📚 Issue 26 of Rugby Journal is packed with unmissable rugby long reads, from Hannah Botterman, Dean Richards and Jamal Ford-Robinson to Newport RFC, Brixham and Castres.
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🇬🇪 At the crossroads between Europe and Asia, where history's most powerful empires fought their wars, Georgia are challenging rugby's world order, powered by 130kg props and the spirit of a three-century-old game of their own.
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🏴 In issue 25 we visit Jonathan Davies, as the cross-code Welsh legend looks back on his life and times, from the inspiring to the heart-breaking.
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👀 Inside the latest edition of issue 25 of your favourite print quarterly.
✍️ 📸 USA, Jonathan Davies, Meg Webb, Georgia, Dicky Evans, India, Matt Kvesic, Ikey Tigers, James Hook, London Scottish.
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🇺🇸Introducing our issue 25 cover and 14-page feature covering all the highs and the lows of American rugby. From pipe bombs, Dan Lyle, MLR and expelled champions to sevens success, fifteens failure and bankruptcy, it’s anything and everything, but never dull.
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🏉 Kojo Jecty spent 26 years as team manager at Rosslyn Park, before his final game last month. We spoke to the man himself and all the names and faces at the club about the impact he’s had.
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ROB BAXTER
The Exeter Chiefs DoR looks back on fifty years at Exeter rugby, how he built a double-winning side, and why he’s determined to do it again.
ENGLAND UNDER-18s
After a tough few years, England’s age grade are back on the rise. We went into camp to find how they’ve turned the corner.
BRAZIL
From Prince Obolensky and the Lions to Scott Robinson and the Crusaders, many have tried to boost Brazilian rugby, but now it’s on the rise.
DAVID CAMPESE
The Wallaby legend takes us back to his debut and then through an illustrious World Cup-winning career at the expense of England.
LEICESTER TIGERS WOMEN
How Lichfield, a famed name in women’s rugby, became a key component of Leicester Tigers arrival at the very top of the English game.
MIKE TADJER
Portugal’s French-born hooker Mike Tadjer became an instant hero due to his World Cup heroics. We met with the man himself to look at the impact.
PAULA GEORGE
Suffering brutal racism as a child, Paula George found her way out through rugby, captaining her country, but faced an bigger challenge later – cancer.
ROSSLYN PARK
Professionalism took its toll on the former club of Prince Obolensky, and it was only saved when an unknown benefactor walked through the clubhouse doors.
RICH LANE
The Bedford favourite-turned-landscape gardener is now pulling up roots with Bristol, as an unlikely replacement for Charles Piutau.
MO HUNT
Now back full-time in the England set-up, it’s been a rollercoaster twelve months for Mo Hunt, as she opens up about being dropped and the route back to the top.
GRAHAM SMITH
A story that takes in abattoirs, bailiffs, dole queues, and now Estonia, the World Cup-winning coach’s life has been anything but dull.
🐯Leicester Tigers, powered by a famous name in Lichfield, are finally a part of the top division of women’s domestic rugby. We were there for their PWR debut, and spoke to all the names and faces that made it happen.
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📚A flick through issue 24.
✍️Rob Baxter, England U18s, Brazil, David Campese, Leicester Tigers Women, Mo Hunt, Mike Tadjer, Estonia, Paula George, Rosslyn Park and Rich Lane.
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🏉 Inside our exclusive with Exeter Chiefs DoR Rob Baxter, looking back on fifty years at Exeter rugby, how he built a double-winning side and why he’s determined to do it again.
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📚 A peek at issue 24, full of people and places.
🏉 From grassroots in Brazil and Estonia to Australia’s greatest ever and a landscape gardener. There’s Portuguese World Cup heroes, National 1 stalwarts, Exeter’s long-serving coach, the PWR’s latest addition and an ex-England captain. All this, and more.
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