All posts tagged "World Rugby"
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Dream Team
/ 11 months agoDream Team
Rhys Crane, the former England sevens international and Bath, Sale, Nottingham, London Welsh & Ealing winger, chooses the best XV he...
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Chris Hewett
/ 11 months agoLet the ‘waterboys’ just get on with it
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED It's the burning question of the moment: what is Jacques Nienaber? Not “who is Jacques Nienaber”, or...
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International Rugby
/ 11 months agoWarren Gatland eager to see Josh Hathaway’s potential after Wales squad call-up
Warren Gatland is relishing seeing uncapped Gloucester back Josh Hathaway’s potential at first hand after naming him in a Wales training...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 months agoSmith has final say for Saints
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Northampton Saints..... 22pts Tries: Odendaal 19 Conversions: Smith 20 Penalties: Smith 28, 31, 40, 62, 70 Saracens ...........................20pts...
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Champions Cup
/ 11 months agoSorry, but that’s not all right, Jacques
A great European Cup final last weekend had only one blemish, when the limp attempt to tighten the rules around water-carriers...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoGood to see the winners party like they meant it
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Well it was good to see the Sharks celebrate on Friday night like the European Challenge Cup really meant...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 months agoTry tsunami sends a mixed message
Peter Jackson looks at an increase in points scored but suggests the figures may be hiding a problem for the Premiership....
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Chris Hewett
/ 11 months agoTalk of jeopardy is wide of the mark
THINKING ALLOWED It happened during the early stages of the 2003 World Cup in Australia, when two of the union game’s...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 months agoYoung guns who are shining for the Chiefs
Paul Rees talks to Exeter DoR Rob Baxter to find out how his investment in homegrown talent is paying off at...
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James Harrington
/ 11 months agoTV deal hits the €700m jackpot
By JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Jeroboams of champagne all round at Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) headquarters earlier this week, after...
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Challenge Cup
/ 11 months agoOx Nche: ‘You don’t win a scrum alone, you win it together.’
In the words of Springboks and Sharks prop Ox Nche, “salads don’t win scrums”; but what does win you scrums? During...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 months agoNew law changes will hurt the game
JEFF PROBYN Am I the only one who thinks that something is wrong with ‘those in charge’ of our game as...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 months agoMistake to reduce value of the scrum
The danger World Rugby’s high-handed law-makers face with their insistence on trying to marginalise the scrum is that it could easily...
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Latest News
/ 12 months 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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Features
/ 12 months 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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Latest News
/ 12 months agoCarter gets three-game suspension
DRAGONS second row Ben Carter has been banned for three games following his red card for a dangerous tackle against Connacht...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 months 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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Latest News
/ 1 year agoVunipola arrested and tasered twice in Majorca incident
Saracens and former England number eight Billy Vunipola has been arrested following a violent incident in a bar in Majorca. According...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoKata banned for three games after Dingwall tackle
Solomone Kata has received a three-match ban for his tackle on Fraser Dingwall that saw him red carded in the East...
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Dream Team
/ 1 year agoDream Team with James Flynn
The Ampthill and former Saracens, Jersey, Yorkshire Carnegie & Sale Sharks prop, chooses the best XV he has played with or...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 1 year agoBarrett’s Leinster move seems strange to me
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK JORDIE Barrett’s signing by Leinster on a six-month contract from December until the end...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoStop tinkering with laws
WORLD Rugby needs to stop tinkering with the laws to try and eliminate some of the problems in the professional game....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoS Africa is crying out for its own league
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IF I remember my A level geography...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoHow Lomu changed the way we played
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IT SEEMS the spectre of size has raised its head again with...
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Coach to Coach
/ 1 year agoThe four clubs in Kyiv have to share one pitch
Coach to Coach Former Richmond DoR Steve Hill puts the questions to Dimitri Basilaia, the Ukraine assistant coach Why did you...
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National League One
/ 1 year agoKalling-Smith aiming for top
By JON NEWCOMBE Rams centre Axel Kalling-Smith has come out second-best with both club and country this season but he can...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoMinnows in line for a World Cup boost
By JON NEWCOMBE World Rugby aims to streamline the Rugby World Cup qualification process to give non-high performance nations even more...
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Latest News
/ 1 year ago500-day countdown to World Cup kick-off
By MARK STEVENS Excitement is building by the day as the countdown to Women’s Rugby World Cup England 2025 hit its...
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Women's International
/ 1 year agoSmaller ball plan for women
World Rugby is considering the use of a smaller ball in the women’s game and is collecting data on the size...
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Champions Cup
/ 1 year agoAnother barmy idea from the men in suits
The Ministry of Silly Walks was a Monty Python sketch which lampooned bureaucratic inefficiency. Rugby Union requires something similar to shame...
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Red Roses
/ 1 year agoRed Roses: Gloucester-Hartpury prop Mackenzie Carson
By BEN JAYCOCK Birthplace: British Columbia, Canada Date of birth: 24/06/98 Community club: Abbotsford RFC Red Roses debut: vs Scotland March...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoTime for props to take their share of the glory
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED OVERMATCHED teams usually find themselves facing the music without having to listen to any. It was different...
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Peter Jackson
/ 1 year agoRugby schedule has little to do with player welfare
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A roll of drums and a fanfare of trumpets late last summer heralded...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoNew heat guidelines
WORLD Rugby is looking to introduce extended half-times and more water breaks during matches played in hot and humid conditions. Players...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 14/04/24
The Women’s Six Nations returns as a record Scotland crowd host England and Ireland look to end their long losing streak...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoMan prosecuted for abusing World Cup official
A man in Australia has been prosecuted for abusing TMO Brian MacNiece on social media during Enlgand’s match against Samoa in...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoBaxter: All these law changes are madness
By MARK STEVENS Rob Baxter believes World Rugby’s latest proposals to make further law changes will end up alienating supporters, rather...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoToo much tinkering is causing confusion
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Rugby Union is in the grip of the “the law of unintended consequences”,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 1 year agoModernise the scrum, don’t allow it to die
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED IF WE take the Book of Ecclesiastes as our guide – ancient though it may be, it...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoScrums can provide the best attacking platform
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Why the scrum is having to fight to stay a part of...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 07/04/24
It’s the weekend of the last 16 of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, and you can find reports from 11...
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Guest Blogs
/ 1 year agoHong Kong Sevens Comes Alive in 2024! All You Need to Know!
Rugby Sevens Action will return to the centre stage with the HSBC SVNS Series and the all-important Hong Kong Sevens. The...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoTime we demanded more from players
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE other weekend – although it could probably...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 1 year agoMather inspired me on coaching career – McKenna
By PAUL EDDISON England international Sarah McKenna hailed Giselle Mather as her coaching inspiration, as the Red Roses star seeks to...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoWith debts up to £300m, the game has lost its way
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WITH the international window now over for the men’s game, the focus...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoRed menace? Don’t get sent off in first place
A STRONG contender for the 2024 Quote of the Year award should be The Rugby Paper columnist Chris Hewett for his...
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Paul Rees
/ 1 year agoThe scrum is fighting to stay in the game
Paul Rees wonders whether some of World Rugby's law tweaks will mean the end of the scrum as we know it...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoWorld Rugby puts forward new changes
WORLD Rugby has announced a five-phase approach to growing the game and enhance rugby’s entertainment factor following the ‘Shape of the...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoReferees are too quick to take the easy option
I READ the match report for last week’s Hull Ionians v Tynedale game with interest. The report asked a very pertinent...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoTime to ban tactical subs
CHRIS Hewett’s article bemoaning the size of French players offered what I believe to be the correct solution to the future...
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