All posts tagged "Top 14"
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoClassy Jacob Umaga has the genes to succeed, says Wasps teammate Fekitoa
Wasps centre Malakai Fekitoa sees a bright future for starlet fly-half Jacob Umaga
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGalthie plots his opening gambit from Paris hot seat
Key man for Clermont: France centre Virimi Vakatawa This weekend’s Top 14 matches – the 13th round of the season –...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoHomecoming for Rhys Webb at Ospreys
Toulon agree to release the Welsh scrum-half a year early from his contract
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoWilliams column: Ross Moriarty should stay in Wales with Dragons
Shane Williams praises the back-row forward for filling in for Taulupe Faletau, but that he should turn down interest from overseas
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoJonny May is latest Leicester Tigers star to be targetted
SARACENS are weighing up a move for England winger Jonny May who is coming into the last six months of his...
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Shane Williams
/ 7 years agoMoriarty should stay in Wales with the Dragons
Stick or twist: Ross Moriarty will have numerous options for next season PICTURE: Getty Images ROSS Moriarty has quickly become one...
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Peter Jackson
/ 7 years agoKubriashvili has got yellow fever
DAVIT Kubriashvili is only halfway through the season but already far ahead of schedule to break all yellow card records. Grenoble’s...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEmotions run high over death of ‘Ibou’
French rugby this week mourned 2013 Top 14 champion Ibrahim Diarra, who died on Wednesday at the age of 36. A...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNew stadium will end talent drain to Exeter says Matavesi
■By NEALE HARVEY Big chance at Saints: Sam Mataves SAM Matavesi believes the ambition of Cornish Pirates will blow the Premiership’s...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoNick Abendanon drawing interest from home as Clermont stay nears end
Nick Abendanon is keen on a return to the UK after five years in France
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoKolbe makes his return
POOL 5 PREVIEW… Toulouse v Montepellier Today. Kick-off 3.15pm, Stade Ernest Wallon WORLD Cup hero Cheslin Kolbe makes his return to...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSaints lead the chase for Fearns
LYON No.8 Carl Fearns is potentially on his way back to the Premiership. Fearns is not expected to extend his fruitful...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoLyon finally break their Champions Cup duck
LYON cruised to their first ever win in the Heineken Champions Cup at Matmut Stadium de Gerland after eight successive defeats...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoGuscott column: Magical Radradra can cast spell on the Premiership
Jeremy Guscott reflects on what Bristol's signing of the Bordeaux Begles and Fiji star Radradra means for the rest of the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoNorthampton Saints will move on Ben Youngs should talks with Tigers fail
Cobus Reinach has been offered an eye-watering amount of money by Montpellier, and Saints could turn to Ben Youngs to replace...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoNorthampton Saints fill Dylan Hartley void with new hooker signing
Sam Matavesi has left Cornish Pirates to move to Franklin's Gardens
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoHarrington column: Mourad Boudjellal ready to pack his bags at Toulon
Is one of rugby's most eccentric owners set to leave the Top 14?
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoUnited nations of France are doing rugby proud
Diminishing breed: Romania No.8 Andre Gorin plays for Bayonne THE riotous Tower of Babel that is professional French club rugby has...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 7 years agoWill RFU scrap rules if Sarries go down?
So it’s back to the real business of club rugby this week as we return to the Premiership and the serious...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoMagical Radradra can cast spell on Premiership
Serious talent: Semi Radradra picks wonderful lines PICTURE: Getty Images PAT LAM has pulled off a sensational coup with the signing...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoHanrahan drop-goal goes wide so it’s a tie
By RONAN O’BRIEN MUNSTER full-back Mike Haley insisted they were thrilled to secure a draw even though his side should have...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoAckermann rings the changes for Montpellier test
By NEALE HARVEY New lease: Joe Simpson is feeling rejuvenated at Kingsholm SCRUM-HALFJoe Simpson insists Gloucester are faced with no other...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoJoe blow gives Dai Exeter problem
WASPS boss Dai Young fears Joe Launchbury will miss Saturday’s Premiership match at Exeter due to a calf injury. The England...
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Champions Cup
/ 7 years agoSavage Bears serve Brive a tasty bagle
By GARY FITZGERALD Flair: Try-scorer Harry Randall threatens Brive again PAT Lam acclaimed his Bears romp in France as “a big...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoHarrington column: Heyneke Meyer leaves, now Stade Francais look to Quesada
Stade Francais are comfortably the basement boys of the Top 14, with Meyer gone they are now chasing Gonzalo Quesada
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 7 years agoExeter Chiefs lead pack chasing Wales flanker Ross Moriarty
Rob Baxter wanted to bring the Wales flanker to Exeter once he knew he would be leaving Gloucester in 2017
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Challenge Cup
/ 7 years agoWasps left wanting as Jalibert puts boot in
By GARY FITGERALD DAI Young’s men were left ruing what might have been as they slipped out of South West France...
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Challenge Cup
/ 7 years agoHolmes scores four as Tigers claw the French
By ROB WILDMAN To the four: Tigers’ Jonah Holmes scores PICTURES: Getty Images LEICESTER welcomed back their England World Cup men,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 7 years agoBasham rises to challenge as Dragons ease to victory
By ROB COLE Future star: Taine Basham of Dragons scores his third try PICTURES: Huw Evans TAINE Basham couldn’t have picked...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoHarrington column: All change for France now Fabien Galthie in charge
James Harrington on how France head coach Fabien Galthie now has carte blanche to fix Les Bleus with Jacques Brunel out...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath, Toulon and Sharks scrum-half Michael Claassens
A player who loved running out at The Rec before stints with Toulon and the Sharks
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBordeaux face battle to retain Radradra
World class talent: Semi Radradra PICTURE: Getty Images Semi Radradra’s stock has never been higher than it is right now. After...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoDiamond: We won’t let playoff place slip by again
NEWS EXTRA By GARY FITZGERALD STEVE Diamond is convinced Sale have the player power to mount a serious push for the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNo World Cup regrets insists Ashton, baby comes first
Choice: Chris Ashton declined to be in Eddie Jones’ squad By JON NEWCOMBE CHRIS ASHTON admits watching the Rugby World Cup...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoToulouse god Noves finally calls career over
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN That’s it. A French era is over. Former France and Toulouse coach Guy Noves officially announced his...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
MICHAEL CLAASSENS FORMER SOUTH AFRICA, CHEETAHS, BATH, TOULON AND SHARKS SCRUM-HALF LIKE most kids in South Africa I grew up wanting...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoDeadshot Edwards hits late winner for Birchgrove
Welsh Cups round-up By CARL FIELD LAST season’s National Plate runners-up Bonymaen took another step towards a return to the Principality...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPR disaster as ‘injured’ Ramos plays for Toulouse
FRENCH COLUMN JAMES HARRINGTON A minor storm, of sorts, is brewing in French rugby, with Toulouse’s international full-back Thomas Ramos at...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoFrance call for the new poster boy Barassi
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN New star? Pierre-Louis Barassi is hailed as the answer to France’s midfield problems France coach Jacques Brunel...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEuropean bosses vote to scrap Continental Shield
By ADAM HOOKER SPECULATION is mounting over potential expansion in European rugby after the EPCR confirmed that their tournament for emerging...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Hugo Southwell: Former Scotland, Edinburgh, Stade Francais and Wasps full-back
Southwell recalls the World Cup heartache of 2007 when the Scots were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Argentina
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Features
/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby must take blame for tackle farce
Let off: Samoa’s Rey Lee-Lo should have been red-carded I’m not a fan of World Rugby, primarily because it seems to...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
HUGO SOUTHWELL THE FORMER SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH, STADE FRANCAIS AND WASPS FULL-BACK. LIKE so many Scotland players of my generation some wonderful...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoQuesada set to take over Stade from Meyer
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Who’d be a Top 14 coach? French domestic rugby took a break for the start of the...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoThese Sevens stars can shine bright in Japan
Gold: Leone Nakarawa SEVENS sometimes gets a bad wrap with the perception being that it has become a sport apart and...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoEddie will find Tonga give focus to his men
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Physical: Tonga’s bruising Castres No.8 Ma’ama Vaipulu England play their first match...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoWorld Cup takes its heavy toll on Toulouse
FRENCH COLUMN JAMES HARRINGTON Veteran: Census Johnston, playing here for Racing 92, is still going strong for Bayonne at the age...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 7 years agoLittle things matter if the Canucks are to progress
CANADA Hope: Evan Olmstead CANADA emerged from last year’s last-chance saloon as convincing winners of the repechage tournament to continue the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoLoved Quins but France offer too good to refuse
Neale Harvey talks to former Harlequins lock George Merrick about his surprise move to France Winning start: George Merrick in action...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoTe’o off to Japan after his pit stop in France
By NEIL FISSLER EXCLUSIVE BEN TE’O will be heading to Japan despite England coach Eddie Jones leaving him out of his...














