All posts tagged "South Africa"
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 years agoOnly question is, which tour will Denny be on?
Gary Fitzgerald gets the lowdown on Sale’s new super hero from their record try-scorer DENNY Solomona would be a more than...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
AARON HINKLEY ENGLAND U18S OPENSIDE Aaron Hinkley is fully aware making it at senior level will not be a walk in...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoPredator targets new prey to work off
By NEALE HARVEY Hungry for honours: Dave Ewers DAVE Ewers reckons Exeter’s long unbeaten league run will count for nothing unless...
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Latest News
/ 9 years ago’I was close to being an LA drop-out’
NEALE HARVEY talks to Joe Taufete’e, the American Football ace now tearing up the Aviva Premiership Early days: Taufete’e in LA...
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Features
/ 9 years agoGeech points way ahead for future tours
The 1993 Lions tour of New Zealand was Ian McGeechan’s second as coach and the first time a Lions coach had...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoWallabies set to go on strike if Force are axed
NEWS EXTRA AUSTRALIA’S professional rugby players may go on strike early next year if one of their Super Rugby teams is...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott: O’Mahony had a hunger England never showed
There are as many questions after the Six Nations as there were before it in terms of selection for the 2017...
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20 Questions
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Scott Hamilton – former All Blacks and Leicetser wing
The main reason I made the All Blacks team in 2006 was because I was in such a great Crusaders team....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoDom wants to become Tigers’ Don in the future
By NEALE HARVEY AMBITIOUS Leicester lock Dom Barrow insists he is ready for a crack at Test rugby – and will...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissle ROELOF SMIT, the Blue Bulls flanker who is out of contract at the...
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Features
/ 9 years ago20 QUESTIONS
RUARIDH McCONNOCHIE ENGLAND SEVENS How about that for a first half of the World Series? We’ve already won two tournaments and...
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National League 3
/ 9 years agoOlivier: Boks must act to end the drain of talent
NEWS EXTRA By TOM BRADSHAW SOUTH AFRICA are likely to suffer a continuing drain of talent unless the South African Rugby...
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Features
/ 9 years agoO’Mahony had a hunger England never showed
JEREMY GUSCOTT THERE are as many questions after the Six Nations as there were before it in terms of selection for...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoHigh quality moments could not mask increasing shortage of classic matches
Brendan Gallagher looks back at the defining moments of the Six Nations and how the introduction of bonus points effected things...
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Six Nations
/ 9 years agoEurope’s finest being sold down the river
WELCOME to Northern Hemisphere rugby’s endless road. An 11 month season which purports to be all things to all men, but...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoInternational snub powering Chiefs’ charge for title
FLANKER Don Armand reckons Exeter’s players can prove their Test credentials by claiming the Premiership title after using this season’s England...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
SCOTT HAMILTON THE FORMER ALL BLACK, CRUSADERS AND LEICESTER WINGER/FULL-BACK The main reason I made the All Blacks team in 2006...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoComeback kings storm home to stay undefeated
By NICK VERDIER THE CRUSADERS are turning into this season’s comeback kings with yet another great escape against the Blues on...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoGibson: Revert to simple format, it works
By SAM JACKSON WARATAHS coach Daryl Gibson wants SANZAAR to revert to a Super Rugby format in which every team plays...
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Sevens World Series
/ 9 years agoVictory in Vancouver cuts Blitzbokke lead
VANCOUVER WRAP By NICK VERDIER ENGLAND claimed their second tournament victory this season on the World Sevens circuit with victory over...
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Sevens World Series
/ 9 years agoEngland on track after Kenya win
Vancouver By NICK VERDIER Clincher: Dan Bibby ENGLAND were pushed hard in their opening fixture but a four-try win over Kenya...
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Features
/ 9 years agoAckerman leads list of Kingsholm candidates
GLOUCESTER have spoken to former South Africa lock Johan Ackermann, the current Lions coach, about moving to Kingsholm next season. Ackermann,...
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Features
/ 9 years agoKvesic out to show he’s as able as Cane
MATT Kvesic provides a perfect case history of why English rugby, with its boombust results cycle, can never afford to be...
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Features
/ 9 years agoBut there was one man who still stood out
Dynamic: Peter Winterbottom makes a break during the second Test The Lions may have been swatted away 4-0 in the Test...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAMIE BLAMIRE ENGLAND U20S HOOKER Leaving the parental home at 16 to live with strangers was not easy for Jamie Blamire...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoAmbitious McGuigan is eyeing tour to Argentina
By NEALE HARVEY HUNGRY hooker George McGuigan has vowed to stake a claim for England’s summer tour by helping Leicester salvage...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 9 years agoBrodie barges over to keep Chiefs in control
By NICK VERDIER All-rounder: Damian McKenzie added an off-loading game to his 16 points for Chiefs PICTURE: Getty Images THE Chiefs...
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Young Gun
/ 9 years agoYoung Gun: Max Coyle – Harlequins full-back
Concussion may have cut his U18s Premier-ship final appearance short but Max Coyle is determined to create long-lasting memories from his...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain talks to Bob Dwyer about his old Aussie coaching pal Eddie Jones
Bob Dwyer and Eddie Jones are two of the most successful international coaches in Rugby Union history, having both won World...
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Features
/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER ■BRISTOL are now the favourites to land Ireland fly-half Ian Madigan if he is released from the final year...
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Features
/ 9 years agoEddie’s done good but he must beware of arrogance
BOB Dwyer and Eddie Jones are two of the most successful international coaches in Rugby Union history, having both won World...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoDestroyer Hamish on mission at Twickenham
By GARY HEATLY HAMISH Watson felt he had a point to prove to Vern Cotter when he came off the bench...
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Sevens World Series
/ 9 years agoNorton on a roll for England in Vegas
Las Vegas By NICK VERDIER ENGLAND took on the USA in a pool-decider last night after winning their opening two games...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoYoung and Solomona top of the list outside bets for Lions
Is there any chance of Warren Gatland coming up with a genuine bolter for the 2017 Lions? Probably not. All four...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher on the famous Lions bolters
As far as I can determine the term “bolter” was originally an Australian equine expression used to describe a horse that...
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Features
/ 9 years agoNothing very super about Super Rugby
COLIN BOAG The Super Rugby season has started and the SANZAR chief executive have come out slugging, claiming that this competition...
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Features
/ 9 years agoYoung and Solomona top the list of outside bets for summer crusade
Stand-out Premiership openside: Wasps’ Thomas Young IS THERE any chance of Warren Gatland coming up with a genuine bolter for the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoBentley is king of my Lions bolters
BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks at the proud history of Lions bolters coming up fast on the rails As far as I can...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoTe’o to make first England start against Italy
Ben Te’o will make his first England start against Italy in the third round of the Six Nations outside Owen Farrell...
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/ 9 years agoNewcastle confirm signing of DTH van der Merwe
Newcastle Falcons have added more fire power to their back line confirming the capture of Canada and Scarlets wing DTH van...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCooper-Woolley chasing hard for Sinckler’s spot
By NEALE HARVEY WASPS tight-head Jake Cooper-Woolley is ready to turn up the heat on Kyle Sinckler as he looks to...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
NIKKI WALKER THE FORMER BORDERS, EDINBURGH, OSPREYS AND WORCESTER WINGER Winning the Celtic League in my first season at Ospreys with...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoIt’s seven heaven for Armitage with Pau
FRENCH COLUMN Life has been somewhat eventful for Steffon Armitage, the back row forward voted the finest player in Europe not...
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Premiership
/ 9 years agoO’Driscoll is on the case to find any Kiwi flaws
When it comes to the lengths New Zealand will go to turn over the Lions there are none with better first-hand...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Joost was a joy to watch and an utter nightmare to play against
Rarely, if ever, have the sporting gods given so abundantly before retracting their favours so suddenly and without sentiment. To see...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoGlasgow sign Stormers loosehead
Glasgow have signed Stormers prop and Huw Jones’ housemate Oliver Kebble ahead of the 2017/18 season. The move is subject to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: This farewell to a Bok hero was fit for a king
They carried his oak coffin out of Loftus Versveld a few minutes before three o’clock on Friday afternoon at the end...
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Features
/ 9 years agoRemember Joost by backing his own J9 Foundation
WHEN Joost van der Westhuizen died earlier this week at the age of 45 after a battle with motor neurone disease...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJoy to watch and an utter nightmare to play against
Brendan Gallagher recalls the great player he knew Rarely, if ever, have the sporting gods given so abundantly before retracting their...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoExeter’s Lewis in at Stoop as cover for Care
By ED HUTSON HARLEQUINS have this week confirmed the signing Dave Lewis from Exeter ahead of next season. As revealed in...
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