All posts tagged "Toulouse"
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoCastres send Euro warning to Premiership
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Gloucester and Exeter had better beware of French title-holders Castres when they both face them in the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoHooker Tolofua wanted by Clermont
SARACENS look set to lose French hooker Christopher Tolofua when his contract runs out at the end of the season. Blindside...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPriestland: It’s all about Bath for me right now
By STEFFAN THOMAS RHYS Priestland insists he’s put any thoughts of a Wales recall to the back of his mind as...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoWest Country foes set to rekindle rivalry in Ashton Gate near sell-out
26,000 tickets and counting have been sold for the Premiership season opener between Bristol and Bath
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoDelon Armitage’s season is over after damaging knee ligaments
An ACL injury strikes cruel blow to the Lyon full-back
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoQuins sign Fijian 7s gold star
HARLEQUINS have signed Fijian Semi Kunatani, an Olympic Sevens gold medallist. Kunatani, 6ft 3ins and 16st 8lb, played in all six...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoClermont show why they are favourites
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Debut try: Paddy Jackson scored for Perpignan PICTURE: Getty Images Apoll of Top 14 coaches anointed Clermont...
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Features
/ 7 years agoFree agent Qera hopes for a joker
BY NEILFISSLER FORMER Gloucester player of the year Akapusi Qera is leaving French side Agen but doesn’t have any plans to...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoAxe swings at Stade as Meyer plays pain game
Star signing at Stade Francais: former Toulouse centre Gael Fickou PICTURE: Getty Images Heads are rolling in Paris. Not quite as...
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Features
/ 7 years agoRUGBY MATTERS Zimbabwean protest was really just a cry for help
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Rough treatment: Zimbabwe players sleep on the streets of Beja...
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoBarnes column: The golden generation give hope to Bernard Laporte
David Barnes reacts to Les Bleus Under-20 World Championship victory on home soil
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoFrench have quality to mimic Irish renaissance
Fresh-faced: Brian O’Driscoll stars at the U19 World Cup AFTER a long dismal period in French Rugby the stunning success of...
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Features
/ 7 years agoThe golden generation give hope to Laporte
Prodigy: Jordan Joseph was best player of the Junior World Cup PICTURE: Getty Images French rugby boss Bernard Laporte has glimpsed...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER NEW ZEALAND, ENGLAND AND HARLEQUINS CENTRE JAMIE SALMON Three years after being rejected by Kent at an U19 trial...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoEl Abd’s in dreamland after latest miracle job
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Dad’s a hero: Joe El Abd with his children Maya, 6, Gabriel, 8, and Zachary, 4, at...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoYet again Championship clubs have been shafted
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN BRACE yourselves for the Premiership Cup, a tournament which reflects the desperate lack...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoAshton loses his golden touch at wrong time
DAVID BARNES Dismay: Chris Ashton missed two chances to score, costing Toulon defeat PICTURE: Getty Images FRENCH COLUMN The sureness of...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoQuins fly-half Lang brings physicality to midfield
Scotland summer squad Call up: James Lang HARLEQUINS playmaker James Lang will relish the chance to make an impact at international...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLittle big man Teddy holds the key to block Leinster
Brains trust: Stuart Lancaster WHO is Teddy Iribaren? What is for sure is that if Leinster do not know the answer...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSpedding dumped by new French red tape
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Outcast: Scott Spedding is finding it impossible to sign for a new club PICTURE: Getty Images Top...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoWayne Barnes to referee Champions Cup final between Leinster and Racing 92
Barnes will be the man in charge in Bilbao, as Challenge Cup officials are also confirmed
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLegends quit Toulon but future is so bright
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Not so happy ending: Wonder wing Bryan Habana is leaving Toulon with a sense of grievance PICTURE:...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoEarls returns as Munster shake up the backs
MUNSTER, chasing their fifth appearanc in a European Cup final, have boldly moved their quarter-final hero Andrew Conway to full-back for...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoQuinnell: Scarlets can do a Liverpool
Scott Quinnell looks ahead to the weekend's clash at the Aviva Stadium between Leinster and his old team Scarlets
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoQuinnell: Scarlets can do a Liverpool
By PETER JACKSON THE Scarlets are being backed to make history this week by doing to Leinster in the Champions’ Cup...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRacing aces can gatecrash Irish party
Pack power: James Lowe scores from a pushover against Saracens CAN anybody stop Leinster? Indeed, can anybody stop the Irish? Leinster...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSteffon stars but Stade continue to feel the pain
Man of the match: Steffon Armitage starred for Pau against Oyonnax Stade Francais, the one-time giants of French rugby, launched a...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoLes Bleues seal Grand Slam with six-try rout of Wales
■ By GEORGE LAWRENCE Wales Women …3 France Women …38 Grand! France celebrate PICTURE: TRP photographer FRANCE regained the Women’s Six...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEastmond is snubbed by Bath
No go: Kyle Eastmond KYLE EASTMOND has been been left wondering about his future after Bath last week opted to sign...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHumiliation for Carter as Racing come back
Racing president Jacky Lorenzetti describes the merger that never was with Stade Francais a year ago as the most painful episode...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoAll Black invasion will boost the Quins
NICK CAIN THE deal that Harlequins have struck with New Zealand Rugby (NZR) to turn the Premiership club into a sabbatical...
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Dream Team
/ 8 years agoDream Team: Former Bath and England full-back Jon Callard
Jon Callard chooses the best he has played with and against...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
French break the mould with move to Marseilles BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Formidable...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
JON CALLARD, FORMER BATH AND ENGLAND FULL-BACK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Jason Leonard –...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVersatile Josh out to prove himself again
By JON NEWCOMBE JOSH Beaumont says he has returned from his latest injury setback stronger than ever as he looks to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPacific is washing in waves of talent
WHILE many T1 nations continue to plunder the South Pacific, it might be timely to highlight France’s increasingly fruitful rugby relationship...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
ADRIAN DAVIES THE FORMER WALES, NEATH, CARDIFF, CAMB UNIV AND RICHMOND FLY-HALF In five years of Test rugby I played under...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoJacques Brunel must turn France’s Cup aces into champs
Can the 64-year-old turn France into a team to fear? He's certainly making changes in selection
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAshton’s alive and kicking at full-back
Showman: Chris Ashton showed some fancy footwork for Toulon PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Ashton hasn’t always shown the fancy kicking that...
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National League 2N
/ 8 years agoFrance
■FRANCE are desperate to get their hands on the title again after a disappointing third-place finish last season. They improved steadily...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: French teen-star Matthieu Jalibert can light up the Six Nations
The Bordeaux-Begles fly-half has been turning heads in the Top 14 this season
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Features
/ 8 years agoThe class of 68 – the team that took the Grand Slam in Cardiff
I5 Claude Lacaze (Angouleme): A fixture in the French side during most of the 60s until he retired in 1969 with...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThose who also manned the barricades during the 1968 Five Nations
Bernard Duprat (Bayonne): Proud Basque who made over 400 appearance for Bayonne in a 15-year career. Scored nine tries in 15...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNoves’ players are history as well!
Slight: Guy Noves HOW the mighty have fallen. Not only has Guy Noves, boss at Toulouse for over 20 years, been...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
The game must face up to its possible drugs problem BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWhen Bath spoiled the French party in Bordeaux
BRENDAN GALLAGHER talks to Bath captain Andy Nicol about their European glory night 20 years ago Brive …18pts Penalties: C Lamaison...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPolledri pushing for Test debut against England
By SAM JACKSON Rising star: Jake Polledri JAKE Polledri was not expecting his Italy call-up so soon but the Gloucester flanker...











