All posts tagged "Top 14"
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European Rugby
/ 11 years agoTwickenham to stage inaugural Champions Cup final
The inaugural Champions Cup final will be hosted at Twickenham it was announced today. The Challenge Cup decider will go ahead...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoQ&A with Richard Cockerill: Our attack is fine, Neil, it’s defence that cost us!
No trophies or finals last season – what’s your assessment of the campaign? I think we did some pretty good things,...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoHamilton hopes to restore reputation by leaving French coast
Big lock lifts the lid on why he left France for Saracens and his remorse over leaving Gloucester for the money.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: George North and Alex Cuthbert are giants, but Fiji have a monster
Nemani Nadolo has been a rock for Fiji and Crusaders, Peter Jackson warns Australia, England and Wales about the 129kg winger.
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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: 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: 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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Champions Cup
/ 11 years agoBath chief Bruce Craig will be director of new Champions Cup
An Irish soccer convert, the mayor of a village in Provence and an English multi-millionaire are to play roles in Rugby’s...
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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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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: IRB must raise qualification period to at least eight years
The two biggest spending clubs in France and England, Toulon and Saracens, have proved that money can buy success. Although it...
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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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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: So, have the roaring 40s blown Brad Thorn off course?
Brad Thorn was saying only the other day how he planned to be playing ‘top level footy’ at 40, a long-distance...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoUS growth is reliant upon winning admits Chris Wyles
Chris Wyles knows qualification for the 2015 World Cup has given USA Eagles the best possible chance of breaking America but...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoSky Sports steal Top14 rights from BT Sports
Sky Sports have signed a broadcasting deal to show the French Top14 for the next five years. The French league is...
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Champions Cup
/ 11 years agoNow the Turks want to get slice of new European Cup
The new European Rugby Champions’ Cup is preparing for take-off with the airline who signed Lionel Messi during their sponsorship of...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoLondon Irish sign Dan Leo
London Irish have announced the signing of Samoa International Dan Leo for next season. Making the move from Top 14 side...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Hanno Dirksen heads the new foreign invasion
France will be free to pick another South African next season and install Rory Kockott as their prospective scrum-half for the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 11 years agoJeff Probyn: It was the Scotland game that cost England the title
Sometimes in life everything conspires to bring about the right outcome and make dreams come true, even if it takes a...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Moaning Robin McBryde should face all the facts
If Robin McBryde wants to know why Gethin Jenkins was sin-binned against England last weekend he does not need to go...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Simon Shaw – former lions, England & Wasps lock
In 1994 I went on the England tour to South Africa – the first post-Apartheid tour. That is a big highlight...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: James Hook plays the Invisible Man come hail or shine
The Invisible Man of the Six Nations could be seen down by the Mediterranean the other day, literally warming up for...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: French cash pile could bury international game
Ben Mowen’s decision to quit Australian rugby at the end of this year to take up a contract with a Top...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain looks at the challenge awaiting England in their opening six nations match in Paris
Le Crunch 2014 is going to leave either England or France broken*. The opening Test of the Six Nations in Paris...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoSaracens bait Adam ‘Hair Bear’Jones with £300k
Saracens have entered the bidding war for Wales and Lions star Adam Jones offering him £300,000 a season
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoNathan Hines joins Sale Sharks
Sale have announced the signing of Clermont lock Nathan Hines on a two-year deal. Born in Australia, he earned 77 caps...
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Featured
/ 11 years agoDelon Armitage: Toulon will release us for England
Delon Armitage has described England’s refusal to pick France-based players as a “big opportunity missed”, insisting he and brother Steffon are...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Danny Cipriani is a risk, but he could unlock golden door
Who holds the keys to No.10 for England? There is no shortage of contenders to pilot them through the 2015 World...
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Champions Cup
/ 11 years agoI could play on for one more year, says Jonny Wilkinson
Jonny Wilkinson came off the bench on Saturday to score the bonus-point try that helped put champions Toulon firmly in control...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoMartyn Thomas – “Mark McCafferty should go – he led us into wilderness”
Ever since the Anglo-French club pact was formed Martyn Thomas has predicted that the Top 14 clubs would fold like a...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoNow Welsh regions can join the Aviva Premiership says Nigel Wray
Saracens chairman Nigel Wray claims that the embattled Welsh regions want to join the English Premiership as a move towards long-term...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoAndrew Sheridan’s career in tatters
Andrew Sheridan could be forced to retire following a new neck injury he sustained during Toulon‘s Top 14 match against Perpignan last...
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Latest News
/ 11 years agoMike Phillips signs for Racing Metro
As heavily rumoured for the past week, Mike Phillips has joined Racing Metro following his sacking from Top 14 rivals Bayonne in...
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain uncovers the ticking time bomb of Red Rose tour to New Zealand
The buzz-phrase after the autumn series is that ‘England are building’. However, exactly what structure Stuart Lancaster and his side build...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoWRU given four weeks to keep Sam Warburton and Co. in Wales
The Welsh Rugby Union have been given four weeks to come up with a deal to prevent another quartet of Lions...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoJonathan Davies moves to Clermont
Jonathan Davies is set to be the latest high profile player to leave Wales for France after it was announced the...
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Champions Cup
/ 12 years agoExtra place will tempt the Celts to sign up for Champions Cup
The significant change to the play-off structure has been made in response to the Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Italian Unions refusing...
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Champions Cup
/ 12 years agoConsensus reached in Dublin over Heineken Cup row
A consensus has been reached over the Heineken Cup row at a meeting in Dublin today.
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Champions Cup
/ 12 years agoPerpignan revival can help James Hook’s Wales bid
James Hook hopes Perpignan’s return to the Heineken Cup can propel him back into Wales reckoning.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Money is not the root of all success in Europe
There’s an old saying which seems to be more and more fashionable in our game and that is, ‘money talks’. As...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Let’s hope England use attack at key word
The pulse always quickens at the start of a new season, and with the Lions’ first triumph for 16 years still...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoLeigh Halfpenny told: Move to France will hurt career
Leigh Halfpenny has been warned about paying ‘a massive price’ for moving to France, even it makes him the highest paid...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoQuins v Saints available for all on BT Sports on Friday
TV viewers across the UK will be able to watch this Friday’s top Aviva Premiership Rugby clash between Harlequins and Northampton...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Proposed Heineken deal leaves Rabo with peanuts
I often wonder if Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty is living in the real world or one that is dominated...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Groundhog Day, and Gav blinks back into the light
During the course of fox-trotting his way into five clubs over 20 months, Gavin Henson has danced to the same old...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoAmbitious Nick Kennedy has Stooped to conquer
Turning your back on the superstar lifestyle at galactico-laden Toulon might appear to be mad. But Nick Kennedy insists he is...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoMike Blair keen to make his mark in Premiership
Mike Blair is counting down the days until he samples Premiership rugby at first hand for the first time with Newcastle....
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Featured
/ 12 years agoFrench giants can lure Adam Jones with £350k
Toulouse and Clermont will head the queue in response to Adam Jones declaring his interest in moving to France at the...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoStuart Lancaster must dare to dream, says Brian Ashton
Brian Ashton hopes that England’s new-found attacking style will be no passing ‘fad’. A young England team destroyed Argentina with some...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoLeigh Halfpenny is a £1m target for the French clubs
Leigh Halfpenny’s Welsh future is to be thrashed out in London this week as three French clubs prepare to make him...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoDelon Armitage: My regret over that wave and row with Brian Moore
Being Public Enemy No.1 in one country is bad enough. But two? That takes some doing, but Delon Armitage appears to...
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