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Six Nations matches in the USA! World Rugby say they want to host flagship games across the pond

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‘Munster Rugby haven’t trained here in 15 years’ – The inside story of how Waterford’s huge rugby population, undergoing a grassroots revival, is waiting to be tapped into by a province that needs all the help it can find…

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‘There’s a similar mindset at Gloucester to South Africa – and we’ve got amazing talent’: Giant Springbok lock JEAN KLEYN on choosing the West Country revolution over lucrative options elsewhere and forcing his way back into Rassie Erasmus’ squad

October 14, 2026

It was nearly the proper opening weekend for Jean Kleyn.Gloucester received their first recreation of the PREM season, thumping...

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Devastating Motor Neurone Disease blow for another Aussie sports star: Former Wallaby Nathan Charles, 37, reveals terrible diagnosis

October 14, 2026

By JOSH ALSTON, SPORTS REPORTER Printed: 02:29 BST, 1 October 2026 | Up to date: 22:13 BST, 3 October...

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‘No one should hide who they are. I’m just being me and if I can make money off that, then great!’ Saracens ALFIE BARBEARY, a.k.a. Captain Underpants, on being larger than life, being forced out of Bath and Brendan Venter’s horrible ‘fight test’

October 14, 2026

Sporting dishevelled tracksuit bottoms, a equally giant jumper, leather-based slippers and a beanie hat, Alfie Barbeary takes a seat...

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Munster offer club legend CEO role as other senior figures come under huge pressure, while insiders reveal damaging rift with IRFU

Keith Wooden is known to have been supplied the position of interim Munster CEO with extra change anticipated following...

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England Rugby World Cup hero looks unrecognisable after incredible switch to bodybuilding – can you guess who he is?

By WILL PICKWORTH, SPORTS REPORTER Revealed: 15:55 BST, 13 October 2026 | Up to date: 16:08 BST, 13 October...

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Desperate Lawrence Dallaglio gets just £54,000 for his Rugby World Cup winner’s medal and fails to sell much of his collection at auction amid bankruptcy after bitter divorce and ‘excessive spending’

Bankrupt England rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio has offered his 2003 World Cup winner's medal at an public sale for a...

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Saracens sack academy star Totoa Auvaa, 21, for punching a man at 2.15am in St Albans – four months after his ‘unprovoked attack’ on Gus Atkinson during infamous Chelsea nightclub trip with Ben Stokes

By ALEX BYWATER, SPORT REPORTER Printed: 17:44 BST, 12 October 2026 | Up to date: 21:46 BST, 12 October...

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The 10 England bolters ready to shake up Steve Borthwick’s squad this autumn: A 19-year-old Northampton flier, a Tongan-born wildcard in the centres, the hooker ‘built like cement’ and the 2003 World Cup winner’s son

After three rounds of try-filled PREM Rugby motion, consideration shifts to the beginning of the 2026-27 Champions Cup.It's also...

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MIRACLE MAN: Darcy Graham could return this week after swift recovery

By GRAEME MACPHERSON Revealed: 22:09 BST, 12 October 2026 | Up to date: 22:12 BST, 12 October 2026 Scotland...

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How Sale’s ‘Cement’ hooker Nathan Jibulu can ‘explode’ his way into England’s World Cup plans after delivering the most assured display of his career in front of Steve Borthwick

For Brendan Venter, Saracens' self-proclaimed wine specialist, this one had notes of frustration and disappointment.Sporting a T-shirt promoting a...

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Clonmel RFC uncovered: Behind the scenes at the Tipperary rugby club where Denis Leamy began his coaching career, a future Ulster and Ireland flanker cut his teeth and a local boy became an international prop… for the Philippines

Clonmel RFC's dwelling floor is thought affectionately as Ard Gaoithe.‘It means excessive wind and it’s at all times windy...

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The ‘mess’ that Harlequins can’t escape: Too many yes men, fears Marcus Smith could leave, pressure mounting on Jason Gilmore and Robbie Deans, recruitment errors and Quins legends’ anguish at ‘turning from a rugby club to a brand’

The vacant look on George Furbank's face after Gloucester scored their fifth strive of eight on Saturday mentioned completely...

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The three reasons why Harlequins fans can be positive despite worst start in 17 years, writes ALEX BYWATER

For many of this sport at a flat-as-a-pancake CorpAcq Stadium, Alex Sanderson regarded on helplessly as his Sale facet...

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Saracens chief Brendan Venter hits out at ‘autocratic’ PREM Rugby bosses for hitting club with £5,000 fine over his media no-shows – after club changed his title to ‘head of culture’ so he could swerve interviews

By ALEX BYWATER, SPORT REPORTER Revealed: 16:26 BST, 7 October 2026 | Up to date: 16:29 BST, 7 October...

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Who is the low-profile, ‘skinny out-half’ from New Zealand who Munster have chosen as interim CEO – and how does he plan to solve the problems at a crisis-hit province and bring back the glory days?

SIX days. That’s the size of time which elapsed between Munster asserting that Ian Flanagan was stepping down as...

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‘It was embarrassing – one of the lowest points of my career’: FREDDIE STEWARD on his England ‘wake-up call’ after being stripped of his ‘super-strength’, accepting Steve Borthwick’s challenge and why only trophies will do at Leicester

Freddie Steward is all smiles as his last dart lands proper within the coronary heart of the treble 20...

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Attack coaches explain why PREM is now a try-fest with Saints and Bristol leading the way – and how it could help England: Tackle height changes, dynamic back threes, the cat-and-mouse maul and the jackal clampdown

Certainly one of Brendan Venter’s early strikes as returning Saracens boss was to blast an intimidating refrain of howling...

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RORY KEANE: Blighted by Roger Randle, mediocrity, redundancies, a revolving door of coaches… then this week, finally, a smart move sees Avan Lee come in. But Munster can’t even get THAT right. A simple question, why all the secrecy?

Munster have been mired in mediocrity for an extended, very long time.Your entire operation has been blighted by controversy....

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Northampton’s try-fest victory over Bath took the biscuit and proves one thing: rugby’s lawmakers have shifted the balance TOO FAR in favour of attacking play, writes NIK SIMON

October 10, 2026

By NIK SIMON Revealed: 19:01 BST, 10 October 2026 | Up to date: 19:40 BST, 10 October 2026 At...

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England shoot themselves in the foot AGAIN as Argentina swoop for defence guru Shaun Edwards – Steve Borthwick and the RFU have missed a golden opportunity for much-needed coaching shake-up and this grave error will come back to haunt them

October 10, 2026

Shaun Edwards has signed with Argentina for subsequent yr’s World Cup, ending any probability the Wigan-born defence guru will...

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Newcastle’s new Kiwi star MAX HICKS on feeding his pet eel butter chicken, growing up on AFL and hockey, waterskiing, working on a building site with Exeter’s Ethan Roots and being compared to LeBron James – is an England call next?