Robert Kitson
Rugby Correspondent at The Guardian
The Guardian's rugby union correspondent. Author of Around the World in 80 Minutes: In Search of Rugby Greatness and Exe Men.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Kitson
What is the East Midlands equivalent of deja vu? For the second season in succession Northampton are into the Champions Cup semi-finals and have booked themselves a trip to Dublin to face Leinster. Last time they came within three points of victory so, on paper at least, there is still a chance that Saints can march all the way to next month’s final in Cardiff.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Kitson
Fin Smith, the England fly-half, still remembers the day he first met his Northampton teammate George Hendy. Smith was seven and unimpressed by the elevation of a precocious six-year-old to his age group team at Shipston-on-Stour RFC. Even then Hendy was hard to miss. “This lad turned up with bright orange hair and his legs put on backwards,” recalls Smith now. “I was probably not too excited in getting him involved.”Fast forward 16 years and both can be found on the same Saints teamsheet.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Robert Kitson
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Kitson
English club rugby is being undermined by a “dysfunctional” fixture schedule that is making it harder to compete with other top European sides, according to Northampton’s director of rugby, Phil Dowson. Saints are the only English team still involved in the Champions Cup this season but Dowson believes Premiership teams are being handicapped by their own domestic calendar.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Robert Kitson
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