All posts tagged "Newcastle"
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 months agoJennings looking for new challenge
By JON NEWCOMBE Still only 28, Rory Jennings is seeking the seventh full-time contract of his nomadic career after being released...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 months agoCalcutta Cup win the highlight of my career
MY LIFE IN RUGBY Scott Steele - Former Scotland, Leicester, London Irish Harlequins & Edinburgh Scrum-Half I was sat on a...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 months agoResting players for big games isn’t on
JEFF PROBYN - A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It was just a couple of weeks ago that certain people...
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News Extra
/ 12 months agoFalcons bring in Sale centre
NEWS EXTRA Newcastle have signed Connor Doherty on loan for next season from Sale Sharks. The 23-year-old centre, who has signed...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoYoung gun Baxter headlines Premiership Team of the Season
By Ben Jaycock Tyro Harlequins prop Fin Baxter is the headline selection in Premiership Rugby’s 2023/24 team of the season which...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoSlade awarded Premiership Player of the Season
By BEN JAYCOCK Exeter Chiefs and England star Henry Slade has picked up the 2023/24 Premiership Rugby Player of the Season...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 year agoLudlow’s up for the Sharks challenge
By BEN JAYCOCK Despite suffering a 14-try whitewash last weekend and finishing second bottom in the Premiership for a second straight...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoUzokwe: Championship has got tougher to win
By BEN JAYCOCK Despite not getting the chance to secure promotion to the Premiership, back rower Simon Uzokwe says Ealing Trailfinders’...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoFalcons’ misery but hosts restore pride
By PAUL REES Gloucester ....................... 54pts Tries: Mercer 10, Harris 18, C Atkinson 20, Thorley 31, Blake 42, May 48, Hearle...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoMay: My focus is only on cup final
Jonny May made sure his final appearance at Kingsholm ended on a high and is relishing his last appearance for Gloucester...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoDiamond’s rough support loses sparkle
By NICK CAIN What makes this season even more of a travesty is that Steve Diamond, Newcastle’s consultant rugby director, who...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoTop flight losing its soul, and integrity
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK GLOUCESTER’S 90-0 capitulation to Northampton at Franklin’s Gardens last weekend reflected all that...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoBest I’ve felt for six years – Roux
By JON NEWCOMBE Quinn Roux is feeling in the best shape of his life but the former Ireland international admits it’ll...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoToo many coaches taking liberties in selection
It should not be difficult to distinguish between a Premiership rugby match and a game of county cricket: one, full of...
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Features
/ 1 year ago‘We have to manage load’
PAUL REES EXAMINES THE FALLOUT FROM GLOUCESTER’S 90-0 HIDING BY NORTHAMPTON SAINTS George Skivington has had better weeks. He knew his...
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Features
/ 1 year agoDean seeks platform
Ross Heppenstall finds out what Dean Richards has been up to since stepping down as Newcastle Falcons boss for more success...
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Premiership
/ 1 year ago‘Privilege to play in Jonny’s 10 jersey’
By LUKE JARMYN Achieving his boyhood dream of replicating the highs of Jonny Wilkinson in Newcastle’s No.10 shirt has led to...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoNewcastle flyer signs for Cardiff
CARDIFF have signed Wales-qualified wing Iwan Stephens from Newcastle. Stephens, 22, is the son of former Llanelli and Wales fly-half Colin...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoI’m still supporter of relegation – Diamond
By PAUL REES Newcastle may be adrift at the bottom of the Premiership but Steve Diamond remains an advocate for promotion...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoI want to win title before I leave Bristol – Luatua
By PAUL REES Few overseas signings have had a more lasting impact in the Premiership than Steve Luatua who looks like...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 1 year agoDream Team with Alex Loney
The former Leicester, Nottingham, Avignon, Rotherham and Fylde hooker, now head coach of Fylde & Lancashire, chooses the best XV he...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoRussell masterclass has Bath in top gear
By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle......................... 17pts Tries: Blamire 30, 40+2, Stuart 63 Conversions: Connon 64 Bath .................................... 28pts Tries: du Toit 4,...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoDiamond calls for 80-minute showing
NEWCASTLE boss Steve Diamond told his players and staff “to stop feeling sorry for themselves” after Falcons’ suffered a 20th league...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 year agoTbilisi win was key – Skivington
By JON NEWCOMBE George Skivington has credited the European Challenge Cup win against Black Lion in Tbilisi as the moment Gloucester...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoPower of the four musketeers
A common theme of last weekend’s Champions Cup semi-finals was the influence of the four scrum-halves, the catalysts of teams that...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoCoventry denied by powerful Pirates
By MIKE SINCLAIR Cornish Pirates ............ 22pts Tries: Hocking 69, Johnson 79 Coventry ..........................12pts Penalties: Tries: Houston 15, 18, 22, 51...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 12/05/24
The Premiership returns with every team in the top seven heading into this weekend still having a chance of clinching a home semi-final,...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoFord loving dramatic end to the season
By PAUL EDDISON George Ford is relishing the ‘do-or-die’ nature of the Gallagher Premiership Rugby run-in as his Sale Sharks side...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoSkivington’s banking on experience next time out
By MARK STEVENS George Skivington expects to see significant improvements within his Gloucester squad next season after a campaign he readily...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoFit-again Ewels enjoying new life under Johann
By PAUL REES When Charlie Ewels suffered knee ligament damage on England’s 2022 tour to Australia, his club Bath were at...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoOrlando leaves Falcons
ARGENTINA international Matias Orlando has been released from his Newcastle Falcons contract early. The 32-year-old has been allowed to leave Kingston...
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Dream Team
/ 1 year agoDream Team with Darren Edwards
The former Newport, Saracens, London Irish & Leeds scrum-half, chooses the best XV he has played with or against... 1. Andrew...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoTen selfish Premiership clubs
I FEEL sorry for Newcastle Falcons for not being relegated, which would be good for their future, but more sorry for...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoRoebuck out to impress England
By LUKE JARMYN Sale's Tom Roebuck is a man on a mission as he looks to use the final weeks of...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoRFU’s still killing the dreams of investors
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The RFU’s indecision is final. It does not know what to do about...
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Features
/ 1 year agoWithout referees, there is no game
Paul Rees looks at the pressures on the men and women in the middle and asks what can be done to...
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Features
/ 1 year agoUniversity pathway to top of the game
By WILLIAM GUPWELL Being named in an England Students squad is among the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoThe ringfence which is encouraging open play
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME THERE have been a few articles written about how the Premiership has...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoWorboys: I’m aiming to be first-choice 10 at Ealing
By BEN JAYCOCK George Worboys endured ‘the most testing five years of his life’ at Bath but is looking forward to...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoI’ll never stop looking for hidden gems – Lam
By PAUL REES Pat Lam says he will never stop plundering the rugby mine of the Championship and the leagues below...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoLeicester in discussions to hire new attack coach
By PAUL REES Dan McKellar has told Leicester fans to buckle up for the ride next season as the club closes...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoFalcons face battle to break their duck
By PAUL REES Time is running out for Newcastle as they seek to avoid joining Rotherham and London Welsh as clubs...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoSharks look to have edge in Diamond derby
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Newcastle Falcons v Sale Sharks Today. Kick-off 3pm, Kingston Park SALE boss Alex Sanderson has thanked Steve...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoThe boys down west who know how to win
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED The way they see it down Exeter way, only one team is flying the flag for the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoThe day Sir John picked up the bill
Steve Diamond always had a way with words – some of his stories concerning Danny Cipriani during the wayward outside-half ’s...
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National League One
/ 1 year agoBalding casts admiring look at Chinnor as a benchmark
By BEN JAYCOCK Birmingham Moseley director of rugby Adam Balding has tipped his hat to National One winners Chinnor after his...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 1 year agoHonours for Narberth & Bargoed
Championship round-up NARBERTH and Bargoed are champions of Championship West and East respectively after their victories yesterday. Centre Hedd Nicholas scored...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSharks battle past Quins to keep play-off hopes alive
Sale Sharks…………………………37 Tries: Curry 3, Dugdale 7, Reed 40+2, 64; Quirke 59 Conversions: Ford 4, 40+4 Penalties: Ford 16, 44 Harlequins………………………….31...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoMalins keen to get back into England contention
By PAUL REES Max Malins will use the closing weeks of the season to give the England selectors a nudge ahead...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoSorrell pleased to see English clubs stand up
By BEN JAYCOCK Despite their fierce London rivalry with Harlequins, Saracens backs coach Kevin Sorrell is pleased two Premiership sides reached...
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