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Women's Six Nations 2023: Saturday to be bruising but real tests come after for Scotland
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Friday, 24 March 2023 09:54
In the final game of last season's Women's Six Nations, Ireland scored in the last seconds to deny Scotland a victory they desperately craved. Four defeats out of four became five out of five, which meant a place at the foot of the table, cut adrift from the rest. To the Scots, there was a weary familiarity about it all.…
Leicester Tigers: Shared captaincy about 'team of leaders', says Julian Montoya
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Friday, 24 March 2023 07:06
Julian Montoya has said he continues to rely on Hanro Liebenberg's leadership after splitting Leicester Tigers' captaincy with the South African.Tigers have won all four matches since Montoya became "matchday captain".Boss Richard Wigglesworth has said Liebenberg is still Tigers skipper, despite taking the role away from the back-rower for games he is involved in."It's not about an individual, it's about…
Johnny Sexton: Cullen unsure whether injured fly-half's Leinster season is over
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Friday, 24 March 2023 04:46
Leo Cullen has said he does not know whether Johnny Sexton will play again for Leinster this season after being injured in Ireland's win over England.Sexton, 37, sustained a groin injury late in Ireland's Grand Slam-clinching victory last weekend."I don't know is the honest answer," said the Leinster coach about Sexton's prospects of playing again this season."I'm not expecting anything.…
Gloucester: Albert Tuisue, Val Rapava-Ruskin & Giorgi Kveseladze out for season
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Friday, 24 March 2023 04:25
Gloucester's Albert Tuisue, Val Rapava-Ruskin and Giorgi Kveseladze have been ruled out for the rest of the season because of injury. Prop Rapava-Ruskin is to have surgery on a knee problem after the 30-year-old impressed in 16 appearances this term.Georgia centre Kveseladze, 25, injured a hamstring while on international duty this month. "We've been hugely unfortunate this season with the…
Dave Ewers: Exeter Chiefs forward ready to show 'how much this club means to me'
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Friday, 24 March 2023 02:57
"I want to show the boys here, the coaches and the fans, how much this club means to me," Dave Ewers told BBC Sport.Exeter's man-mountain back-row will leave the club in the summer after a career that has seen him win everything there is to win in domestic rugby. But the club, and the city, are much more to Ewers…
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