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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoCup rugby needs an injection of jeopardy
CHRIS HEWETT The Heineken Cup, as we knew and loved it when Friday nights at Sardis Road and Saturday afternoons at...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoRooster swoop is ruffling feathers
CHRIS HEWETT RELATIONS between the two rugby codes in faraway Australia are never especially cordial, so the decision of the new...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIt’s time to get back to shifting the piano
CHRIS HEWETT Not long after helping the All Blacks to victory over the Lions in 1993, the formidable wing John Kirwan...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoGood, but Hogg not quite top of the list
CHRIS HEWETT WHAT are we to make of the Strange Case of Stuart Hogg? The scorer of more international tries than...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoGeorgians to be left out in the cold again
CHRIS HEWETT You have to hand it to our lords and masters at World Rugby, the non-governing governing body: they never...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoUnfair on Steward – and on ref Peyper
CHRIS HEWETT The trouble with the refereeing profession? Ninety-eight per cent of its members give the rest a bad name. Okay,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoForgotten men who deserve a mention
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The story goes like this: Richard Hill, the best England player no one ever talked about and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoI’d love to see South Seas take on Lions
CHRIS HEWETT MAYBE, just maybe, there is life in the old Lion yet, thanks to the Australians. Which must be quite...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWe need to see the big guns on parade
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST There have been bigger crowds on the summit ridge of Mount Everest than we usually see at...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoGiving a cap for so little action is an insult
CHRIS HEWETT Warren Gatland was an All Black hooker plenty of times over, but he never won a Test cap because...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSo, tell me, who is the dopiest one of all?
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It is a fact well known to all of us: try as we might, we can’t fix...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSeeing the appeal in land of the rising sums
CHRIS HEWETT It seems there are two ways of ending up in Japan unexpectedly. The first involves taking a flight from...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSale’s human bowling ball is a very lucky man
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Act in haste, repent at leisure. We’ve all heard the line a thousand times, but you can’t...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSongs that are out of tune with the modern world
Missing it yet? You must be: the anti-woke warriors tell us you are, so no further proof is required. When it...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTime to change rules about the driving maul
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST As a rule of thumb, rugby folk do not pick an intellectual fight with the great New...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoKing of the team sports? Not from where I’m sitting
CHRIS HEWETT Later this year, when the French go tete-a-tete with the All Blacks in the opening fixture of the glitziest...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoParisse, a tower of strength at No.8
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It stank to high heaven at the time, as sins against sporting justice always do, and the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy Coles deserves place at top table
CHRIS HEWETT ON the subject of retirements, the All Blacks hooker Dane Coles says he will call it quits after this...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoAbout time to turn the pointless clock back
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rising high: Saints win lineout ball against Leicester PICTURES: Getty Images Stop the clock, now and for...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoAnd the award for starting too early goes to…
CHRIS HEWETT Four rounds of knockout rugby and 109 days early, there it was: the longlist for the European Professional Club...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoPride and prejudice central to Eddie’s tale
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST JANE Austen lived in Bath, amid the same Georgian splendour as a certain Bruce Craig, albeit not...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy Joe deserves a decent break
CHRIS HEWETT “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.” These words, or something like them,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years ago15 sparklers shining out of a tough year for rugby
CHRIS HEWETT Bernard Laporte, Wasps and Worcester, the online victimisation of Wayne Barnes, the financial trials of the English Premiership, the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoBilly’s the kid when it comes to resistance
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMN Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings,” says the doctor to his patient, “but you have...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoAu revoir! French not captivated by Europe
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST ENGLAND’S elite clubs barely saw the French for dust in the early years of the European Challenge...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoCowards who hide on the internet
CHRIS HEWETT It would be inaccurate to say that the Pau coach Sebastien Piqueronies’ manhandling of the Scottish referee Sam Grove-White...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoAll set for another round of Warrenball
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST SHOULD the Twickenham top brass ever try to recruit a head coach from the local job centre...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoYet again, France show us the way
CHRIS HEWETT WORCESTER have now accepted the inevitable: they must start next season in the second tier of English rugby after...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoEngland heading for hit and hope land
CHRIS HEWETT Form is temporary, class is permanent”. Who says? Not Mike Tindall. The World Cup-winning centre’s form may have been...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoPriceless! Doddie was worth every penny
CHRIS HEWETT Reflecting on the rugby life and times of dear Doddie Weir in last week’s paper, Brendan Gallagher made reference...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy the South Seas need to feel the love
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST When Western Samoa surprised Wales by beating them in Cardiff during the pool stage of the 1991...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIt’s time to look at the line-out drive
It was interesting to hear Graham Henry, the venerable New Zealand coach who ended almost a quarter of a century of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoOne-sided games do no favours for anyone
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST DEVOTEES of the union game have spent decades laughing at the idea of the “other code” staging...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoFailing to select a kicker is a major sin
CHRIS HEWETT BACK in the day, rugby had its own version of the Seven Deadly Sins: biting, gouging, bag-snatching, head-stamping, shaving...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoClass act! Beware the ‘fame first’ approach
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST PICTURE the scene: we are in the final week of the 1997 Lions tour and the world...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIt’s time for Eagles to prove their worth
CHRIS HEWETT ANYONE puzzled by a strange squeaking sound drifting in on a soft breeze from Dubai should know the following:...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhat was that again? Big Dave has trouble with his articulation
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It is a well-known fact in literary circles that TS Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, first...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoDon’t lose rugby in some tiny corner of cyberspace
CHRIS HEWETT Jeff Bezos is some piece of work. One of a tiny handful of people who can legitimately argue that...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy Ford mustn’t be forgotten by England
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The art of forgetting is as fundamental to rugby as the immeasurably finer art of goal-kicking in...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhich side will you back in this inquisition?
CHRIS HEWETT The two organisations at the heart of what is left of the professional club structure in England – the Rugby...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoHow one coach cut through the silence
Saracens coach Joe Shaw back in his playing days at Newcastle in 2003 CHRIS HEWETT English club rugby at the top...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoWhy it’s time to prioritise the players
CHRIS HEWETT SO what does Jack Willis do now? And what control can Eddie Jones, the England coach, and his employers...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoOne-sided victories no good for anyone
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST THE basic mix of marketing ingredients for sporting World Cups is one part exaggeration to three parts...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSorry, Rob, but rugby can’t afford higher cap
CHRIS HEWETT It’s not easy to argue with a man like Rob Baxter, the honest-to-goodness, soil-under-the-fingernails West Countryman whose work with...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoCole shows us how to survive life at the front
CHRIS HEWETT Welcome to the age of the anti-scrum. We wait whole half-hours for a set-piece only to find none coming...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIncreasing salary cap a risk not worth taking
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Where's daddy gone?” asks the six-yearold boy. “To a Premier Rugby board meeting,” his mother replies. “What’s...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoOne old competition which has had its day
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Younger readers may be surprised to learn that back in the days when dinosaurs were roaming the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoVakatawa highlights a serious problem
CHRIS HEWETT The desperate news surrounding Virimi Vakatawa – a proper centre on his day and plenty good enough for most...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoChaos theory can lead us to the high ground
CHRIS HEWETT They were all present for the Premiership launch at Twickenham, but they were not all correct. In a tell-tale photograph,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoThe eyes have it for warrior Etzebeth
CHRIS HEWETT Stanley Kubrick would have loved him. Eben Etzebeth, that is. If the great movie director were still with us,...
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