All posts tagged "Premium"
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Features
/ 5 years agoDragons confirm deal for Tompkins
Loan deal: Tompkins WALES centre Nick Tompkins is spending next season at the Dragons, as we revealed on April 24, and...
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/ 5 years agoWinning the World Cup made it right time to go
Q&A FRANCOIS LOUW ON THE RECORD Elation: Francois Louw with Prince Harry after winning the 2019 World Cup PICTURES: Getty Images...
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/ 5 years agoHook takes on kicking duties for new-look Ospreys
JAMES Hook is set to extend his Ospreys career after agreeing to become kicking and skills coach at the Liberty Stadium....
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/ 5 years agoRobshaw shows rugby’s heavy toll
Letters CHRIS Robshaw, who is leaving English rugby to join San Diego Legion, predicts more senior players could follow him to...
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/ 5 years agoAmbitious Beziers sound out England stars
BEZIERS have been busy seeing if England players are unhappy with their contract arrangements. The Pro D2 club are in the...
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/ 5 years agoAled still hoping to brew up business
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Athletic: Aled Brew takes a high ball for Bath PICTURE: Getty Images “I...
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/ 5 years agoResurgent Vikings forge an outpost fortress
NEWS EXTRA By JEREMY BLACKMORE NORTH Walsham boss James Knight says the club’s remote location has helped forge a strong bond...
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/ 5 years agoExpand the Prem to 16 clubs and PRO14 to 20
Expansion: Let the Jaguares join a new PRO20 PICTURE: Getty Images ■ HAVING a global season is all well and good....
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/ 5 years agoLeicester move for powerhouse Puma Montoya
Switch: Julian Montoya is heading to Welford Road LEICESTER Tigers have signed Argentina hooker Julian Montoya who will move to Welford...
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/ 5 years agoCan Robbo be crowd pleaser San Diego and USA need?
IT might not have been uppermost in his decision but social-distancing is unlikely to be an issue when Chris Robshaw joins...
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/ 5 years agoWorld Cup run put Samoa on the map
MY LIFEIN RUGBY APOLLO PERELINI THE FORMER SAMOA AND SALE SHARKS BACK ROWER AND ST HELENS RL PROP Double handed: Apollo...
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/ 5 years agoShould it really be a ‘Wild West’ shootout?
THEREis no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed much in our lives as well as the sports arena. Rugby has...
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/ 5 years agoWarriors enter the battle for Hastings
Offers: Hastings HARLEQUINS could miss out on signing Super League man of steel Jackson Hastings, who is starting to attract interest...
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/ 5 years agoDays when Goze really threw his weight around
THERE is rather a lot of Paul Goze, appropriately so given his status as one of the larger movers-and-shakers of the...
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/ 5 years agoTakeover soap opera rumbles on at Beziers
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Rivals: Christophe Dominici and, inset, former Toulouse president Rene Bouscatel Alot can happen in a month. A...
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/ 5 years agoRugby fans have been left in dark
ENGLISH football has returned along with other sports such as horse racing and snooker. Sadly, I am still unable to see...
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/ 5 years agoItoje pledges his future to Saracens
Committed: Maro Itoje. Inset, Will Skelton MARO ITOJE is set to confirm he is staying with Premiership and European champions Saracens...
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/ 5 years agoJohnson urges against banning rugby anthem
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the RFU announced it would review...
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/ 5 years agoDismal England needed radical shake up and Carling delivered
TIME offers up perspective and what has become known as the ‘Carling era’ looks ever more important with the passing years,...
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/ 5 years agoGoneva signs for swansong season in France
FORMER Premiership Player of the Year Niki Goneva is heading back to France after his contract with Harlequins runs out. The...
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/ 5 years agoJenkins comeback gives Blues fans needed boost
By ROB COLE Leader: Ellis Jenkins ELLIS Jenkins is set to return to action when the Cardiff Blues squad reassembles on...
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/ 5 years agoKvesic sold on prospect of re-joining mentor Matt
By NEALE HARVEY Coach: Jonathan Thomas MATT Kvesic says being reunited with the man who kick-started his rugby career is one...
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/ 5 years agoRugby must not go soft on the true red card offences
Winning start: Beauden Barrett helped Auckland Blues to victory over his old side the Hurricanes PICTURE: Getty Images ALL those supporters...
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Shane Williams
/ 5 years agoKiwi crowds show they back their players
Igot to speak to Warren Gatland last week in the wake of rugby’s return in New Zealand. He was in great...
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/ 5 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 5 years agoEvans states his case for seat on WRU Council
By ROB COLE IEUAN Evans admits to feeling the same tingle of excitement that greeted the first of his then record...
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/ 5 years agoBright: If you are in good shape age is just a number
By JON NEWCOMBE Veteran: Mark Bright is still going strong aged 41 EVERGREEN No.8 Mark Bright has plenty of examples to...
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Shane Williams
/ 5 years agoChiefs have look of Euro champs
Europe crown awaits: Sam Simmonds scores Exeter’s fourth try against La Rochelle PICTURE: Getty Images NOW WE know the PRO14 will...
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/ 5 years agoWe must make our clubs more user-friendly for the local fans
Q&A JOHN INVERDALE ON THE RECORD John Inverdale, star broadcaster and president of National Two Esher, has just taken on the...
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/ 5 years agoMallinder has big respect for Marcus
MARCUS Rashford’s efforts to ensure children don’t go hungry during the Covid-19 pandemic is inspiring sports stars everywhere, says community- minded...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSpeed bump
WHY are so many people banging on about quickening up the game. We have a fantastic product so stop trying to...
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/ 5 years agoTest cauldron was relaxation for undercover cop Crowley
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at the best rugby-playing police officers 1. Dan Crowley (Queensland and Australia) A...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoLeinster’s glory trail runs into a roadblock
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had the season run its natural course, one team might well by now have succeeded...
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/ 5 years agoEveritt puts faith in kids for pyramid climb
NEWS EXTRA By JEREMY BLACKMORE NORWICH boss David Everitt says the club are rising like a phoenix from the ashes after...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWinter rules
I CAN’T believe Jerry Guscott does not like watching rugby in the winter because it’s too wet and cold. As a...
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/ 5 years agoBuchanan fights on to save future for Llanelli
NEWS EXTRA By ROB COLE A YEAR ago Anthony Buchanan launched an ‘SOS’ appeal to try to safeguard the future of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoAll Black-slayer Carwyn deserved better than this
WHAT Carwyn James achieved during successive seasons had never been achieved before, nor since. He coached three teams to celebrated victories...
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/ 5 years agoDriven by desire for Bristol’s champagne!
MY LIFEIN RUGBY HAYDN THOMAS THE FORMER EXETER CHIEFS, GLOUCESTER & BRISTOL SCRUM-HALF THE other day we had a 10th anniversary...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoSuspend WR funding to force reform in Pacific
Fighting for change: PRPW CEO Dan Leo, second from left middle row, is leading the battle against corruption in Pacific Islands...
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/ 5 years agoClarke joins the cast in Dallas adventure
Alex Bywater talks to former Ospreys head coach Allen Clarke about his move to US Making a point: Ospreys then head...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoDream debut …then tutor to a rock star
IRELAND had never beaten anyone from the southern hemisphere when the Wallabies turned up at Lansdowne Road in January 1958. A...
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/ 5 years agoAltrad’s run for mayor hit by third cap scandal
FRENCH COLUMN Billionaire Mohed Altrad is running to be mayor of Montpellier - a position which would mean giving up the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoEssential to feed the roots to grow game
WORLD Rugby have a vision of ‘Rugby as a sport for all’ and a mission to ‘Grow the global rugby family’,...
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/ 5 years agoLeo is the Rashford figurehead for rugby
When it comes to set texts for students of the game - the unredacted script of Pitbull’s Punch-Ups, for instance, or...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoJantjies strikes a blow for the shamateurs
AS VARIOUS factions within the English game traded insults over accusations of players being forced to sign reduced contracts, a plaintive...
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/ 5 years agoBeauden gets a dig from his old mate Coles
SUPER RUGBY By SAMUEL JACKSON NEW Zealand playmaker Beauden Barrett enjoyed victory over former side the Hurricanes on his Blues debut...
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Nick Cain
/ 5 years agoTell the south to keep hands off our jewels
WHERE World Rugby’s plans for a global season are concerned there is a growing sense that the tail is wagging the...
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/ 5 years agoSaint-Andre will like ‘man with money’
MOHED Altrad, the moneybags of Montpellier, has been talking up the talents of Philippe-Saint Andre, the latest man charged with bringing...
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Peter Jackson
/ 5 years agoSo stylish even Sir Clive came for a lesson
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools THERE are very few rugby clubs that can claim to have...












