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/ 6 years agoKamikaze kids can nail champs
NICK CAIN FINDS REASONS TO BE HOPEFUL BEFORE ENGLAND’S MOMENTOUS MATCH WITH NEW ZEALAND Close call: Sam Underhill’s stunning try was...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoDiamond: We won’t let playoff place slip by again
NEWS EXTRA By GARY FITZGERALD STEVE Diamond is convinced Sale have the player power to mount a serious push for the...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoNo targets for us say Gloucester, just be best
Boss: Johan Ackermann VICTORIOUS Gloucester boss Johan Ackermann refused to set any targets for the season after his men saw off...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWe showed fight roars triumphant Ackermann
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL JOHAN Ackermann and his players celebrated like wild men after a dramatic finale saw Gloucester open their Premiership...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoIbitoye makes the magic we like says Gustard
TWO-TRY winger Gabriel Ibitoye was described as “a special talent” by Harlequins director of rugby Paul Gustard. “He’s been working hard...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoQuins flair crushed by the boot of Simmonds
By MIKE SINCLAIR NOT many teams outscore Exeter for tries at Sandy Park – but Harlequins still took home only a...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoLawday: Quins is a better fit for me
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY AMBITIOUS No.8 Tom Lawday has revealed how silver-tongued Harlequins boss Paul Gustard persuaded him to complete...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoSpencer: Sarries are best club to push my case
NEWS EXTRA BEN Spencer is on a mission to prove Eddie Jones wrong for leaving him at home watching the World...
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Premiership
/ 6 years ago‘It’s your job to land kicks…you just get on with it’
JAMES Grayson believes Northampton made a big statement by defeating champions Saracens in their opening game of the season to end...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoGrayson shows nerves of steel to sink Sarries
By GARY FITZGERALD CHRIS Boyd saluted young James Grayson after the fly-half kept ice cool to ensure Saints left Allianz Park...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJapan should join the Rugby Championship
COLIN BOAG Even as a Scot I was applauding Japan by the end of the match, but I do wonder whether...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoUnfair endurance test
THE date of the Bill Beaumont Cup final is linked with the England XV v Barbarians game on June 21. This...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTyphoon Hagibis put RWC in perspective
AROUND40 people lost their lives due to Typhoon Hagibis; thousands more lost their homes or suffered unbearable disruption. The cancellation of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoOur beautiful game has become ugly
BEFORE a player is very seriously hurt there have to be some difficult decisions and changes to the game, once beautiful...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAct now to save us from elitist rulers
IT’S time to get rid of the elitist segregationists approach to international rugby if there is a genuine desire to grow...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoBorthwick in under Murphy
LEICESTER Tigers will be waiting for England’s World Cup campaign to finish so they can finalise a reshuffle of their coaching...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoSaints are keen on Dombrandt
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler NORTHAMPTON Saints are leading the chase for Harlequins back row Alex Dombrandt as they...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoSaracens offer more to Malins
SARACENS have made an increased offer to highlyrated fly-half Max Malins to keep him at the club next season. Exeter Chiefs...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoRebirth of Hiroshima ignored by RWC
PETER JACKSON IN JAPAN They began queuing in the rain at the Peace Memorial Park first thing on Friday morning, global...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoTonga reel in Eagles to break their duck
TONGA came from behind to beat the United States in their final Pool C game and earn their first win at...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoYoung guns set to bump off the old guard
Tom Bradshaw says the Scots let themselves down on and off the field Half-an-hour into their defeat in Yokohama, there came...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoScottish fans call for Townsend head but he’ll get Six Nations
By NICK CAIN at Yokohama Stadium Irrepressible: Keita Inagaki evades Stuart Hogg to score Japan’s third try THE knee-jerk reaction after...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoJapan players will be humble even if they beat the Boks
By TOM BRADSHAW NEVERMIND the so-called Miracle of Brighton in 2015, when Japan stunned South Africa with their lastminute 34-32 win,...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWe’re a very different team from four years ago warns Pollard
By ADAM HATHAWAY History men: Japan beat South Africa in Brighton in 2015 SOUTH African fly-half Handre Pollard has refused to...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoLeitch is new hero for man in sumo suit
Nick Cain looks at the impact Japan’s World Cup giant-killing is having on the whole country THE day after Japan had...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoEddie got ‘bullet train’ game back on track
The term ‘bullet train rugby’ – almost too fast for the eye, direct, unstoppable – beautifully describes Japanese rugby at present....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoRaise a glass to stickler Gardner
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S that time again. Who deserves a jouer de rugby gallant t-shirt this week for their class...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWarburton red card still haunts me today
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND THERE is a picture of me after our 2011 World Cup semi-final defeat by France....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoHuget: My sloppiness killed the mood in Six Nations
YOANN Huget admits the pain of his Six Nations horror show against Wales still hurts as he plans to make amends...
