All posts tagged "Premium"
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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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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoModern kick tennis is a turn off
Highlight: Toby Flood scores the winning try for Newcastle against Sale PICTURE: Getty Images I SETTLED down to watch Newcastle v...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoDow provides sting as Wasps surge past Lightning
BY NATHAN ROCHE Star turn: Abby Dow WASPS moved above Loughborough Lightning in the Premier 15s standings by recording a three-try victory...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWales contender Halaholo undergoes second knee surgery
■By ROB COLE WILLIS Halaholo has had a second operation on his knee and will miss Cardiff Blues’ opening two rounds...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoNadolo’s in hat-trick form as Fiji fly at last
■By MIKE SINCLAIR Georgia ....................24pts Fiji................................38pts Tries: Melikidze 22, Saginhadze 67, 78 Conversions: Abzhandadze 22, 67, 78 Penalties: Abhandadze 10 NEMANI...
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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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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRemembering Pross
READING Brendan Gallagher’s moving tribute to Ray Prosser reminded me of a story I once heard about an incident on the...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoJoyce hits hat-trick but perfect Quins power on
By ADAM ELLIS A RAMPANT secondhalf showing from Harlequins kept their perfect record intact, clinching a seventh consecutive bonuspoint win. Good for...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWelsh Lions help Bears ace Lloyd lift game to new level
■By STEFFAN THOMAS IOAN Lloyd was starstruck during his first few weeks in Wales camp but says working with Leigh Halfpenny...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoFiji grow through their Covid ordeal for Cotter to claim winning start
Persuasive: Vern Cotter THE persuasive powers of new coach Vern Cotter, who lured Nemani Nadolo out of international retirement, proved a...
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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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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRIP Ray the Great
BRENDAN Gallagher’s article was an excellent tribute to one of the great coaches of Welsh and British rugby, Ray Prosser. Coach...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoWarriors must go into battle without skipper Keates
PREVIEW... Worcester v Gloucester-Hartpury Today, Kick-off 2pm, Sixways By ADAM ELLIS WORCESTER will be without their influential captain Laura Keates for Gloucester-Hartpury’s...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoGibbins chasing glory in DC
CALLUM Gibbins is looking forward to a new chapter of his career as he prepares to move to Major League Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoCLOSE-UP
GIORGI HVESELADZE Georgia outside centre v SEMI RADRADRA Fiji outside centre Kveseladze, from Georgian part-time club RC Armazi Marneuli, hardly saw...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoAlan Solomons frustrated Worcester’s by poor finishing
Warriors director of rugby Solomons bemoans botched attacking phases in 33-17 defeat to Bath
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoTest game is turgid compared to Euro Cup
IT HAS really come to the point where international rugby has become dire. If national coaches believe the best way to...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoKennedy playing for his future at Glasgow
By GAVIN HARPER THE past two years have been difficult for Sean Kennedy, but the Glasgow Warriors scrum-half is enjoying the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoInjury-hit Dragons hope for better luck over Xmas
DEAN Ryan admits Dragons must be “careful” with their planning and player welfare over the Christmas period. A string of positive...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRoom 101: Northampton Saints winger Tom Collins
Collins lists three of his biggest pet hates in life
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBristol’s super sub Sam Bedlow kicks Saints into submission
All the drama from Bristol's last-gasp victory over Northampton Saints on Friday night, when Sam Bedlow was the hero
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoAustin right to sound the alarm bell
AUSTIN Healey was always interesting as a player and his opinions as a journalist are the same. He asks “who is...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoResults
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoPirates lock to Wasps
WASPS have signed lock Josh Caulfield from Cornish Pirates on a short-term loan. The 23-year-old, who began his career at Exeter,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSpringbok star Van Zyl joins Saracens promotion bid
Saracens appear to have found their replacement for Richard Wigglesworth among their scrum-half options
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBoyd: We should have won, we’re not waving white flags yet
The post-match reaction of Northampton director of rugby Chris Boyd to Saints' defeat to Bristol in the Premiership
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoConnacht’s Paul Boyle scores hat-trick on captaincy debut
Connacht move into second with a 31-14 victory over Benetton at the Sportsground
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWallabies finish last after Hodge fires wide again
By SAM JACKSON Try scorer: Bautista Delguy breaks clear for Argentina PICTURE: Getty Images REECE Hodge’s lastminute penalty flew wide to...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoScarratt set to be named women’s player of decade
■By SAM PARKHOUSE ENGLAND centre Scarratt is expecting to be crowned World women’s player decade tomorrow. It caps a very successful...
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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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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoStockdale aims to fill the void at full-back
By DECLAN ROONEY PREVIEW... Ireland v Georgia Today. Kick-off 2pm, Aviva Stadium ROB Kearney’s retirement from Test rugby robbed Ireland of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoNortherly attitude helps officials excel
I MAY be a little biased here, as a Tiger through and through, but to me the referee and the TMO...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPooler were Pross’ great gift to the local community he loved
BRENDAN GALLAGHER WITH HIS PERSONAL MEMORIES OF THE INIMITABLE RAY PROSSER WHO HAS DIED AT 93 SOMEHOW I always imagined Ray...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWork in progress: Dewi Lake
By STEFFAN THOMAS Dewi told to focus on his set-piece to make grade DEWI Lake has been tipped to make the...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoDaley-Mclean orchestrates first win for Sharks
By JAMAL NIAZ sent to the sin bin for pre-Scott adding the extras. Sale Sharks ....11 Worcester W ....0 WINGER Alex...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoStill wasn’t good enough but step forward at least
@therugbypaper SHANE WALES AND LIONS WILLIAMS LEGEND That was the strangest Wales and England game I can remember for a long...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSherikadze’s out to spring a Pumas-style surprise
GEORGIA have lost each of their previous four meetings with Ireland and are yet to score a point in the Autumn...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRugby was richer for refs stamping their authoruty
SO Colin Boag thinks rugby has improved since the days of Willie John McBride and that’s up to professionalism. Let’s have...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCoach Ray helped Lyndon rule world of business
ONE of the world’s most successful businessmen believes much of his success is down to his years playing for Ray Prosser....
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoMarshall struck by new injury setback
ULSTER are unsure if Luke Marshall will return this season after suffering a knee ligament injury in Sunday’s 26-24 win over...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoCracking Kildunne try kills of Chiefs fightback
By AMY FULGHAM Exeter ..............14 Wasps ..............24 ELLIE Kildunne’s try ensured Wasps ran out worthy victors in a closelycontested encounter after...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoPoite is the kind of ref who’s right even when he’s wrong
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Rare run: Josh Adams needs more ball Eddie Jones was telling us last week that England were not really...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoThe control freaks will stifle rugby fans’ interest
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK IT seems that one of the requirements to be a top level coach is also...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoLack of ‘real’ Welsh centres is concern
WALES have produced oustanding centres since the 1970s that would have been the envy of all the other Home Nations. Jonathan...
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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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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoChampionship consider return to playoff system
NOTTINGHAM chairman Alistair Bow says he would welcome plans for a shorter, conference-based Championship season with the title decided by play-offs....
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoQuins power up to stretch perfect start
By ADAM ELLIS Glouc-Hartpury ......5pts Harlequins..............22pts HARLEQUINS maintained their unbeaten start to the season by clinching their six-successive bonus point win...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoARE YOU READY FOR 2021?
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWorld Rugby must fund Islands
THE volume has been turned up on World Rugby to allow socalled ‘capture’ players to have dual international eligibility, with James Haskell...
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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...











