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Hamish Bain: 'After my first ball-carry, I felt a finger in my eye... what?!'
Scotsman Hamish Bain has charted a nomadic existence featuring two league titles and skulduggery in France.
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How the Springboks may deploy young guns in mid-year Tests
Rassie Erasmus has fitness concerns over key players but a wealth of options to blood against Wales and Ireland
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Why Sebastian Cancelliere has fallen for Glasgow
The Argentine left home in difficult circumstances but has flourished in the wet Scottish city.
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'Fit players, elite players, struggle. You can see it in their eyes. They don’t know what’s hit them.'
Leinster are stacked with Irish superstars and the URC semi-final is a delicious hors d'oevre ahead of the titanic Springbok Test …
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Leinster 'sitting on a sharp stick' for running of the Bulls
It's uplifting for the URC that Ireland's most successful province are under pressure to deliver in Pretoria.
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Borthwick's Babes primed to take New Zealand by storm
With Test centurions Owen Farrell, Ben Youngs and Courtney Lawes absent, there is a youthful feel to England's touring party
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'Enmity and history as Munster and Glasgow collide with URC final spot at stake'
In the age of contrived hype, this Celtic feud is a brilliant and important element of the URC.
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Noah Lolesio: 'I've experienced all the ups and downs of international footy'
The fly-half is relaxed about the prospect of a Wallabies recall as he aims to steer Brumbies to the SRP final.
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Leinster have made their big call, but something still needs to change
The battle to replace Johnny Sexton at No 10 has intensified but can Leo Cullen's province really sustain five out-halves?
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'Worst-case scenario' leaves All Blacks short of locks to face England
Injuries and retirements have decimated Scott Robertson's second-row options for his first Tests in charge.
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Ukraine: 'We have lost so many players to the war, I have no words for how revolting it is'
The Ukrainian rugby community shares its resolve to keep the sport going amid the horrors of war.
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Why a Northampton Saints title was crucial for the Premiership
Phil Dowson's men are England's standard-bearers and play an attacking style which is so brilliantly marketable for the league.
