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Recent Articles – take a look
- Rugby World Magazine partners up with ‘One Game at a Time’
- One Game at a Time – Episode 2
- One Game at a Time – Episode 1
- Taking the stage
- Nothing is off the table
- Marler and mirth
- Exeter’s Excellence
- The spectral sceptre
- Money is a terrible master
- Letting Billy know
- The heartbreakingly simple truth
- Villainy so virtuoso
- Everybody thinks I am
- Not what we want
- A thing with feathers
Tag Archives: rugby
Exeter’s Excellence
click here for the article on Rugby Pass You can usually find out a little bit more about your club side during the Six Nations. Shorn of key men, clubs can either step up or wilt. There are a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged exeter chiefs, Gallagher Premiership, rugby, Rugby union, Saracens
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Money is a terrible master
Saracens. A bastard child of rugby and business. Born from an ugly coming together. Now shamed, shunned and spat out into the wilderness. It was a partnership that had us all a little bit worried. Rugby with its need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Gallagher Premiership, premiership rugby, rugby, Rugby union, salary cap, Saracens
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More important than rugby
Amongst the thrashings of a penultimate week of Super Rugby, an old favourite is limbering up. If Saracens are unbeatable in Northern Hemisphere club rugby, their equal and opposite are the Canterbury Crusaders. Many have wondered who would win if … Continue reading
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Tagged Brive, Canterbury Crusaders, ireland rugby, london irish, new zealand, Paddy Jackson, rugby, Rugby union, Sevu Reece, Stuart Olding
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You just can’t beat them
The word being used was boring. Saracens and Exeter were both called it. Curious, if you’ve ever really watched them play. Watched them do their stuff without the pull of club loyalty shutting one of your eyes. For boring, you … Continue reading
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Tagged england rugby, exeter chiefs, Gallagher Premiership, rugby, Rugby union, Saracens
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Alacritous England end Ireland’s reign
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly…” Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII. Alacrity is a lovely word. And few better sum up the way England set about Ireland in the opening round of … Continue reading
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Tagged eddie jones, england rugby, ireland rugby, rugby, Rugby union, six nations
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53-52
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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Anatomy of a feint No.3
Sam Underhill’s running style is distinct. Indeed, it isn’t really a run, it’s a scamper. His shoulders are hunched, his body compact, perhaps from all of those lung puncturing tackles he makes. As he gallops, his head is pushed slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged All Blacks, eddie jones, england, england rugby, new zealand rugby, rugby, Rugby union, Sam Underhill
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