All posts tagged "My Life in Rugby"
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Tony Diprose – former England Quins and Saracens No.8
Standing in front of nearly 30,000 Australians and having to speak after we had just lost 76-0 was a hugely tough...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Lewis Moody – former Leicester, Bath, England and Lions flanker
Sitting on the bench in the World Cup final in 2003 I found myself for the first time ever starting to...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy life in rugby: Gordon Ross – London Welsh and former Scotland, Leeds and Edinburgh fly-half
I’m not sure what the fat kid who started out in professional rugby would have made of the game as it...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Richard Birkett – former Wasps lock
I spent most of my Wasps career hitting every ruck in sight so that Simon Shaw could stand out on the...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Harry Ellis – former Leicester and England scrum-half
I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, not even England in the final – being...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Mark Taylor – former Wales and Ospreys centre
Whenever I get asked about my rugby career, scoring the first try at the Millennium Stadium is the first thing everyone...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Nigel Redman – former Bath, England and Lions lock
Getting called up to the Lions squad in 1997 and then leading the side in the game against Orange Free State...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Budge Pountney – former Northampton and Scotland back row
When Northampton won the Heineken Cup in 2000 you won’t see a single picture of me and Alan Bateman at the...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Marco Bortolami – Zebre, Italy and former Gloucester lock
Watching my Gloucester teammates lose the 2007 Premiership final while I sat on the sidelines helpless is one of the toughest...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Sean Long – Preston fly-half and Rugby League legend
I had a meeting with Clive Woodward in 2002 at Manchester Airport, he wanted me to switch from rugby league to...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Neil Calrk – Exeter and former Bristol hooker
Getting promoted with Bristol was special but there was no comparison when I went up with Exeter three years ago. Exeter...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Nicky Little – former Fiji, Saracens, Sale and Bath fly-half
When I was playing for Fiji we always felt it was better to be involved in a game where both sides...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Matt Perry – former Bath, England and Lions full-back
I squeezed every last drop out of my body for England which is probably why I played my last international match...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Tom Voyce – former Wasps, Gloucester and England wing
I played a lot of finals at Wasps but the game that I remember most vividly was when we beat Munster...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Duncan Bell – Lydney player/coach and former Bath and England prop
I have never been the best of losers and was always a bit sulky after a defeat but I don’t think...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Kris Chesney – Esher player/coach
No trophies from my 14 seasons with Saracens is a pretty meagre return and it was hugely frustrating because we often...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Martin Haag Nottingham head-coach
Being part of the first English team to win the European Cup was an incredible feeling – especially up against a...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Dave Hilton – former Scotland, Bristol, Bath and Glasgow prop
The day I was banned for playing for Scotland after five years in the team was one of the hardest of...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ian Smith – Former Leicester coach and captain
Soon after I became the first head coach of Leicester in the pro era, I sneaked into Welford Road and walked...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: John Gallagher – 1987 New Zealand world cup winning full-back
Despite what Brian Moore and Jonathan Davies might have said at the time, the New Zealand team that won the 1987 World...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Thom Evans – Former Scotland, Glasgow and Wasps wing
Everything was going so well in my rugby career but all that ended when I broke my neck against Wales in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: David Flatman – Bath and England prop
When I was at Saracens I was ten times more scared of going to training than I was of playing –...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ollie Smith – former Leicester, England and Lions centre
Making the British and Irish Lions tour in 2005 was an achievement I couldn’t really comprehend. The squad was announced on...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Brett Davey – Doncaster Director of Rugby
Slotting the last-minute penalty to win the Principality Cup Final in 2002 was nerve-wracking but it was incredible to seal a...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jon Pendlebury – former Leeds, Gloucester and Rotherham lock
As a 20-year-old lad who had only been playing rugby for four years, it was a dream come true when I...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Heino Senekal – former Blues, Pirates and Namibia lock
Playing for Namibia in three consecutive World Cups from 1999 to 2007 was without a doubt the biggest achievement of my...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andy Titterrell – former Lions, England, Sale, Gloucester and Leeds hooker
Sale became the first team to finish top of the league and win the Premiership final in 2006 and we could...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Peter Short – former England Saxons and Exeter lock
Bath felt like champions the day we beat Tigers Winning away at Leicester in the Heineken Cup quarter-final with Bath in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 13 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Catherine Spencer – former England women’s captain
I was half-way out the door to go training when England coach Gary Street asked me to captain my country. He...
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