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Opinion
Five All Blacks Dave Rennie should turn to for decisive Soweto Test
“There’s genuine competition in this squad right across the park and that’s the way you want it. There have been some good t…
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Top 14 season 2026-27 preview: Which teams are tooled up to stop another Toulouse title?
The French top tier has flexed over the past two seasons, but Toulouse have been the one constant. Will the champions make history…
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What is Australia’s first-choice team and how far does depth go, a year out from RWC27?
Les Kiss still has to settle on his optimum back-row combination, midfield pairing and back-up half-backs.
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Jordie Barrett on lingering high-ball issues: 'It turns into a bit of a lottery'
"Yeah, like if you just looked at the last Test, we kicked very little contestables. The ones we did kick, we did win back," Barr…
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Forget McZanno or McRizz; Tom Hooper has just blown that experiment out of the water
The debate about having McReight and Tizzano on the field together is moot, not to mention the conversation surrounding what the d…
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International
Opinion
It's time rugby took a leaf out of football's book
Do you want to buy a monorail? On Monday, at a four-star hotel in northern Johannesburg, Rassie Erasmus called out the names of…
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All Blacks to 'double down' on Dave Rennie's blueprint for third Boks Test
The All Blacks won't be going into their shells at FNB Stadium in this weekend's pivotal third Test of the Greatest Rivalry series…
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‘Pollock, stop, you're going to piss people off': England star reflects on Argentina tour and 'lack of respect' claims
England tighthead prop Joe Heyes has conceded that their changing room was "loud enough for me to leave," after Argentina coach Fe…
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‘Not always easy to understand’: Bok scrum coach responds to accusations
South Africa scrum coach Daan Human has emphatically asserted that he has "never coached" his side to walk around in the scrum, ad…
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International
Interview
Shaunagh Brown: 'It can get boring to win by so much so often'
Former England prop Shaunagh Brown is certain that the Red Roses are looking forward to a "proper challenge" in the WXV Global Ser…
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‘Pre-season seems to contain a mind-altering opiate that erases all ills from the past season and floods the brain with enriching optimism’
With no annoying league table to offer a crushing reality check, a swirling world of possibilities await every club for the campai…
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Johnnie Beattie: 'Royal Marines, sabotaged rowing machines and drinking from cement mixers' - a player's eye view of pre-season
From night watches on a Royal Air Force camp to scoffing oysters in the port of Montpellier, pre-season is a demanding, eventful a…
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