All posts tagged "Top 14"
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Features
/ 5 years agoNovalpina bid for a slice of the action
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Dispute: Lock Leone Nakarawa is demanding €1million from Racing 92 With the Top 14 in temporary hiatus...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoUlster call on Cooney to shoot down Top 14 giants
By SAM JACKSON Recall: John Cooney comes in for Alby Mathewson SCRUM-HALF John Cooney has been recalled to Ulster’s starting line-up...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoGeorge Ford back for Leicester Tigers Challenge Cup clash
Team line-ups for this weekend's Challenge Cup action, as Tigers welcome Castres to Welford Road
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoSCHEDULE: Wales must win to miss meeting England at RWC2023
Peter Jackson runs through the autumn schedule for nations in both hemispheres
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Handre Pollard a doubt for Lions tour after ACL horror
James Harrington recaps the second round of Top 14 action, in which £1m man Pollard was dealt a cruel blow
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Features
/ 5 years agoIbitoye off to a flyer on debut for Agen
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN There has been actual, genuine, Top 14 rugby to talk about this week, as – after a...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoThree Premiership clubs eye demolition man Virimi Vakatawa
France centre Vakatawa has been on form for Racing 92 this season in the Champions Cup
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: LNR chief warns Top 14 may need state aid
James Harrington reports on the situation facing French clubs, with COVID cases propping up in the player pool and TV rights...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoHarlequins seek to ease loss of Jack Clifford with imposing South African
Clifford was forced into retirement last week after trying to work his way back from two major shoulder surgeries
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Stade Francais looking less and less likely to be ready for Top 14 season
The Paris-based club has reported COVID-19 positive players have developed lesions on their lungs
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Features
/ 5 years agoQuins in search to replace Clifford
Retired: Jack Clifford HARLEQUINS have started the search to replace Jack Clifford following the announcement that the England international back row...
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Features
/ 5 years agoIt’s not all over yet for Bath and Pollard
SPRINGBOK fly-half Hendre Pollard is still weighing up his future with Top 14 outfit Montpellier and is refusing to rule out...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo
Former Cornish Pirates, Yorkshire Carnegie and Benetton back Di Bernardo reflects on his career
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoImanol goes through pain barrier in Basque country
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 5 years agoForeign players are both cheaper and always on call
Gone to Premiership: Steve Borthwick, left, and Paul Gustard PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Boyd, a New Zealander, has questioned why England...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCovid spike puts Top 14 on high alert
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN An abundance of caution marked professional rugby’s preseason return on Friday, 166 days after Toulon beat Stade...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoBath have second target if outlandish bid to sign Pollard fails
Fly-half Handre Pollard joined Montpellier after the World Cup on a deal worth £675,000-per-season
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: Workload too heavy? Get players to lose bulk
Super Rugby Aotearoa format gives an idea of Northern Hemisphere rugby's fast and furious calendar structure, writes Nick Cain
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoCan Chris Ashton make a splash on debut for Harlequins?
Jon Newcombe previews Friday night's Premiership restart match between Harlequins and Sale, looking at the betting odds
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Features
/ 5 years agoThe invisible stars are letting down PRO14
The PRO14 can boast a dual headline act beyond compare, a pair of players born 35 years ago on opposite sides...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoWorkload too heavy? Get players to lose bulk
NICK CAIN SUPER Rugby Aetearoa has been a high quality, high intensity tournament – which is exactly what the doctor ordered...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTough act trying to be Leeds’ next Maradona
MY LIFEIN RUGBY ALBERTO DI BERNARDO THE FORMER ITALY, CORNISH PIRATES, LEEDS CARNEGIE, BOURGOIN & TREVISO FLY-HALF Special day: Alberto di...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBattle lines drawn in star player release row
JAMES HARRINGTON “A form of squad rotation could be agreed limiting the number of internationals for which a player can be...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBeziers takeover hits the buffers
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN No deal: Agen remain keen to sign Harlequins wing Gabriel Ibitoye PICTURE: Getty Images It’s taken several...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBattered Jonny rises again to become a folk hero in Toulon
Captain marvel: Jonny Wilkinson raises the Heineken Cup ONE of the more heartwarming stories of this era was a golden Indian...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoDelon Armitage closing in on surprise move in England
The ex-England full-back has spent the past eight years in France with Toulon and Lyon
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: FFR agree brutal schedule for Top 14 and Pro D2
James Harrington reports on how the 2020-21 French rugby schedule is shaping up and the outlook for Beziers
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoIt’s official: Sale Sharks have signed Manu Tuilagi
Tuilagi keeps his England career alive by remaining in the Premiership with Sale Sharks
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoKaino joins war against corruption in Pacific
By NEALE HARVEY Hot prospect: Auckland Blues No.8 Hoskins Sotutu PICTURE: Getty Images NEWLY-ELECTED Pacific Rugby Player Welfare board member Jerome...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoRory Teague the latest to leave coaching upheaval at Gloucester
Rory Teague believes Gloucester have a squad to bring success to Kingsholm under new head coach George Skivington
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Tuilagi and Faletau wanted in France, as clubs vote on lowering salary cap
Top 14 and Pro D2 presidents to meet in Toulouse for salary cap vote
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoLeicester Tigers eye replacement for Telusa Veainu from Clermont
Full-back Veainu has signed a two-year contract to join Stade Francais in the Top 14
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoClubs will not release players for Test dates
By PETER JACKSON WORLDRugby’s plan to salvage an Eight Nations’ tournament from the wreckage of their Test schedule ploughed into a...
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Features
/ 5 years agoNow Manu and Faletau are wanted in France
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Target: Manu Tuilagi is currently a free agent after quitting Leicester PICTURE: Getty Images Even in a...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoWales in negotiations to play ‘home’ matches at Twickenham this autumn
RFU would take a cut of profits from matches attended by limited crowd numbers
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoManu Tuilagi, George Ford and Ellis Genge in contract stand-off with Leicester
The clock is ticking on Leicester and other Premiership clubs to agree adjusted contracts with their players
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoLaporte’s World Club Cup won’t harm Champions Cup, says EPCR chief
EPCR chairman Simon Halliday sees little logical sense in how a World Club Cup could be held every year
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoCourtney Lawes to stay in English rugby with new Northampton deal
But there is one key figure of the Northampton Saints pack who is leaving
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Features
/ 5 years agoFrance set to launch their third pro league
WHILE all the talk in England is of contraction and putting the financial squeeze on the Championship, the French Federation have...
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Features
/ 5 years agoExpand the Prem to 16 clubs and PRO14 to 20
Expansion: Let the Jaguares join a new PRO20 PICTURE: Getty Images ■ HAVING a global season is all well and good....
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoEngland lock Maro Itoje pledges his future to Saracens
The Saracens lock has been widely tipped to captain the British & Irish Lions next summer in South Africa
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoBig guns snub call for rugby in summer
By PETER JACKSON Non! Paul Goze THE English and French clubs are refusing to sacrifice their traditional winter game on the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoItoje pledges his future to Saracens
Committed: Maro Itoje. Inset, Will Skelton MARO ITOJE is set to confirm he is staying with Premiership and European champions Saracens...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoKlim latest to join revamped Reds
JERSEY Reds have signed Namibia international wing Lesley Klim ahead of the 2020-21 Championship season. Klim, 25, played twice at the...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoAltrad’s run for mayor hit by third cap scandal
FRENCH COLUMN Billionaire Mohed Altrad is running to be mayor of Montpellier - a position which would mean giving up the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYarde to be offered one-year Sale deal
Extension: Marland Yarde SALE are close to agreeing an extension with former England winger Marland Yarde who is out of contract...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCheika among candidates for Gloucester job
New name in the frame: Michael Cheika FORMER Wallaby coach Michael Cheika is the surprise name being linked with an interview...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoKiss: We have to protect league rugby
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish head coach Les Kiss says World Rugby must not sacrifice league rugby on the altar of...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAlex aims to conquer England after France
By JON NEWCOMBE Channel-hopper: Alex Lozowski of Saracens skips the tackle of Munster’s Chris Farrell Inset: Chris Ashton PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRestarting season is rather ridiculous
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Why play on? Newcastle have been promoted. Here George Wacokecoke scores his...
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