All posts tagged "Premium"
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoDevon’s victory is not enough for safety
By BILL HOOPER Cornwall …19 Devon …20 DEVON built up a 17-point half-time lead playing down the slope and were able...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBrooks breaks Swans at the death for Drovers win
By PAUL HOPKINS Swansea …21 Llandovery …28 A LATE Richard Brooks try saw Llandovery win an entertaining encounter against Swansea at...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWilson’s just reward for playing it like the All Blacks
THE COMEBACK kings! What an achievement it was for Cardiff Blues to claim Challenge Cup glory against Gloucester. The manner of...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoBonus win moves Albion up to third
By NICK BURT Plymouth A … 33 Loughborough … 19 IN the final match of the season Plymouth secured the bonus...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoNorthumber’d 21 Nolson notches double for Yorks
By DAN COOK Yorkshire …38 Northumber’d 21 YORKSHIRE maintained their 100 per cent record in this season’s Bill Beaumont Senior Men’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPowell’s double helps Otters go second
Welsh round-up By CHRIS SMART NARBERTH secured second spot in the WRU National Championship with a 43-7 home victory over already...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCipriani can be the catalyst for England to cut loose
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Chance to impress: Danny Cipriani deserves his England call PICTURE: Getty Images DANNY Cipriani’s club form...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHowley: It’s a 31-man trial for the World Cup
By ROB COLE ROB Howley believes Wales have the perfect age profile to achieve World Cup success. The ultimate target for...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoBrave Luctonians go down fighting
By GEOFF VICKRESS Luctonians… 21 Sale … 22 LUCTONIANS suffered the agony of relegation despite a magnificent door- die effort against...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoCoughlan rules the roost for Kent
By GRAHAM COX Kent …22 Surrey …15 LUKE Coughlan’s secondhalf try and man of the match performance lifted Kent to victory...
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoEngland struggle to repel the power of Boks driving lineout
By ROGER PANTING England…12 South Africa …26 Just short: England’s Ben White is halted before the line ENGLAND head coach Steve...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoNo fireworks but Leinster willpower wins the day
By NICK CAIN Cutting through: Robbie Henshaw on the charge LEINSTER won their fourth European title, equalling Toulouse’s record haul, but...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoGatland’s picked ‘perfect role model’
Wales summer squad Rapid rise: Cory Hill will co-captain the summer tour PICTURES: Getty Images CORY Hill is the perfect player...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoEaling find rhythm to deliver the knockout
By JONATHAN LANDI Cup kings: Ealing celebrate with the trophy PICTURE: Lissy Tomlinson IT WAS billed as the biggest game in...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 8 years agoSussex & Essex produce fine fight backs
Division Three Round-up By JASON TAMS RENE Pavlides left it late to go over as Sussexproduced an outstanding comeback to down...
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoLuton earn promotion
LUTON beat Midlands 2 East (North) runners-up Matlock 35-22 at Newlands last weekend to gain promotion. Ben Murphy, Jake Hobbs, Jordan...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLancaster: It means so much to all my family
CAPTAIN Isa Nacewa, crowned European player of the year in his final season with the province, booted the match-winning penalty in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEngland up the heat in Pennyhill sweat-shop
By NICK CAIN ENGLAND’S preparations for the 2019 World Cup will involve training in sweltering tropical rainforest temperatures of 30 degrees...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoQuins fly-half Lang brings physicality to midfield
Scotland summer squad Call up: James Lang HARLEQUINS playmaker James Lang will relish the chance to make an impact at international...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoPrydie’s too good for all this time in the shadows
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Tom Prydie arrived at ‘Heart and Soul Rugby Country’ last summer hoping to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
BARRY STEWART THE FORMER SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH, SALE AND NORTHAMPTON PROP My journey from medical write-off in my mid-20s to winning Premiership...
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoMugford off to France
PLYMOUTH Albion fly-half Dan Mugford has announced he is off to pastures new after just one season back at the club....
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWarnock words give heart to Blues
By PETER JACKSON Warrior’s cry: Dan Leavy hoists the European Champions Cup after Leinster beat Racing 92 PICTURE: Getty Images CARDIFF...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEddie’s become the voice of confusion
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE THINKING BEHIND EDDIE JONES’ TOUR SQUAD FOR SOUTH AFRICA IF Eddie Jones is as successful at...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoAnother sad no-show from the new England captain
HE failed to do so on a Monday night in the New Year to collect the Rugby Writers’ Club’s highest accolade,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoJoe certain ‘team man’ Cips will sing for Eddie
By NEALE HARVEY WASPS captain Joe Launchbury dismisses any notion that Danny Cipriani is not a ‘team player’ and expects the...
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoGrenoble go back up by routing Oyonnax
DAVID BARNES Back up: David Mele delivered on his promise to Grenoble FRENCH COLUMN Grenoble will join Perpignan in the Top...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoGreatest? No way, but Hartley had his moments
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN EDDIE Jones is not averse to stirring the pot, and he did so...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEDDIE JONES ON…
… Danny Cipriani He has got nice talents. He shows that all the time – but can he translate that to...
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoAt least Bent had actually set foot on Irish soil
SIX years ago Ireland caused a stink by rushing Michael Bent, a New Zealander, straight from the arrivals hall at Dublin...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoGustard, Edwards on Quins’ wanted list
ENGLAND defence coach Paul Gustard has emerged as a contender for the head coach role at Harlequins, along with Wales counterpart...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTigers top despite end to playoff run
Peter Jackson reveals his exclusive table of European rugby’s best supported clubs For those in Tigerville still smarting over their team’s...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoNZ are hypocrites in their fuss over Shields
IF there’s one rugby nation that England should not take any lectures from when it comes to adopting players from other...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFollow The Rugby Paper online…
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National Leagues
/ 8 years agoWhat price for loyalty?
LONG after football abandoned the value of the one-club man, rugby is doing the same. Matt Banahan’s exit from Bath after...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSwift bamboozled by Banahan’s departure
CLUB record try-scorer Tony Swift admits he was as puzzled as anyone when he found out fellow Bath legend Matt Banahan...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
MATT WILLIAMS LONDON IRISH CENTRE In the rush to write off London Irish as a potential Premiership force, it easy to...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoAnscombe hits late winner to crown famous Blues recovery
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER CARDIFF Blues gave departing coach Danny Wilson the silverware his sterling efforts deserved in this pulsating Challenge Cup...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSarries’ forward thinkers taking game to new level
By NEALE HARVEY DECISION-MAKING forwards allied to more lenient refereeing has led to a glut of Premiership try-scoring says Saracens back...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTry-happy Charlie looking to make it a family double
By JON NEWCOMBE DEAN RICHARDS isn’t the only member of his family in line for silverware this season with son Charlie...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoStunning comeback puts Crusaders top
By SAM JACKSON Fighting back: Joe Moody dives over to score for the Crusaders PICTURE: Getty Images THE Crusaders pulled off...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBystander Ben wants Six Nations redemption
By NEALE HARVEY BEN Youngs is a man on a mission to right the wrongs of England’s sub-standard Six Nations campaign...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoAckermann rues another lost final
FRUSTRATED Gloucester coach Johan Ackermann questioned why decisons were not always referred to the TMO following Garyn Smith’s somewhat controversial score...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSubscriptions…
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoGuernsey building University bridges
PROMOTED Guernsey Raiders are banking on an innovative venture involving Loughborough and Cardiff Universities to bolster squad numbers for their first...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSurprising Eddie didn’t rest more of his Six Nations flops
JEFF PROBYN Vital role: Brad Shield’s experience of South Africa will be hugely beneficial PICTURE: Getty Images PICTURE: Getty Images I...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHougaard putting Boks on ice for Warriors
SPRINGBOK ace Francois Hougaard will not rule out a return for the World Cup but says he is “at peace” with...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoStats show Goode and Gibson should be on the plane
I HAVE both a love and a healthy scepticism regarding statistics generally but the end of season Opta stats are always...
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