All posts tagged "World Rugby"
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Features
/ 2 years agoDon’t sub captain just after half-time
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In charge: Jamie George in action for England PICTURE: Getty Images WE...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMastering the engine room – The crucial role of second row combinations
By Will Hartshorn – @RugbyCollective In a world where people 6 foot 6 and above make up for less than 1%...
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/ 2 years agoFrance Rugby strongly oppose the implementation of the 20-minute red card
Following World Rugby’s announcement to propose the global trial of new laws that will be reviewed by the Council, FFR (French...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoStop this 20-minute red card nonsense
CAN those at World Rugby who now insist the 20-minute red card experiment is to be extended worldwide please identify themselves....
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/ 2 years agoHigh ticket prices for All Blacks cast dark shadow
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW WHEN the RFU finished doing their sums for the autumn series of Twickenham’s...
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/ 2 years agoLoyalty paying off for Alex Lozowski
Short of borrowing Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and strumming his way through a few chords of O Sole Mio, Conor O’Shea could...
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/ 2 years agoToo much card confusion
IT seems World Rugby has woken up to the fact that their increasing interference with tackle laws and other elements of...
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/ 2 years agoDo Wales have a chance at landing young gun Cameron Hanekom?
By Peter Ryan – @PeterRyanSports Over the past decade, there has been a trend of players coming from overseas to compete...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTime to add Japan and Fiji to Rugby Championship
THE endless mistreatment of Fiji as a second rate rugby nation is another disastrous admin blunder in the sport’s professional era....
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoTuipulotu’s power is too much for Cardiff
By SIMON THOMAS Cardiff .................36pts Glasgow ..............52pts Tries: D Thomas 12, Winnett 20, Byrne 47, Martin 53, Donnell 68 Conversions: Sheedy...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHunt prepares to face up to Black Ferns challenge
By BEN JAYCOCK England v New Zealand PREVIEW... Today. Kick-off 8.30pm, Langley Events Centre Wise head: Natasha Hunt is looking forward...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoLos Pumas have worked hard to forge own identity
Brendan Gallagher reports on how one country has built a rugby stronghold down in South America There was a time back...
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Features
/ 2 years agoMy dream tour: The Lions in Argentina
OF COURSE, the British and Irish Lions should be touring Argentina, I’ve been arguing the case for 20 years or more....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoSorry, Geoff, but let’s not de-power scrums
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME EVERY week I can’t wait for Sunday to come around so that...
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Features
/ 2 years agoWe lost but it was great to watch, says Lam
By BEN JAYCOCK PAT Lam believes his side’s thrilling defeat to Gloucester last Friday is a continuation of a trendy, entertaining...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoLeicester Tigers criticise RFU following Michael Cheika’s ban for being ‘disrespectful’
Leicester have hit out at the Rugby Football Union after their head coach Michael Cheika was found guilty of disrespecting an...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoChampionship crowds are still too low
With all the talk about the RFUs treatment of the Championship there never seems to be any real analysis of the...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoThat’s not what I call a good idea ITV
Brilliant idea ITV! Put your freeview Premiership highlights programme on an obscure channel. Schedule it for a Wednesday lunchtime. Replace Flats...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMinimum standards criteria must apply to all
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Do title-chasing Bath – and other top tier clubs – meet...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoFiji deserve to play with best in world
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Every underdog has its day, as Daniel Dubois reminded us in knocking an entire cathedral’s...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSorry, but it now looks like Eben Etzebeth got away with one
So, for 10 months or more I have been defending Eben Etzebeth, and by implication referee Ben O’Keeffe, for the deliberate...
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Features
/ 2 years agoDespite bankruptcy, USA Sevens are in good shape
Ben Jaycock talks to Mike Friday about his ten years with USA Sevens – and watching son Lucas Mike Friday recently...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEngland aiming for a repeat success
By Ben Jaycock and James Orpin Break: Abby Dow scores against New Zealand and, inset, John Mitchell PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoOutside centre best for Freeman -Burrell
■By CAMERON STEPHENS FORMER England centre Luther Burrell believes Tommy Freeman is best suited at outside centre and has the attributes...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoChristian Day confident new PGP deal will attract big guns
By Adam Hathaway Players' chief Christian Day predicts the new Professional Game Partnership agreement will help attract more foreign big guns...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoQuite right, Brendan, don’t indulge All Blacks
I couldn't agree more with Brendan Gallagher’s suggestion that we must stop indulging the All Blacks and their haka. He missed...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHarlequins sign former 7s Player of the Year Rodrigo Isgro
Harlequins have announced the signing of 25-year-old Argentinian winger Rodrigo Isgro ahead of the 2024-25 season.
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/ 2 years agoLousy law changes are killing the game
WORLD Rugby’s strategy to attract a new, younger, bigger audience to rugby union rests on a totally bankrupt plan currently being...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoToo much of a good thing can be overkill
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED "People might think it’s arrogant,” said Rian Oberholzer, the chief executive of the Springbok domain, just the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoNucifora shows the way forward
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Master: David Nucifora will start work with Scotland in December PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoHard to pin the blame on unions
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME AS IF things in the game aren’t bad enough, the BBC’s Rugby...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoOnce again, the world champs find a way to win
BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE scoreline would suggest a classic for the ages, the exuberant commentary team sounded like they were going to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoCatch this team of nations on camera
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER FLY on the wall sporting documentaries seem to...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoIt’s going to be a thriller – van Graan
By Jon Newcombe Johann van Graan is predicting a Gallagher Premiership 2024/25 season to set pulses racing. Bath’s head of rugby...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoI’m feeling sorry for the Wallabies
AS an England supporter, I used to revel in Australia being beaten, mainly because it was so rare. However, now I’m...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMove to Glasgow suits Schickerling
By Mark Stevens It wasn’t all that long ago that Patrick Schickerling was being ear-marked as a potential England bolter, a...
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoIt’s time to call for three-man scrum
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Uncontested scrums are a blight on the fifteens game, and my solution to...
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Features
/ 2 years agoStick or twist? The choice at 10
Paul Rees looks ahead to New Zealand's heavyweight matches against world champions South Africa The Rugby Championship title could be decided...
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/ 2 years agoEveryone’s on a different journey – so enjoy yours
Steve Hill puts the questions to Fred Pierrepont, below, the head coach at Worthing RFC Why did you get into coaching...
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Features
/ 2 years agoThrowing the ball in straight at the lineout should be a given
IS there anybody out there who can explain to me, preferably in words of two syllables or less, the rationale behind...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBBC will be covering all 32 World Cup games
By PAUL MARTIN On top: WXV champions England are favourotes to lift the World Cup WORLD Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin believes...
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/ 2 years agoSouth American sides facing unfair hurdles
AFTER World Rugby confirmed the qualification process for the 2027 World Cup, frustration among South American nations was tempered only by...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoNo scrums? No problem for Springboks
BRENDAN GALLAGHER LAST week in Brisbane Pieter Steph Du Toit famously asked Luke Pearce: “Where’s the scrum?” when presented with a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoRoad to next World Cup lacks jeopardy
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points UNLESS I’ve missed something pertinent – and it’s...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoI can’t remember a thing after I was kicked in head
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME AS WE all take a break for the summer and thoughts of...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoLETTER: World Rugby made the game too complicated, attritional
This is a follow on from Raymond Howell’s letter in last weekend’s Rugby Paper about rugby's loss of wide appeal.
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoItoje has chance to captain the Lions
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THERE will be a special edge to the coming season because of the 2025...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoSpringboks open box of tricks as they leave Wallabies at the gate
By PAUL REES Australia.............................. 7pts Tries: Paisami 76 Conversions: Lynagh 77 South Africa .................... 33pts Tries: Kolisi 10, du Toit 24,...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoCreevy & Co show England how it’s done
BRENDAN GALLAGHER ANEW Pumas generation is beginning to flex their muscles, but it was the veteran Gus Creevy, 40 next birthday,...
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Features
/ 2 years agoAttack is becoming the new defence…
PAUL REES LOOKS AT HOW LAWMAKERS ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE GAME FASTER -AND CREATE MORE SPACE ON THE PITCH Class...
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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