All posts tagged "Premium"
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Features
/ 8 years agoToo many poor games in this year’s Six Nations
COLIN BOAG All week there were adverts on television proclaiming that the Six Nations was the best rugby tournament in the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoZimbabwe feeding the world with top talent
THE sight of Don Armand trotting on yesterday to become the latest Zimbabwean to play Six Nations rugby will have aroused...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoLigament injuryputs Dragons prop out forseason
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON WALES prop Leon Brown will miss the rest of the season after suffering a toe injury....
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRuthless Birmingham stay top
Midlands Premier A RAMPANT second half display saw table-toppers Birmingham and Solihull run out emphatic 43-5 winners against Doncaster Phoenix. Converted...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMaynard hits the sweet spot to kick Llandovery to victory
By HUW THOMAS Llandovery 17 Ebbw Vale 6 LLANDOVERY won their third game out of four in Phase Two of the...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoIbitoye inspires England’s 5-try second-half romp
■ By SAM JACKSON Six appeal: England congratulate Josh Basham after he crossed for the sixth try PICTURES: Getty Images Touchdown:...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU’s shameful treatment of North
JEFF GAGE Eddie Jones says lessons will be learnt following England’s abysmal defeat against France. But the big lessons won’t be...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTon up for veteran Toulon wing Clerc
Prolific: Vincent Clerc A HAT-TIP please for Vincent Clerc, one of the very best French players of the professional era who...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoJust a week for Harrison
NORTHAMPTON back row Teimana Harrison has been banned for one week after being sent off in last week’s Anglo-Welsh Cup defeat...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPark continue home form woes
Northern Premier BIRKENHEAD Park continued their poor run of form as they lost 19-51 at home to Rossendale. Josh Smith, Liam...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGrabham’s blunder not enough to cost Bridgend
By CHRIS SMART Bridgend 16 Newport 12 NEWPORT’S 100 per cent winning start to the second phase of the Premiership is...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoNtamack leads France to Six Nations crown
Wales U20 …3 France U20 …24 WALES finished a lowly fifth in the U20 Six Nations after being out-muscled and out-paced...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAlun-Wyn gets the ideal deal
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Staying in Wales: Alun-Wyn Jones is mob-handed by England PICTURE: Getty Images A...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVictory today could spark Spanish rugby revolution
RUGBY MATTERS A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Joining the festivities: King Felipe VI ARGUABLY...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
HARVEY SKINNER EXETER FLY-HALF Rather than wallowing in the pain of rejection by Bath, budding Taunton-born playmaker Harvey Skinner elected to...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoCamborne shock the Crusaders
South West Premier DINGS Crusaders saw their long winning run come to a dramatic end in the National League 3 South...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBaker leads Wizards to win as visitors unlocked at Talbot
By JAY BAYFORD Aberavon 25 Cross Keys 7 ABERAVON returned to winning ways with a deserved victory over Cross Keys under...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoEngland grab second spot as Waterman sets record
■ By SAM JACKSON Take that: Tryscorer Marlie Packer takes on the Irish defence PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND Women ended their...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLet’s call time on the drunks
MORE drunken behaviour during Wales-Italy last weekend has strengthened the perception of the world’s finest city-centre stadium as a place fast...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoIgnore the fake news… Scots centre Jones was a star for Millfield
Talent: Huw Jones in Millfield 1sts 2011-12 THERE’S a bit of an urban myth going around that needs to be put...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoAgony for Stour as Farrell hits late, late clincher
By NICK PULLEN Stourbridge…26 Sheff Tigers .28 STOUR’S promotion plans went up in smoke as Sheffield Tigers secured a prized double....
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoAtkinson wants more than just Champions Cup rugby
By NEALE HARVEY DEFIANT Gloucester centre Mark Atkinson reckons his side can jettison the ‘bottlers’ tag by roaring into the Premiership...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLeague leaders upset as Blue & Blacks impress
By PAUL HOPKINS Carmarthen Q 10 Cardiff 34 CARDIFF upset the odds with a hard-fought win over league leaders Carmarthen Quins....
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoScots out to back up Irish win
PREVIEW Italy Women v Scotland Women Today. Kick-off 1.30pm SCOTLAND have made two changes to their lineup for the match in...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDays when Griffiths was an outcast in his own country
Clive Griffiths witnessed the evils of apartheid South Africa during a rugby tour there almost 40 years ago and thought he...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoBlues aim to make it four wins from four
Preview Nottingham v Bedford Blues Today, Kick-off 3pm BEDFORD head into the game off the back of an impressive 41-22 win...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoField’s day as fingers freeze in the chiller
By JOHN BRENNAN Blaydon …15pts Huddersfield …26pts THE near-Arctic conditions made handling and ball retention difficult in the extreme. Both sides...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFiji flick the switch to silence giant killers
Vancouver Sevens By JON NEWCOMBE Finding form: Fiji win again in Vancouver PICTURE: Getty Images FIJI scored 19 unanswered points in...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoValley Commandos transforming into comeback kings
By CARL FIELD Neath 30 Pontypridd 34 PONTYPRIDD staged yet another remarkable recovery as they came from behind to beat struggling...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoLes Bleues seal Grand Slam with six-try rout of Wales
■ By GEORGE LAWRENCE Wales Women …3 France Women …38 Grand! France celebrate PICTURE: TRP photographer FRANCE regained the Women’s Six...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHorstmann on mission to bow out as a winner
NEALE HARVEY finds two Exeter Chiefs back rowers desperate to finish the season in style Skipper: Kai Horstmann PICTURES: Getty Images...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoRichmond pile on misery for grieving Doncaster
By STEVE HOSSACK RICHMOND became the first side to complete the double over Doncaster Knights this season on what was an...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoCoe keeps the Sedgley challenge going
By LUKE MADEIRA Sedgley P …24 Otley …21 PARK gained ground on Sale at the top of the table with a...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
SAM DICKINSON, EALING AND FORMER NORTHAMPTON & ROTHERHAM NO.8, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Alex...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWhites stalled as Bedwas defence halts late rally
By PAUL HOPKINS Swansea 15 Bedwas 20 A LATE Swansea onslaught wasn’t enough as a heroic Bedwas defensive effort earned them...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoSlow down Eddie and do job you are paid for
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK EDDIE Jones tipped a frying pan of egg over his face this week...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEllis feeling lean and mean after injury nightmare
Fit again: Tom Ellis BATH flanker Tom Ellis has drawn inspiration from Exeter’s Sam Simmonds ahead of today’s final, in which...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoMadigan puts freeze on Titans in blizzard
By GUY WILLIAMS Slipping and sliding: Luke Morahan glides over for Bristol PICTURE: Gareth Lyons Held up: Rotherham halt Joseph Latta’s...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoBlizzard can’t halt Macclesfield rush
By MATT COLERIDGE Macclesfield 28 Luctonians… 12 THIS was a big game for the Blues if they were to put distance...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years ago‘Sick man’ Willemse inspires Stormers to banish the Blues
By SAM JACKSON STORMERS bounced back from a winless tour of Australasia with victory over the Blues to move second in...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNorthmore double gets Met on road to survival
Welsh round-up By JAY BAYFORD CARDIFF Met boosted their survival hopes with a bonus-point 42-15 victory over Beddau in the National...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoJunior Azzurri finally end 20-game losing run
Wales U20 …7 Italy U20…18 ITALY produced a huge defensive display to claim an historic first Six Nations U20 win over...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoTime to pick in-form players for England
THE England defeat to Scotland should really come as no surprise. This kind of performance has been on the cards for...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoTitans left ‘gutted’ by Ealing’s late steal
■ By LUKE JARMYN A CONTROVERSIAL penalty at the ruck in the 79th minute conceded by Rotherham openside Charlie Maddison and...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoPlatt-Hughes in unstoppable form
■ By GEOFF ROBERTS Sedgley Park 45 Chester …0 CENTRE Ashley Platt- Hughes scored a hat-trick inside 20 minutes as Sedgley...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CALUM WATERS HARLEQUINS NO. 9 Making his Premiership debut during last Sunday’s victory over Bath was fitting reward for Calum Waters,...
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Sevens World Series
/ 8 years agoBarrett and Baker show they will bring double trouble from the USA
LAS VEGAS WRAP DANNYBarrett scored two tries to lift the United States to a 28-0 win over Argentina in the final...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoSchmidt: Beware England athletes
IRELAND head coach Joe Schmidt warned against fans counting the Grand Slam as good as won. “History doesn’t protect you from...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoEngland crash to last minute Tremouliere try
Heartbreaker: Jessy Tremouliere scores the late winner TEAMS ENGLAND: Kildunne; Dow, Burford, Reed, Waterman; Daley-McLean, Riley; Cornborough, Cokayne, Bern, Scott, Taylor,...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFinal round of the Prem is sure to be a cracker
COLIN BOAG All to play for: Exeter Chiefs will get a home semi - but what about the rest? When the...












