All posts tagged "Wales"
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWilliams heading for Japan
WALES and Lions wing Liam Williams has left Cardiff midway through his contract to join Kubota Spears in Japan. The 32-year-old...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoNienaber keeps faith with World Cup stars
By PAUL REES SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH Africa’s squad preparing for the Rugby Championship contains 19 players who were involved in the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoFamiliar faces find some new identities
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Nine New Zealanders, four Australians, a goalkicking Irishman and an English prop are...
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Guest Blogs
/ 2 years agoAn Upswing in Rugby’s Popularity from Niche to Mainstream
Rugby has an exciting and rich history, making it one of the world’s most popular physical sports. It has a massive...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSanderson visits Warrior world
Sale Sharks boss Alex Sanderson and head coach Paul Deacon were busy last week picking the brains of another North-West coach...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoSo, who is set to fly in under the radar?
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Remember Jean-Marc Doussain’s international debut for France? Probably not. The poor bloke would happily forget it himself,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoEaling confirm deal with Williams
Ealing Trailfinders have confirmed their signing of Wales scrumhalf Lloyd Williams from Cardiff. The 33-year-old ends a 13-year career at Cardiff...
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Shane Williams
/ 2 years agoLet’s hope our new big hitter has a big impact
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Among the many social media comments on the appointment of Richard Collier-Keywood as the new...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoBorthwick has it all to play for
Paul Rees considers the head coach's options as he prepares to name his World Cup squad on August 7 England may...
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Features
/ 2 years agoMurley races to the top of the try pile
Peter Jackson sees the man overlooked by England lead the way when it comes to try time ENGLAND chose seven different...
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Features
/ 2 years agoKing Campo was simply the best
World Cup icons...1991 >> Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage All sorts of players...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoSamoan underdogs and an Australian masterclass stole the show in ’91
The Rugby World Cup really started to hit its stride in 1991, scaling up from the inaugural event in 1987 in...
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Guest Blogs
/ 2 years agoThe wake of the Northern Hemisphere & the Rugby World Cup
The biggest celebration of the oval ball sport is here – the Rugby World Cup 2023 is just a few months...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoCare and Marler return as England World Cup preparation squad announced
Harlequins duo Danny Care and Joe Marler have been named in the England squad for the first time under Steve Borthwick...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Dan George
The Old Albanian head coach and former Scarlets, London Welsh, Gloucester, Worcester and Bedford hooker, chooses the Best XV he has...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoNo more excuses: Time to get serious, England
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK AS soon as Steve Borthwick got the England head coach job he will have...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoHe’s quite some man, that Emery…
David Emery 1946-2023 Peter Jackson looks back on the life and times of a giant in the world of sport and...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoBears swept aside as Gloucester power on
By BEN JAYCOCK Gloucester-Hartpury.....21pts Tries: Beckett 4, Jones 30, Lund 67 Conversions: Sing 5, 31, 68 Bristol Bears ....................12pts Tries: Davies...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoAmateurs set for talks over their future at Hazelwood
By PAUL REES London Irish Amateur RFC’s chairman Kevin Flynn is this week meeting administrators appointed after the collapse of the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoCardiff in fight for Thomas
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Gloucester have been linked with a move for highly-rated Cardiff coach T Rhys Thomas. The...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoAfter this, Prince Harry could be calling AWJ
PETER JACKSON Alun Wyn Jones continues to treat ‘the media’ with such contempt that it may be but a matter of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen Kirk took the All Blacks right to the top of the world
Brendan Gallagher begins a series on the star man at each global gathering Being the first in anything often confers iconic...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoHow a boat trip on the Seine swung the vote
The IRB took the momentous decision to stage a first World Cup in March 1985 in strange circumstances. Prior to their...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 2 years agoFolau call was TV turn-off for Gareth
By NICK POWELL Gareth Thomas “refused” to watch the Barbarians vs World XV match last month due to the “contradiction” of...
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Latest News
/ 3 years ago‘England are dark horses for big prize’
By GARY FITZGERALD England can be World Cup dark horses who “sneak up” on the rail and gallop off with rugby’s...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoEnforce laws and game will be safer
WORLD Rugby should abandon their ‘player welfare’ platitudes and make the game safer by merely enforcing its own laws. A fortnight...
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Features
/ 3 years agoHow Ellie fell back in love with the game
By BEN JAYCOCK HAVING turned away from the sport as a teenager, Sevens flyer Ellie Boatman is now revelling in the...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Dan Barnes
The Jersey and former London Scottish, Rosslyn Park, Henley and Wasps academy centre, chooses the best XV he has played with...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoGatland releases Carre after he fails to hit targets
Cardiff prop Rhys Carre has been released from Wales’ World Cup training squad having “failed to meet individual performance targets”. “Rhys...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Scarlets & Wales U20 scrum-half Archie Hughes
Archie Hughes is looking to show the Scarlets and the world what he can do at the U20s World Championship later...
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Features
/ 3 years agoSleeping giant that is struggling to wake up
Peter Jackson consults his stats book to see which teams are the best-supported in Europe’s big leagues Crowd pleasers: Leicester Tigers...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWilliams heads out of Cardiff for Trailfinders
LLOYD Williams will join Ealing Trailfinders before the 2023-24 season following his exit from Cardiff. The scrum-half was one of seven...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoJones keen to keep his name in the frame for Wales
By GARY FITZGERALD Wyn Jones strolls out at Twickenham today determined to prove a point as he comes to terms with...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoBob right to break barriers
THAT was an excellent letter/article by Bob Reeves in last Sunday’s TRP. I have heard from friends involved in grassroots rugby...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoChampions but without a trophy
CARDIFF RFC won the Welsh Premiership championship by six points, but they won no trophy because somebody in the Welsh Rugby...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoBorthwick must pull off a minor miracle
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Steve Hansen isn’t wrong when he says that the 2023 World Cup draw is...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 3 years agoVernier voted best in women’s Six Nations
France centre Gabrielle Vernier was named the Women’s Six Nations player of the championship. The 25-year-old received almost half of the...
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Features
/ 3 years agoTrio complete an incredible journey
Ben Jaycock talks to Ed Jackson, the former Wasps forward who took up mountaineering after hurting his back. Having been forced...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoEligibility rules have failed the Pacific Islands
THE decision of former England tighthead Henry Thomas to become a Welshman is a relatively minor example of the Test rugby...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoTomi aiming for top after switch back to Scarlets
By LUKE JARMYN Welsh flyer Tomi Lewis is adamant that moving back to his native land and working with head coach...
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Sevens World Series
/ 3 years agoGB sevens players pondered boycott
By BEN JAYCOCK Several Great Britain Sevens players thought about refusing to participate in this weekend’s London leg of the World...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoSharks deserve far more recognition
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Rugby has its favourites and we in the media are as guilty as any of promoting them above others...
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Features
/ 3 years agoWales refs fail to make the World Cup grade
Jon Newcombe talks to WRU head of refereeing Paul Adams about the dearth of top officials in Wales For the first...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoFish is my kind of player – reliable and committed
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I WAS gutted when I read that Dan Fish is going to miss Cardiff ’s...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoJames steps up as Cardiff take on the Black & Ambers
Premiership semi-finals By ROB COLE PREVIEW... Cardiff v Newport Today. Kick-off 5.30pm, Arms Park Llandovery v Merthyr Today. Kick-off 2.30pm, Church...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 years agoLynagh’s late strike ends Reds hoodoo
Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK Queensland Reds broke their New Zealand hoodoo to end the Chiefs’ unbeaten start to...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoThomas defends decision to defect
By PETER JACKSON Henry Thomas will start work on his unprecedented transfer from England to Wales this month – 16 years...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoEligibility laws that need to be changed
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE recent international eligibility law that allows Henry Thomas to be selected by...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoHow a pair of English-born props could foil Red Rose
Tomas Francis, the 71-cap Wales tighthead who has been first choice for Warren Gatland in both his incarnations as Wales coach,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoGatland can get Wales on top again
CHRIS HEWETT Few people on God’s earth know more about professional Welsh rugby than Warren Gatland, who successfully coached the Test...












