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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
DAVE SEYMOUR THE FORMER SARACENS, SALE AND ENGLAND SEVENS FORWARD To have started, and ended, my career working for Steve Diamond...
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/ 8 years agoWoolmore ready for top flight after Jersey blooding
HUNGRY prop Jake Woolmore insists Bristol’s collection of Championship recruits will prove their critics wrong in next season’s Premiership. While Charles...
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/ 8 years agoTop six playoff just sounds bonkers
I’VE read some tripe over the years, but Todd Blackadder’s call to expand the Premiership playoffs to six as reported by...
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/ 8 years agoChallenge Cup hit by double standards
RUGBY does have an incredibly frustrating habit of shooting itself in the foot with its blatant tendency to soft pedal with...
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/ 8 years agoBordeaux job just too good to turn down
By NEALE HARVEY Coaching role: Luke Narraway in action for Coventry PICTURE: Nick Meredith FORMER England No.8 Luke Narraway says the...
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/ 8 years agoThompson told to get some ring time under his belt
By JON NEWCOMBE FORMER Newcastle hooker Matt Thompson has something in common with Rio Ferdinand – their professional boxing careers have...
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/ 8 years agoDon’t blame Eddie for all these injury troubles
COLIN BOAG Knockabout game: England v Barbarians was end of season fun It has been open season on Eddie Jones in...
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/ 8 years agoHero pathfinders fought cause of black players
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Ball of energy: Errol Tobias RUGBY MATTERS BACK in 2009...
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/ 8 years agoKnight has point to prove after joining Rouen
French leave: Shaun Knight Return: Dan Mugford FORMER Bath prop Shaun Knight says the prospect of being third or fourth choice...
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/ 8 years agoLoyal Ojo signs up for Irish fightback
By SAM JACKSON Staying: Scott Steele LONDON Irish’s record try-scorer Topsy Ojo has signed a contract extension with the club, and...
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/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
JUSTIN BURNELL, PONTYPRIDD COACH AND FORMER BRIDGEND, PONTY, NEATH AND CARDIFF FLANKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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/ 8 years agoPenalties will kill our Boks hopes warns Itoje
By NICK CAIN MARO Itoje has warned his England team-mates to cut out the penalties or face defeat on their Springbok...
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/ 8 years agoAsh splash: Ashton score the opening try
Try of the week: You could choose half a dozen from the England v Barbarians game but my favourite was the...
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/ 8 years agoWhat a joke to call this reserve clash a Test match
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Bill Beaumont knows the definition of a Test match better than most, a...
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/ 8 years agoSonny Bill knee op a success – but he’s out of Test
By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA ALL BLACKS centre Sonny Bill Williams has said that the surgery he undertook for a knee...
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/ 8 years agoEngland should copy the Saracens style of play
JEREMY GUSCOTT Champions: Saracens know how to win games PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND’S defeat by the Barbarians will have only a...
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/ 8 years agoRees set for Cup bid at the age of 38
By PETER JACKSON MATTHEW Rees plans to make a Champions’ Cup come-back with Cardiff Blues next season at the age of...
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/ 8 years agoEngland know it’s make or break for them in Jo’burg Test
ANALYSIS World class: Mako Vunipola is the best all-round loose head in the game PICTURES: Getty Images NICK CAIN LOOKS AHEAD...
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/ 8 years agoBrock goes on and on as others cry enough
Ageless: Brock James has scored more than 3,000 points IN FRANCE, a whole host of grand old warriors are slowly trying...
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/ 8 years agoIt’s no home comfort yet for Umaga’s woeful Blues
By ADAM ELLIS Bad day at the office: Jerome Kaino of the Blues PICTURE: Getty Images MELBOURNE Rebels heaped more woes...
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/ 8 years agoEngland go speeding on as Ireland make history
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Held: Ryan Olowofela of England is tackled by France’s Paulin Riva PICTURE: Getty Images Evasion: England’s Dan Bibby...
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/ 8 years agoBath boss on thin ice when he raps Eddie
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK IN two and a half years of England training sessions under Eddie Jones...
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/ 8 years agoI lie awake wondering how I’ve played in matches admits Mako
MAKO Vunipola has such a lung-busting lactic acidinducing workrate that you would imagine that after a match he is out as...
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/ 8 years agoSexton, driving force of the Irish All Blacks
AS THE bars in Ballsbridge began to thin out in the early hours of Sunday morning, a welloiled, middle-aged Leinster supporter...
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/ 8 years agoBarbarians put the brakes on a few England careers
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Poor preparation: England were humbled by the Barbarians last weekend PICTURE: Getty...
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/ 8 years agoGold medal coach Ryan captures all the idiosyncrasies of Fijian 7s
Golden boys: Ben Ryan with Ro Dakuwaqa IN ONE way you might think there is nothing particularly odd or special about...
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/ 8 years agoI’m all fine ‘injured’ Farrell tells England
By GARY FITZGERALD We’re bubbling: Brad Barritt holds the Premiership Trophy aloft after beating Exeter PICTURE: Getty Images OWEN Farrell told...
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/ 8 years agoJenkins knows performance must be ‘outstanding’
By ROB COLE ELLIS Jenkins will use elements of the captaincy style of three of Wales’ greatest players on next month’s...
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/ 8 years agoChiefs claim top spot in top team
Nick Cain picks his team of the season from the Premiership THE Premiership has a legitimate claim to being the most...
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/ 8 years agoCowan-Dickie ready to explode on Test scene
By NEALE HARVEY Take that: Luke Cowan-Dickie hands off Saints’ Jamie Gibson PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie has vowed...
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/ 8 years agoLeinster complete double in Dublin
By STEFFAN THOMAS SCARLETS coach Wayne Pivac believes his side can bounce back and compete for silverware next season. Champions Cup...
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/ 8 years agoGareth must be fearless in the face of Bok fire
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Starter at 10: Blues fly-half Gareth Anscombe PICTURE: Getty Images I MUST admit when I...
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/ 8 years agoSymons signs for the Quins
NEWS EXTRA HARLEQUINS have agreed a deal to sign Wasps forward Matt Symons. The 28-year-old lock, who joined Wasps from London...
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/ 8 years agoTynedale appoint ex-Tiger Woods
TYNEDALE have appointed former England Saxons, Newcastle and Leicester flanker Ben Woods as their new head coach. Woods, a Premiership winner...
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/ 8 years agoFearns warns more will quit England amid Shields row
CARL Fearns believes Eddie Jones’ decision to fast-track Hurricanes captain Brad Shields into England’s squad could backfire by persuading more home-grown...
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/ 8 years agoMcNicholl would be a star for Wales if he follows Parkes’ lead
THE ISSUE of rugby’s residency rules doesn’t seem to go away and I can’t see that changing even with the qualification...
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/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER SCOTLAND, MELROSE, LEICESTER AND EDINBURGH WINGER. CRAIG JOINER I got lots of good advice throughout my career but drinking...
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/ 8 years agoHibbard impressed by Dee’s progress
RICHARD Hibbard is backing club rival Elliot Dee to become Wales’ first choice hooker at next year’s World Cup. The former...
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/ 8 years agoExpand play-offs to Top Six argue Bath
By NEALE HARVEY Test future: Bath No.8 Zach Mercer PICTURES: Getty Images Boss: Todd Blackadder TODD Blackadder has called on Premiership...
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/ 8 years agoDaly gets his chance to play full-back in World Cup
NICK CAIN TALKS TO EDDIE JONES AND ELLIOT DALY ABOUT THE WASPS MAN’S NEW ROLE FOR ENGLAND Natural talent: Eddie Jones...
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/ 8 years agoCarleton try snatches famous win in Tbilisi
Heroes all: England Counties U20 celebrate their famous win over Georgia By JON NEWCOMBE MATCH-WINNING hero Tom Carleton is glad to...
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/ 8 years agoFerguson relishing key role in new-look coaching lineup
FORMER England Women’s scrum guru Matt Ferguson insists big names will not faze him as he begins the task of restoring...
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/ 8 years agoOld-style props like me are just clinging on now says Marler
Loves a scrum: Joe Marler JOE MARLER says he feels increasingly like part of an endangered species. The bearded Harlequins loosehead...
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/ 8 years agoLong names Counties squad for Romania tour
THREE of Cinderford’s promotion-winning side have been called up into the England Counties squad for a tour to Romania. Joe Smart,...
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/ 8 years agoCastres unlikely lads line up tilt at the title
FRENCH COLUMN DAVID BARNES Incisive: Aaron Cruden has disovered his touch just in time for Montpellier PICTURE: Getty Images TOP 14...
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/ 8 years agoMallett TV spat reveals the split in SA rugby
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN TV panel: from left, Ashwin Willemse, Naas Botha and Nick Mallett THE disunity...
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/ 8 years agoEngland on look out for their next tooth fairy
THE dentist’s chair has a number of sporting connotations – not least the conspicuous consumption of alcohol by Paul Gascoigne in...
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/ 8 years agoKolisi’s on the brink of making Bok history
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER JACKSON Rationed: Johnny Sexton made limited appearances for Leinster PICTURE: Getty Images Siya Kolisi...
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/ 8 years agoWizz-kid Smith in to work his magic
By NEALE HARVEY Harlequins playmaker: Marcus Smith scores against Exeter PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND SQUAD Forwards: Josh Basham (London Irish) Ben...
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