All posts tagged "Six Nations"
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Features
/ 7 years agoItalian legend Parisse set for a thrilling final chapter
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to iconic Italy No.8 Sergio Parisse at the start of a huge 12 months Giant killer: Sergio Parisse...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoHughes hopes to get the nod to tackle All Black great Read
By NEALE HARVEY Hitting form for Wasps: Nathan Hughes BIG-HITTING Wasps No.8 Nathan Hughes says the chance to face down New...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoGeorgia appoint Graham Rowntree as forwards coach heading into World Cup year
About to get to work with Georgia's formidable pack
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoStay-at-home Mitchell needs to be hands on
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK JOHN Mitchell polarises opinion in Rugby Union more than anyone with the possible...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBlade is a shoo-in for Scotland
WITHIN weeks of The Rugby Paper revealing Scotland’s interest in claiming Blade Thomson, below, the Scarlets’ Kiwi flanker has made it...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoNew panel of coaches for U20s
SAINTS academy head coach Mark Hopley will join James Scaysbrook and Richard Whiffin in leading this season’s England U20 side. The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby must realise less is more
COLIN BOAG is correct, there are far too many internationals played each season. The November internationals interrupt the club season and...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 years agoOn the path to world domination!
Rugby World Cup 2019 kicks off on September 20 next year when hosts Japan play Russia in Tokyo. Exactly a year...
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Features
/ 7 years agoIt’s boom time for northern rugby thanks Agustin!
COLIN BOAG Too dominant: The All Blacks thrash Australia Agustin Pichot, World Rugby’s vice-chairman has issued a warning that the game...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 years agoNo experiments this Autumn, Warren, we need winning run
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Mindset: Alun Wyn Jones will play every game like it’s a World Cup final PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWe need virtuosos like Ashton and Cips
Entertainer: Chris Ashton training with England PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND are looking to bounce back from a season to forget and...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoJoe’s not cruising for a bruising with Brodie
By NEALE HARVEY Seven up? Joe Launchbury has faced Retallick six times already PICTURE: Getty Images JOE Launchbury insists his seventh...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPriestland: It’s all about Bath for me right now
By STEFFAN THOMAS RHYS Priestland insists he’s put any thoughts of a Wales recall to the back of his mind as...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: My hope is Paul Gustard gets Harlequins playing without fear
If successful at the Stoop, Jeremy Guscott writes why he can see no reason for Gustard to eventually return to the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoNowell close to agreeing new Chiefs’ contract
Negotiations: Jack Nowell JACK NOWELL looks set to become the first of the large number of Eddie Jones England squad who...
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Features
/ 7 years agoIt’s right to let regions take control once more
SHANE WILLIAMS Back home: Leigh Halfpenny PICTURE: Getty Images THERE is no doubt in my mind the National Dual Contract system...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTiger gets Robshaw ready to tee off again
By NEALE HARVEY Big season ahead: Chris Robshaw on the charge for England against South Africa PICTURE: Getty Images CHRIS Robshaw...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoHartley set to reclaim captaincy of England
By NICK CAIN Flying Falcons: Tom Arscott scores for Newcastle against Doncaster PICTURE: Patrick Khachfe DYLAN Hartley, the man Eddie Jones...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoChange was good move for Saints says Lawes
By NEALE HARVEY New era: Chris Boyd Faster and stronger: Courtney Lawes PICTURE: Getty Images HARD-HITTING lock Courtney Lawes says Northampton...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSexton has one remaining ambition to fulfil in Japan
Alex Bywater talks to the Leinster and Irish playmaker about what drives him on this season At the pinnacle of his...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoDunn still pushing at England’s door
■ By TOM BRADSHAW Fit-again: Tom Dunn on the charge EDDIE Jones has told hard-tackling Bath hooker Tom Dunn that the...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoFEATURE: Rob Baxter on Exeter’s prospects in the Premiership and Europe and why ring-fencing would be ‘morally wrong’
Is there any part of Exeter Chiefs that director of rugby Baxter doesn't have a role within?
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Features
/ 7 years agoThe Fijian Beast could be coming to feast at Bath
Explosive: Josua Tuisova ARE Bath about to break the bank to land Toulon’s superstar winger Josua Tuisova to replace injured England...
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Features
/ 7 years agoOspreys can turn the corner with Shaun working defence
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Leader: Justin Tipuric has the Ospreys armband this season PICTURE: Getty Images MY former side...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoRoberts ready for the biggest challenge yet
By STEFFAN THOMAS Not giving up: Jamie Roberts PICTURE: Getty Images JAMIE Roberts insists a summer move to Bath can help...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoShoulder problem could force Blues ace Rhun to retire
By ALEX BYWATER CARDIFF Blues full-back Rhun Williams is fighting to save his career following a serious shoulder injury sustained in...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoPeter Jackson column: RFU miss the boat again for Shaun Edwards
England miss another chance to join forces with a coach who has won everything there is to win in Union bar...
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Features
/ 7 years agoAll Blacks must lose Rugby Championship
COLIN BOAG Kings again: All Blacks are crowned last year The Southern Hemisphere’s Rugby Championship starts next weekend, and unlikely though...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoLions’ board will demand improved schedule in 2021
By NEALE HARVEY BRITISH & Irish Lions bosses will play hardball over their schedule for the 2021 South Africa tour to...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoAtkins on gym diet in bid to replace Watson
By NEALE HARVEY Injured: Anthony Watson CONFIDENT flier Darren Atkins is ready to repay the faith Bath have shown by proving...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoSpencer column: Forget the Olympic dream or Red Roses will wither
By Catherine Spencer San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Bridge and this year’s Sevens World Cup, was not so Golden...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoEngland to play Wales in Japan warm ups
By PETER JACKSON ENGLAND and Wales are finalising plans for a pre-World Cup double header with the potential to gross £10m....
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWeir plotting his route to World Cup via Warriors
By NEALE HARVEY Returning: Jono Lance HAVING survived an horrendous injury experience last season following a botched steroid injection in his...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSuper Rugby must cut teams to 12 to survive
COLIN BOAG Air miles: The Japanese Sunwolves would need to do most of the travelling July is always the most boring...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoFEATURE: Saracens star Schalk Burger wants the Springboks to join the Six Nations
Lengthy read where the 35-year-old talks retirement and the Saracens back row
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoYou did it Sam, you’re a true Lions legend now
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ambition achieved: Sam Warburton with the Lions in NZ PICTURE: Getty Images ■...
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Features
/ 7 years agoI’ve no doubt we’d have won a World Cup under Johnno
JOHN WELLS Q&A ON THE RECORD Missed opportunity: Martin Johnson should have stayed on as England coach says John Wells Pictures:...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Wayne Pivac will look to emulate All Blacks’ all-court game
Jeremy Guscott looks at some storylines that are set to develop once Wayne Pivac transitions into the Wales head coach role
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoKieran Brookes is on his way back to lean and mean best
The Wasps summer arrival has shed just shy of a stone in weight and his back to his optimal size for...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 7 years agoWales & Lions captain Sam Warburton retires from rugby with immediate effect
Legendary flanker calls time on his career before reaching the age of 30
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoStick with Wayne as Wales No.2 Stephen!
Suited to assistant’s role for now: Stephen Jones PICTURE: Getty Images Stephen Jones has the greatest rugby mind of anyone I’ve...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoPivac will look to emulate All Blacks’ all-court game
Room for improvement: Scarlets centre Jonathan Davies PICTURE: Getty Images Wayne Pivac seems like a natural successor to Warren Gatland as...
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Features
/ 7 years agoArrest this alarming slide in standard
THE lack of top tier homegrown international class coaches coming through in the home nations was highlighted by this week’s announcement...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLeinster’s strong season aids IRFU to £1.1m profit
A good year for Irish rugby after the sucker punch of losing out on hosting the 2023 Rugby World Cup with...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoSanderson: Farrell best man to lead us to Japan
By GARY FITZGERALD EDDIE Jones has been urged to dump Dylan Hartley and keep Owen Farrell as his captain right up...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoScarlets pair set for national service
By PETER JACKSON WALES are close to putting the future of their national squad in the hands of their dream ticket...
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Features
/ 7 years agoHansen’s moan shows Lions effects still linger
NICK CAIN looks at New Zealand rugby a year on from that epic drawn series Ruling the roost: Crusaders pack have...
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Features
/ 7 years agoUnrelenting Leinster taught us so much about life at top
Q&A DAVE RENNIE ON THE RECORD Dave Rennie, Glasgow’s Kiwi head coach, tells NEALE HARVEY why he’s loving life in Scotland...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: England’s pack has gone backwards for 12 months
Jeremy Guscott takes a look at England's problems among the forwards
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Features
/ 7 years agoHow meaningful were those summer tours?
COLIN BOAG Now that the summer tours have ground to an end, what’s the verdict on how the northern countries fared?...
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