All posts tagged "Premium"
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSpencer’s try double puts Bath in control
By TIM WOODS Bonus ball: Jonathan Joseph scores the last try of the game Right: Rohan Janse van Rensburg scores Sale’s...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBen upping game to save England career
By JON NEWCOMBE Under threat: Ben Youngs faces stiff competition for his Red Rose jersey PICTURES: Getty Images Kyran Bracken: Give...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoGriffiths’ plan needs the Prem to play fair
IT was a near certainty that the English Championship Proposal was not going to get unanimous approval, and two of the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoScarlets pushing Hardy’s claim for Wales
■By ALEX BYWATER KIERAN Hardy is the “full product” ready to make the step-up to international rugby with Wales for the...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoLethal Lawrence hits top gear for Warriors
By JACK ROBERTS OLLIE Lawrence showed his class as Worcester scored five second-half tries to earn just their second Premiership win...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoDiamond blasts council after stadium u-turn
SALE boss Steve Diamond has accused local council bosses of “bottling it” over the club’s proposed new £100m stadium. Title-chasing Sharks,...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoSaracens hit by Euro humbug
OUR sport is no stranger to hypocrisy, and this was illustrated clearly in the build-up to the European Cup quarter-final between...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPete’s lucked out with dream move to Falcons
By JON NEWCOMBE Step up: Falcons new signing Pete Lucock PETE LUCOCK would probably class himself more in the mould of...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSarries kids produce the goods again for McCall
By DAVID FLEMING Control: Manu Vunipola EXETER suffered their first defeat in eight games as both sides put out much-changed lineups...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBrock plots Ospreys path back to the top
By ALEX BYWATER Man with a plan: Brock James excelled as a player, now as a coach he must help turn...
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Featured
/ 5 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Freddie Burns on what went wrong at Bath
The former Bath fly-half, bound for Japan's Top League, was adamant he would not be sitting on the bench no longer
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoSaints unravelled by Chiefs second-string
By GARY FITZGERALD Crash ball: Sean Lonsdale smashes George Furbank to score Exeter’s first try PICTURES: Getty Images ROB Baxter admits...
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Features
/ 5 years agoEdinburgh talking to Blue Bull Ferreira
ANDRIES Ferreira, the Blue Bulls lock and former South Africa A international, is looking to move to the United Kingdom. Ferreira,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSuper Rugby exit won’t stop Pumas being competitive
LES CUSWORTH ON THE RECORD Q&A Former England and Leicester fly-half Les Cusworth has spent the last 16 years living and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoInconsistencies are ruining spectacle
EXETER are a great side and I enjoy watching them, even when they give my own side Worcester a thrashing. However,...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoPlay-offs are long shot now – Boyd
CHRIS Boyd admitted Northampton’s play-off chances were left shattered and scattered all over Franklin’s Gardens by Exeter’s ‘B’ team. He said:...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLuke may try XVs to keep dream alive
By ALEX BYWATER LUKE Treharne refuses to give up on his Olympic dream but has called on Wales to contract their...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JACK BATES BRISTOL WINGER As a four-year-old peering over the fence at the Blackthorn End of the Memorial Stadium, Jack Bates...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSA are powering Sale but is that good for England?
COLIN BOAG South African recruits: Sale’s Faf de Klerk, right, and Lood de Jager Am I the only one who is...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoAnother bashing for battered Dylan
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST IF, FOR some peculiar reason, you ever wondered how to sound like an irritable magistrate of the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRosslyn Park 7s will be even more prestigious
BRENDAN GALLAGHER RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Team to beat: Sedbergh won back-to-back Rosslyn Park...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTwinkle toes Vasily danced a merry jig at Blackrock
ONE of Blackrock’s more exotic recent products is Russia’s captain Vasily Artemyev, who made such a big impression at RWC2019, first...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoWhy mess with this great Heineken Cup format?
The word “aggregate” has secured its own place in the darkest corner of the rugby lexicon, along with “biting”, “gouging”, “match-day...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRugby’s looking at rocky ride to Tokyo
AND it was all going so smoothly! The reintroduction of rugby, in the form of Sevens, to the Olympic movement has...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSweeney’s legacy will depend on Prem talks
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Rich pickings: Players are paid more to represent England than any other...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRobertson as consultant would be good Lions call
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Massive character: Scott Robertson breakdancing after his Crusaders beat the Jaguares in 2019 PICTURE:...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoLam blasts officials for ‘cheap shot’ on Semi
By ROGER PANTING PAT LAM pleaded with officials to safeguard his players, and in particular star man Semi Radradra, after the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoItalian powerhouse Pierluigi was a man of many talents
Lock star: Camiscioni ONE of the more colourful Italian internationals of recent years, Pierluigi Camiscioni, has passed away aged just 67....
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoKing plots new ‘Wasps’ dynasty with Cips at helm
By NEALE HARVEY ALEX King is banking on Danny Cipriani’s leadership and a bit of hard-nosed Wasps DNA to bring glory...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoManu muscles in for try on Tigers return
By ROB WILDMAN Happy homecoming: Manu Tuilagi scores for Sale SALE tried to bulldoze Leicester aside in a ferocious assault fired...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoPlethora of errors killed us – Solomons
ALAN Solomons said his Worcester side contributed to their own downfall. Warriors director of rugby said: “We made a rod for...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoUnpaid Tier 2 players may have contracts cancelled
By NEALE HARVEY Lucky: David Williams ON-LOAN Leicester wing David Williams claims Championship players are going unpaid as tier two clubs...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWe’re still a few years behind Exeter says Diamond
By JON NEWCOMBE SALE Sharks boss Steve Diamond reckons it will be “two to three years” before his side can call...
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Premiership
/ 5 years ago‘Good to get win over my mates’
MANU Tuilagi declared after he scored a try on his Welford Road return: “I loved it.” Tuilagi insisted it was all...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoLouis is on track to be Wales’ next wing king
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Ihad the pleasure of being involved in a podcast with Louis Rees-Zammit the other day...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSubscriptions…
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Features
/ 5 years agoKnife in the back from Gloucester still so raw
DAVE SIMS THE FORMER ENGLAND, GLOUCESTER, WORCESTER, EXETER & LAUNCESTON LOCK MY LIFEIN RUGBY Proud moment: Dave Sims in action for...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoBrilliant Bath pull plug on Quins top four hope
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER HARLEQUINS did a fine job welcoming back 2,700 fans to the Stoop yesterday – and hopefully their professionalism...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoEmotional to finish ride alongside MJ’s two boys
WE celebrated what would have been Matthew Watkins’ 42nd birthday in style last week with a 100 mile bike ride from...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoMadigan’s magic boot puts Ulster into the final
By BRYN PALMER ULSTER staged a stunning second-half fightback at Murrayfield to become only the second team after Scarlets to win...
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Features
/ 5 years agoIbitoye off to a flyer on debut for Agen
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN There has been actual, genuine, Top 14 rugby to talk about this week, as – after a...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoGustard: Great to see fans back in
STAR man Rhys Priestland was impressed by Bath’s ability to put their last minute defeat to Wasps behind them. “We are...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoYoungsters are in for a shock when fans return
WASN’T it great seeing a few fans watching the Scottish derby match at Murrayfield last weekend. The lucky 700 were the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLeo’s champions are a class above
By DECLAN ROONEY Pointing the way: Cian Healy celebrates as Rónan Kelleher scores the game’s only try TEAMS LEINSTER: Larmour 6...
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Features
/ 5 years agoEloff’s late try earns Rebels a date with the Reds
By ADAM ELLIS SUPER RUGBY CABOUS Eloff was the hero for the Rebels against the Western Force with his late try...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSaracens head for their great showdown
BRENDAN GALLAGHER LOOKS AT THE MAKE-UP OF THE EUROPEAN CUP QUARTER-FINALS Ticking: Jamie George AFTER five or more months on a...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoHow could the mighty Ospreys fall so far?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Glory days: Ospreys beat Leicester Tigers to win the 2008 Anglo-Welsh Cup Ospreylia...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLaunchbury’s hitting best form when it matters most
By NEALE HARVEY WASPS and England lock Joe Launchbury says he has no issues with putting his body on the line...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoBoks given full backing to play in 8 Nations
By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations have joined forces in a united attempt to bring South Africa into the European fold...












