All posts tagged "Nick Cain"
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: VCs are for our military heroes not rugby lads
An essential part of the well-being of any professional (or amateur) sport is having strong and profitable relationships with commercial and...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to World Cup winner Neil Back about England’s back-row
Neil Back wants to accentuate the positives for England in the week that the 2015 World Cup countdown began in earnest....
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Stephen Myler – the fly-half driving Northampton’s challenge to retain their Championship
Stephen Myler is the Stuart Lancaster’s most experienced fly-half and, on the evidence of the last six months, offers a mix...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Europe’s suddenly got a lot tougher for the Irish
Soon after Brian O’Driscoll had been revealed as the latest jewel in BT Sport’s ever-expanding crown of former international pundits he...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Exeter’s Henry Slade about his outside hopes for the World Cup
How could Henry Slade give up on the dream of winning the 2015 World Cup final for England when the last...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Magician who turned invisible for England
James Simpson-Daniel was one of those players, who, like David Campese and Gerald Davies before him, was touched by the rugby...
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/ 11 years agoYour FREE Season Preview Guide to the Aviva Premiership, Guinness Pro12 & the Greene King IPA Championship
The Rugby Paper, the UK’s leading Rugby publication have produced a FREE guide for the start of the upcoming season. To...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Will Fraser about Saracens’ new challenge in Europe
Will Fraser faces a new start this season, and one of the main yardsticks by which the Saracens No.7 and most...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Let’s draft top young talent each season
What do Dan Cole, Billy Twelvetrees, Tom Youngs and Owen Farrell of the current England squad have in common? The answer...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Glory will always be given to the coach
Coaches or captains? Who should get the glory, who should take the blame and, who should be the visible face of...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Revealed – Referees do turn blind eye to some laws
Refereeing at the elite end is reaching crisis point, and the IRB’s professional referees’ manager, Joel Jutge, needs to get a...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain meets the fully-fit, revitalised and agreeably confident Christian Wade
Christian Wade knows it’s all about being in the right place at the right time. It is the golden rule of...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Sorry Clive, coaches should stay off the pitch
The cult of the coach gathered momentum this week when Sir Clive Woodward stepped into the debate on Alastair Cook’s cricket...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain meets Newcastle’s Kieran Brookes, making a world cup bid at tighthead
Kieran Brookes is a bull of a man, with the same look and physique as a young Phil Vickery. The Newcastle...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Joe Lydon and Mike Friday about the GB challenge in the Rio Olympics Sevens
Joe Lydon and Mike Friday used to share the same vision of Sevens when they worked together at the RFU from...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Clubs must tune into needs of their fans
One of the most noticeable aspects of watching rugby in the Southern Hemisphere over the course of the summer has been...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Nick Cain talks to Mike Tindall about THAT night in Queenstown and England’s Future
Mike Tindall was the recipient this week of one of the most striking eulogies given by Sir Clive Woodward to a...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Pennell breaks Tier Two Test taboo
Chris Pennell can be selected in the next England elite squad (EPS), despite playing in the Championship for Worcester. Stuart Lancaster‘s...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Nothing small about Justin, especially his ambitions
Justin Burnell would be hard to beat if there was a prize for the greatest comeback of last season. There is...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: IRB’s lack of Sevens’ plan could spell chaos
Bernard Lapasset has been waxing lyrical about the fantastic growth in the popularity of Sevens this week. That this popularity has...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: it’s time for Stuart Lancaster to decide on his style of forward play
The heat has been turned up following England’s blackwash in New Zealand with the All Blacks and their cheerleaders in the...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Aussie man-mountain can Eclipse England
The Aussies are more inventive than most when it come to nick-names, and the one in the news most Down Under...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: At least one England team has belief to beat the world
Character. It’s a hard one to define on a big sporting occasion, but what we do know is that where Nick...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain gives his verdict on England’s losing tour to New Zealand
If England are sick of coming second, and return home determined to do a clean sweep in the autumn of their...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Courtney Lawes about England’s welcome strength in depth
Courtney Lawes on the bench? If ever there was a register of the growing confidence and depth of the England squad...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Top 14 cash could tear apart the All Blacks
The suggestion that Aaron Smith, the New Zealand scrum-half, has been sounded out by Toulouse about joining the French club after...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to England full-back Mike Brown about his remarkable transformation
Mike Brown is England‘s torch-bearer, but one with a difference. He is the man at the back, rather than the front,...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Bravo London Welsh, now give them level playing field
London Welsh‘s against-the-odds victory in the Championship final, beating runaway league leaders Bristol by a healthy 48-28 aggregate margin over two...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Surely Steffon Armitage warrants exceptional treatment
Steffon Armitage’s omission from the England squad for the tour of New Zealand raises an interesting question. If, before the 2019...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain looks ahead to England’s opening test in New Zealand on Saturday
,Freddie Burns is a big fan of the endurance magician David Blaine. Blaine has found fame and fortune as a modern...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Rob Baxter about the Heineken Cup final
Rob Baxter is in the unique position for an English coach of having done the surgery on the victims-in-common of Heineken...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Good to see Danny Cipriani back – now it’s all up to him
Danny Cipriani has been thrown a lifeline by Stuart Lancaster, but it remains to be seen whether it is long enough...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain picks his Premiership Dream Team
Selecting a Team of the Season is always a subjective business, and although statistics tell part of the story, they can...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain discovers what England can expect in New Zealand
Jimmy Cowan has such an intimate knowledge of the workings of All Blacks that it’s surprising Steve Hansen hasn’t had him...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Malakai Fekitoa case shows IRB are letting down world game
New Zealand protests that they do not poach from the Pacific Islands should always be taken with a block of salt,...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to three great English Lions to gather their views about the England back-row
Back-row expertise does not come with better credentials than that offered by Roger Uttley, Mike Teague and Peter Winterbottom. The trio...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: I tell you straight, this refs’ dereliction harms game
The middle line has been crossed. Infringements at the lineout and scrum are now so endemic that it leaves you wondering...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Fizzing George Ford ready for next step with club and country
George Ford has come of age. Finally. It has been a long time coming because Ford has been lumbered with the...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Gareth Anscombe approach proves Warren Gatland’s faith is dwindling
The news that 22-year-old New Zealand fly-half Gareth Anscombe is being lined up to play for Wales by Warren Gatland comes...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Brad Barritt about Saracens and England
Brad Barritt is not going to see the England No.12 jersey handed over to Billy Twelvetrees, Luther Burrell, Kyle Eastmond, or...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Game’s flashpoints stem from inconsistent refereeing
Empathy. Consistency. Clarity. Accuracy. All those crucial factors were missing for large tracts of the officiating in the Wild West Premiership...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Joe Launchbury about Wasps’ late season challenges and his advancement with England
Joe Launchbury does not conform to the old school second row stereotype. His face doesn’t look as if it’s been flirting...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Here’s how All Blacks Test could have moved
There are times when it is blatantly obvious that the standards of excellence now demanded of England’s professional rugby players are...
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/ 11 years agoRFU fail in bid to get All Blacks Test switch
Concerted attempts by the RFU to change the Test schedule for England’s summer tour of New Zealand in June have failed.
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain talks to Saracens lock George Kruis
George Kruis believes that Saracens have an edge when it comes to the business end of the season because they know...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Wembley bonanaza shows the way ahead
If anyone had had the temerity to suggest 20 years ago that a game between Saracens and Harlequins would set a...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Yes, BOD was great, but not the greatest
That Brian O’Driscoll is one of the great players is undisputed. However, justice was done when Mike Brown won the 2014...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 11 years agoNick Cain picks his new Lions team from the evidence of the Six Nations championship
Selecting a 2014 Lions side confirms more than anything just how long a year in rugby can be. If the Lions...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: Is it coincidence that scrums become messy with Gethin Jenkins?
Well, well, well, what’s going on? The long held view that the front row is made up of men who are...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Yes, they’re good – but England are a way off being great
If England can make the same progress over the next 18 months that they have made in the last year then...
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