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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoCrisis time for Boks as their lock stocks dip | Chris Hewett
PITY the poor Springboks. Three years after arming themselves with the most potent quartet of second row forwards ever seen at...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoSteffon Armitage still having his go in France | Chris Hewett
BACK in 2010, when one or two suckers for journalistic punishment were huddled together on a God-forsaken touchline in Hamilton...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoEuropean Boks have inside gen on the Lions | Chris Hewett
Modern Springbok coaches fall into two camps: far-sighted progressives like Kitch Christie, Jake White and Rassie Erasmus – people who...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoDave Rennie may find principles changing | Chris Hewett
DAVE RENNIE is a New Zealander from the Tana Umaga corner of Wellington’s metropolitan area and like virtually ever other Kiwi...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoMacGinty’s great – time his country caught up | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett believes AJ MacGinty is in the form of his life for Sale Sharks
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoAntoine Dupont is Gareth Edwards MkII | Chris Hewett
Does Antoine Dupont remind you of anyone?
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoReferees go upstairs more than Casanova | Chris Hewett
Half an hour into a bristling, bruising West Country derby in the early 1990s, the genial Bristol beanpole Andy Blackmore was...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoLions 1997 – from the players themselves
WE’VE seen and heard so much of it, so many times: Ian McGeechan’s “No words, just a look” speech; Jim Telfer’s...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoTackling is important too, Quins and Wasps! | Chris Hewett
Matches of anarchy and a more balanced proportion between attack and defence can serve us two very different specatcles, equally entertaining
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThese men are the pride of All the Lions for last 20 years
Chris Hewett picks, position by position, the best Lions XV from the professional era The idea of rugby selection as an...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoBall seems incidental to red-card Boklanders | Chris Hewett
Allowing aggression to set the tone for a match is something the Springboks have been notorious for
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoBT Sport must stay in rugby if only for our sanity | Chris Hewett
Can BT Sport rope in more rugby rights to save rugby fans from a fragmented landscape?
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoCould fan power stop Super League in rugby? | Chris Hewett
After a bitter week in football fuelled by greed, Chris Hewett considers whether fan power in rugby bears any weight against...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoAlex Mitchell has that Melville quality | Chris Hewett
BACK in the early 1980s, a time when there were no arguments about ring-fencing in England because there weren’t any leagues...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoKeep politics out of rugby? You’re joking! | Chris Hewett
Rugby Union has its flaws, but a thin skin is not among them. The game has the hide of an armadillo,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoLimit the poundage to reduce injuries | Chris Hewett
SO THE New Zealanders are suddenly worried about the injury fall-out from Super Rugby Aotearoa. Welcome to the 21st century. Players...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoGourdon proves big is not the best policy | Chris Hewett
Rugby's struggles with David and Goliath statures for forwards can often by a headscratcher, writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoIsrael Folau row looks set for re-run in Tonga | Chris Hewett
Folau's journey into cyberspace should inhibit any return to Test rugby, after recent comments by Tonga's head coach that he would...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThat Rome weekend puts block on Georgia | Chris Hewett
If Italy are not all washed up as a permanent member of the Six Nations elite –a sporting society so exclusive,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWayne Smith may spark new Kiwi dominance | Chris Hewett
Wayne Smith played a bigger role in the 2015 All Blacks side than you may think, writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoJohn Eales was the best | Chris Hewett
ANOTHER Wayne Smith, the highly accomplished rugby correspondent of The Australian, is calling it a day after half a century on...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoOh no, the Beast has made a twit of himself! | Chris Hewett
Rugby has a new law – as if the game needed another one – and the way things are going, it...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoWallabies Rugby World Cup challenge is blooming in Brisbane sun | Chris Hewett
Success in France in two years' time for Australia will rest on the crop of young players emerging under Brad Thorn...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoStopwatch away! It’s quality time that counts | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett examines rugby's rugby tape law regulations that could do with being cut to simplify the sport for the masses
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoFishermen of Cornwall | Chris Hewett
THIS is a bit of a stretch, admittedly, but if Cornish Pirates beat Saracens to promotion, just as they beat them...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoThorley’s big crime? He’s just too fast!
OLLIE Thorley, the highly-watchable Gloucester wing, will be on a watching brief himself for the next month following the latest sitting...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoFarrell’s red mist is black spot in captaincy traits | Chris Hewett
How many bases need to be covered in what makes a Test-level captain? Chris Hewett explores after seeing the likes of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoFiji magic’s everywhere – except in World Cup | Chris Hewett
Could England hand a call-up to Bristol Bears flyer Siva Naulago?
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoFuture of rugby is threated by cheap shots | Chris Hewett
MIDWAY through the blizzard of red cards that carpeted the Premiership last weekend, one of the commentators was heard to say...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoShaun Edwards is just latest proof that League ideas work | Chris Hewett
The Wigan Warriors great is making an easy going of Union, Chris Hewett presents the Edwards Defence
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoNo-one got a word in when Nigel Owens was the ref, not even Farrell | Chris Hewett
As people expose Owen Farrell's vocal hounding of referee Mike Adamson, Chris Hewett says Nigel Owens was one man who wouldn't...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoNo wonder BT are miffed | Chris Hewett
Will viewers bother to watches matches, that may well be played at a high intensity, even it there are no connotations...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoEdgy, the thinking man’s super hero | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett pays a very personal tribute to Bath and England No.8 David Egerton
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 years agoCarwyn’s words had the ring of rugby truth
by CHRIS HEWETT The Six Nations champions’ abject surrender of the Calcutta Cup unleashed a torrent of jokes, the sharpest of...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoReturn of the ruck will save our game | Chris Hewett
Bring on the counter-ruck by taking out the 'ball-killers', writes Chris Hewett
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBig freeze at World Rugby | Chris Hewett
SO World Rugby, the non-governing governing body, continues to move at the speed of stasis in reshaping the global calendar. Nothing...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoSix Nations round table: Grand Slam or not, let’s see some style!
The Rugby Paper's annual round table Six Nations debate looks a little different this year, but the discussion is just as...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoDjokovic should take notice of Eddie | Chris Hewett
Eddie Jones' perfect quip in response to tennis' deluded anti-vaxxer, Novak Djokovic, after his outspoken views on Australia's Covid-19 restrictions
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoEnemies of academies get their facts wrong | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett looks at how solid production within Premiership academies doesn't always prove to be a saving grace
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoTime to stop humiliating teams at World Cups | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett looks at how some of the Tier 2 nations have a tall ask of progressing from World Cup pool...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoCameron Redpath must tread own path to the top | Chris Hewett
Ex-England U20 Redpath should not be persecuted for taking the decision to make every go of Test rugby with Scotland, writes...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThe Eagles need to start flying | Chris Hewett
Will rugby ever smash its way into the mainstream of sport Stateside?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoThe Boks are all deserting their barren rugby land | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett bemoans the overloading of South African talent across European teams, and the effects on rugby in South Africa itself
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoUncapped, yet so special this team of club heroes | Chris Hewett
Chris Hewett builds a team of leadership and impact players who have not received full credit for the value their give...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoAlfie Barbeary could become The Boss – but not yet | Chris Hewett
Barbeary's time out with gives teams plenty of changes to identify weaknesses to his seemingly unstoppable game
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoMatera’s new video won’t hide his nasties | Chris Hewett
THIS column is no friend of Pablo Matera and his fellow Pumas, the lock Guido Petti and the hooker Santiago Socino....
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLast laugh for donkies in earning rates among pro players | Chris Hewett
IT COMES as no great surprise that on average across the three major leagues in Europe, outside-halves command the biggest salaries....
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoPaul Gustard should tell it as it is more often | Chris Hewett
The Harlequins head of rugby Paul Gustard spoke honestly during an on-air interview during the defeat to Racing 92
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