Posts Tagged "Sam Warburton"

This weekend the British and Lions played a near-full strength provincial side and only just had enough gas to take what the Reds threw at them.

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Sam Warburton says his Welsh side’s string of heart-breaking losses to the Wallabies makes him even more confident the British and Irish Lions can end their 16-year rugby tour drought in Australia.

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Tour captain Sam Warburton is jumping out of his skin to make his British and Irish Lions debut on Saturday night in their toughest pre-Test challenge against Queensland at Suncorp Stadium.

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British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton is in doubt for this week’s tour opener against the Barbarians after sitting out training in Hong Kong with a knee problem.

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British and Irish Lions rookie Sam Warburton insists he’ll be comfortable captaining a squad featuring two former skippers on the tour of Australia.

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The 2013 British and Irish squad was announced by the team’s manager, the fabulous Scots fullback Andy Irvine, in alphabetical order.

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As expected, Welsh flanker Sam Warburton will captain the British and Irish Lions to tour Australia next month, but legendary fly-half Jonny Wilkinson was overlooked.

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Sam Warburton insists it won’t bother him if he never regains the Wales captaincy even though his reticence could deprive him of the honour of leading the British and Irish Lions in Australia.

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Wales took on England at the weekend, running out 30-3 winners and retaining the Six Nations title in the process.

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Wales captain Sam Warburton is adamant the fact the Six Nations Grand Slam champions have lost their last seven Tests will count for little when they begin their title defence at home to Ireland on February 2.

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The Second Test between the Wallabies and Wales is over. Wales lost it, but Australia didn’t win it.

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Leigh Halfpenny has hailed the on and off-field leadership of Wales captain Sam Warburton as the flanker prepares to lead the Six Nations champions on their three-Test tour of Australia.

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Gavin Henson has been both the golden boy, and the bad boy, of Welsh rugby for some time now. In 2001, he was named IRB International Young Player of the Year and according to some news reports, he beat a certain Dan Carter to the award.

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After 62 minutes of a hard, engrossing Test between Wales and France at Millennium Stadium on Saturday, the visitors tried to spark one of their sporadic but menacing counter-attacks with the scoreboard favouring the Welsh at 13-6.

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Wales has recalled Gavin Henson for rugby’s Six Nations, handing the centre what could be a last chance to re-establish himself at international level.

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Wales coach Warren Gatland has made six changes to his team for the one-off Test against Australia at the Millennium Stadium.

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Wales coach Warren Gatland has revealed he considered cheating after his captain Sam Warburton was sent off in the Rugby World Cup semi-final defeat by France.

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The calculations and recalculations are well underway for the quarter-final aspirants in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, and judging by the quality of matches thus far – generally speaking, of course – the knockout stage of the tournament will help maintain the stupid grins on the faces of rugby fans for a few more weeks [...]

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