All posts tagged "Premiership"
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoTime to put an end to marquee players
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARE marquee players, or coaches, worth it, or are they just a Premiership...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoCalling MPs will add to pressure
The decision of Championship clubs to contact their local MPs to ask for Government to mediate in its gridlocked negotiations with...
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National League One
/ 1 year agoNorthampton swoop to sign England U20s fly-half
By BEN JAYCOCK Northampton have signed England U20s fly-half George Makepeace-Cubitt. Having endured the hardship of London Irish folding, the tyro...
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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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Latest News
/ 1 year agoDevoto calls it quits at Exeter
EXETER centre Ollie Devoto will leave the club at the end of the season. The 30-yearold has scored 21 tries in...
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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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My Life in Rugby
/ 1 year agoMine was very much the road less travelled
My Life in Rugby - Mike Ross, the former Ireland, Harlequins and Leinster prop talks about his life in the game...
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 1 year agoYoung Guns: Loughborough prop Eric Nixon
By BEN JAYCOCK Venezuelan-born prop Eric Nixon is hoping to follow in the footsteps of a long list of Millfield School...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoDon’t only blame RFU for lack of confidence
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IT WAS interesting to read last week’s comments by Simon Halliday in...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 1 year agoLlandovery stand firm to take title
By CARL FIELD Llandovery....... 14pts Newport............... 7pts LLANDOVERY made it back-to-back Welsh Premiership titles after edging out Newport in a pulsating...
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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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Premiership
/ 1 year agoChessum out till next season in England and Tigers injury blow
Leicester Tigers lock Ollie Chessum will miss the rest of this domestic season and England‘s summer tour to Japan and New...
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World
/ 1 year agoEx-England stars May and Ribbans set for BaaBaas bows
The Barbarians have confirmed the inclusion of two more England internationals for the Killik Cup clash against Fiji this summer, with...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoCare extends Quins stay into 19th season
Harlequins and former England scrum-half Danny Care has signed a new contract to spend a 19th season at the London club....
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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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Peter Jackson
/ 1 year agoWales will be caught out if Carre steps up
Rhys Carre’s imminent exit from the Arms Park comes at the end of a season when Wales steadfastly ignored him while...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoBlame RFU for lack of confidence – Halliday
By NICK CAIN The Cornish Pirates statement that the future of professional rugby in Cornwall is in jeopardy – citing RFU...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoEight-year PGP deal expected next month
By PAUL REES The ground-breaking new agreement between Twickenham and the Premiership clubs is expected to be announced after next month’s...
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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 agoBrown will miss two matches
LEICESTER full-back Mike Brown has been suspended for two weeks after he swore at match officials following his red card in...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoVunipola warned over behaviour
SARACENS have warned England forward Billy Vunipola about his future conduct after he was arrested in Majorca on Sunday but will...
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Features
/ 1 year agoI’d love to coach at top level, says Biljon
By JON NEWCOMBE It is one of rugby’s cruel ironies that Harvey Biljon, who has transformed the careers of so many...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoQuins have to climb very steep mountain
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WHEN Harlequins face Toulouse this afternoon in their first European Cup semi-final in south-west...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoLeinster made to fight all the way
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster..............................20pts Tries: Lowe 10, 15, 43 Conversion: Byrne 11 Penalty: Byrne 29 Northampton Saints...... 17pts Tries: Hendy 58,...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoIt’ll be tough for us but we’ll meet fire with fire, says Care
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Toulouse vs Harlequins Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stadium de Toulouse WHEN Harlequins went to Bordeaux last month they...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 year agoHotshot Hastings has the final say
By ROGER PANTING Gloucester ....................... 40pts Tries: Hathaway 6, Blake 29, Hastings 58, Clarke 61, Thorley 78 Conversions: Hastings 29, 58,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 year agoCoach is happy to chase a second trophy
Gloucester head coach George Skivington confirmed that his side had targeted the cup competitions after victory against Benetton took them to...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoCamborne defeat a concern
LAST weekend’s 109 points to nil win by Dings over Camborne in National Two West should have set alarm bells ringing...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoHarsh reality is that PRL costs must be cut
CAN we afford a PGP? The short answer, unfortunately, has to be a “yes” since, with the Premiership clubs controlling the...
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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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Peter Jackson
/ 1 year agoLouis has sights set on Kansas gold rush
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The latest phase of his footballing reincarnation took Louis Rees-Zammit to a school...
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Features
/ 1 year agoWe had belief in our ability
Mark Stevens talks to Exeter Chiefs legend Gareth Steenson as he embarks on a new chapter away from Sandy Park IN...
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Coach to Coach
/ 1 year agoWith selection, you can’t keep every player happy
Steve Hill puts the questions to Chris Wilkins, below, the head coach at Esher, champions of National Two East Why did...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoDelighted to see Titans stand tall
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER There are some teams you grow particularly attached...
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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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Welsh Rugby
/ 1 year agoTop two set up a final showdown
Premiership round-up By ROB COLE THE top two teams in the regular Premiership season will face off in the final on...
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Challenge Cup
/ 1 year agoEPCR Challenge Cup semi-final preview
For the second year in a row each of the four Challenge Cup semi-finalists come from a different country, but it’s...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoItoje avoids ban for Barbeary tackle
Saracens second row Maro Itoje has avoided a ban for the last two games of the regular season of the Premiership...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSeries 3, Episode 36: Ruan Ackermann on Prem weekend, residency rules and EPCR semis
Following a pivotal weekend of Gallagher Premiership action – not without its controversies – Ollie Little, Brendan Gallagher and Nick Cain...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoBaxter: “We are overachieving” this season
Rob Baxter praised his young side’s competitive edge and their ability to learn from mistakes after their comfortable victory against Gloucester....
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoChiefs boost top-four hopes with five-try win at Kingsholm
By TOM JEFFREYS Gloucester…………………………………………..17 Tries: May 29, Clement 40, Clark 50 Conversions: Atkinson 52 Exeter Chiefs……………………………………….38 Tries: Vermeulen 14, 60; John...
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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 agoSaracens know how to win – Tompkins
By BEN JAYCOCK With the Premiership run-in hotting up, Saracens centre Nick Tompkins claims ‘experience matters’ in these blockbuster end-of-season contests...
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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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