All posts tagged "World Rugby"
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMcConnochie replaces Davis in Team GB Sevens squad
Alex Davis has been ruled out of the Rio Olympics following an injury to his right ankle and will be replaced...
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/ 9 years agoWasps confirm signing of Willie Le Roux
As revealed by Neil Fissler last Sunday, Wasps have bolstered their already impressive squad by the addition of Springboks full-back Willie...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoQ&A with Harlequins head coach Mark Mapletoft
Understand you recently went on a globe-trotting expedition? Correct. I went to Sydney and Auckland and spent time with a number...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain talks to Nigel Wray and Simon Halliday about the Club v Country crisis
When the new club-country accord between the RFU and the Premiership is announced on Monday, unless there is a cast-iron clause...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRFU & Premiership Rugby sign new Professional Game agreement
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Premiership Rugby Limited (PRL) have agreed a progressive new partnership for the next eight years...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoSix Nations can’t ignore Georgia’s tour glory
Georgia were back home in Tbilisi this week being lauded by one and all after their inaugural Pacific Island tour resulted...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Spare a thought for those on the treadmill of normal life
As the players finally get to take a break, no matter how short, given the clubs have already started pre-season training,...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoCharlie Hodgson: It’s all so fierce now but guys like Owen Farrell can keep us on top
How did it feel to finish your playing career as a Premiership and Champions Cup ‘double’ winner? It’s what dreams are...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams column: Scarlets are on a hiding to nothing in Europe
I fear Welsh interest in next season’s European Champions Cup will not last past Christmas. It is bad enough that Wales...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Ciaran Hearn – Canada and London Irish centre
1. Cian Healy – I played against him twice. The first time was with Agen against Leinster and then at the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: Welfare is sacrificed on altar of Test cash
For those who survived the World Cup and everything else the fates threw at them, the longest of all seasons ended...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRampant England U20s reach World Cup final
England are through to the World Rugby U20 Championship final after a 39-17 victory over South Africa at the Manchester City...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: Rugby has become too destructive for own good
The human wreckage of one club’s season can be gauged from some brutal facts – 30 significant injuries requiring more than...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 9 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Andrew Small – former RFU elite panel referee
Refereeing the Army-Navy game in front of a full house at Twickenham, with my wife and kids in the crowd, was...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Ollie Phillips- former England 7s, Gloucester and Newcastle wing
1. Nick Wood – The Gloucester loosehead is such an underestimated prop. He is so effective at what he does. So...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher looks back at the career of Imanol Harinordoquy
So it’s farewell to Imanol Harinordoquy who will be an ex-rugby player by the end of the month, perhaps sooner. His...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams column: That Twickenham horrow show will be a blessing in disguise
The only positive for Wales to take out of their pretty desperate performance against England last Sunday was at least that...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoVIDEO: Meet Virimi Vakatawa – the Fijian who plays for France
*Video courtesy of CNN’s International’s ‘CNN World Rugby”, sponsored by DHL
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoAaron Mauger: Reduce fixtures or risk injury increase
Leicester head coach Aaron Mauger has demanded a reduction in the number of games in order to reduce the risk of...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain column: Mercenaries under fire as Agustin Pichot cries foul
Agustin Pichot was always a visionary scrum-half and the former Argentine captain has wasted no time in getting stuck into the...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Ben Moon – Exeter Chiefs loosehead prop
1. Marcos Ayerza – Regarded as the best loosehead in the world. He is very destructive at the scrum but he...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoVIDEO: Kenya Sevens legend Colin’s Injera’s guide to staying fit
*Video courtesy of CNN’s International’s ‘CNN World Rugby”, sponsored by DHL
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Ignore the balance sheet, our grassroots game is in crisis
And so it begins. Australian rugby‘s announcement of a A$9.8 million (£5.3m) loss for the 2015 season, up from A$6.3 million...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: Johnny McNicholl bid mocks the registration rules
Johnny McNicholl has no Welsh ancestry. Nor has he set foot in Wales, but already he has spoken about his desire...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoSuper Maro backed to lead England by next year
Maro Itoje‘s relentless devotion to winning could see him oust Dylan Hartley as England captain as early as next year, according...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: If you want to hear a racist rant listen to Phil Bennett
What a surprise! World rugby‘s discipline hearing against Joe Marler saw him plead guilty, was given a ban and a fine...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoNick Cain column: Gypsygate opens a can of worms for World Rugby
Where does offensive, derogatory or discriminatory language, or behaviour, begin and end? That is the question that World Rugby are going...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWorcester to switch to artificial pitch
Worcester will become the first Premiership club to convert to the latest generation of Artificial Grass Pitch ahead next season. The...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Good luck Conor O’Shea in saving Italy!
The great Sergio Parisse, and I use the word in its truest sense, was visibly outraged last week when the vultures...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Treating players like men helped win Grand Slam
Reflecting on last week’s Grand Slam I can’t help thinking how much the team has changed from the latter days of...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoVIDEO: Bryan Habana opens up about Olympic Sevens dream
Talking to CNN World Rugby, South Africa‘s record try scorer Bryan Habana talks about his Olympic prospects with the Sevens side and...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWorld Rugby statement – Joe Marler to face another misconduct hearing
World Rugby have confirmed that Joe Marler will face an independent hearing following his “Gipsy Boy” comment towards Samson Lee on...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Lineout is looking strong again under George Kruis control
With the wheels now firmly back on the chariot, the dream of Grand Slam glory can at last be whispered. England’s...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain column: Cage this monster by downsizing the game
The biggest monster facing the healthy future of Rugby Union is the ‘Nanny State’, and it is far more dangerous than...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: Come on Wales, try and give us a thrill
Wales will bring their Iron Curtain to Twickenham next week and defy England to find a way through. They will man...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: Why France are at sixes and sevens over David Smith
There was a time when rugby enjoyed a titter at football’s expense over their nationality laws and the amusing case of...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoVIDEO: Sonny Bill Williams and Quade Cooper open up about Sevens switch
Superstars Sonny Bill Williams and Quade Cooper are hoping to become Olympians representing New Zealand and Australia in Rio this summer....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCNN World Rugby returns on Friday
CNN International’s new series ‘CNN World Rugby‘ will return on Friday on the back of the last two legs of the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCian Healy turns down Worcester to stay in Ireland
As predicted by Neil Fissler in The Rugby Paper on February 7, Cian Healy has decided to turn down a lucrative...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Mark Cornwell – former Gloucester lock
1. Rodrigo Roncero – An outstanding attacking scrummager with an all-round game. Tough customer who could carry and be as useful...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain: Eddie Jones starts off with a laugh, but will the joke be on England?
Just as Eddie Jones and Dylan Hartley were about to hold forth about England‘s preparations for Murrayfield a huge gust courtesy...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn: London Scottish link with Scotland raises plenty of problems
What a week we’ve had. First an announcement that could create some interesting changes for the outcome of the Six Nations...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoSeven uncapped player in England squad
Eddie Jones has named seven uncapped players in his first England squad as head coach. The 33-man squad will meet at...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher feature: All the big guns set their sights on Rio Olympics
So far so good. After Rugby’s ill-starred Olympic history it’s been comparatively plain sailing to date for the 2016 tournament, at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: Craig Joubert and Rupert Murdoch make it a year to remember
Half a century from now, when Georgia win the Ten Nations and two clubs from Mars replace the Italians in the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoJack Clifford commits to Harlequins
Harlequins have today announced that Jack Clifford, has committed his future to the club. Having joined the Harlequins Academy structure aged...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Our home grow talent is blocked by foreign imports
After a brilliant display by all the Premiership teams in Europe last week, it would seem that there’s definitely not a...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Peter Lydon – London Scottish and former Stade Francais and Ulster full-back
1. Lovejoy Chawatama – Showed great potential for London Scottish and England Students last year. Really humble guy and great work...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Clubs flex muscles over European postponements
The disruption of the European Champions Cup first round caused by the Paris atrocities last week has inadvertently shown what appears...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher comment: Stuart Lancaster was the right man in the wrong job
The alarm bells started ringing loudly, for me anyway, in a dusty classroom at Loughborough University last May. It was just...
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