All posts tagged "Super Rugby"
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/ 10 months agoSyston build on local talent for promotion
By Ben Jaycock Fully amateur Syston are enjoying a double promotion with the first team stepping up to the National Leagues...
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/ 10 months agoFelipe Etcheverry’s journey from the World Cup to loving amateur rugby in Uruguay
By Joe Santamaria For exclusive stories and all the detailed rugby news you need, subscribe to The Rugby Paper website, digital edition, or...
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/ 10 months agoSuper Rugby Americas: Tarucas produce historic performance over reigning champions Dogos
By Joe Santamaria For exclusive stories and all the detailed rugby news you need, subscribe to The Rugby Paper website, digital edition, or...
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/ 10 months agoDanny Wilson keen to keep Leigh Halfpenny at Harlequins
By Gary Fitzgerald Leigh Halfpenny will be hanging around The Stoop a lot longer if Danny Wilson gets his way having...
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Features
/ 10 months agoYoung Guns – Oscar Berkerleg
YOUNG GUNS EXETER & ENGLAND U20 LOCK Energetic lock Oscar Berkerleg credits his father and brother for setting the necessary standards...
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/ 10 months agoCardiff Met’s shock for Bath
BUCS RUGBY ■By BEN JAYCOCK BUCS Super Rugby entered the quarter-finals phase this week with sixth seeds Cardiff Met causing the...
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/ 10 months agoSuper Rugby Pacific: Ardie Savea leads the way to trounce Crusaders
By Ben Jaycock Moana Pasifika beat serial tournament winners the Crusaders for the first time in their history as talisman Ardie...
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/ 11 months agoRed-hot Thomas Rowe is just loving his rugby life at Loughborough
By Chris Collyer Thomas Rowe added another four tries to his total away at Clifton last weekend, and the electric winger...
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/ 11 months agoCrusaders blow away champions
World Rugby Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK THE Crusaders sent a message to the rest of the competition by...
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/ 11 months agoSuper Rugby Americas: Round Five Review
Joe Santamaria reviews the fifth round of the SRA, in which Selknam outgunned Tarucas in an entertaining encounter Pampas 19-7 Yacare...
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/ 11 months agoLoughborough take title in their stride
By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH hammered Swansea to reclaim the BUCS Super Rugby title, despite intense pressure from Hartpury. It was one...
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/ 11 months agoChiefs are too good for Blues in thriller
By BEN JAYCOCK Hat-trick man: Len Ititau on the attack for Brumbies PICTURES: Getty Images IN a repeat of last season’s...
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/ 11 months agoSuper Rugby Americas: Round Four Review
Joe Santamaria reviews an enthralling round four, as champions Dogos finally found their flow to grab their first win of the...
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 11 months agoBucs Super Rugby: Loughborough made to fight all the way
Bucs Rugby By Tom Jeffreys Loughborough survived the biggest threat to their league title hopes by the skin of their teeth...
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/ 11 months agoPlayers must pack their own parachute
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Paul Westgate, below, the head of performance rugby at the University of Nottingham How...
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/ 11 months agoLarkham delight as Brumbies rule
By BEN JAYCOCK Try time: Declan Meredith dives over to score for Brumbies against Blues and, inset, head coach Stephen Larkham...
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/ 11 months agoSuper Rugby Americas: Round Three Review
By Joe Santamaria Pamoas 24 – 10 Peñarol Last year’s beaten finalists, Pampas, put the rest of the competition on notice with...
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Schools / Universities
/ 11 months agoTreble for Preen as L’borough power on
BUCS RUGBY ■By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH are two games away from the BUCS Super Rugby league title after they overcame their...
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/ 12 months agoSuper Rugby Americas – Round Two Summary
By Joe Santamaria Peñarol 50 – 15 Yacare Two-time champions, Peñarol, continued their strong start to the Super Rugby Americas season with...
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Chris Hewett
/ 12 months agoThe time’s ripe for a summit of the egos
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Summits are all the rage right now, “rage” being the operative word, and as the...
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/ 12 months agoYoung Guns – Josh Mann
Beefy prop Josh Mann is using Asher Opoku-Fordjour’s rise to Test level as an inspiration for his own journey inside the...
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Schools / Universities
/ 12 months agoHartpury, L’borough duel for the title
BUCS RUGBY ■By TOM JEFFREYS IT’S all to play for as BUCS Super Rugby enters the final stages of another enthralling...
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/ 12 months agoSuper Rugby Pacific: Highlanders add to Blues misery
By Ben Jaycock The Blues have suffered back-to-back defeats to start their title defence with 13-man Highlanders springing an almighty surprise....
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/ 12 months agoSuper Rugby Americas: Round One Review
By Joe Santamaria The new Super Rugby Americas season exploded into life over the weekend as South America’s premier club competition...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 12 months agoSuper Rugby Pacific: Five talking points from opening weekend
By Charlie Elliott One of the best and most entertaining leagues in rugby union returned this weekend, with Super Rugby Pacific...
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/ 12 months agoSwansea end their long wait for a win
BUCS RUGBY ■ By TOM JEFFREYS SWANSEA reignited their season with a bonus point win over rivals Cardiff while Exeter’s home...
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/ 12 months agoSuper Rugby Pacific 2025: New Zealand’s Dominance Challenged by Rising Teams
By Nemani Nadolo As Super Rugby Pacific enters its 2025 season, New Zealand teams continue to hold the upper hand, but...
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/ 12 months agoHartpury & Exeter back in running
BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS IT was a weekend of revival in BUCS Super Rugby as Hartpury gave life to the...
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/ 12 months agoSuper Rugby Pacific Preview – Superstar Ardie Savea the man to ignite Moana Pasifika
Super Rugby Preview By Ben Jaycock Ardie Savea’s move to Moana Pasifika is the headline transfer and there’s a feeling of...
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/ 1 year agoEx-London Irish coach Jonathan Fisher finds exciting new life Down Under
By Paul Rees When London Irish went into administration two seasons ago, Jonathan Fisher was among those who suddenly found themselves...
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/ 1 year agoGyamfi-Opoku will add power to Azzurrini at 8
ITALY HEAD coach Roberto Santamaria has named a 36-man squad which includes Bath academy player Enoch Gyamfi-Opoku. Gyamfi-Opoku is a product...
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Features
/ 1 year agoCAMPBELL RIDL
YOUNG GUNS EXETER CENTRE/WING Campbell Ridl credits Exeter Chiefs for allowing players to balance university studies comfortably alongside their rugby. The...
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/ 1 year agoL’borough keep up pressure at the top
BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS All five of the top half of the table won their games, with all ten teams...
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/ 1 year agoChamps looking to keep on top
BUCS RUGBY By CAMERON STEPHENS AFTER a six-week break, BUCS Super Rugby returns for round 12 as Loughborough look to extend...
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/ 1 year agoRob Baxter: Tom Hooper will be the first of a few big-name signings for Exeter Chiefs
By Paul Rees Tom Hooper is the first of a number of big signings Exeter intend to make before the end...
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/ 1 year agoMy philosophy? Skills, skills, skills
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Aaron James, below, the head coach of Bath University How and why did you...
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/ 1 year agoWingers taking the faster lane
■By CAMERON STEPHENS TAQELE Naiyaravoro believes that speed is becoming an increasingly important attribute of the modern winger and that powerhouse...
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/ 1 year agoPat Lam: Fitz Harding is good enough for England
By Paul Rees Pat Lam’s New Year wish is for his Bristol captain Fitz Harding to gain international recognition after a...
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/ 1 year agoDylan Power out to turn Exeter University’s season with fighting finish
By Ben Jaycock Dylan Power is hoping for a change in fortunes after his Exeter University side suffered an underwhelming first...
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/ 1 year agoHoward: Set-piece is now our DNA
■By BEN JAYCOCK Probyn: I’m surprised that Bill Beaumont was the choice >> Page 29 JOE Howard feels Bedford Blues have...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoAt least the French are going full-bore in Champions Cup
By Peter Jackson Neutrals the world over will relish the prospect of Toulouse and La Rochelle invading Cardiff at season’s end...
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/ 1 year agoAt least the French are going full-bore
NEUTRALS the world over will relish the prospect of Toulouse and La Rochelle invading Cardiff at season’s end for the seventh...
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/ 1 year agoAt least the French are going full-bore
NEUTRALS the world over will relish the prospect of Toulouse and La Rochelle invading Cardiff at season’s end for the seventh...
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/ 1 year agoBen believes students are Taylor-made for this level
By BEN JAYCOCK Looking up: Loughborough fly-half Ben Taylor BEN TAYLOR feels Loughborough Students could be much higher than their current...
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/ 1 year agoL’borough make it ten wins in a row
BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH have one hand on the BUCS Super Rugby league title after a statement 47-24 win...
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/ 1 year agoTuipulotu hat-trick has Bath on move
BUCS RUGBY ■ By TOM JEFFREYS KEPU Tuipulotu scored another hat-trick to help Bath move into second in the BUCS Super...
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/ 1 year agoDo simple things well is my mantra
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Alex White, below, the head of rugby at Syston and Loughborough University backs and...
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/ 1 year agoGhezal’s job is to drag Lyon out of a hole
GOOD news has been hard to come by at Top 14 strugglers Lyon in recent weeks. Last Saturday’s defeat at Pau,...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 1 year agoJoe Schmidt: We’ll give Lions a real test
By Brendan Gallagher Australia coach Joe Schmidt is optimistic about the Lions challenge next summer after pushing Ireland all the way...
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/ 1 year agoBUCS RUGBY
L’borough teach Exeter a lesson ■ By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH underlined their favourites status by thumping Exeter. The Loughborough-Exeter rivalry has...












