All posts tagged "Premium"
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBlues bid for Eagles ace No.8
By STEFFAN THOMAS CARDIFF Blues are understood to be front-runners to in the race for the marquee signing of Toulon No.8...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIrish lifeline rescues Tom from the rugby wilderness
By NEALE HARVEY SARACENS hooker Tom Woolstencroft is ready to fight Lions star Jamie George for his place after being handed...
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/ 8 years agoNational One clubs hit out at dual registration snub
By NEALE HARVEY ANGRY National One clubs have accused the RFU and Premiership Rugby of ‘damaging the integrity’ of their competition...
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/ 8 years agoFolau yellow highlights huge flaws in modern officiating
IT’S been a vexatious summer for referees and officialdom with the curious case of Israel Folau’s yellow card for his challenge...
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/ 8 years agoStringer calls time aged 40
IRELANDgreat Peter Stringer has announced his retirement from rugby at the age of 40 and with 98 caps for Ireland. Having...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRelegation? No, Solomons has Champions Cup spot in his sights
ALAN SOLOMONS ON THE RECORD Q&A Widely travelled Alan Solomons, director of rugby at Worcester, tells NEALE HARVEY his plans for...
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/ 8 years agoSubscriptions…
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/ 8 years agoScots got one over Ealing pranksters
Noisy bunch: Scots pipers THERE was some cracking banter at the Caledonian Club in London this week at the launch of...
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/ 8 years agoJapan target quarter-finals
JAPAN rugby coach Jamie Joseph said his team are capable of making history by reaching the quarter-finals at next year’s World...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years ago‘Fearless’ Fred warns dissent will wreck game
By PETER JACKSON WORLD Rugby are being urged to take a tougher stand against dissenting players who threaten to drag the...
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/ 8 years agoRecord win in Argentina salvages Scots’ pride
SCOTLAND wrapped up their summer tour with a record 44-15 victory over Argentina last weekend. Scrum-half George Horne scored the first...
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/ 8 years agoBoks aside, rugby in Africa has just gone backwards
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points HEAVEN knows it’s a difficult enough job growing...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TIAAN THOMAS-WHEELER OSPREYS CENTRE You’ve got to be good to wear bright orange boots and Ospreys academy product Tiaan Thomas-Wheeler is...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoBradley wanted back at Cardiff
By ALEX BYWATER CARDIFF Blues hope to bring Bradley Davies back to the Welsh capital and the giant lock is keen...
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/ 8 years agoVernon brings Test pedigree to Exiles
By NEALE HARVEY MARQUEE signing Richie Vernon is ready to spearhead London Scottish’s charge for a top six Championship place after...
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/ 8 years agoFormer skipper Strauss calls time at Bulls
By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA FORMER South Africa hooker Adriaan Strauss will retire from all forms of professional rugby at the...
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/ 8 years agoHunger remains for Chiefs veteran Dollman
By NEALE HARVEY EXETER stalwart Phil Dollman will target two more years in the Premiership before turning his attention to a...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoEddie’s pack has just gone backwards for 12 months
EREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK The England pack has shown an incredible drop-off between the intensity when Eddie Jones first came...
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/ 8 years agoSteadman adds steal to the defence
LONDON SCOTTISH have bolstered their coaching staff with the addition of experienced defence and skills coach Graham Steadman. The former Rugby...
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/ 8 years agoBoyd raps Hurricanes as they flop yet again
By SAM JACKSON Super Rugby HURRICANES coach Chris Boyd slammed his team’s loss to the Brumbies. The early frontrunners for the...
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/ 8 years agoMcGuigan looking for a kickstart at Falcons
By JON NEWCOMBE GEORGE McGUIGAN reports for duty at Newcastle tomorrow hoping to put a frustrating final season at Leicester behind...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 8 years ago‘No guts’ Samoa answer their PM with ten-try rout
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER SAMOA virtually guaranteed their place at RWC2019 with a thumping 66-15 home win over Germany in Apia yesterday...
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/ 8 years agoGrassroots pay price for Twickenham overspend
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As England return from a trying summer tour, the celebrations have started...
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/ 8 years agoEl Abd backs Bristol’s new recruitment policy
JOE EL ABD, forwards guru of Top 14 miracle side Castres, reckons his bunch of relative unknowns have shown his old...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoFine having two alphas, but they must be in sync
ANDY GOODE GUEST COLUMN FROM THE FORMER ENGLAND FLY-HALF Dominant voice: Owen Farrell leads a post-match team talk The third Test...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLack of TV footage makes refs Fall-guys
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Benjamin Fall goes up for a high ball and his midair opponent, Beauden...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIn honour of the rugby heroes of WWI
BRENDAN GALLAGHER explores the fascinating history of Scottish rugby players in World War I Paying tribute: HRH Princess Anne, with book...
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/ 8 years agoScenic route leads Davis to Saints promised land
By NEALE HARVEY DETERMINED Northampton loosehead Will Davis wants to prove why the conventional is not always best when it comes...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoYoungs played like a general, De Klerk led from the front like a fireball
NEIL DE KOCK EX-SARACENS AND SOUTH AFRICA SCRUM-HALF Controlling influence: Ben Youngs The first-choice scrumhalves for England and South Africa, Ben...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIoane joins quick-fire hat-trick club
RIEKO Ioane has been in a hurry ever since the All Blacks rushed him into their team as a teenager, a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLondon Scottish 1913-14: The Club 1st XV assembled before the match against the United Services
BACK ROW Private J Ross (London Scottish Regiment): Killed November 1 1914, Messines. Won 5 Scotland caps. A Fettes boy before...
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/ 8 years agoToulon still in discussions with Ashton
SALE Sharks have been strongly linked to making a shock move to sign former England star Chris Ashton but as yet...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoSlade deserves to keep the 13 jersey for Autumn series
WHILEOwen Farrell and his Saracens mates head off to Hvar in Croatia for his stag weekend and the rest of the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoGermany are out of two World Cups!
GERMANY have now completed the fiendishly difficult trick of disappearing from two World Cups in the same week. In marked contrast...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFielding knew Huggan bravery warranted a Victoria Cross
RUGBY famously honours four Victoria Cross winners for conspicuous bravery among its former internationals – England’s Arthur Harrison and the Irish...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWorld rankings bit of a mystery to me
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk THE World Rugby rankings...
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Features
/ 8 years agoOld stagers set to return as England stumble on
NICK CAIN gives his thoughts on where the South African tour has left England preparations THE leading question following England’s twoone...
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Features
/ 8 years agoShaun has date in Japan
NOT a week goes by this summer without Shaun Edwards being linked to a job other than the one he has...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVisser vows allegiance to Gustard revolution
By NEALE HARVEY ACE finisher Tim Visser aims to spearhead a Quins revival this season after giving the mental grind of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoEddie’s shown too much faith in his out-of-form players
TOO many players seem untouchable in this current England set-up. It took losing the series for Eddie Jones to give Danny...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMay’s electric but Eddie’s in dark
NICK CAIN GIVES HIS ENGLAND MAN-BY-MAN RATINGS FROM SOUTH AFRICA THIS was a tour in which only five players – Jonny...
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Features
/ 8 years agoIrish pop up everywhere
ON a green field far away in a corner of Halifax, Nova Scotia last weekend, a pair of fly halves from...
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/ 8 years agoCodling in to replace Rowntree
Prolific: Tim Visser has scored 30 tries in 61 games for Quins PICTURES: Getty Images Lineout king: Codling HARLEQUINS confirmed that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoModern day giant bashing is turn off
I’M afraid that due to the style of modern play, I have to call it a day watching the professional game...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoNagusa takes new signings up to ten
FIJI back rower Nemani Nagusa has become Newcastle’s latest signing. The 30-year-old helped Fiji win their fourth consecutive Pacific Nations Cup...
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Features
/ 8 years agoGold’s Eagles have found wind beneath their wings at long last
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to Dan Lyle about the changing landscape of rugby in America OVER the years we have heard so...
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/ 8 years agoJenkins: Injuries won’t derail Wales’ bid
ELLIS Jenkins believes he has laid down a World Cup marker after a summer to remember. Jenkins was Wales cocaptain alongside...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow meaningful were those summer tours?
COLIN BOAG Now that the summer tours have ground to an end, what’s the verdict on how the northern countries fared?...
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/ 8 years agoBruzulier puts French nightmare behind him
By JON NEWCOMBE Top level experience: Jean-Baptiste Bruzulier in action for Clermont NEW Yorkshire Carnegie scrum-half Jean-Baptiste Bruzulier comes with a...













