All posts tagged "Schools"
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/ 4 years agoNelson: Urgent changes needed to protect game
By PAUL REES Rugby union is on a collision course with oblivion unless it takes steps to reduce the amount of...
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/ 4 years agoEngland to host 2025 Rugby World Cup
England will host the 2025 women’s Rugby World Cup, with a multi-city and multi-region approach planned to help the game grow....
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/ 4 years agoLathallan Rugby 7s returns for first time since 2019
A popular youth rugby tournament returned to one of the North-east’s top independent schools at the weekend for the first time...
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/ 4 years agoAdopt NFL model at elite level – Haskell
By PAUL REES RUGBY should look to American football and make the professional game self-contained with an emphasis on quality and...
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/ 4 years agoIt’s tough for Hull in League country
NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK POSITIONED in the centre of a rugby league obsessed city, Hull RUFC – who are top...
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Letters
/ 4 years agoIncentivise schools to help broaden the player pool
LAST week’s TRP included Jeff Probyn’s interesting piece, contesting Brian Moore’s claim that payments to players should be banned in all...
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/ 4 years agoCollinson Construction completes new £3.8m training centre for Ealing Trailfinders
Collinson Construction has completed a new multi-million-pound training facility at Trailfinders Sports Club in West Ealing, London. Home to Ealing Trailfinders...
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/ 4 years agoVan Zyl keen to stay with Sarries for long haul
SOUTH African scrumhalf Ivan van Zyl would be happy to see out the rest of his playing days in the Premiership...
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/ 4 years agoCardiff last up for unbeaten Christ College
SCHOOLS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK CHRIST College Brecon face Cardiff High Scool on Wednesday aiming to complete an unbeaten season in...
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/ 4 years agoMillfield roaring back to their best again
SCHOOLS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK MILLFIELD School first XV coach John Mallett is ‘delighted with his team’s success’ this season after...
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/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
ALLAN DELL, THE SCOTLAND AND LONDON IRISH PROP, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1. Cian Healy...
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Features
/ 4 years agoHastings was the star in school’s best XV
ONE of the great names of Stowe rugby is PRH Hastings – Peter Robin Hood – who after the war morphed...
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/ 4 years agoAny rugby schools I have missed? Let me know now
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER AND finally for this year…a last call to our brilliant rugby playing schools out there. I’m calling...
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Features
/ 4 years agoMerchiston Castle have led from start
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools FEW schools in Scotland have a prouder rugby record than Merchiston...
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Features
/ 4 years agoLongest running schools rivalry of all
NOT the least of Merchiston’s claims to rugby is their participation in the world’s longest running fixture against great local rivals...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoThe smoking priest fired up Crescent
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools CRESCENT College in Limerick – now styled Crescent Comprehensive – lies...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPotter draws on gambling hell to help save others
PAUL REES talks to Mark Potter about his fall and rise after gambling addiction When Mark Potter tells sportsmen and women...
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/ 5 years agoBish was ahead of his time, today he’d be a national hero
OVERSEEING Neath’s halcyon days during the Fifties and early Sixties as coach was Roy Bish, a fine centre who combined his...
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/ 5 years agoCup specialists await their next golden era
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools CAMPBELL College Belfast have a fine record in the Ulster Schools...
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/ 5 years agoHard to replicate those post-war halcyon days
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools RUGBY success at Christ’s Hospital School over the decades has been...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 5 years agoLoss of county pathway has blocked young stars
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It’s interesting to note that there are people out there who profess...
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/ 5 years agoQuestions the RFU’s new boss ignored
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK TOM Ilube’s first Press conference as RFU board chairman was carefully scripted, and...
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/ 5 years agoSuper Hooper deserves to stand with greats
THIRTY years ago, Bishop Wordsworth’s of Salisbury lost a national schools cup final to King Edward VI of Stratfordupon-Avon by the...
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/ 5 years agoLion king Tony learnt how to be a winner by losing at Belvo
IT’S a close-run thing but Belvo’s most famous rugby alumni is probably still Sir Anthony O’Reilly. O’Reilly was a staggering schoolboy...
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/ 5 years agoWelsh Premiership: Dead-eye Jones kicks Bargoed to first round win
TWO penalties from Steffan Jones enabled Bargoed to launch their WRU Championship Cup campaign with a 13-7 home win over Bedwas....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoNormanton ruled before the axe fell
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools NOT for the first time in this series we must sing...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCusworth: I owe that school everything
POSSIBLY Normanton’s most illustrious old boy is former England and Leicester Tigers fly-half Les Cusworth, a genius on the Sevens pitch...
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/ 5 years agoHargreaves: Law changes could destroy Union ethos
As the DCMS releases a report as a result of a four-month inquiry into the impact of concussion in sport, Alistair...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoMacKay’s motto uniting Caerau Ely
ALEX BYWATER talks to Liam Mackay, a reformed man looking to make a difference For most of the last year, the...
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/ 5 years agoWildcats pay homage to Sedbergh star Henry
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SEDBERGH, year in year out one of British rugby’s great nurseries, has been mourning the sudden death...
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/ 5 years agoShame my dream team won’t grace Olympics
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER APROPOS of almost nothing other than probably having too much time on my hands, it struck me...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoMurrayfield to host 16,500 fans for British & Irish Lions clash with Japan
The Scottish government and SRU agree to allow 16,500 fans to attend the first match of the Lions schedule against Japan
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoCounty Cup would promote diversity
TO aid Ugo Monye in making the game more inclusive and reduce the dependence of the RFU on Premiership academies and...
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/ 5 years agoUgo Monye spearheads the fight for rugby diversity
FORMER England wing Ugo Monye hopes that as chair of a new RFU advisory group he can help make rugby more...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoUgo Monye has a big battle to end elitist stigma of rugby | Jeff Probyn
Has the shift in development from its pyramid state two years ago to Premiership-pwned academies kept rugby's ability to reach more...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoSt Peter’s learned how to take on the big boys
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools NO sooner had I mentioned recently that Campion were the only...
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/ 5 years agoPied-piper John helped launch three dynasties
ONE of the great pleasures of the Rosslyn Park Sevens every March – alas cancelled for a second year due to...
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/ 5 years agoAlan made sure his men punched their weight
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Grand Slam winner: Alan Ashcroft on the rampage for England The Sixties had...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoDay the Ellas came to play in Sevenoaks
Brendan Gallagher recalls when Sevenoaks School faced ten future Wallabies, including Mark, Gary and Glen Ella, in 1978
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRising stars hit by double whammy | Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher can't wait for the return of the Rosslyn Park Sevens and U20 World Championship to resume
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/ 5 years agoAttwood’s choice: His kids or rugby
Single parent Dave Attwood opens up on the difficulty of providing childcare while maintaining his rugby career at Bristol Bears
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Features
/ 5 years agoSpeedster Tyrese still waiting to make mark
Rapid: Johnson-Fisher OAKHAM might not have won the NatWest U15 Vase title in 2015 but their speedy centre Tyrese Johnson-Fisher emerged...
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/ 5 years agoSchools tackling ban ‘would spell danger’, says Taunton’s Kitson
Kitson's time in rugby flitted between Taunton's National Two South campaign last year, to Sydney, and Leeds University in 2020
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/ 5 years agoShane Lewis Hughes battling to stay ahead of the pack
HE MAY have ended 2020 on a high by winning three Welsh caps, but the first priority in the New Year...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWillings at helm for Durham glory days
FIRST may I thank Brendan Gallagher for the excellent series on the great schools. I write as a former pupil of...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMatera must face punishment insists horrified Hewitt
■By ALEX BYWATER ASHTON Hewitt has slammed World Rugby and the game in general for paying lip service to the issue...
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/ 5 years agoCapped at 20, Nick was one of RGS’ finest
Huge loss: Nick Duncombe ONE of the many top players produced by RGS High Wycombe was scrum-half Nick Duncombe who, alas,...
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/ 5 years ago‘They tell me I kept Duckham out of team!’
Choices: Commonwealth javelin champion Dave Travis FIRST on a long list of England Schools caps from Hampton is Dave Travis, better...
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/ 6 years agoJason’s out to make Britain’s kids healthier
Jon Newcombe talks to World Cup-winning hero Jason Robinson about his latest call to arms Mission: Jason Robinson talks to youngsters...
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/ 6 years agoHiggins hopeful Rosslyn Park 7s will go ahead
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S looking bleaker and bleaker out there for...
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