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• Armitage brothers extend Irish contracts

  
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  • I want to be here to lift silverware, says Delon • There is no other club I want to be at, adds Steffon Delon Armitage has his sights on delivering silverware to London Irish after signing an extension to his contract with the club. The England full-back has committed himself to the Exiles until 2012 with his ...
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• Heineken Cup should abolish seeding

  
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  Beware the perils of seeding in the Heineken Cup, warns Brendan Gallagher.
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• Lewis Moody heads for Six Nations in the form of his life

  
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  Lewis Moody, the England flanker, bounces back in time for Six Nations.
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• Anyone for an Aussie summer of Sevens?

  
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  Following on from my article about the Adelaide Sevens, the other idea for Sevens rugby that I alluded to is an Australian domestic program for the format. As others have commented extensively about, in many ways Sevens rugby is a different format to Fifteens, with slightly different skill sets. A top Fifteens ...
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• Championship rugby review

  
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  Bristol displace Exeter as league leaders with bonus-point 25-16 win in top-of-the-table clash at Sandy Park.
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• Harlequins 20-21 Wasps

  
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  Harlequins 20-21 Wasps The stage was ready for his spectacular entry, as a record crowd of 76,716 gathered for a west London rugby derby at a crisp and festive setting for Big Game 2. He surely would not let the occasion ruffle his gilded feathers. No, the sea eagle duly delivered the match ball on to a podium in ...
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• Guinness Premiership: Newcastle 15-16 Leeds

  
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  Newcastle 15-16 Leeds Could it be the start of the great escape? Leeds looked dead and buried at the bottom of the Premiership a month ago but this victory at Kingston Park in appalling conditions was their third in a row – if you include their two European Challenge Cup wins – and they take on second-bottom Bath ...
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• Magners League: Glasgow 25-12 Edinburgh

  
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  Glasgow 25-12 Edinburgh The past 11 inter-city derbies in Scotland had gone to the home team and that long run was extended today when Glasgow claimed the local bragging rights and top spot in the table. Edinburgh were wearing a garish one-off strip that looked like it had been through the wash with Katie Prices ...
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• London Irish 23-19 Saracens

  
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  London Irish 23-19 Saracens The crowds pouring out of Twickenham may have disagreed but perhaps it was this game at Reading that deserved the billing of the Big Game. It was certainly the pivotal match of the season with Saracens hopes of beginning the year as the Premierships only unbeaten side foiled by an Exiles ...
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• Premiership: Bath 24-8 Gloucester

  
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  Bath 24-8 Gloucester The West Country will be glad to be shot of 2009. With Bristol relegated back to the Championship in the summer, Bath and Gloucester, two clubs at the wrong end of the Premiership, spent 74 minutes this afternoon gripped in the most dire of derbies. Redemption, if that is the right word, came ...
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• Premiership: Leicester 32-6 Sale

  
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  Leicester 32-6 Sale An old-fashioned game was what the Leicester chief executive, Peter Wheeler, requested in his column in the match programme and, assuming the former England hooker had in mind an error-strewn but agreeably full-blooded and forward-dominated encounter in which the Tigers more or less dictated terms ...
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• London Irish 23-19 Saracens

  
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  London Irish 23-19 Saracens London Irish ended Saracens unbeaten Premiership record in a highly competitive top-of-the-table battle at the Madejski Stadium. The visitors led until 10 minutes from the end, despite wasting opportunities to extend their six-point advantage by attempting failed drop-goals. Elvis ...
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• Nicky Little guides Bath to victory over Gloucester

  
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  Bath 24-8 Gloucester Bath claimed their first Premiership home win since April after subduing Gloucester in the West Country derby at the Recreation Ground. The fly-half Nicky Little guided them to victory, landing four penalties as Bath prospered from Gloucesters indiscipline before the substitute Jack Cuthbert and ...
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• Leicester extend unbeaten home run with bonus point against Sale

  
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  Leicester 32-6 Sale Leicester extended their unbeaten home record to 24 matches but made hard work of subduing a depleted Sale at Welford Road. Sale made 11 changes to the side that started last weeks Heineken Cup game against Harlequins but they ensured the home side had to graft for the victory. Leicester only ...
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• Leicester 32 Sale 6

  
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  LEICESTER extended their unbeaten home record to 24 matches but made desperately hard work of subduing depleted Guinness Premiership rivals Sale at a packed Welford Road. Sale made 11 changes to the side that started last weeks Heineken Cup game against Harlequins but they made the home side graft for their victory.
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• The Wallabies’ decade in review

  
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  If Australian rugby was a patient on the couch of a psychiatrist, and their past decade was under review, the undeniable prognosis would be, “Sir, you are the idiot savant of Australian sport.” Since 1999, the Wallabies have reached the heights of World Cup glory in 1999 to the depths of nine consecutive Test ...
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• Harlequins light the way to Twickenham

  
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  Danny Care has promised the action will live up to the hype after 75,000 are lured to watch Harlequins face Wasps When Mark Evans first came to London he had two impressions to offer to his friends back in his native Cardiff. The first was that rugby in the capital of England was every bit as good as back home, and ...
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• Worcester 6-26 Northampton

  
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  Worcester 6-26 Northampton What began as nothing more than a well-planned raid across the Midlands turned into something of a seasonal carnival for Northampton. On the back foot for much of the encounter, they went from poaching penalties to running in tries to remain on track for a finish in the top four of the ...
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• Worcester Warriors 6 Northampton Saints 26: match report

  
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  Northampton extend winning run to eight games thanks to two moments of inspiration from Ben Foden.
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• Scarlets 14-21 Ospreys

  
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  Scarlets 14-21 Ospreys The Ospreys moved to the top of the Magners League, if only temporarily ahead of this evenings matches in Ireland, and looked ominously strong as they gradually quietened the largest crowd so far attracted to Parc y Scarlets. The Scarlets remain one off the bottom of the table with two ...
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