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Cain column: Earn your wedge, Eddie by enthusing Joe Marler to carry on

7 April 2020 0 comments

Eddie Jones will have to make it a priority to keep Joe Marler around

Rugby Matters: Kenny’s challenge taught me when to fold ’em!

2 April 2020 0 comments

You’re a rugby writer in a Paris hotel room at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and you call Kenny Rogers…

Kenny’s challenge taught me when to fold ‘em!

29 March 2020 0 comments

THE death of Kenny Rogers earlier this week may have gone somewhat unnoticed in rugby circles but your columnist fondly recalls the legendary country and […]

Harrington column: Philippe Saint-Andre calls for cup shootout to decide title

26 March 2020 0 comments

James Harrington points out the three options open to the Top 14 and Pro D2

U20 World Championship in Italy set to be scrapped by World Rugby

19 March 2020 0 comments

France’s defence of their 2019 title to be put on hold – reports

Rude welcome awaits

1 March 2020 0 comments

IN THE wake of RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney’s announcement to slash funding to the Championship and across the 2000+ clubs of the Community game, […]

MATT SMITH

1 March 2020 2 comments

MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER LEICESTER AND NOTTINGHAM CENTRE/WINGER I REMEMBER Martin Corry saying to me during my first few games for Tigers to […]

Williams verdict: Shaun Edwards is the difference between Wales and France

25 February 2020 0 comments

Shane Williams analyses France’s first win in Cardiff for a decade

Romain holds glory in his gifted hands for France

23 February 2020 0 comments

By NICK CAIN Power: Paul Willemse scores France’s second try ANY lingering doubts that France are on their way back as a formidable force were […]

Italy plot a new shock victory over Russell-less Scotland

21 February 2020 0 comments

Scotland are a team Italy know they can beat, writes Brendan Gallagher

Vincent aims to be in the Paris spotlight

9 February 2020 0 comments

ARTHUR Vincent could lay claim to be the invisible man of the Six Nations, no mean feat given that he appeared before some 81,000 spectators […]

NEWS EXTRA

9 February 2020 2 comments

Bigi tells Azzurri to play with no fear in Paris By GARY FITZGERALD LUCA Bigi arrives in Paris today refusing to contemplate another miserable Six […]

Cain column: Pressure can turn even the best refs into homers

5 February 2020 0 comments

EDDIE Jones has a habit of stirring the pot, and he did it in the build-up to England‘s Six Nations opener against France in Paris, […]

Rugby Matters: New Broom Galthie has the leeway to go for broke with France

23 January 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher writes how a new-found desire to nurture homegrown talent in the Top 14 has allowed Fabien Galthie to rewrite the rhetoric

Kockett hat-trick completes Castres revival as Warriors suffer second half collapse

19 January 2020 0 comments

By ROGER PANTING Match winner: Rory Kockott celebrates his late try CASTRESscrum-half, Rory Kockott, scored 23 points as Worcester crashed out of the Challenge Cup […]

New broom Galthie has the leeway to go for broke

19 January 2020 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Golden generation: Frace win the 2019 Junior World Cup The great thing […]

Ryan dares to hope despite his Dragons’ six-try pasting

12 January 2020 0 comments

By TOM COLEMAN DEAN RYAN is refusing to give up on his side’s European dreams despite being hit for six in France. Castres ran in […]

Leone Nakarawa to rejoin Glasgow Warriors on short-term deal

2 January 2020 0 comments

The former European player of the year had his contract terminated by Racing 92 last month

Lochore brought true style on and off the field

29 December 2019 0 comments

SIR BRIAN LOCHORE (Wairarapa-Bush and New Zealand) Died August 3, aged 78 ALL BLACKnumber 637. One of the New Zealand greats on and off the […]

Ospreys kids spread their wings in Paris

15 December 2019 1 comment

By ALEX BYWATER Can’t hold him: Racing captain Henry Chavancy breaks a tackle to score TEAMS RACING 92: Zebo 6; Dupichot 7, Vakatawa 7 (Klemenczak […]

YOUNG GUNS

1 December 2019 0 comments

NEALE HARVEY THIBAUD FLAMENT WASPS FLANKER/LOCK At 22, Thibaud Flament would not normally fall into young gun territory. However, the story behind his rise into […]

Warriors fall to Castres power at breakdown

24 November 2019 0 comments

By TIM LEWIS Held: No way through for Geoffrey Palis of Castres WORCESTER came up short in France as they were outmuscled by a strong […]

Basham rises to challenge as Dragons ease to victory

17 November 2019 1 comment

By ROB COLE Future star: Taine Basham of Dragons scores his third try PICTURES: Huw Evans TAINE Basham couldn’t have picked a better time to […]

Sarries’ new double bid

17 November 2019 3 comments

IF IT is at all humanly possible, Saracens will be even more highly motivated than usual when they open their defence of the Champions’ Cup […]

Heyneke’s finito/kaput in any language

17 November 2019 0 comments

EIGHT days ago, after Stade Francais had been beaten for the seventh time in nine matches, the club’s German owner, Hans-Peter Wild, gave head coach […]

Joe Schmidt takes shot at Agustin Pichot after World Rugby vice-chairman makes Devin Toner comment

3 September 2019 0 comments

Pichot questioned the inclusion of Jean Kleyn over Devin Toner in Ireland’s World Cup squad

All Blacks great Dan Carter reveals next career move

11 June 2019 0 comments

Dan Carter is currently playing in Japan for Kobe Kobelco Steelers

Eddie has 60 days to drill the faults out of England

12 May 2019 0 comments

EDDIE Jones has secured more pre-World Cup training/ playing access to his England squad than any national coach before him, and given his side’s undulations […]

Jackson column: Shaun Edwards will always be one of Wales’ own

8 May 2019 0 comments

A strange timeline of events and the outcome of Wales’ World Cup won’t impact regard for Edwards

Wales wait on French verdict from Edwards

28 April 2019 1 comment

By ALEX BYWATER SHAUN Edwards will this week decide between a firm offer to join France or the option of staying with Wales. Wales defence […]

Never on Sunday please, for sake of the fans

31 March 2019 1 comment

THE 20,000 empty seats at the Stade de France for the host nation’s opening game of the 2019 Six Nations against Wales has hopefully put […]

French test to kick off next year’s Six Nations

24 March 2019 2 comments

ENGLANDwill begin their next quest for Six Nations glory against France in Paris on Sunday, February 2. They then travel to Murrayfield six days later […]

Law trials to explore how best to reduce collisions

24 March 2019 1 comment

WORLD Rugby are examining a series of significant law changes to be tested in closed trials after this autumn’s World Cup. A three-day player welfare […]

Six Nations fixtures announced for 2020 and 2021

20 March 2019 0 comments

There are no Friday matches, but England open their 2020 Test year in Paris on a Sunday

England ‘have found two amazing flankers’

10 February 2019 0 comments

Jon Newcombe talks to Serge Betsen, the great former French flanker about Sunday Destructive: Tom Curry, left, has all the attributes to be a great […]

Wales announce team to take on France in Six Nations

30 January 2019 0 comments

Team news is in…

Edwards: Loss two years ago still hurts

27 January 2019 0 comments

SHAUN Edwards hopes Wales’ Six Nations opener with France will have none of the “shenanigans” which dominated their last trip to Paris. At the Stade […]

THEY SAID WHAT…

30 December 2018 1 comment

Sir Clive Woodward, right, before Ireland’s Grand Slam clincher at Twickenham on March 17: “What with the added expectation of a St Patrick’s Day win, […]

MOST DECORATED SUBSTITUTE:

30 December 2018 0 comments

Sean Cronin (Ireland) During the 11 years when Sir Gareth Edwards never missed a match for Wales, a number of very fine scrum-halves played out […]

Secret of how French rugby stars dodged jail time in Wales

28 December 2018 0 comments

Peter Jackson’s column details the role of a French reporter in securing the release of three France players in Cardiff

Cut the subs to take brute force out of modern tackles

23 December 2018 0 comments

NICK CAIN THE death of Nicholas Chauvin, the 19-year-old Stade Francais U21 flanker, has triggered game-changing shockwaves in French rugby. Chauvin, who suffered a cardiac […]

8 scrum-halves who guided their team to World Cup glory

20 December 2018 0 comments

A who’s who of nines to have lifted the Webb Ellis trophy

Do-or-die time now after Paris improvements

16 December 2018 0 comments

■By NEALE HARVEY HARRY Wells knows it is win or bust for Leicester if they are to keep their Champions Cup hopes alive. Tigers produced […]

Stade Francais teenager Nicolas Chauvin dies after sustaining neck injury in match

13 December 2018 0 comments

Stade Francais are ‘in mourning’ following death of 19-year-old

Bonus point puts Ospreys in pole position in Pool 3

9 December 2018 0 comments

By STEFFAN THOMAS THE OSPREYS moved top of Pool 3 with a six-try bonus point victory over Stade Francais. Cory Allen grabbed a brace with […]

Matavesi: French victory has us all believing

2 December 2018 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY WATCH out Wales, Fiji are coming to get you! That’s the warning from hooker Sam Matavesi after the freshly re-signed […]

Canucks get in gear with five-try win over Coventy

11 November 2018 0 comments

By PAUL SMITH CANADA’S attempt to maintain their record of having qualified for every World Cup faces a test of endurance and nerve over the […]

Chiefs let it slip after Castres are hit by red card

21 October 2018 0 comments

By NICK CAIN Numbers game: Gareth Steenson celebrates after diving on a through ball to score Chiefs’ third try PICTURE: Getty Images Blistering start: Santiago […]

Cornish Pirates hooker Sam Matavesi gets Fiji call-up

16 October 2018 0 comments

Fiji’s 30-man squad to take on Scotland, Uruguay and France next month

Gloucester prepared to live or die by the sword

14 October 2018 1 comment

By NEALE HARVEY Confident: Tom Hudson FULL-BACKTom Hudson promises Gloucester will adopt a rip-roaring approach to their first Champions Cup campaign in five years. The […]

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