All posts tagged "Wales"
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoGeorge North is urged to get Test clearance
Wales have asked George North to ensure he protects his international future before completing his proposed £250,000 transfer to Northampton. WRU...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoTop English clubs would ‘welcome’ Welsh tie-up
A senior Welsh official last night claimed that some English clubs would welcome reviving Anglo-Welsh competition – and even the idea...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Don’t despair, we will come good
Stuart Lancaster has said he wants his England side to have amassed 600 caps between them before the 2015 World Cup…and...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Gatland must think French
There are not many Lions coaches who go into a tour on the back of a vintage Six Nations, and Warren...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Glenn Gelderbloom – former Western Province, Leicester and Plymouth centre
I’ve got my wife Sacha to thank for two Heineken Cups and three Premiership titles because she convinced me when I...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Welsh will grab Lions share for Australia
After smashing the team that smashed the All Blacks, Wales will take the Lions’ share when the Test series begins against...
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Dream Team
/ 12 years agoDream Team: Dan Montagu – Nottingham No.8
1. Mark Irish – He is a great hard-working forward, who gets around the field. He is a rock and has...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: End this cult of ‘superstar’ refs and sort out the scrum
If there is one thing that has made this Six Nations Championship more memorable than most, it is the controversy that has...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain assesses the relative strengths and weaknesses of England and Italy
Italy have yet to beat England in the Six Nations, and, given that their only away win in the tournament since...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Grand Slam won’t faze this England
Wales are a dangerous side if they bring their best game to Cardiff on Saturday against England because they have ability...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Trust me, Cardiff jinx waits for Lancaster!
At a dinner in London some years ago, the English defined their rugby relationship with the Welsh as one based on...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoWales v England: highlights
Wales retained their RBS Six Nations trophy on Saturday with a powerful display against England at the Millenium. All they needed...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoWales v England: teams
Owen Farrell will lead the attack in England‘s Grand Slam decider against Wales at the Millennium on Saturday. The Saracens playmaker...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: It’s whisky galore if Telfer tribe triumph
When Scotland last won three matches on the bounce in the same Championship, they showed their gratitude to Wales by sending...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 12 years agoMichael Owen backs Tom Wood for Lions No.8 spot
This time last year Tom Wood feared he would never properly recover from his toe injury – 12 months on and...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoRyan Jones blow for Wales
Ryan Jones will miss Saturday’s Six Nations decider against England after it was revealed the Welsh captain suffered a broken bone...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoRob Howley: England showdown is so huge
Rob Howley last night (Saturday) billed Wales‘ Six Nations clash with England as one of the biggest of their lives. Wales,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson talks to Maesteg coach Richard Webster about the startling decline of Welsh club rugby
There was a time when the Welsh club game was the envy of the rugby world, when popular legend had it...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoUnder-par England beat Italy and still hope of Grand Slam
England are 80 minutes away from their first Grand Slam in a decade despite an under-par display which saw them struggle...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Breathless, but the Referee didn’t blow
Stuart Lancaster spoke before this game about the last 20 minutes being crucial, about how England’s now superior fitness would pay...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Lions levy hits their own fans
The latest twist in the Lions Test ticket story is that the Australian Rugby Union has refuted the statement from a...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoScotland v Wales: teams
Duncan Weir will make his first start for Scotland in Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations Championship match against Wales at Murrayfield. The...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Tragic Nick helps pal Huw keep injury in perspective
Sometime on Wednesday morning Huw Bennett will bow his head and remember the day they buried his friend in a churchyard...
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Dream Team
/ 12 years agoDream Team: Andy Powell – Sale and Wales No.8
1. Adrian Garvey – The big South African just edges out Gethin Jenkins because he was tall and strong. His work-rate...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 12 years agoI’d make Justin Tipuric my Lions No.7 says Jim Telfer
Justin Tipuric will form part of an Anglo-Welsh back row in the Lions‘ Test team this summer, according to one of...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoDuncan Weir set for first start for Scotland
Duncan Weir will make his first start for Scotland in Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations Championship match against Wales at Murrayfield. The...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoOwen Farrell not fit to play Italy
Owen Farrell will miss England‘s game against Italy on Sunday because of a thigh injury. The England fly-half picked up the...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Here’s the real reason for Warren Gatland’s outburst
None of the explanations I’ve heard so far for Warren Gatland‘s ill-conceived comments about the divisive potential of having too many...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoShane Williams to carry on in Japan
Shane Williams has revealed he will be returning to Japan to play a second season with the Mitsubishi Dynaboars. Talking to...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoStephen Jones to hang up the boots
After weeks of speculations about his future, Stephen Jones has announced he will retire from professional rugby at the end of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ryan aware that Welsh armband fits loosely
Wales have changed their captain so often in recent seasons that Ryan Jones is in his ninth spell in charge. In...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoItaly v Wales: highlights
On Saturday, Wales kept their hopes of retaining their Six Nations trophy with a 26-9 win over Italy in Rome. Watch...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain looks at the key areas which will decide today’s battle at the Aviva stadium, Dublin
It is a decade since England last won in Dublin in the Six Nations. In the interim there have been heartache...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: BOD magic captured in a move from the matrix
The best centre I have seen play in the last decade is Brian O’Driscoll. That’s not forgetting my favourites, Philippe Sella,...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoItaly v Wales: teams
Sam Warburton and Alun-Wyn Jones have been named on Wales’ bench as they take on Italy in the Six Nations in...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Yes to bonus points, no to TV-driven fixture lists
There are so many contradictory knee-jerk spoutings about the Six Nations that you sometimes wonder whether Glenda Slagg has taken up...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoEngland v France: teams
Manu Tuilagi has been recalled to the England starting line-up to face France at Twickenham on Saturday. The Leicester powerhouse missed...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Rowlands remains Top Cat of the lineout
The 50th anniversary of perhaps the strangest of all Wales matches has come and gone with scarcely a mention. Admittedly it...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 12 years agoGeoff Parling can boss the Lions, says Aussie great Nathan Sharpe
Nathan Sharpe, one of the great Wallaby locks, believes Geoff Parling will be given the responsibility to ‘marshal the cattle’ as...
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Dream Team
/ 12 years agoDream Team: Barry Everit – former Munster, London Irish and Northampton fly-half
1. Jason Leonard – A fantastic scrummager who played over so many different eras and lasted an incredible amount of time...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Mutual trust is what bonds a winning squad together
Why is it that every England team have to proffer the idea that they are so different to those that have...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoStuart Lancaster name unchanged England to face France
Stuart Lancaster has kept faith in the match-day squad that beat Ireland 12-6 in Dublin naming the same 23 players to...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Fred Michalak who has gone from enfant terrible to mature superstar
Fred Michalak is France’s main man going into this Six Nations, with all the signs pointing towards flaky Fred having been...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Hold onto your hats for a humdinger!
Owen Farrell will rightly get the headlines for his latest incarnation as England’s Iceman. But he will also be the first...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 12 years agoLeigh Halfpenny boots Lions’ fly-half debate into new territory
Former Lions fly-half Stephen Jones insists the form of Leigh Halfpenny means this summer’s No.10 battle is not as simple as...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Lloyd Burns – former Cross Keys, Dragons and Wales hooker
If you’d told me in 2010 I could go to the following year’s World Cup as Wales‘ kit man I’d have...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: WRU see sense with price cut
When he retired after captaining Wales at the 1995 World Cup in Johannesburg, Mike Hall began to make the most of...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoGatland will pick Lions on form not nationality
British & Irish Lions boss Warren Gatland is adamant he will make his selection for the up-coming tour to Australia purely...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Memo to Telfer: the Scots are most elitist of them all
So the English are too arrogant, too pretentious and too condescending and the Welsh are lazy, or so says former Scotland...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoBilly Twelvetrees never fazed by mistakes, says Mike Rayer
If at first you don’t succeed try, try again – that is essentially Billy Twelvetrees’ mantra according to former coach Mike...
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