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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 months agoA Tier Two XV to have you out of your seat
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points By Brendan Gallagher You won’t ever see my 2024...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 months agoLondon Welsh rise from ashes
Brendan Gallagher remembers when the exiles were the whipping boys - and how things have changed... A tale of redemption, what...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoMy take on the good, the bad and the ugly of rugby in 2024
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A Weekly look at the game's other talking points The Good Lorenzo Pani: His exquisitely...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoMy Christmas day XV
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game's other talking points by Brendan Gallagher Backs 15 Mark Mapletoft (England): Born...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoMY CHRISTMAS DAY XV
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Versatile: Mark Mapletoft lines up a kick for...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoMY CHRISTMAS DAY XV
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Versatile: Mark Mapletoft lines up a kick for...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoHellfire Corner gives a warm welcome to all
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game's other talking points Rugby was undergoing a massive boom...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoThe Six Nations logo is an AI experiment that’s gone wrong
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game's other talking points I see the new Six Nations...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 months agoGood to see the Eagles soaring again
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points - By Brendan Gallagher That's a wrap for the autumn...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 months agoTime to recognise Etzebeth’s talents
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S THE World Rugby annual awards tonight, held...
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/ 9 months agoWhy does it always go wrong in the last quarter for England?
By Brendan Gallagher Where do England minds go in the final quarter of big rugby games? Why do they lose focus...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 months agoChalking off White’s try was a mistake
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER No try: Ben White’s touchdown was ruled out...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 months agoLet’s get truth on Eddie’s regime
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Trying times: Eddie Jones coaching England PICTURES: Alamy...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 months agoDon’t let these tasty clashes pass you by
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S always famine or feast with international rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 months agoCall time on this pantomime ploy
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS 60-second shot clock twaddle. If we must...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 months agoConfused path to rules of combat
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Man in the middle: Former Wasps prop Will...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 months agoMark Ella & Co were the true pass masters
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Nineteen eighty four might have been...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 months agoAntoine Dupont & Co need to take on the very best
Rugby Matters By Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game's other talking points I think we established long ago...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 months agoLos Pumas have worked hard to forge own identity
Brendan Gallagher reports on how one country has built a rugby stronghold down in South America There was a time back...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoDrop group action and examine selected cases
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game's other talking points by Brendan Gallagher I was very struck the other...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months ago15 who have a chance to shine in the Premiership
Brendan Gallagher selects a team of young, and not so young, players in the Premiership to keep an eye on this...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoRugby Rivalries that don’t stand the test of time
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Eyes down all you pub quiz...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoTime for Steve Borthwick to prove his worth
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s talking points By Brendan Gallagher Honeymoon periods are not set in stone...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoTime we stopped indulging the haka
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE is so much disingenuous hypocritical twaddle surrounding...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 months agoCatch this team of nations on camera
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER FLY on the wall sporting documentaries seem to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 months agoJames will prove to be a star at Racing
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER HERE’S a little prediction that will either leave...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 months agoVivre Le Stade! I’m smitten by fabulous stadium
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 months agoRoad to next World Cup lacks jeopardy
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points UNLESS I’ve missed something pertinent – and it’s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoHow the sun keeps shining for Spain
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoIt was good to see Scotland support for T2
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoRichardis goes the distance with pearler of a kick
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Delight: Spain U20 celebrate victory over Fiji PICTURE:...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoNo stopping the American battlers
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S exactly 100 years ago since France and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoDon’t let our sport move to summer
RUGBY MATTERS NOT for the first time I offer a heartfelt warning against those who continue to argue for a switch...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoSpanish youngsters show how to tackle low
RUGBY MATTERS I DON’T know if you caught any of Spain’s game against Italy at the Junior World Cup last Sunday...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoInjury and illness can’t stop the fun
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S time to dip back into the 1974...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoDon’t lose Six Nations bonus on a Sunday
By Brendan Gallagher There have been more reports recently about the Six Nations wanting to do away with Sunday games and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoThere’s more than money to Toulouse
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER There have, rightly, been acres of words written...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoDangers of brain trauma not new
The perceived wisdom is that rugby was not overly aware of the dangers of concussion and brain trauma back in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoScratch XV that downed Boks
Brendan Gallagher was at Sixways when a National League One team caused a big upset - here he looks back to the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year ago25 years on and it’s still a special place
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It was the 25th anniversary of the first-ever...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoTry from the end of the world…
Brendan Gallagher looks back to 1994 when New Zealand last lost at Eden Park, beaten by a brilliant French team that...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoThere is no warm welcome for Spain
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Gone but still winning. Sort of! London Irish...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoTeam Brittany show what might have happened in Cornwall
RUGBY MATTERS GO west young man. The phrase, attributed to American newspaper editor Horace Greeley, became a byword for the expansion...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoIt’s close but Dupont edges out Edwards
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Your columnist fell in love with rugby watching...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoPortugal looking to old guard
RUGBY MATTERS SCRUM-HALF and former skipper Samuel Marques is not the only Portuguese veteran being tempted out of retirement this summer...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoPink city deserves its place at the top
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Anybody watching the crowd scenes in front...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoGood to see the winners party like they meant it
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Well it was good to see the Sharks celebrate on Friday night like the European Challenge Cup really meant...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoThe time Tony did plenty of learning
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It might surprise some to learn that...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoLawes is level with England’s greatest
RUGBY MATTERS Members of the Rugby Writers club have recently been voting for the Pat Marshall award which we scribes use...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoMias made his mark in land of the giants als
Lucien Mias, below, who died this week aged 93, was never a giant of a man physically but when the force...
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