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Results

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Saracens begin cup defence with impressive win over Lightning

NEWS EXTRA REIGNING PWR Cup champions Saracens flexed their muscles with a nine-try 59-14 victory over Loughborough Lightning yesterday. Saracens struck...

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Blow for Exeter as injury rules out Tua

NEWS EXTRA EXETER centre Tamati Tua will miss most of the season after undergoing surgery on an Achilles injury last week....

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Club Rugby

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Regional results

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Pre-season fixtures

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Club Rugby

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Regional results

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Features

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Young Guns: Casper Wheeler – Bristol & England U18s hooker

Casper Wheeler is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his hero and fellow Bristolian, Ellis Genge.

By Ben Jaycock

Latest News

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Don’t ever shy away from a tough conversation

Steve Hill puts the questions to Will Crane, below, the director of rugby at Cheltenham RFC who play in Regional 2...

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Welsh Rugby

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Newport 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

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Jones 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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Welsh Rugby

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BRITISH RESULTS AND FIXTURES

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Features

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Only award kicks at goal inside the 22

If we were designing the rules of rugby from scratch today it’s hard to imagine we would award kicks at goal...

By Jon Richardson

Features

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Dragons look to Tongan stars for added beef

NEWS EXTRA By SIMON THOMAS THE Dragons back line will feature a double dose of Tongan international strike power this season....

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Galthie’s pressing problem up front

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The battle up front: Régis Montagne and, inset top to bottom, Georges-Henri Colombe, Demba Bam-ba, Thomas Laclayat...

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Forthcoming fixtures

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Ruthless Red Roses storm to record win against Samoa to book spot in World Cup quarter-finals

England's hat-trick hero Jess Breach revelled in becoming the fifth Red Roses player to score 50 tries and hopes to bring...

By Ben Jaycock

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Owen Farrell betrayed us, claims Racing 92 owner Jacky Lorenzetti

Racing 92 owner Jacky Lorenzetti has launched a stinging attack on Owen Farrell, accusing the former England captain of dishonesty in...

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Matt Sherratt is boosted by recruitment drive at Cardiff

Cardiff coach Matt Sherratt says it’s a massive boost to have retained Taulupe Faletau and Josh Adams as the club look...

By Simon Thomas

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Women’s World Cup audience on a high as records tumble

England's 69-7 win over the USA in the Women’s Rugby World Cup opener in Sunderland last Friday drew in a peak...

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Blindside - rugby transfers

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Newcastle Red Bulls move for Italy hooker Hame Faiva

Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Italy hooker Hame Faiva on a one-year deal. The 31-year-old left Bath at the end of...

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Will 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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It’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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Australia 31-31 USA: Dreams are still alive after thriller

USA ......................31pts Tries: Tafuna 27, 51; Sagapolu 45, Rogers 67, Erica Jarrell-Searcy 71 Conversions: Hawkins 52, 68, 72 Australia ...........31pts Tries:...

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England 92-3 Samoa: Brilliant Jess Breach triggers Red Roses avalanche

England ............................... 92pts Tries: Jones 3, 16; Breach 8, 53, 74; Bern 14, Feaunati 24, Davies 29, L Packer 33, Clifford...

By Ben Jaycock

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Scotland 29-15 Fiji: We must go as far as we can -Bryan Easson

Scotland ...........29pts Tries: McGhie 2, 56; Lloyd 10, 34; Orr 60 Conversions: Nelson 34, 61 Fiji .......................15pts Tries: Senivutu 25, Komaitai...

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Canada 42-0 Wales: Clinical Canadians demolish Wales

Wales ........................0pts Tries: Hunt 16, 29; Corrigan 26, Hogan-Rochester 31, Perry 50, Kassil 55 Conversions: de Goede 17, 27, 30, 32,...

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Higgins: Spain will fight for every inch

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP ■By SAM JACKSON POOL C Ireland v Spain PREVIEW... Today. Kick-off 12pm, Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton Focus: Eve Higgins...

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Italy know they are in battle for survival

■By BEN JAYCOCK POOL D PREVIEW... Italy v South Africa Today. Kick-off 3.30pm, Sandy Park, Exeter ITALY face the might of...

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New Zealand vs Japan Preview: History beckons for Portia Woodman-Wickliffe

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe could become New Zealand’s all-time leading try scorer today. The flying win needs one more try to make Kiwi...

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France vs Brazil Preview: New-look French side spread the load

For their second World Cup match against what is on paper the competition’s weakest opponent, Brazil, France co-head coaches Gaëlle Mignot...

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Dream Team

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Dream 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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Columnists

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Jeremy Guscott: Dynamic duo of Handre Pollard and Beauden Barrett can still rule at No.10

The dominance of South Africa and New Zealand in winning World Cups is a statistical reality and, because of their track...

By Jeremy Guscott

International Rugby

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Canada can’t keep up with lively Japan

Pacific Nations Cup ■By BEN JAYCOCK EDDIE Jones’ Japan opened their Pacific Nations Cup campaign in emphatic fashion, moving straight to...

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Miscellaneous

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Castres give youthful Harlequins outfit the runaround

Pre-season ■By BEN JAYCOCK A SEASONED Castres outfit proved too strong for a youthful Harlequins side in the south of France,...

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Columnists

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Nick Cain: Two-team model in Welsh rugby has little chance of success

The precipice on which Welsh rugby is perched rests on two disastrous decisions made on either side of the Millennium which...

By Nick Cain

Miscellaneous

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Vive 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

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Exeter 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...

By Brendan Gallagher

Features

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Griffiths back at Dragons as S&C coach

NEWS EXTRA FORMER back row Ollie Griffiths has returned to Dragons as a strength and conditioning coach nine months after retiring...

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Features

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Becconsall joins Pirates

EXETER Chiefs scrum-half Will Becconsall has returned to Cornish Pirates for a second loan spell. The 22-year-old played for Pirates in...

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Features

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Bristol move for Hopkins

TYRO Wales back row Gwennan Hopkins has joined Bristol Bears from Gloucester-Hartpury ahead of the new season. The 20-year-old won her...

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Features

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Joe Santamaria: Kiwi Kendrick Lynn giving Los Pumas a sharper attack

Joe Santamaria talks to Kendrick Lynn about how he is helping Argentina develop a cutting edge When Kendrick Lynn returned to...

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Chris Hewett

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Chris Hewett: Rassie Erasmus is in search of a brave new world with the Springboks

There is something unashamedly Old Testament about South Africa’s first-choice pack, possibly because its most accomplished components are more ancient than...

By Chris Hewett