All posts tagged "Scrum"
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoBack-line needs a platform to play | Shane Williams
Wales failed to front up against the Pumas, writes Shane Williams
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoEnglish whitewash as Wales take on the All Blacks | Peter Jackson
UNTIL yesterday, the Lions had not started a Test match without an Englishman since the end of their first tour after...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoChris Pennell deserved send-off | Peter Jackson
SET against the Covid cruelty suffered by untold millions on a global scale, Gloucester’s inability to fulfill their fixture at Worcester...
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Columnists
/ 5 years ago‘Little fellow’ Bleddyn gets giant farewell from Tigers | Peter Jackson
THEY sat alone with their memories in Leicester Cathedral as the St Anne’s church choir brought Cwm Rhondda to a crescendo,...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSuper Rugby TT: Highlanders head for final with record points tally
Ben Jaycock wraps up the latest round of Super Rugby Trans-Tasman action, with the Brumbies flying the flag for Australia
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAlex Mitchell has that Melville quality | Chris Hewett
BACK in the early 1980s, a time when there were no arguments about ring-fencing in England because there weren’t any leagues...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSuper Rugby Aotearoa: Hodgman red card helps Highlanders
Ben Jaycock reports on Round 8 of Super Rugby Aotearoa, as the Highlanders clinched victory at the Forsyth Barr Stadium
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWayne Smith may spark new Kiwi dominance | Chris Hewett
Wayne Smith played a bigger role in the 2015 All Blacks side than you may think, writes Chris Hewett
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSuper Rugby Aotearoa: Jona Nareki treble sparks Highlanders win
Ben Jaycock reports on Jona Nareki inspiring the Highlanders to victory over the Chiefs, in Tony Brown's first win since his...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoHewett column: Have World Rugby the wit to save our game?
Chris Hewett questions whether rugby is stuck in a time warp, unable to modernise with sound logic at its core
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoGeordan Murphy is ‘devastated’ over his Tigers axe says Tom Youngs
Leicester Tigers captain Tom Youngs speaks to Jon Newcombe about the departure of Murphy and the arrival of Richard Wigglesworth
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoBen Youngs upping his game to save England career
Ben Youngs lies on 99 caps for England, he tells Jon Newcombe why he is desperate to prove his place after...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Super Rugby Aotearoa must not go soft on true red cards
Jeremy Guscott has been keeping a close eye on the changes around the breakdown exhibited in Super Rugby Aotearoa
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: End the 50:22 sideshow and sort out the scrum
Jeremy Guscott argues why the proposed 50:22 kicking law is an absurd oversight of the game's more pressing changes required
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoSimonds’ guile lights up grim affair in Nottingham
By ROB WILDMAN GRIM is a fair word to use to describe this windswept quarter-final but one moment of guile by...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: No need for gimmicks, just sort out the breakdown issues
Fix the breakdown and and sort the scrum and our game will be one hell of a spectacle
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott: Finn’s big question is can he keep Ireland guessing
Finn Russell will be a big part of how Scotland do against Ireland in next weekend’s Six Nations game in Edinburgh,...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott: It’s a tough job but refs can be their own worst enemy
The game is never short of talking points, and refereeing is facing some serious challenges going into 2017. After my 43...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: The day I put my stamp on Anglo-Argentine relations
Brendan Gallagher‘s article last week outlining some of the Argentinians’ previous encounters at Twickenham brought back some good, but painful, memories....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: I won the ball; took the punch … and Brian Moore got the credit!
Sometimes it’s difficult not to feel a slightly nostalgic tinge when you hear of the French having a mass brawl during...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 10 years agoJeremy Guscott World Cup XV
15. Ben Smith (NZ) is one of my favourite players, his skillset is of the highest calibre, which affords him the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn’s column: You’re right Steve, new maul is ‘bloody boring’
How unusual, a New Zealand coach bemoaning the opposition’s tactics despite winning the game. Steve Hansen’s complaint about the Argentinian driving...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 11 years agoJeremy Guscott’s column: Bok boys can do lot more than just bash
It would be a huge surprise if these sides continue to play this type of expansive rugby in the World Cup,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Sorry, but is all this legislation making the game any safer?
There are times when I worry for the future of our great sport with all the accusations and promises banded about...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Simple way to solve head cases and score more tries
As the concussion story grows and grows with more and more high profile players suffering the effects of serious blows to...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Concussion findings could bring back drift defences
As a former Wasp it’s hard to say… but here goes: Well done, Saracens, not for how you play or the...
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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: 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: 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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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 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
/ 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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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Backs must stop game being just about size and power
One of my New Year resolutions for 2014 would be for the backs in all teams bar New Zealand and Australia...
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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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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
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: Referee Poite got it wrong over Du Plessis sending off
The winners of New Zealand versus South Africa were going to be ranked as the No.1 team in the world. For...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: McCaw’s a worry…but bring on the Boks. I can’t wait!
We must hope All Blacks coach Steve Hansen is right in his assessment of the injury to his captain Richie McCaw....
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: Time these All Blacks saw some yellow cards, ref!
It is early days for Ewen McKenzie, the newly appointed Wallaby head coach. I don’t believe he thought the job would...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 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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Jeremy Guscott
/ 13 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
/ 13 years agoJeremy Guscott: No more squabbles, let’s all just get behind our squad
I like the look of Warren Gatland‘s 2013 Lions squad, which has physicality as well as speed and skill. Like all...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 14 years agoJeremy Guscott: Owen Farrell must play flatter and Ben Morgan needs help
Stuart Lancaster has a dilemma going into Saturday’s second Test in Johannesburg – does he take a step back in development...
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