All posts tagged "Premium"
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoGatland closes door on Howley’s Lions tour
By NICK CAIN ROB Howley’s chances of making a fourth tour as the British & Irish Lions attack coach alongside Warren...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 5 years agoScarratt leads Slam mission
■By SAM JACKSON Skipper: Emily Scarratt will captain England in Sarah Hunter’s absence ENGLAND go into battle seeking a second successive...
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Features
/ 5 years agoO’Mahony eyes France chance
LIONS flanker Peter O’Mahony has got several French clubs sounding him out about a move to the Top 14 when his...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoMorgan aims to get one over his old mate Dwayne
■By ALEX BYWATER MATTHEW Morgan knows exactly what to expect from an Ulster back-line fired by his former Bristol teammate Dwayne...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTykes revamp gathers pace
■ By JON NEWCOMBE Big break: Will Hardwick playing for University of Birmingham LEEDS TYKES have signed a bright spark of...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 5 years agoAussies suffer Halloweeen horror show
■By SAM JACKSON ALL Blacks fly-half Richie Mo’unga scored two brilliant individual tries in their highest victory margin against Australia in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRowlands makes a definite date to join the Dragons
Loyal: Will Rowlands will see out last year of his Wasps contract. Inset, Cory Hill WILL Rowlands will leave Wasps at...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoEvans revving up for return home
By ROB COLE Mentor: Scarlets prop Rob Evans PICTURE: Getty Images YOU have to go back to pre-lockdown for the last...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAbi starts Wasps’ scoring spree
■By ADAM ELLIS Women’s Premier 15s Bristol ……………10 Wasps……………64 WASPS registered back-to-back victories with a destructive first-half performance in which they...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 5 years agoIrish prudence poses RFU more questions
NICK CAIN Major contsruction: Ireland’s Aviva Stadium PICTURE: Getty Images RUGBY Union is fourth in the pecking order of popular team...
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Features
/ 5 years agoDAZN in TV rights bid
AMERICAN streaming giants DAZN are set to launch in the UK later this month. The Premiership’s deal with BT Sport runs...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoReproduce that second half display says Booth
By ROB COLE Proud: Toby Booth Promoted: Duncan Jones WHATEVER Toby Booth said to his Ospreys players at half-time last weekend...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoNonu and lockdown are back in France
JAMES HARRINGTON Midfield cover: Ma’a Nonu is a Toulon player again Double world champion Ma’a Nonu arrived in Toulon this week...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 5 years agoNo-play decision smacks of defeatism
THE Friday evening before the final round of the Six Nations was an opportune moment for the RFU to bury the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCorbisiero back as a coach
FORMER England loosehead Alex Corbisiero is back in rugby after becoming scrum coach for Major League Rugby outfit LA Giltinis. The...
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Features
/ 5 years agoAgile ‘Monkey’ saved the day for Wales at Stradey Park
PETER JACKSON The only time England ever ventured west of Swansea for a Test match, the honorary secretary of the Rugby...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoDelaney fears long break may stunt next generation
■By ROB COLE NEWS EXTRA WELSH rugby is facing a crisis with no competitive rugby being played below the professional level...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 5 years agoErasmus’ insults will come back
THE behind-the-scenes 2019 World Cup documentary Chasing the Sun shows footage of South Africa’s head coach, Rassie Erasmus, referring to Ireland...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPress pack stay home
ENGLAND made the trip to Italy without their massive Press pack in tow. Normally England are accompanied by the biggest Press...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJJ’s death makes date bitter-sweet for Delme
PETER JACKSON Hero: Delme Thomas is carried off by delirious players and fans at the end of Llanelli’s defeat of the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoArmitage opens pathway to help diversify the game
Probyn: Prem acadamies only help ‘parasitic’ clubs TRP Ace: Delon Armitage playing at 2011 World Cup DELON Armitage has launched his...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoNice idea Jeff, but nothing will change
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk JEFF Probyn writes in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBaabaas players charged for breaching protocol
THE RFU have charged 13 Barbarians players for breaching coronavirus protocol which caused the cancellation of last Sunday’s game against England...
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Features
/ 5 years agoI was called a traitor for switching allegiance!
MY LIFEIN RUGBY MOURITZ BOTHA THE FORMER ENGLAND, SARACENS, NEWCASTLE, SHARKS AND BEDFORD LOCK Athletic: Mouritz Botha on the charge for...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBilly back in England with Irish
LONDON Irish have confirmed Australian centre Billy Meakes will be joining the club on a short-term deal until the end of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWe still don’t know why CEO Bill says Cain was wrong
THE £91m “sinkhole” deficit article by Nick Cain and the subsequent RFU denials has created much interest. First up, RFU CEO...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWhy would Baxter want the hassle of England?
CHRIS HEWETT People person: Rob Baxter with his players. Jack Rowell Rob Baxter, everyone’s furnace-hot favourite to succeed Eddie Jones as...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCosmopolitan Quins had serious wheels
RUGBY MATTERS Quins favourites: Andrew Harriman, left, and Peter Mensah PICTURE: Getty Images Black History month officially ended yesterday, along with...
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Six Nations
/ 5 years agoEddie’s smile arrives but it takes a long time coming
By NICK CAIN ENGLAND eventually responded to the Eddie Jones mantra of putting a smile on the faces of their supporters...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoAutomatic reward for tries under posts
I KNOW we have had our fair share of law changes to concentrate on and learn recently but this suggestion takes...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTiers of despair in Champions Cup draw
NEXT year’s Nobel prize for mathematics will automatically be awarded to the person who solves the impenetrable equation known as the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTirkey rules the roost for international appearances
SO Alun Wyn Jones is now the most capped rugby player in history on 149 with power to add but how...
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Six Nations
/ 5 years agoBen Youngs’ story has plenty more years to run
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT There have been some rum old sights and sounds during this Covid-infested rugby year but none stranger than...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSorry, world no longer revolves around Lions
COLIN BOAG Emotional attachment: Sam Warburton leads out 2017 British and Irish Lions During the week we saw just how huge...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHansen reverts to his norm
STEVE Hansen’s switch of codes with Canterbury Bulldogs has raised some eyebrows in New Zealand, but judging by his last match...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSpain will be craving more magic from Melee
BY hook or by crook international rugby is continuing around the world and among those matches expected to go ahead today...
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Six Nations
/ 5 years agoFrench flair can’t quite get them over the line
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER SUPER Saturday might have lacked a certain frisson in Llanelli and Rome earlier in the day but with...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWe’re fit, fresh and ready for the challenge of Premiership
Q&A TOBY FLOOD ON THE RECORD Battle ready: Mark Wilson will be leading the Falcons’ fight up front after a year...
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Six Nations
/ 5 years agoScots refuse to be the fall guys for
By PETER JACKSON FOR the best part of 20 years, Scotland could always be relied upon to find a way of...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJJ snubbed a fortune for Wales
PETER JACKSON pays tribute to JJ Williams who died on Thursday at the age of 72. An all-time great, record-breaking try...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoClubs’ dismay as RFU cancel lower leagues
By SAM JACKSON BLACKHEATH coach James Shanahan was one of many lower league coaches who reacted with dismay to the RFU’s...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYOUNG GUNS
GEORGEHEAD HARLEQUINS HOOKER As a loosehead prop during his formative years at Tonbridge School, Old Reigatians RFC, Surrey and the Harlequins...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoBen double as England are crowned champions
By GARY FITZGERALD BEN Youngs celebrated his century of caps with a sizzling, inspirational performance in Rome that saw England secure...
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Features
/ 5 years agoChiefs face tough Pool in Euro defence
NEWS EXTRA HOLDERS Exeter will begin their Champions Cup defence with challenging group-stage matches against Toulouse and Glasgow in December. Chiefs...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRennie: We’re five weeks into a four-year campaign
AUSTRALIA coach Dave Rennie believes he will turn Wallaby fortunes around after their 43-5 drubbing by the All Blacks in Syndey....
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Features
/ 5 years agoSt Joseph’s now testing ground for the very best
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Driving force: Lewis Ludlam on the break during St Joseph’s festival...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoPivac: We must win any how now
By ALEX BYWATER WAYNE Pivac and Alun Wyn Jones admitted Wales have to start winning now, beginning with their Autumn Nations...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRob’s key to trophy cabinet
NEALE HARVEY TALKS TO ROB BAXTER AND NIC WHITE ABOUT EXETER’S FABULOUS DOUBLE Captain’s role: Joe Simmonds has proved a natural...












