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Andy Farrell confirms David Nucifora among Lions appointments

RTE 28 Jan 2025
David Nucifora has been confirmed as a member of Andy Farrell's backroom team with the British and Irish Lions next summer, while Farrell has also included Aled Walters and Vinnie Hammond from his Irish rugby staff.
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Pieter-Steph de Toit undergoes shoulder surgery: What it means for the Springboks

Independent online (SA) 28 Jan 2025
If Du Toit is back at the end of May, he will have just over a month to get rugby fit ahead of the Springboks first home Test against Italy on July 5. The Boks may even decide to use the two Tests ...
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Welshman officially joins British and Irish Lions set-up as Farrell welcomes trio to team

Yahoo Daily News 28 Jan 2025
... them was watching the 1989 Australia Tour as an eight-year-old and celebrating Ieuan Evans’ try in the third Test," said Walters, who joins the Lions on secondment from the Irish Rugby Football Union.
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Record numbers of UK Anti-Doping whistleblowers come forward

Yahoo Daily News 28 Jan 2025
UKAD’s most recent report, from December and covering July – and the Olympics – to September 2024, shows that it carried out 2,206 anti-doping tests, with the most samples being taken from football, rugby, cricket, athletics and boxing.
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Ireland must rediscover attacking edge for England test

RTE 28 Jan 2025
Launching Sheehan from the bench could work two-fold; ease the 26-year-old’s return to Test rugby, while also providing an impact and a psychological edge for Ireland should they struggle in the opening half.
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Six Nations preview: Wales will do well to avoid another wooden spoon

The Irish Times 28 Jan 2025
Overview ... Those odds do not look remotely tempting, even for Welsh supporters. The list of players who’ve retired, at least from Test rugby, since they last claimed a title represents the passing of a golden generation ... And so, it’s come to pass ... .
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'Turn it into a retirement village': Inside the war of words over Eden Park

RNZ 28 Jan 2025
It's there in the photos framed on the wall from a 1937 All Blacks test match. It's sitting in Anton Oliver's rugby boots from 2001, presumably fumigated and placed inside a glass case.
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Rugby World Cup qualifiers focus for 'Ikale Tahi

RNZ 27 Jan 2025
Tonga Rugby Union chief executive 'Aisea Aholelei said their priority is to qualify for the world event ... Following the PNC, the Tonga Rugby is also looking at securing at least three Test matches during the October/November window.
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Wales cult hero Adam Jones brings back the feelgood factor as he mends rift with ...

The Daily Mail 27 Jan 2025
The prevailing mood in Wales’ press conferences last year was often dark with the team on a record run of 12 straight Test losses ... There was plenty of doom and gloom in Wales rugby in 2024 so Jones is a breath of fresh air.
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‘Time to move on’: All Blacks legends back Eden Park exit

NewstalkZB 27 Jan 2025
It will surprise some people because the rugby legend enjoyed some of the greatest moments of his career at the historic venue ... “But it needs to be multi-use, not just about rugby or sport ... The tally includes 17 of his 92 test matches.
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Six Nations history: Most wins, heaviest defeats, previous Grand Slams, best players in rugby tournament

Sportingnews 27 Jan 2025
At The Sporting News, we've compiled a history of the tournament, its format, most successful sides, and players who have stood the test of time and gone down in folklore as some of rugby's greatest ever ... 'Rugby's Greatest Championship'.
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Ollie Lawrence: ‘If you don’t dream big, you’re never going to get anywhere’

The Observer 26 Jan 2025
The Bath and England centre pauses, lost in thought, and then laughs when I suggest that if he could reel off an immediate answer he would be on his way to becoming Test rugby’s next head coach.
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Amazing tale of Scotland rugby star who played for the Lions ... and wasn't bad ...

The Daily Mail 26 Jan 2025
Even the owner is a Scottish rugby international, John Douglas ... Grandfather Alexander — a former president of the Scottish Rugby Union — can hardly bear it ... Incredibly, he’d started just for fun, to get fitter for rugby.
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Wales’ Dafydd Jenkins: ‘It’s about getting a bit of pride back in the badge’

The Observer 26 Jan 2025
Six Nations is the shining light of rugby and so much this year is hard to predict ... Shrewd judges such as Exeter’s director of rugby, Rob Baxter, suspect he will be a Test regular for a long time ... She loves the rugby.
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Freddie Steward ready for clash against Ireland two years on from his infamous red card ...

The Daily Mail 26 Jan 2025
Back to Dublin; the scene of the crime ... Ireland away in the Six Nations ... It was just wrong ... All hell broke loose when he was shown a red card ... ‘You’ve seen red cards ruin Test matches ... ‘Those emotions in Test match rugby are so heightened ... .

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