All posts tagged "Premium"
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThese RFU pay-cuts should be permanent
THE decision by Eddie Jones to follow Bill Sweeney and the rest of the RFU’s top tier executives in taking a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDomestic leagues can make rugby healthyagain
The new age of the nation state is finally dawning – headmaster Nigel Farage and his senior prefect, the Prime Minister,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLawson: I never had a day off ill
RUGBY SHORTS FORMER Scotland captain Rory Lawson says he has “been through the mill” dealing with coronavirus symptoms over the past eight...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEddie should stay until next World Cup says Tindall
MIKE Tindall compares Eddie Jones to “marmite” but believes the RFU have left themselves with little choice but to keep him...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGriffiths certain Boks will head west
THE financial impact of the global coronavirus epidemic should concentrate minds like never before when it comes to resolving some of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJamie’s experience would be a major asset in Cardiff
JAMIE Roberts’ rugby experience is unparalleled in Welsh rugby. That is why it would be great to see him come back...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTomas and Wales can’t be reunited soon enough
Least surprising headline of the week: Ireland’s Australia tour in doubt. Big loss: Tomas Francis leaves the pitch injured during World...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGuscott’s right, it’s time to trim benches says Winterbottom
Questions: Winterbottom PETER Winterbottom has added his name to a lengthening list of people demanding drastic cuts in the number of...
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/ 6 years agoJonny’s try tops lot in Six Nations
THE try of the Six Nations? Unquestionably Jonny May’s stratospheric second in Paris. The England wing looked like a Formula 1...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThat Pumas try cost me dear but it was a beauty!
Nick Cain catches up with Exeter and England wing Jack Nowell as he relishes being fit again Dive and twist: Jack...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll Blacks B team? Marler’s got it right
IT WOULD seem that famous old All Blacks, or one at the very least, are acknowledging Joe Marler’s fondness for the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoImproving Tigers take down ‘For Sale’ sign
LEICESTER are no longer up for sale because of a lack of suitable investors and the financial uncertainty caused by Brexit...
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/ 6 years agoCVC cash may help struggling regions
By STEFFAN THOMAS and ROB COLE WELSH rugby’s four regions are set to call on government funding and will look to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWilliam Webb Ellis died without realising he invented rugby
Brendan Gallagher begins his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Beginnings: The young Webb Ellis runs with...
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/ 6 years agoEx-ace Richards picks the scrum-halves Eddie should be blooding for England
■ By NEALE HARVEY In possession: Ben Youngs and Willi Heinz. Inset, Peter Richards PICTURES: Getty Images PETER Richards says England’s...
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/ 6 years agoGriffiths pledges to save Championship
By NICK CAIN Main man: Saracens CEO Edward Griffiths arrives for the Premiership final between Saracens and Northampton at Twickenham in...
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Features
/ 6 years agoControversy, as Scots claim victory after a knock-on
Brendan Gallagher sets the scene for the first ever Test – between Scotland and England Pioneers: Scotland’s squad for the first...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFoul play warrants the highest sanctions
AS A solicitor representing people in the Magistrates Court, I know how much fairer it is having guideline sentences for particular...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoNow, more than ever, game needs leadership
Accusation: Eddie Jones blasted referee Ben O’Keeffe for sending off Manu Tuilagi at Twickenham PICTURE: Getty Images Never let a good...
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/ 6 years agoRetiring Griffiths must bid farewell from afar
■ By GUY WILLIAMS CLIVE Griffiths, director of rugby at Doncaster Knights, won’t see the club again, or his players, before...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoUse law of averages to settle it
SURELY the fairest way to extrapolate results for the rest of the season is to calculate the average return each team...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDupont was nobbled in anyone’s language
HAD THEY been thinking outside the box, Fabien Galthie and the rest of the French hierarchy could have argued that as...
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/ 6 years agoTe’o’s season ends at Exiles before it starts
■ By JON NEWCOMBE New plan: Mike Te’o will go back to the USA. Inset: Paul Lasike HAVING represented his country...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHelping hands
SWING low sweet chariot coming for to carry me home. Swing low sweet chariot coming for to carry me home. If...
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/ 6 years agoInvestment? Not Maro!
TALKING of France, the glitzy Parisians of Racing 92 were willing to make a handsome investment in Maro Itoje before being...
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/ 6 years agoHow do All Blacks pick a team with no form guide?
Troubled times: New All Blacks head coach Ian Foster with his squad PICTURE: Getty Images The period following the 2019 Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCould Champions escape relegation?
THEREare suggestions that there may be no relegation from football’s Premier League this spring, in the wake of coronavirus. With the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoTrailfinders: We may sue if Falcons are champs
■ By NEALE HARVEY Defiant: Ben Ward CHAMPIONSHIP challengers Ealing are preparing to take legal action in the event of Newcastle...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoMy 15 Kings of the North
NICK CAIN PICKS HIS INTERNATIONAL TEAM FROM THE SIX NATIONS PERFORMANCES Joe Marler Julian Marchand Tadhg Furlong Best in world: Maro...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TAREKHAFFAR LONDON IRISH LOOSEHEAD Modern rugby demands pace as well as power from its props so when Tarek Haffar scattered a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoReplace Saracens with Newcastle then draw a line
THEperiod of ‘wait and see’ has passed and the RFU has made a decision regarding the future of their competitions. Now...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoWales face ace Tomas staying at the Chiefs
Dilemma: Tomas Francis on the rampage for Exeter PICTURE: Gettty Images WALES prop Tom Francis fears coronavirus will force him into...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWillie John still can’t forgive ‘cowards’ who denied Irish
Peter Jackson remembers another chaotic season that scuppered Ireland’s chance of a Grand Slam Irish Lion: The great Mike Gibson Green...
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/ 6 years agoFrustrating to win only the one cap
MY LIFEIN RUGBY ROGER WILSON THE FORMER IRELAND, ULSTER AND NORTHAMPTON No.8 AS a Belfast schoolboy, going to Ulster matches at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDon’t agree with early season end
I UNDERSTAND why the RFU have now cancelled the rest of this season – sadly, I didn't originally agree with the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPaywall looms for Six Nations TV
THE Government has rejected calls for the Six Nations to be given Category A listing, thereby increasing the likelihood of the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll our yesterdays come gloriously alive again
Party time: Peter O’Toole and Richard Harris get in the mood PICTURE: Phil Shepherd Lewis It’s amazing the rugby stuff there...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThe Welsh were no saints, I assure you
Match-winner: Scotland’s Tony Stanger makes his break against England in 1990 PICTURE: Getty Images Reading last week’s Sunday’s Times I was...
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Features
/ 6 years agoChance for rugby to sort itself out
End of marquee players: Stars like Bristol’s Charles Piutau would be in the salary cap COLIN BOAG This is one of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTeleni beat shoplifting rap to lead Fiji v Wales
ONE OF rugby’s more controversial characters has passed away. Former Fiji captain Esala Teleni, below, has died having first come to...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoJonny’s brewing up a storm for the Chiefs
■ By NEALE HARVEY Jonny Hill CIDER-making Exeter lock Jonny Hill aims to become the apple of Eddie Jones’ eye just...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhy have flying 10s like Carter all disappeared?
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Rose to the challenge: Nick Tompkins has the right attitude PICTURE: Getty Images THE...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYarde stays at Sale…with May?
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ON THE BLINDSIDE SALE Sharks winger Marland Yarde is unlikely to be heading to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGame will return in a nicer form
SO rugby players in all our professional leagues will have to take pay cuts as we look to navigate our way...
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/ 6 years agoNiko gets the gloves on to battle for Rob and Mose
■ By JON NEWCOMBE AFTER Yorkshire Carnegie’s financial problems and the visa difficulties that led to his sudden departure from Ealing...
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/ 6 years agoPowerhouse Kalamafoni all set to join the Scarlets
By STEFFAN THOMAS Tongan ace: Sione Kalamafoni THE Scarlets look set to strengthen their pack with the signing of Tongan international...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHastings ready for code switch
Man of Steel: Hastings JACKSON Hastings, who was crowned Super League’s man of steel last October, is looking to make a...
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/ 6 years agoPremiership clubs order 25 per cent pay cuts
PREMIERSHIP sides Gloucester, Wasps and Worcester Warriors have all announced 25 per cent pay cuts because of the financial impact of...
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/ 6 years agoNewark unite to tackle virus
NEWARK, with 500 players of all ages from minis to their 1st XV, have established a ‘buddy up’ club for all...
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