Scotland v New Zealand teams
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoSaints stun Leinster and sweep into final
By ADAM HATHAWAY in Dublin NORTHAMPTON captain Fraser Dingwall hailed the spirit of his side as they pulled off one of...
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/ 2 hours agoGo with your boy, Dallaglio tells Farrell
By GARY FITZGERALD ANDY Farrell must take a punt on his “Test match animal” son and pass him a ticket to...
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/ 2 hours agoBears aim to cash in on Big Day Out
By PAUL REES Leading the way: Harlequins began the ‘big game’ tradition against Leicester at Twickenham in 2008 BRISTOL host their...
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/ 2 hours agoReview calls for RFU Council to be axed
THE RFU is facing a structural revolution as an independent review has recommended abolishing the RFU Council. The proposed changes could...
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/ 2 hours agoRadwan: I have got to win the fans over
By GARY FITZGERALD Eye on the title: Adam Radwan on the attack for Leicester Tigers PICTURES: Getty Images ADAM Radwan claims...
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/ 2 hours agoCoaching pair join Borthwick
LEE Blackett and Byron McGuigan will join Steve Borthwick’s England coaching team for the summer tour to Argentina and the United...
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/ 2 hours agoDowson: Henry is buzzing for every chance he gets
By ADAM HATHAWAY HENRY Pollock has been smashing it out of the ballpark this season and that has led to calls...
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/ 2 hours agoWe can finish in the top two, says Carpenter
By PAUL REES Ambitious: Joe Carpenter on the attack for Sale PICTURES: Getty Images BATH may have stood above the rest...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoEwels enjoying ‘the most exciting time’ as Bath power on
By JON NEWCOMBE CHARLIE Ewels admits the struggles that Bath had under Stuart Hooper a few seasons ago now feel like...
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Letters
/ 2 hours agoSurely the buck stops with Baxter
AS an Exeter fan I am sorry to see our recent demise and also sorry to see that Rob Hunter has...
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Letters
/ 2 hours agoYou’re right, Jeff, crowd capacity is not a critical factor
JEFF Probyn says promotion to the Premiership should not depend on ground capacity. He is right. If English football adopted the...
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Letters
/ 2 hours agoFranchises are just a form of elitism
I FEEL Bruce Craig (TRP April 27) has got it wrong and a franchise system is just a different route to...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoWade will be a hit at Wigan – Powell
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL ANDY Powell’s time at Wigan Warriors was, by his own admission, no great success but he has backed...
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/ 2 hours agoJones backs Giles for spot on Wales tour
By SIMON THOMAS KEELAN Giles has to be in the shake-up for a place on Wales’ summer tour of Japan according...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 hours agoMaro the right man to bring Lions together
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE ceremonial unveiling of the 2025 Lions squad at the O2 Arena on Thursday...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoFreeman hat-trick ignites stunning Saints
■ By ADAM HATHAWAY Leinster ...........................34pts Tries: O’Brien 17, Van der Flier 25, 58; Doris 58, Lowe 69 Conversions: Prendergast 25,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 hours agoThe best win on the road I’ve seen
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Wonder try: Henry Pollock on his way to scoring for Saints I’VE been reporting on this Heineken Cup, European...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoInjury problems put Toulouse on the back foot
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Bordeaux v Toulouse Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stade Velodrome, Marseille AN injury-plagued Toulouse are up against it today...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoKayser: Gap between Prem and Top 14 is huge
By PAUL REES THE top two sides in the Top 14 meet in today’s Champions Cup semi-final at the Matmut Atlantique...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoAt last! Welcome words reinforce value of jeopardy
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ONE of the few signs of clear-thinking rugby union sanity this week came...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoPollock’s energy could give Lions that extra boost
THE likelihood of any uncapped young “bolters”, that were a feature of Lions squad announcements in the amateur era, has diminished...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoMyopic, hypocritical and self-serving …
THE parallel universe which some of the main movers and shakers in the RFU/ Premiership currently inhabit has revealed itself in...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 hours agoBath’s final push too much for Edinburgh
By ROGER PANTING Edinburgh .......................24 Tries: Tuipulotu 18, Penalty 42, Price 64 Conversions: Thompson 19, 65 Penalty: Thompson 37 Bath .....................................
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Champions Cup
/ 2 hours agoWe are delighted, says Van Graan
BATH boss Johann van Graan was delighted to secure a place in the final at Cardiff ’s Principality Stadium. He said:...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 hours agoFarrell’s chance to impress dad
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Lyon v Racing 92 Today. Kick-off 12.30pm, Matmut Stadium de Gerland Man in charge: Owen Farrell captains...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoHunter leaves Exeter after record defeat
EXETER head coach Rob Hunter has left the club by mutual consent. He and attack coach Ali Hepher were suspended following...
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/ 2 hours agoGloucester to keep chasing
By MARK STEVENS JACK Singleton believes Gloucester are hitting form at just the right time in the race for the play-offs....
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/ 2 hours agoGlasgow’s Mann excited to agree Kingsholm deal
GLOUCESTER have signed back row Jack Mann from Glasgow Warriors from next season. The 25-year-old, who has made 13 appearances for...
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/ 2 hours agoKiss to replace Schmidt ahead of 2027 World Cup
AUSTRALIAN Les Kiss will replace Joe Schmidt as Wallabies head coach in 2026 and will lead the team in their home...
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/ 2 hours agoFly-half de Beer switches from Cardiff to Dragons
DRAGONS have confirmed the signing of South African fly-half Tinus de Beer from Cardiff. The 29-year-old has had limited chances this...
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/ 2 hours agoMurphy to take over at Gloucester-Hartpury
THREE-TIME Premiership Women’s Rugby champions Gloucester-Hartpury have appointed Dan Murphy as their head of rugby for the 2025-26 season. Murphy has...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoDREAM TEAM
JAMIE JACK, THE BEDFORD BLUES & THE FORMER NOTTINGHAM, AMPTHILL, EDINBURGH, LONDON IRISH AND COVENTRY PROP, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 hours agoTrio recalled All Black triumph one final time
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW SHORTLY before Christmas, in the hometown of the Manic Street Preachers, a trio...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 hours agoThe Sheriff’s eying a move into politics
KEN Owens, aka the Sheriff of Carmarthen, is planning to plunge into the whirlpool of politics as a Labour candidate at...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoHere are my 37 to tour with the Lions
BRENDAN GALLAGHER PICKS HIS LIKELY LADS FOR THE SUMMER TRIP TO AUSTRALIA LET the fun begin. Every four years we all...
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/ 2 hours agoGoodman: Joe called me and it changed my life
By ADAM HATHAWAY Well taught: Lions assistant coach Andrew Goodman LIONS assistant coach Andrew Goodman is aiming to bite the hand...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoI never set limits to what I can achieve
Paul Rees talks to Paul Brown-Bampoe about turning his back on banking and his hopes for Exeter next season EXETER have...
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/ 2 hours agoLuatua ready for Bristol’s awayday
By PAUL REES Punching his weight: Bristol flanker Steven Luatua and, inset, Bristol boss Pat Lam PICTURES: Getty Images BRISTOL will...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoMulder looking to push Cardiff in South Africa double header
By SIMON THOMAS Home for home: Cardiff scrum-half Johan Mulder JOHAN Mulder heads back home to South Africa this week having...
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Features
/ 2 hours agoTitle race down to the wire
PAUL REES EXAMINES THE PERMUTATIONS AS T HE PREMIERSHIP AND THE URC BOTH ENTER THE HOME STRAIGHT THE Premiership enters the...
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Features
/ 2 hours agoCardiff set for play-offs but should they be in running?
THE United Rugby Championship has two rounds to go in the regular season before the top eight move into the play-offs....
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoI want to be one of Italy’s best ever
Joe Santamaria talks to Tommaso Menoncello, the 2024 Six Nations Player of the Year, about facing the Springboks Star attraction: Italy...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 hours agoBolters who truly made their mark
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER WHAT exactly do we mean by a Lions...
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Latest News
/ 2 hours agoWhy did such a good side break up so quickly?
FOR the best part of two decades, Exeter Chiefs have been a textbook success story, poster boys for the professional club...
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English Championship
/ 2 hours agoDoncaster take some time to find their feet
By JOHN LYON Caldy ...................................15pts Tries: Hearn 17, Gallagher 60 Conversion: Barker 17 Penalty: Barker 39 Doncaster ......................... 33pts Tries: Bennett...
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English Championship
/ 2 hours agoPirates hold firm to do double over Cov
By DAVID LAWRENCE Coventry ...........14pts Tries: Hutler 38, Green 50 Conversions: Mathews 39, 51 C Pirates ...........21pts Tries: Relton 15, Pritchard...
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English Championship
/ 2 hours agoEaling put Bedford loss behind them -and how!
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......19pts Tries: Caven 48, Hema 69, Green 75 Conversions: Caven 49, 70 Ealing T .............89pts Tries: Willemse...
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English Championship
/ 2 hours agoBrothers link up to make difference for Hartpury
By RHYS ANDERSON Hartpury ...........38pts Tries: H Short 7, Austin 19, Benz-Salomon 42 Smith 49, 76 Conversions: Bazalgette 8, 20, 42,...
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English Championship
/ 2 hours agoNottingham blown away by Chinnor comeback
By JOHN VAUGHAN Chinnor .............41pts Tries: Carter 52, 68; Hughes 56, 61; Chamberlain 71 Conversions: Chamberlain 47, 55, 57, 61, 67...
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English Championship
/ 2 hours agoAdamson delight as he breaks try record
By WILLIAM BULL Bedford .............61pts Tries: Tuilagi 3, A Garside 6, 14, 53; Le Bourgeois 30, Maisey 36, Adamson 45, Herman...
