All posts tagged "Premium"
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSaints blown away by Chiefs’ power game
By NEALE HARVEY Upping the ante: Exeter flanker Don Armand scores their third try EXETER will be overwhelming favourites to reach...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoRelease the Tier 2 brake or game will go in reverse
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Dream killers: Lucas Rumball scores for Canada as they beat Germany in the...
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/ 7 years agoLion’s share for top three but try-hungry Tigers get two
The Rugby Paper’s reporters have submitted their votes to reveal our National 2 North Team of the Season NOMINATIONS have come...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoFortune favours the Nonu braves
By ADAM ELLIS Warrior: Ma’a Nonu led the way for Blues LUCK was on the side of the Blues as they...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoLawes promises semi-final response
SAINTS boss Chris Boyd was downcast in defeat. He said: “It’s bitter-sweet because while we’re pleased to make the semifinals for...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoRefreshing that Baxter and Cohen stand by principles
ROB Baxter’s trenchant statement in favour of promotion and relegation this week shows that not all Premiership clubs are convinced that...
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/ 7 years agoOpportunity knocks for Ryan’s Dragons
By ROB COLE NEW Dragons boss Dean Ryan insists the talent pool in Wales is as big as England and plans...
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/ 7 years agoProp star steps up for shot in top-flight
LONDON Irish have bolstered their front row options for next season by signing prop Will Goodrick-Clarke from Richmond. The 23-year-old, named...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoTeague gets in line for coach’s job at Racing
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Farewell: Mathieu Bastareaud plays his last match for Toulon today Racing are out to win a top...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoLang falls short as do the hopes of Wasps and Quins
By NICK CAIN Bitter-sweet: Joe Simpson breaks clear to score for Wasps PICTURES: Getty Images On the blindside: Joe Marchant powers...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoBears have come out of the woods to stay
By LUKE JARMYN Man of the match: Charles Piutau goes over for the Bears’ opening try PICTURES: Getty Images Collision: Falcons’...
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/ 7 years agoMako will be fine for World Cup – McCall
SARACENS loose-head Mako Vunipola will be sidelined for “a minimum of three months” with a torn hamstring. Vunipola sustained the injury...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
SAM COSTELOW LEICESTER FLY-HALF It promises to be a memorable month for 18-year-old flyhalf Sam Costelow, who hopes to line up...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
DoR Morris exits Exiles LONDON Scottish director of rugby Dave Morris will leave the club in June as a result of...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoIt’s been emotional this week says Dai
WAS DoR Dai Young said that knowing Joe Simpson and Elliot Daly would leave after this match had been difficult. “It’s...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoLam vow: Top six for us next season
PAT LAM called the win a “perfect send-off ” for several departing players and staff, including retiring 38-year-old former Wallaby George...
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/ 7 years agoIron-man Ryan back on parade
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Two minutes’ fame: Lee Jarvis of Wales in action. Inset: Yannick Caballero PICTURES:...
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/ 7 years agoPat’s putting me back on track for Wales – Thomas
By STEFFAN THOMAS DAN Thomas hopes a stellar Premiership campaign with Bristol can throw him into contention for the Wales set-up...
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/ 7 years agoWelsh clubs bemused by new tournament
By ROB COLE WELSH Premiership clubs reacted with bewilderment this week when it was announced they would be playing Scottish semi-pro...
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/ 7 years agoCaballero’s walk-on part among Test bit players
THE raft of retirees leaving the stage within the next fortnight includes Castres back row forward Yannick Caballero, after 15 consecutive...
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/ 7 years agoBlues get green light for Williams
CARDIFF Blues have won their appeal to retain No.8 Nick Williams for next season. Kiwi Williams, 35, was due to come...
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/ 7 years agoDaly’s move driven by need to be challenged
By NEALE HARVEY ELLIOT Daly says the chance for personal improvement rather than winning trophies was the driving force behind his...
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Features
/ 7 years agoBegles sniffing around Brock
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler HARLEQUINS could suffer a setback in their move for Bordeaux Begles’...
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/ 7 years agoEuropean Cup takes a bow in Detroit
DETROIT, where Henry Ford invented the assembly-line and Diana Ross personified the sound of Motown, is big on sport, too. It...
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/ 7 years agoLaunceston promotion is career high for Westren
By NEALE HARVEY On the up: Launceston celebrate beating Old Centralians PLAYER-COACH Ryan Westren predicts brighter times ahead for Launceston, a...
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/ 7 years agoSlade wants a bigger part after 2015 frustration
By JON NEWCOMBE BIT-PART player at the last World Cup, Exeter’s Henry Slade is hoping to make it big in Japan...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMcGuigan making his mind up
Choices: McGuigan GEORGE McGUIGAN is at the centre of a three way tug-of-war between Premiership rivals Leicester Tigers and Gloucester, and...
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/ 7 years agoSouth African invasion will give Sharks teeth
By JON NEWCOMBE Top tackler: Jono Ross Talisman: Faf de Klerk A TWEET from Sale showing Faf de Klerk in a...
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/ 7 years agoFolau has contract terminated
ISRAEL Folau’s sacking by by Rugby Australia was upheld at an appeal hearing after the player said ‘hell awaits’ gay people...
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/ 7 years agoRoberts: Girwan will be vital in new Hooper era
By STEFFAN THOMAS Optimistic: Jamie Roberts Key man: Dempsey JAMIE Roberts says Bath must reach a level of consistency they have...
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Features
/ 7 years agoFalcons stars opt out to prolong life in top-flight
Joining Sale: Newcastle full-back Simon Hammersley NEWCASTLE Falcons are set for a double body blow following relegation to the Championship with...
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/ 7 years agoFerguson has got Saints pack rolling again says Waller
By NEALE HARVEY NORTHAMPTON’S pack is becoming a force to be reckoned with again according to long-serving prop Alex Waller. Waller,...
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/ 7 years agoSingleton pumped up for his second chance at Saracens
By NEALE HARVEY HOOKER Jack Singleton says the lure of returning to Saracens and going head-tohead with England star Jamie George...
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/ 7 years agoSmith counting on Tiger cubs to form new core at Leicester
By NEALE HARVEY MATT Smith is confident a good core of home-grown players is the key to getting Leicester firing again...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoSaracens ask: What more can Goode do?
By NEALE HARVEY Out in front: Henry Slade runs in a try for Exeter in their big win over Northampton SARACENS...
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Features
/ 7 years agoLam’s on lookout for front row cavalry
In market: Pat Lam BRISTOL BEARS boss Pat Lam is still targeting a couple of signings to bolster his squad for...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 7 years agoAttacks rule in Div 2 as try-fest ensues
DIVISION 2 ROUND-UP By DAVE MOORE LEICESTERSHIRE sealed a shot at Twickenham glory as they beat East Midlands 29-20 in what...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSweeney on song as Ponty finish on a high note
By ROB COLE Pontypridd ….47 .. Merthyr ……….19 CERI Sweeney fought back the tears as he signed off in style at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoAll this yo-yoing just makes my head spin
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I THOROUGHLY agree with...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoWelfare worries hit 13-club proposal
By NEALE HARVEY PREMIERSHIP Rugby proposals for a 13-team league from season 2020/21 may be scuppered because of concerns over player...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSarries would thrash best of the rest in England
NICK CAIN RATES THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS AGAINST THE REMAINDER OF THE PREMIERSHIP’S RED ROSE CONTINGENT SARACENS’ third European Cup final triumph...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 7 years agoCounties hold on as Bird lets it slip
By STEVE JACKSON East Counts….28 N’umberland ..27 EASTERN Counties finished their season with a bonus-point victory over Northumberland at the Haberden...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPrydie angles Fisher’s men to play-off win
By STEFFAN THOMAS Llanelli ……….27 .. Pontypool ……16 LLANELLI secured their position in next season’s Principality Premiership with a comfortable victory...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWrong to insist on relegation up north but not down south
I FIND the idea of a World League, which includes the Six Nations and Rugby Championship teams interesting. Reading last week’s...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoBath’s late win leaves Sharks lying in wait
By ROB WILDMAN Impact from the bench: Dom Coetzer scores for Gloucester SALE summoned their best at the death in a...
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/ 7 years agoLeinster get back in the groove after Euro misery
By JOHN FALLON LEINSTER put the disappointment of last week’s Champions Cup final defeat behind them to oust arch rivals Munster....
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 7 years agoBirkenhead boost for Cheshire final
By FEARGAL BRENNAN Cheshire……….52 Durham …………..7 CHESHIRE stormed into the final of the 2019 Bill Beaumont Cup with a dominant display...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoGogs finish with a bang as Blue & Blacks run trial
By JOHN MURPHY RGC 1404 ……..63 .. Cardiff …………24 CARDIFF finished second outright in the Principality Premiership despite being dealt a...
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