All posts tagged "Wasps"
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRFU needs a sense of proportion
The RFU has always maintained that promotion-relegation is sacrosanct, even though the RFU Council agreed in February 2021 to a so-called...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoTime to create a new dynasty
Paul Rees looks at what Mark McCall needs to do at Saracens as several big names head for the exit door...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoWe need a fairer deal for all levels
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I cannot believe that there is any way an agreement between the...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoAcademy players could miss out after cuts
By TOM JEFFREYS Last week saw another nail pinned into the coffins of Worcester, Wasps and London Irish as the RFU...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSaracens land Spink
FORMER Wasps centre Sam Spink will join Saracens from Western Force for next season. Spink, 24, has scored three tries in...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoGrayson now has Japan in his sights
By BEN JAYCOCK The demise of Wasps, Worcester Warriors and London Irish has left just 10 starting fly-half spots across a...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Peter Scrivener
The former Wasps no.8 chooses the best XV he has played with or against... 1. Paul Rendall – I had the...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoUmaga stars for 14-man Benetton
Benetton ........27 Lions ................ 17 ■By SAM JACKSON THE Lions were booted out of the Challenge Cup by a Benetton side...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoBring back rucking and kill the jackal
Coach to coach Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to Paul Turner, below, coach of Championship club...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoCruse, 35, announces retirement
Grateful: Northampton’s Tom Cruse NORTHAMPTON hooker Tom Cruse will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season. The 35-year-old...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoHalliday: New deal is within our reach
By JON NEWCOMBE Calls for a further relaxation of Premiership ground capacity rules appear to be gathering momentum as the protracted...
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Six Nations
/ 2 years agoBorthwick now spoilt for choice at 15, says Piutau
By BEN JAYCOCK Charles Piutau feels England’s decision to drop Freddie Steward in favour of George Furbank at full-back shows the...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoExeter flyer on the fast track to top
By MARK STEVENS Rob Baxter has warned opposition defences that England sensation Immanuel Feyi-Waboso will only get better with time after...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLlewellyn keen to put himself in the frame for Wales
By PAUL REES Max Llewellyn’s form for Gloucester this year will have put the centre in the frame for Wales’s summer...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoTime for club owners to come clean on plans
NICK CAIN - READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK SEETHING financial undercurrents are undermining the main pillars of the game in...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 2 years agoMonaghan returns to lead Ireland
By SAM JACKSON PREVIEW... Ireland v Italy Today. Kick-off 3pm SECOND row Sam Monaghan returns from injury to captain Ireland as...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoBenetton snatch it in final play of game
Benetton ......... 18 Connacht ........14 By KEVIN FALLON BENETTON captain Eli Snyman said this is a huge win for the Treviso...
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National League 2E
/ 2 years ago‘I’m playing again after near death experience’
By JON NEWCOMBE Henley Hawks forward Morgan Macrae has fulfilled his goal of playing again just seven months after nearly dying...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoPutting 50 points on the Aussies was a highlight
My Life in Rugby with Ruaridh Jackson - The former Scotland, Glasgow, Wasps and Harlequins fly-half talks about his career in...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 31/03/24
Time is running out for the RFU’s new Professional Game Partnership (PGP) to be agreed, and you can find the latest...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoRelegation saga still a shadow over game
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is so much that makes so little sense in the English club...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoI’m ambitious. I want to coach as high as I can
My Life in Rugby with Alex Rae - The former Northampton Saints, Saracens, Wasps and Bedford Blues lock, now head coach...
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National League 2N
/ 2 years agoLewis full of pride for his Titans in bid for promotion
By BEN JAYCOCK Losing just one game all season would usually be more than enough to finish first, but Rotherham Titans...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoExeter secure Feyi-Waboso on long-term contract
Exeter Chiefs have signed 21-year-old England winger Immanuel Feyi-Waboso on a “long-term” contract. Feyi-Waboso joined the Devonians midway through last season...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoWe need strong finish – Ludlow
By PAUL REES Gloucester have been a cup team this season but skipper Lewis Ludlow is demanding a strong finish to...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoI was thrilled to bits to be picked for England
My Life in Rugby with Magnus Lund - The former England, Sale and Biarritz flanker talks about his life in the...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoBeating Ealing proves anything is possible
Matthew Luddington talks to London Scottish flanker Jack Ingall about combining work and play in the Championship ANECDOTES from rugby’s amateur...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoBaxter turns his attention to top Ealing pair
ON THE BLINDSIDE - EXCLUSIVE By JON NEWCOMBE Having already snapped up Coventry’s star centre Will Rigg in a mid-season swoop,...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Redford Pennycook
The former Bristol, Newcastle and Ealing Trailfinders back rower, chooses his best XV he has played with or against... 1. Ellis...
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Features
/ 2 years agoReid: We want to build new legacy
Jon Newcombe talks to Bath back rower Miles Reid who wants to see the glory days return, if only to keep...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoAt last! England find reason to be cheerful
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME We were waiting and hoping for a game that will define how...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Sale Sharks second row Tom Burrow
By BEN JAYCOCK Towering Yorkshireman Tom Burrow has found his calling at Sale Sharks and, after transitioning from the U18s programme,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoWasps better off with URC – Sharp
By JON NEWCOMBE Coventry chairman Jon Sharp is convinced that Wasps’ future, if it has one, lies in the United Rugby...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Michael Le Bourgeois
The Bedford Blues player-coach and former Wasps and Jersey Reds centre chooses the best XV he has played with or against...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSharks sign Roets as Wiese confirms exit
SALE have signed South African lock Le Roux Roets, below, for next season from URC side Sharks. The 6ft 8in player...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoMcHenry grabs his lifeline from Dax
By LUKE JARMYN Alex McHenry scored Jersey’s third try against Exeter in September, yet eight days later was selling nearly all...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoMcGeechan named Doncaster director of rugby
Coaching legend Sir Ian McGeechan has taken up the position of consultant director of rugby at Doncaster Knights. The Yorkshire-born ex-Scotland...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEngland U20 star joins Bristol
BRISTOL have signed England age grade back rower Kofi Cripps for next season. The 20-year-old flanker was formerly part of Wasps’...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Warren Seals
The Sedgley Park and former Boland Cavalier, Darlington Mowden Park and Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half chooses the best XV he has played...
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Features
/ 2 years agoRugby’s stuck in the ice age. It needs to open up
Ben Jaycock talks to Freddie Burns about life in Japan and what he thinks the sport must do to attract the...
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Red Roses
/ 2 years agoRed Roses: Gloucester-Hartpury prop Maud Muir
By BEN JAYCOCK Birthplace: Oxford Date of Birth: 12/07/01 Community Club: Oxford Harlequins Red Roses Debut: vs New Zealand November 2021...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen the B grade was full of A stars
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER AS England A crank back into action today...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoDowson hoping Lawes will stay
By JON NEWCOMBE Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson still harbours some hope that Courtney Lawes has a future at Franklin’s...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: England U20s and Sale prop Asher Opoku-Fordjour
By BEN JAYCOCK With an ageing front row, England are crying out for youthful props who can go toe to toe...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoScarlets battle for pair
Scarlets are ‘fighting hard’ to keep star forwards Vaea Fifita and Sam Lousi. Fifita, 31, above, is in his second season...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoCrusaders aiming for six of the best
Super Rugby Preview Ben Jaycock looks forward to the new Super Rugby season with the Melbourne Rebels fighting to survive THE...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoUnbeaten Bath set for battle against the Saints
ACADEMIES ROUND-UP By TOM JEFFREYS NORTHAMPTON and Bath will face off in today’s final of the U18s Academy League at Kingsholm....
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoAnglo-Welsh league ‘depends on money’
By PAUL REES Premiership coaches have given their backing to Warren Gatland’s call for an Anglo-Welsh league – as long as...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoWhy the RFU needs to justify its CVC payments
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE recent observation by CVC that rugby union is too fragmented on the...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoLegend who had no wish to be one
Paul Rees says it was hard not to fall in love with rugby as a young boy, watching his hero play...
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