All posts tagged "Top 14"
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Top 14
/ 2 months agoAzema’s on his way back to Toulon
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN TOULON’S search for a head coach to take some of the day-to-day strain off sporting director Pierre...
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Columnists
/ 3 months agoJeremy Guscott: French rivals are showing England the way ahead
No-one is really surprised by the magnitude of the heavy defeats suffered in the European Cup Round of 16 last weekend...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 months agoGlasgow Warriors 19-22 Toulon: The Scottish side are stunned by the brilliant Nacho Brex
Toulon will head to Dublin’s Aviva Stadium to face Leinster in the European Champions Cup semi-finals after inflicting a first home...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoPaul Rees analysis
Top 14 titans are a class apart from rest of Europe >> Pages 20-21 ... Continue reading... Access all our premium...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoIt’s time for one real champion to disappear
EUROPE’S match of the season kicks off on the banks of the Garonne this afternoon, the champions of Europe (Bordeaux) versus...
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Top 14
/ 3 months agoSo, who is your starter at 10, then?
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Top 10s: Matthieu Jalibert, left, and Romain Ntamack PICTURES: Getty Images The latest iteration of the as-old-as-time...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 months agoFormer England international Mako Vunipola ‘honoured’ to be joining Leicester Tigers
Former England loosehead Mako Vunipola will join Leicester Tigers in the summer.
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Champions Cup
/ 3 months agoNorthampton Saints 49-41 Castres: George Furbank is on fire as Saints put on a show
Northampton Saints reached their third Champions Cup quarter-final on the trot after this frantic, edgy, entertaining riot of a game against...
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Columnists
/ 3 months agoPeter Jackson: Time for George North to face the final curtain
Precious few teenagers dared to make an entrance remotely like George North’s two tries against the Springboks, evoking golden memories of...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 months agoDragons are hoping history will repeat itself
Preview Stade Francais v Dragons Today. 12.30pm By SAM JACKSON STADE Français head into their clash with Dragons as overwhelming favourites,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 months agoZebre face tough test against Pau
Preview Zebre v Pau Today. 5.30pm Zebre v Pau Today. 5.30pm ZEBRE host Top 14 high flyers Pau this afternoon looking...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 months agoMontpellier ……… 53 Perpignan ………..13
By TIM JOHNSON MONTPELLIER stormed into the quarter-finals with an emphatic victory over Perpignan. The hosts laid the foundations in the...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoFlankers who can cause problems
A TROUBLESOME breed, openside flankers of the silver-ferned variety – especially the top one per cent. The wonderful New Zealand captain...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoNonu just keeps on rolling along
ONE man has survived for so long on the higher grounds of the global game that he makes grand old footballing...
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Miscellaneous
/ 3 months agoBordeaux ready to run their marathon
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN All set: Bordeaux fly-half Matthieu Jalibert and, inset left to right, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Damian Penaud and head...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoToulouse win top-two battle
Double joy: Paul Graou scored two for Toulouse against Montpellier PICTURE: Alamy IN the Top 14, for the final time before...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 months agoChris Hewett: Less snooze-on-sofa, more edge-of-seat…
After the Lord Mayor’s Show comes… you know the rest, so let’s not go there.
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Columnists
/ 3 months agoAfter three rounds, it all looked so easy…
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN WELL, that was a remarkable end to what turned out to be an utterly astonishing Six Nations,...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoPeter Jackson: Blackheath still have a dream of higher things
The oldest football club in Wales and the oldest rugby club in England share a common goal. Wrexham AFC (1864) and...
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Top 14
/ 4 months agoNon-stop season likely to take toll
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN TIME and the ever-evolving rugby seasons wait for no one. The final round of the 2026 Six...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoWomen’s match to break crowd record for club game
A CROWD record will fall this afternoon, with France’s AXA Elite 1 Feminin league match between league leaders Toulouse and mid-table...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 months agoChris Hewett: Dave Rennie should leave Brodie Retallick where he is
Let the fun and games begin. Dave Rennie, freshly-appointed head coach of the All Blacks with a World Cup looming large...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 months agoPortugal’s clash with Spain will be classy
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER AWAY from the Six Nations, the Rugby Europe Championship is coming to the boil today with the...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoGalthie’s putting his faith in Tatafu
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The heavy mob: France prop Tevita Tatafu and, below left to right, Uini Atonio, Demba Bamba, Georges-Henri...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoHealy set to join in O’Gara’s rebuild
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN New man: Ben Healy is heading to La Rochelle from Edinburgh with Antoine Hastoy, Departing PICTURES: Alamy...
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Features
/ 4 months agoPaul Rees: France boss Fabien Galthie unbottles a rare vintage
Paul Rees looks at how the French are turning on the style as they prepare to take on Italy this afternoon...
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Top 14
/ 4 months agoBayonne battling to find a new way
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Ex-Bayonne coach Gregory Patat PICTURES: Getty Images new way IT MAY be a Top 14 rest week,...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoNick Cain: Save our scrums! Refs must do their jobs
There was a snapshot from the second to fourth minutes of the opening match of the Six Nations between France and...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoFrenchman in a hurry
PETER JACKSON Starlet: Fabien Brau-Boirie PICTURE: Alamy PAU introduced him to the Top 14 last season at the age of 18...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoPau give youth a chance to shine
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN PAU’S return to this season’s Champions Cup competition for the first time since 2001 was far from...
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Columnists
/ 5 months agoNick Cain: We don’t want these front row giants
It is dire news when a player is forced to retire due to health issues, as happened last week when France’s...
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International Rugby
/ 5 months agoSix Nations guide – France: Fabien Galthie looking to tighten up the defences
Brendan Gallagher says France coach Fabien Galthie has eyes very much on the next World Cup
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoRecovery is all that matters for Atonio
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN SOMETIMES, this game of rugby that we follow, that we love, that exults and frustrates us in...
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Features
/ 5 months agoHenry heads to Newcastle
On the move: Stade Francais fly-half Zack Henry and, inset, left to right, Will Rigg, George Turner, Max Hicks and Joji...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoNew Rugby Paper Roundup: Life inside one of rugby’s most prestigious families ft Carwyn Tuipulotu
In this week’s episode of the Rugby Paper Roundup, Assistant Editor Ben Jaycock is joined by Pau No.8 Carwyn Tuipulotu to...
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International Rugby
/ 5 months agoUini Atonio retires in a seismic blow to France ahead of Six Nations
France’s Six Nations preparations have been dealt a devastating blow after Uini Atonio was forced to retire with immediate effect following...
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Columnists
/ 5 months agoPaul Williams: At last we can see signs of stability for Steve Tandy’s Wales
Have you ever had someone try to tell you something really important? But instead of taking in that information, you’re instead...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoDREAM TEAM
SAM NIXON, THE FORMER BATH, BAYONNE, EXETER AND GRENOBLE PROP SELECTS THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST... 1....
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoGalthie’s ready to look at options
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN SIX Nations champions France cut vice captains Gael Fickou and Gregory Alldritt, as well as the country’s...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 months agoSale Sharks humiliated as Toulouse inflict record defeat
Sale Sharks last night suffered a record 77-7 defeat at the hands of Toulouse as the French team avoided a shock...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 months agoToulouse 77-7 Sale Sharks: That drubbing really hurts, says Alex Sanderson
France’s superstar captain Antoine Dupont put any watching England fans on high alert ahead of the Six Nations after showing that...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 months agoGloucester 14-31 Toulon: Cherry and Whites are taught a lesson in French style
Gloucester’s hopes of further involvement in European rugby this season were easily extinguished by a talented Toulon last night.
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Champions Cup
/ 5 months agoNorthampton Saints vs Scarlets: Phil Dowson tells his side to keep calm
Phil Dowson will tell his Northampton Saints players to focus on beating the Scarlets at Franklin’s Gardens rather than get ahead...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 months agoChris Hewett: Junior Kpoku on course to power up Red Roses
On the basis that Junior Kpoku is 6ft 8ins and 120kgs, his opponents must be dreading the day they run into...
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Columnists
/ 5 months agoPeter Jackson: Blizzard of points is obscuring the view
The Champions Cup, a misnomer if ever there was one, gorged itself last weekend on a feast of tries: 107 at...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 months agoPREVIEW…Lyon v Benetton
Today. Kick-off 1pm, Matmut Stadium de Gerland LAST season’s finalists Lyon face a do or die clash against pool leaders Benetton...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 months agoPREVIEW…Racing v Cheetahs
Today. Kick-off 5.30pm, La Defense Arena ONLY pride is at stake in this matchup with both Racing 92 and Cheetahs out...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoJones is Toulon’s secret weapon
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN TOP 14 totem side Toulon delivered a recruitment surprise this past week, arguably the big signing shock...
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Champions Cup
/ 6 months agoChampions Cup review: Sunday’s action shows no-one is the favourite
Sunday’s Champions Cup action was bigger proof than ever that league form means nothing in the mixing pot of Europe.
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Champions Cup
/ 6 months agoSale Sharks chief Alex Sanderson insists new coaching team will fire his side up
Alex Sanderson believes Sale Sharks’ realigned coaching set-up will lead to improved results after a disappointing first half of the campaign.
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