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/ 4 years agoWinning a breakdown was my greatest joy
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER BRUMBIES, BATH, LEICESTER AND EXETER FLANKER TURNED DEFENCE COACH JULIAN SALVI WHEN I look back...
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/ 4 years agoWhen we lost in France the butcher blanked me
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER ROTHERHAM, SALE, BOURGOIN, LONDON WELSH AND LEICESTER HOOKER NEIL BRIGGS When you think about the carefully...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Jeremy Davidson: Beating the Boks was pinnacle of my career
Now running things up at Brive, Jeremy Davidson reflects on his time as a Lion
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/ 4 years agoI had to tell Cov players there was no cash left
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER BIRMINGHAM- SOLIHULL PLAYER AND COACH WHO WAS ALSO ONCE IN CHARGE OF WORCESTER, STOURBRIDGE AND...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Dom Barrow: Defeat to Racing left me crying at kitchen table
Dom Barrow's retirement at the age of 26 was a surprise to all, but the former Leicester and England U20s lock...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Geoff Evans: Poisoned anchovies sabotaged my tour
Former British & Irish Lions centre Geoff Evans details a hellish night at the team hotel in 1974
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/ 4 years agoPlayers lost their kit in a daze every week
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER RICHMOND AND ESHER FLY-HALF ROB KIRBY My time at Christchurch Boys High in New Zealand was...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Kieran Murphy: Insulted in French, but I couldn’t understand!
The former Scarlets, Brive, London Welsh and Ealing Trailfinders will head for a job in the City
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Ashley Johnson: World Cup snub led me to Wasps
LIKE any black player growing up in South Africa, you couldn’t be mediocre, you couldn’t just be another talent, you had...
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/ 4 years agoDream stay at Pirates delivered big break
MY LIFEIN RUGBY BRISTOL BEARS WOMEN’S HEAD COACH AND FORMER BATH, NORTHAMPTON, SALE, CORNISH PIRATES, HARLEQUINS AND AMPTHILL HOOKER/FLANKER DAVE WARD...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Aled Brew: Ko’d by Burger after my World Cup try
After my time at Bath ended, I still had a little bit of fire left in the belly, as they say,...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Alex Davies: My first year at Leeds was the fondest of all
SOMEONE pointed out to me that winning silverware doesn’t happen very often so I can count myself as one of the...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Neil Doak: Lara wicket highlight of my international career!
SPORT has played a huge part in my life. I played quite a lot of sports – football, golf, tennis –...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Chris Czekaj: I won Challenge Cup after leg break horror
FOUR years after I’d scored on my Wales debut in 2005 against Canada, I did so again in the same corner...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Dougie Flockhart: We took Bristol to the wire in play-off
THE Dumfries Primary 4 tournament, aged six or seven, was my first taste of rugby. Up until that point I was...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Ian Nimmo: Leicester lads had me labelled as strange
THE FORMER LEICESTER, COVENTRY, NOTTINGHAM, CORNISH PIRATES, NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS, LONDON IRISH AND LONDON WELSH LOCK RIGHT the way through my...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Nick Popplewell: Life with the Lions was such a contrast for me
THE Lions tour to New Zealand in 1993 was the trip of a lifetime, I suppose in rugby terms it was...
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/ 4 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Sean Scanlon: Rotherham were the fancy dress champs
Former Nottingham, Munster, Rotherham and Doncaster full-back Sean Scanlon reflects on his rugby career
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Kevin Maggs: Connolly and Foley ruined my Bath team
The Bristol, Bath, Ulster and Ireland centre discusses his career which had plenty of twists and bends
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Leicester Tigers wing Steve Hackney
Steve Hackney reflects on his rugby career that spanned across spells with Loughborough University, Leicester Tigers and Waterloo
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Cobus Visagie: Highs and lows of being a modern-day gladiator
ALTHOUGH my final surge into the top tier of world rugby was sudden in 1999, I was very blessed to have...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England flanker Mickey Skinner
A deeper look at the career of the iconic back row, revered for more than just the Cecillon tackle in '91
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Orrell and Leicester fly-half Gerry Ainscough
The man who came from Wigan to set things alight at Orrell during the 1980s
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo
Former Cornish Pirates, Yorkshire Carnegie and Benetton back Di Bernardo reflects on his career
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Wallabies, Reds, and Worcester full-back Chris Latham
Latham shares the stadium where he delighted in playing rugby and how Jason Robinson was one of his toughest tests in...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Sale Sharks back row Apollo Perelini
A teammate of Scott Gibbs in league, an opponent of Martin Johnson's in age-grade union, read Perelini's dual-code tales
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Hadyn Thomas
Thomas also played for Gloucester and Bristol but remembers the Championship final drama of ten years ago most
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Scotland and Saracens lock Tom Ryder
Jon Newcombe talks to the player who introduced the Tiki Tiki Tonga song to Saracens
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath and England captain Phil de Glanville
A captaincy with England which started with its challenges after succeeding Will Carling
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former USA Eagles captain, Leicester and Cardiff Blues full-back Blaine Scully
Scully explains how his career started Stateside and drew the attention of Leicester in 2013
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Playing for British & Irish Lions was most special honour for Rory Underwood
England's all-time leading tryscorer played in a World Cup and was a spectator at the 2003 triumph in Sydney
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Scotland, Leicester, Edinburgh and London Irish back Greig Tonks
The versatile Scotland international lives in the comfort of having no regrets at retiring, aged 30
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Argentina, Gloucester and Leeds winger Diego Albanese
From debut against Uruguay to the 1995 Rugby World Cup just a few months later
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Wasps openside flanker Paul Volley
The No.7 talks Jon Newcombe through his time at Wasps, Castres, Harlequins and London Scottish
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Canada, Sale, London Welsh and Esher utility back Phil MacKenzie
Three relegations haven't dampened the Canadian's outlook on his time in English club rugby
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Pontypridd, Dragons and Cardiff fly-half Lee Jarvis
Jarvis reveals what it was like for him to practice with Neil Jenkins when he was on the fringe of Pontypridd's...
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Wallabies great Michael Lynagh
Former Queensland, Benetton and Saracens fly-half recalls the most entertaining Test he played in
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Ulster and Northampton No.8 Roger Wilson
A 15-year rugby career saw the back row play for Ulster, Northampton and Ireland
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England Sevens star Christian Lewis-Pratt
Lewis-Pratt also played XVs for Northampton, Leeds Tykes and London Irish
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Leicester Tiger back Matt Smith
Now Leicester Tigers academy head coach after retiring last season
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/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former England captain Catherine Spencer
TRP columnist features in our My Life in Rugby section
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former London Irish and Scotland forward Kieran Low
A remarkable story of a player who reached the heights but can't recall some moments due to concussion
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Wasps, Bath and Yorkshire Carnegie prop Charlie Beech
Now shifting his career into an office after 15 years in the front row
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Ireland prop Paul Wallace
One of the Lions' victorious tourists to win in South Africa in 1997
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Saracens and Namibia flanker Jacques Burger
Jon Newcombe talks to the ferocious back row forward on how his career began in desperate circumstances at Griquas
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath, Toulon and Sharks scrum-half Michael Claassens
A player who loved running out at The Rec before stints with Toulon and the Sharks
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Scotland lock Scott MacLeod
A Scot who played against England twice in his international career and was victorious on both occasions
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Hugo Southwell: Former Scotland, Edinburgh, Stade Francais and Wasps full-back
Southwell recalls the World Cup heartache of 2007 when the Scots were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Argentina
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Italy full-back Luke McLean
Luke McLean talks World Cups and being coached as a debutant by Nick Mallett
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/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Gloucester, England and Lions prop Phil Blakeway
Phil Blakeway revels he the battles he had with Wales and France
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