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Wallabies shock All Blacks, Springboks’ fall from grace: 10 bold predictions for 2024
‘New Year, new me’ is a phrase that we all hear every 12 months. The start of a new year presents us all with an opportunity t…
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Big Bill Mata and the importance of recruitment
The Fijian juggernaut will depart Edinburgh a legend, and an example of looking after your talent.
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Leicester player ratings vs Saracens | Gallagher Premiership 2023/24
Leicester player ratings live from Mattoli Woods Welford Road: This was a must-win for Dan McKellar’s Tigers.
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The most hotly contested jerseys in Super Rugby Pacific 2024
With headline departures and new chapters spelling change for all Super clubs to varying extents, the new year has brought the pro…
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Mick Cleary: 'No team wins without a sense of itself. No team prospers without a good bit of fight in it.'
Steve Borthwick has tweaked his coaching team ahead of the 2024 Six Nations, emboldened by a strong showing in France
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New Year’s resolutions for Premiership Women’s Rugby
In 2024, the PWR needs to ‘do lots the same, but fight to make things even better - whilst also changing other bits.’ It’s c…
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Bears’ accounts provide reality check for Premiership – Andy Goode
It was a brilliant festive period for the Premiership but Bristol’s latest accounts provide a stark reminder of where the league…
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Sifflets et huées, la nouvelle sale habitude du rugby
Ugo Mola a subi les huées de la part des supporters du Stade Rochelais tout au long de la rencontre. Une triste pratique qui se d…
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A Twixmassy look around the PWR: New Kids, Mercurial Meg and Big Game
At the end of the year, with reflection in mind, six rounds (almost) complete, and a whole chocolate reindeer as column-writing fu…
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'I got back into rugby after bacterial meningitis and shattering my ankle'
The Bristol game is definitely a new found rivalry for many players. As Bristol have grown in strength and added some former Sarac…
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‘Someone’s going to have a good Christmas, and someone isn’t’: Saracens v Bristol Bears
Bristol Bears, who have taken every other scalp in the league, have never got the job done against Sarries - regardless of locatio…
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Silver linings for Welsh teams but European struggles a sign of the times
There were consolations in defeat for the four regions but we shouldn't be surprised by their results in Europe