All posts tagged "Leinster"
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoFrance set to rock with the best league in the world
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW French flair: La Rochelle may be champions of Europe but they finished fifth...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoChiefs confirm Sio signing
Exeter Chiefs confirmed the signing of Australia loose-head Scott Sio on a “long-term deal”. Sio, 30, has won 71 caps and...
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/ 3 years agoLe Bourgeois out to keep going at Blues
By JON NEWCOMBE Determined: Michael Le Bourgeois in action for Wasps PICTURE: Getty Images MICHAEL Le Bourgeois hopes to be able...
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Features
/ 3 years agoProp McGrath lands at Reds
JERSEY Reds have signed Connacht prop Greg McGrath. The 25-year-old played seven times in the URC for last season and once...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoPRE-SEASON FIXTURES
August 18 Caldy v Birkenhead Park Biarritz v Ealing Trailfinders (8pm) Cinderford v Matson (7.30pm) August 19 Caldy v Sale Sharks...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoMarines help O’Loughlin get in shape for Exeter
By PAUL REES When Rory O’Loughlin met Exeter’s director of rugby Rob Baxter earlier this year to discuss moving from Leinster...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoFranco Smith appointed as new Glasgow boss
Former Italy boss Franco Smith has been appointed Glasgow Warriors head coach on a two-year deal. Smith, 50, joins the URC...
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/ 3 years agoSo unfair that Ireland are on this path of pain
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Ireland have become the green giants of the game after doing what no...
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/ 3 years agoFIXTURES
PRE-SEASON ■ MORE fixtures will be added each week as and when clubs announce their schedules. To any clubs wishing to...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Luke Cozens
LUKE COZENS, THE CLIFTON PLAYER-COACH AND FORMER BATH, HARTPURY & ROUEN FLY-HALF CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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Features
/ 3 years agoTiger Jack has all the attributes of a top 9
NEIL DE KOCK THE FORMER SOUTH AFRICA AND SARACENS SCRUM-HALF From a scrum-half perspective there were some real standout performers for...
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Features
/ 3 years agoEddie has to decide what style he wants
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Now the tours are over, there is a time to rest and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIt’s time we made the players the main event
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The sagacious lexicographer Dr Johnson – we’re talking Samuel here, not Martin – famously caused a ruckus...
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Features
/ 3 years agoTime the laws applied to New Zealand as well
COLIN BOAG It’s quite possible that Saturday’s Test between New Zealand and Ireland will turn out to be hugely significant for...
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/ 3 years agoAll Blacks give Irish a lesson in control
■By JOHN FALLON New Zealand ..42pts Tries: Barrett 21, Reece 30, Tupaea 36, Savea 38, 53, Sowakula 70 Conversions: Barrett 22,...
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/ 3 years agoMuch changed Ireland take on Covid-hit New Zealand
Ireland make 14 changes from the team who lost to the Maori All Blacks, as Cian Healy is passed fit enough...
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/ 3 years agoFour Irishmen join the South African all-stars
By BEN JAYCOCK THE Stormers lifted the inaugural United Rugby Championship as they saw off the Bulls 18-13 in an all-South...
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/ 3 years agoEuropean sides need to rise to the SA challenge
BY NEIL DE KOCK If you had said after the first six weeks of the competition that the Stormers would be...
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Features
/ 3 years agoAu Revoir, Arrivederci, Hywl Fawr, Goodbye…
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At close of business on Friday, 40 Test players boasting a collective stack...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoThompson hoping Scottish summer can re-ignite form after Warriors woes
Glasgow Warriors fly-half Ross Thompson is hoping that Scotland’s tour to South America can re-ignite his early season form, after a...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoLeinster scrum-half Nick McCarthy comes out as gay
Leinster scrum-half Nick McCarthy has come out as gay in an interview with the club’s official website. Former Ireland U20 international...
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/ 3 years agoStormers secure fightback victory
By JOHN FALLON Stormers............18pts Tries: Roos 45, Venter 57 Conversions: Libbok 46 Penalties: Libbok 43 Drop goals: Libbok 74 Bulls ..................13pts...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoFans will turn their backs on the Boks
I HAVE travelled to most overseas games in the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup in the last 14 years to support...
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/ 3 years agoBoks have raised the bar -Cullen
By JOHN FALLON Leinster ............26pts Tries: Sheehan 9, Henshaw 33, O’Loughlin 72, Healy 82 Conversions: Byrne 10, 33, Sexton 82 Bulls....................27pts...
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/ 3 years agoIt’s time to step up or face being left behind
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It’s time for a re-think for the founding nations of the URC feast after the...
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Features
/ 3 years agoGlobal vision for the future takes us into a new dawn
PAUL REES ASSESSES WORLD RUGBY’S PLANS TO MODERNISE THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC GAME The prospect of a global season has always...
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Features
/ 3 years agoWilson axed by Warriors
RUGBY SHORTS DANNY Wilson has been sacked as Glasgow Warriors head coach after a humiliating 76-14 URC quarter-final defeat by Leinster....
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Features
/ 3 years agoMy body tells me to quit, but I just can’t!
MY LIFE IN RUGBY SOANE TONGA’UIHA THE FORMER TONGA, BEDFORD, NORTHAMPTON, RACING 92, OYONNAX, BRISTOL AND AMPTHILL PROP AND CURRENT PLAYER-COACH...
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/ 3 years agoCreation of Welsh regions was a ‘short-term fix that has not worked’, says Eddie Butler
Eddie Butler feels the creation of the Welsh regions was a short-term fix that has not worked for the Welsh game....
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/ 3 years agoEddie beware! This beast holds all the keys
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK IN the last fortnight Eddie Jones and his England squad have had a...
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Features
/ 3 years agoWho’ll be next ace to ‘do a Niniashvili’?
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Is it me or is there suddenly a...
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Features
/ 3 years agoRelegation freeze makes sense in World Cup year
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME There’s actually a reason the Premiership have been paid such a premium...
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/ 3 years agoFormer England flanker Tom Wood announces retirement from rugby
Former England flanker Tom Wood has announced he will retire from professional rugby next month following 12 seasons at Northampton. Wood...
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/ 3 years agoWasps aim to give legend Jimmy a perfect send-off
LEE Blackett has paid tribute to Jimmy Gopperth who this weekend plays his final game for Wasps – against Leicester, the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoTop talent Steward must be managed so carefully
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE only surprise with Freddie Steward winning the double of the RPA England Men’s...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoLa Rochelle keep their cool to rule in Europe
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster..............21pts Penalties: Sexton 5, 8, 22, 40+1, 47, 57 R Byrne 65 La Rochelle ......24pts Tries: Rhule...
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Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoEurope’s elite clubs are facing trip into unknown
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE European Cup final in Marseille was not billed as a watershed moment,...
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/ 3 years agoFixtures
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 URC Play-off Ulster v Munster (7.35pm) Women’s Premier 15s Final Saracens v Exeter (3pm) SATURDAY, JUNE 4 Premiership...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoWorld Cup will be won and lost in the run-up
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Fifteen months out from the 2023 World Cup, the rugby debate in host nation France is getting...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoLeinster are taking Europe to next level
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It is often argued, usually by politicians reneging on a manifesto promise, that “the perfect is the...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoPivac’s wrong on Jac, but I’m sure he’ll be back
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Ihave to confess I couldn’t believe it at first when I heard that Wayne Pivac...
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/ 3 years agoHosts breeze to 1872 Cup win
By BEN JAYCOCK Edinburgh ......28 Glasgow ..........11 DOMINANT Edinburgh took the honours in a winner-takes-all derby against Glasgow Warriors in the...
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/ 3 years agoLarmour shines bright
By KEVIN FALLON Leinster..................35 Munster ................25 A SECOND-STRING Leinster side who were already guaranteed top spot were still too strong for...
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/ 3 years agoEurope’s best too hot for England
NICK CAIN IT took the 2022 European Cup until the quarter-finals before it delivered in terms of the quality and drama...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoEngland rugby still has a long way to go
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME The failure of any of the Premiership teams to make it to...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTigers miss chances as Gibson-Park pulls strings
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ..........14pts Tries: Ashton 46, Dolly 78 Conversions: Ford 46, 78 Leinster ............23pts Tries: Van der Flier 16,...
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/ 3 years agoWe did not stop fighting -Genge
LEICESTER captain Ellis Genge urged his Tigers to regroup quickly in order to continue their successful Premiership campaign. Genge had no...
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/ 3 years agoMax Ojomoh feels Bath will reap rewards of home-grown policy
Bath centre Max Ojomoh feels that Bath will reap the long-term rewards of having a squad made up 50% home-grown players....
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/ 3 years agoBravo to WRU for giving grassroots day in the sun
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND It has been open season on the Welsh Rugby Union recently, and quite rightly in...
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/ 3 years agoLosing bonus secures Leinster’s play-off spot
By KEVIN FALLON Stormers ................20 Leinster ..................13 LEINSTER fell to their second defeat in a row in South Africa but a...
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Skivington playing it smart at Gloucester
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