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Where you want to go
This is an extract. The full interview appears in this month’s (March 2023) issue of the Rugby Journal – get your hands on a copy by ordering it at http://www.therugbyjournal.com Back in 2011, Mark Atkinson was sat in a changing … Continue reading
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Caldy’s kids and the RFU
Me writing for Rugby Pass. Please click the following link to read about the governing body’s most important decision in 2023. https://t.co/W9mDVzZPYG
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I took a friend to Goldington Road this weekend. “Is it always like this?” he asked, as we headed into the marquee: the large, white hospitality tent positioned on the north side of the famous sloping pitch. We weaved our … Continue reading
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Tagged bedford blues, coventry rugby, greene king ipa championship, premiership rugby, rfu championship, ringfencing, rugby, Rugby union
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Paul Tupai, in perpetuity
The Scrum Bar at Goldington Road in Bedford, a place where the past alights. The walls are adorned with photographs of XVs stretching back generations. Sons and fathers; grandfathers before them. Hundreds of men, facing the camera with the same … Continue reading
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Tagged aviva premiership, Bay of Plenty, bedford blues, new zealand, new zealand rugby, northampton saints, Paul Tupai, Rotorua, Samoa
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The man you want on your side
As Tom Varndell crossed for his third and decisive try on Boxing Day in front of a particularly festive Ashton Gate crowd, one Bristol back row forward pumped his fist a little harder than most. Nick Fenton-Wells, the boy who … Continue reading
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Tagged aviva premiership, bedford blues, bristol rugby, Nick Fenton-Wells, rugby, Rugby union, Stormers, Western Province, worcester warriors
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