All posts tagged "Top 14"
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Features
/ 8 years agoEngland expects a big weekend of revenge
COLIN BOAG Round 3 of the Champions Cup couldn’t have been more dismal for the English clubs, with all seven losing...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoJono Ross relishing new life in fast lane with Sale Sharks
The South Africa-born back row on a turbulent meeting between the Stade Francais president and Stade players
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Features
/ 8 years agoToulon in £500k bid for Taulupe
Wanted in France and Wales: Bath No.8 Taulupe Faletau TOULON are ready to join the race to land Wales and British...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWorkaholic Wray aims to keep Sarries up to the job
Strong carrier: Clermont No.8 Fritz Lee PICTURE: Getty Images JACKSON Wray is the selfless grafter that no club aspiring to greatness...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRFU funding for EQPs gives England a big advantage
JEFF PROBYN Money bags: Top 14 contenders Montpellier have a raft of Test stars including François Steyn and Nemani Nadolo PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 8 years agoInternational caps are all at sixes and Sevens
COLIN BOAG The recent Rugby League World Cup showed just what a joke the 13-man game’s eligibility rules are – basically...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFrance need revolution to catch up says Saint-Andre
By NEALE HARVEY Hope: Philippe Saint-Andre PHILIPPE Saint- Andre claims France are now lagging “ten years behind England” and that radical...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER GLOUCESTER, WORCESTER AND CASTRES WINGER MARCEL GARVEY Winning the Top 14 title in my first season with Castres was...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCastres hit Toulouse for six in clash of day
FRENCH COLUMN DAVID BARNES Castres team boss Christophe Urios went to Toulouse with the threat of suspension hanging over his head...
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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoSilence is deafening seven days on from that scrum farce
GEORGIAmade an immediate protest to World Rugby over the scrum farce in Cardiff, understandably so given that it denied them the...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Brookes out for 6 weeks TIGHT-HEADKieran Brookes has been ruled out for six weeks after fracturing his hand in Saints ‘...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoAshton try touch can ‘t save Toulon strugglers
FRENCH COLUMN The last time Toulon lost three games in a row they ended the season as domestic and European champions....
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFinn Russell to leave Glasgow Warriors
The Scotland international has been linked with a move to France to join Racing 92
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRevenge so sweet for Clermont boss Azema
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Clermont boss Franck Azema confessed he found Lyon annoying for signing up his players. His prop Raphael...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTeen-star Jalibert lets Toulouse off hook
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Heartache: Matthieu Jalibert missed a winning kick for Bordeaux An 18-year-old making his fly-half debut in the...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoLook North, Barbarians, before it all goes South
From NICK CAIN at Tiwckenham Opener: Richie Mo’unga scores the first try THIS was more like a New Zealand trial match...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoAshton picks way through the chaos to grab 2 tries
At the double: Toulon wing Chris Ashton scored twice against Brive Chris Ashton scored two tries to bring his own total...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoAki gets green light as Zebo bombs out
By SAM JACKSON Qualified: Connacht centre Bundee Aki NEW Zealand-born centre Bundee Aki has won his first Ireland call-up for the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoHowzat! NatWest set to back Six Nations
By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations is expected to announce a new title sponsor long synonymous with English cricket – NatWest....
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoChiefs set for toughest assignment in Europe
By SAM JACKSON Familiar face: Nic White EXETER captain Jack Yeandle has challenged his men to take it to the mammoth...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoSale slip up again in face of French end-game
By DAVID JOYCE Try-double: Sam James SALE Sharks surrendered a 14-point lead in the final 15 minutes as they were beaten...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoBlues build momentum with big win in Toulouse
By ALEX BYWATER IN WHAT must rank as one of the best results in their recent history, Cardiff Blues claimed a...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoRory takes the French route to top in coaching
Rory Teague fell in love with rugby from the moment he watched his grandfather Colin playing prop for Gloucester during his...
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Features
/ 8 years agoScottish RFU could step in to boost Worcester
WORCESTER Warriots could find an unlikely saviour in the form of the Scottish Rugby Union according to Blindside sources. We understand...
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Features
/ 8 years agoItaly helps restore careers of striken half-back talents
Return: Brive fly-half Florian Cazenave ITALIAN rugby can be proud of the part it has played in the rehabilitation – physically...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoYachvili: It’s got to be Sarries for Cup
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN The name of Dimitri Yachvili is one that provoked apprehension, if not fear, in the ranks of...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLamb shows his teeth to savage the Quins
■By NICK CAIN Flying Frenchman: Geoffrey Doumayrou runs in to score for La Rochelle PICTURES: Getty Images RYAN Lamb may have...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years ago‘We learnt our lesson’ says Cipriani, as Wasps prepare for Ulster test
By Adam Ellis Ahead of Wasps‘ trip to face Ulster in the Champions Cup under the lights of the Kingspan Stadium...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Champions Cup pools draw make it sure to be a thrilling start
By Jeremy Guscott THE European Cup is a tougher, harder tournament under EPCR than it was four years ago when the...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoCome off it, Vern…Montpellier can cash in this year
VERN Cotter started jockeying for position this week as his Montpellier side, who have blasted their way to the head of...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLozowski holding out for more cash
SARACENS are planning more talks with England squad man Alex Lozowski in a bid to keep him at the club when...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThrilling to have a re-run of last year’s final so early
Battle royal: Saracens take on Clermont in the pool this season PICTURE: Getty Images THE European Cup is a tougher, harder...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoRob Baxter plans to make Exeter Chiefs one of Europe’s elite
By Nick Cain EXETER Chiefs are rolling towards Europe’s elite clubs like a dislodged boulder of Dartmoor granite. The newly- crowned...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTop 14 eye Gray and Clifford
HARLEQUINS duo Joe Gray and Jack Clifford, who are both out of contract at the end of the season, are being...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Soane Tonga’uhia – Bristol prop
1. Craig Dowd – He was the Auckland and All Blacks loosehead when I was growing up and I was lucky...
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Features
/ 9 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BORDEAUX’S search for a winger for next season has seen them make enquiries...
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Features
/ 9 years agoWebb’s WRU talks could foil Sarries
Decision: Rhys Webb SARACENS face an anxious wait to find out if they stand a chance of luring British and Irish...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCanada fly-half joins Ealing Trailfinders
Ealing Trailfinders have confirmed the signing of Canadian international Shane O’Leary from Connacht. The fly-half arrives at Vallis Way with four...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott: Vunipola has made a vital point that must be discussed
If any Premiership player makes a comment containing the words ‘strike action’ it’s a big statement, but it’s gigantic when it’s...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoStade are on journey – but is it to relegation?
FRENCH COLUMN On the move? French fly-half Jules Plisson could be leaving Stade Fair to say that Terry Bouhraoua is better...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jamie Noon – former England, Newcaslte and Brive centre
Scoring a hat-trick against Scotland in my first Six Nations campaign – I think I was the first England player to...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoPint-sized Gabriel cuts down Clermont
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Gabriel Lacroix, of La Rochelle, is an unlikely lad in the muscular world of the Top 14....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoTolofua in challenge to Jamie
HARD-HITTING France hooker Christopher Tolofua believes quitting once-mighty Toulouse for European champions Saracens and a battle with Lions star Jamie George...
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Latest News
/ 9 years ago‘The Beast’ plots more try havoc in the Premiership
NAPOLIONI Nalaga, one of the most devastating finishers world rugby has seen, has declared himself fit and ready to take the...
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Features
/ 9 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER ENGLAND, NEWCASTLE FALCONS AND BRIVE CENTRE JAMIE NOON Scoring a hat-trick against Scotland in my first Six Nations campaign...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 years agoHenson gets hit out
Montpellier 40 Dragons 15 GAVIN Henson made his return to Welsh club rugby on Friday night but it was in a...
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Features
/ 9 years agoNew-fangled PRO 14 is disaster waiting to happen
COLIN BOAG There is no shortage of top-class rugby players, but my goodness the game seems to be very light on...
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Guest columnists
/ 9 years agoMike Ford: My love of risk-taking has landed me in the USA
The opportunity to try something new appealed to me when Dallas Griffins owner Phil Camm asked me to head up the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years ago8 reasons why it’s worth betting on rugby
The year 2017 places rugby second only to football regarding global popularity. The game with a rich and occasionally controversial history...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoOld pals Catrakalis and Swiel set to battle it out
By NEALE HARVEY Order of the boot: Demetri Catrakilis shows his kicking repertoire for Montpellier against Quins PICTURES: Getty Images NEW...















