/ 4 months agoWe’re buzzing, says Wilkinson
Feature Ben Jaycock talks to Scunthorpe’s DoR about the demands his squad will face back in National Two Top dogs: Scunthorpe...
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/ 4 months agoRosslyn Park will lead the race for place in the Champ
National League One THIS season’s third-tier promotion race is wide open – yet it’s hard to look past Rosslyn Park emerging...
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/ 4 months agoCamborne looking to Matavesi for extra power
National League Two West Star: Former Northampton hooker Sam Matavesi has signed for Camborne CAMBORNE will be among the teams to...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 4 months agoLouis Rees-Zammit – It’s my dream to be a British and Irish Lion again
Louis Rees-Zammit did not take much notice of events in Australia this summer – but has set his sights on rejoining...
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/ 4 months agoEx-Northampton Saints coach Matt Ferguson moves to Harlequins
Former Northampton scrum coach Matt Ferguson has joined Danny Wilson’s coaching team at Harlequins. Saints won the Premiership title and reached...
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/ 4 months agoI learnt a lot from my time at Sale, says Paul Deacon
Paul Deacon says he has left Sale a far better coach than when he joined – and reckons they are on...
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English Championship
/ 4 months agoChamp Rugby has much to offer says Gloucester scrum-half Mike Austin
Gloucester's new scrum-half Mike Austin is out to prove that the Championship remains one of English rugby’s most underrated breeding grounds....
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 months agoChris Hewett: Bonus points? They are entirely pointless
Would we be in any way impoverished if they disappeared tomorrow? Unusually, we are not referring to our glorious leaders at...
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/ 4 months agoFantasy Rugby 2025/26 – Sign up now!
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoPeter Jackson: When a drop goal was all you needed to see
Paul Turner dropped his first goal in senior rugby on September 13, 1979, for Newbridge against Newport, and his last on...
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Features
/ 4 months agoYoung Guns – Ethan Surrey
Towering Bristol Bears and England U19s second row Ethan Surrey has had to navigate some tough setbacks already, most notably missing...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoCharles Rylands: New stars who will light up Champ Rugby
As another week of pre-season ticks by and the new Championship campaign edges ever closer, this week we’re taking a look...
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/ 4 months agoRugby’s Social Media Moments of the Week: Wallabies epic comeback vs Springboks sends All Blacks to World No.1
In one of the most astonishing comebacks in rugby history, Australia shocked reigning world champions South Africa with a 38-22 victory...
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/ 4 months agoBen Kay tells players – Cut out the acting
Ben Kay insists rugby must avoid heading down the same controversial and unhappy “cheating” path that sometimes can affect football. The...
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