All posts tagged "Rugby"
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Bring back rucking and watch the game take off
My New Year’s rugby resolutions start with a return to rucking. To this day I don’t understand why rucking ever changed....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: England need a coherent attack to test the top teams
Last Saturday’s game against the All Blacks drew the usual response from Stuart Lancaster and the media. Lancaster extolled the progress...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Player welfare is all about how coaches want to play
The Autumn Internationals may be up and running but for the clubs its business as usual with the LV cup holding...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jon Renwick – Former Hawick, Harlequins, Scotland and Lions centre
I was fortunate to play in the Seventies when rugby was really taking off. There were empty spaces on the terraces...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott: Stats don’t lie and Semesa Rokoduguni is top in attack and defence
Want to know how and why Semesa Rokoduguni has forced his way into the contest for one of the England wing...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Inconsistent referees are just confusing players
Spin a coin and choose what you like, that seems to be how the game of rugby is at the moment....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Richard Cockerill may ruffle feathers but it’s no reason to sack him
The trials and tribulations of being a rugby fan is a rollercoaster ride full of elation and deflation that must make...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoGuy Mercer’s rise from Rec super-fan to star man
Home-grown open side talks to Jon Newcombe about his brilliant start to the season.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Sadly, loyalty seems to be a one-way street for IRB
What price loyalty in rugby? That’s a question that is not as easy to answer as you may think. Back in...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Referee the mark and straight feed and scrums will be fine
Here we are just two weeks into the season and already my old front row partner Brian Moore is banging on...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Expect Saracens to cash in on the World Cup wobbles
It’s great when the season restarts and the politics takes second place and we can get on to actually playing and...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Well done girls, but let’s keep it in perspective
I read somewhere this week that the Women’s World Cup was a tipping point for the sport. As much as I...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s verdict: You only get one shot with this brilliant side… take it!
We have only to see a little sign of weakness to jump on a bandwagon thinking that this New Zealand side...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Glory will always be given to the coach
Coaches or captains? Who should get the glory, who should take the blame and, who should be the visible face of...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s verdict: That great aura of invincibility has left the All Blacks now
It’s harsh, but rugby, like life, is all about taking opportunities when they come – and Australia did not do that...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Glasgow Sevens should have included some stars
The Commonwealth Games have just started in Scotland and have already been downgraded to a second class contest by the IRB....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Yes, Stuart Lancaster has makings of World Cup-winning squad
During last week rugby was a bit like the Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. The Good...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Clubs’ greed over World Cup is simply shameful
There is something quite sinister about the unbridled celebrations and smug reflections by some of the Aviva Premiership clubs’ owners on...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Reduce top-flight payments and grow grassroots game
The debate by the RFU council this week about the restructuring of lower leagues has opened a can of worms that...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Is it coincidence that scrums become messy with Gethin Jenkins?
Well, well, well, what’s going on? The long held view that the front row is made up of men who are...
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English Championship
/ 12 years agoJonny Bentley on board to steer Leeds through playoffs
As the sixth former Pirate to jump on board the good ship Leeds Carnegie, loan signing Jonny Bentley is already feeling...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Taller props are causing more front row injuries
Last week Nick Cain asked where are all the tighthead props – when what he could have asked is, why are...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Barrie-Jon Mather’s baptism must be a warning for Sam Burgess
The fanfare that has followed the news that Sam Burgess is to play for Bath next year is once again fostering...
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English Championship
/ 12 years agoVeteran Jon Clarke enjoying life with cavalier Leeds
Just one month into his Leeds Carnegie career former England Saxon centre Jon Clarke already feels like a Headingley veteran.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: All shapes and sizes should play rugby
Money, money, money, it’s a rich man’s sport. The increase in the salary cap, up by £500,000 to £5 million, will...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Why I’m backing the WRU in showdown with regions
As if the Greek tragedy of the European Cup was not enough we now have a Welsh suicide pact that seems...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: One hundred years on – and rugby hasn’t changed
There is a saying that there is nothing new in rugby and I think I may have found the proof. While...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: The good, bad and ugly of the scrum machines
So at last we have the answer to all scrum problems – the new scrum machine being used by Bath Rugby...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Alcohol abuse is affecting more players than drugs
The announcement this week of just five positive results out of a total of 617 drug tests in the RFU‘s anti-doping...
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Guest Blogs
/ 12 years agoSebastien Chabal: Rugby Legend, Poker Fan
Poker has become a worldwide phenomenon, capturing the attention of people from all walks of life since the early noughties. Plenty...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Beware these danger men coming here in autumn
When South Africa beat Australia 28-8 on Saturday I was interested to see how their backlines would operate as a pointer...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: All Blacks show they are team to beat once again
The All Blacks showed with their convincing 47-29 victory over the Wallabies in Sydney last night that they will still be...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoNo frills on Jon Mills as he swims with the Sale Sharks
In his heart he’ll always be a Dragon, but Jon Mills is now prepared to do whatever it takes to stoke...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Our sixteen years of pain end in 80 minutes
Forward dominance has been fundamental to this series from the off and yesterday the Lions power pack well and truly stuffed...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: North and Folau made this a truly great Test
What a match, what an occasion. So many times these events don’t live up to the hype. But the entrance price...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: BOD magic captured in a move from the matrix
The best centre I have seen play in the last decade is Brian O’Driscoll. That’s not forgetting my favourites, Philippe Sella,...
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