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League invented the player raid – Sydney Morning Herald

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table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.co.uk/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/5-0fd=Aurl=http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/league-iinventedi-the-player-raid/2009/02/27/1235237920459.htmlcid=0ei=35uoSc3RDoaiwQG6hcXnAwusg=AFQjCNHXx3iffqGinquQiFY01wtRiK2Y-QbLeague/b invented the player raid/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fSydney Morning Herald,nbsp;Australia/font/fontbrfont size=-1More than any other game in Australia, brugby league/b was built on blokes going out after an extra quid – and good luck to them. That was its beginnings, that has been its tradition throughout, and that might well be its end in big-time sport

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France 21-16 Wales: Welsh Grand Slam dream ends

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Wales suffered their first RBS 6 Nations defeat for almost two years as hopes of first back-to-back Grand Slams since 1909 floundered at Stade de France.

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Floodlit Six Nations rugby on a Friday night? – Times Online

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table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.co.uk/news/url?sa=Tct=uk/8-0fd=Aurl=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5818056.ececid=0ei=Sg2pSYe5A4fQwgHHhfHvAwusg=AFQjCNHffS_KW_j4tbBXdV4OkniiwYrf5AFloodlit Six Nations brugby/b on a Friday night?/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fTimes Online,nbsp;UK/font/fontbrfont size=-1Old codgers with cauliflower ears (from the second row) might grumble that brugby/b has sold its soul for extended television coverage spread over the weekend. Orwell said that if you dropped a bomb on the West Car Park at Twickenham, you would end all b…/b/font/div/font/td/tr/table

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John Hayes is Ireland#39;s underrated rugby giant – Telegraph.co.uk

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Follow the story of this year’s Six Nations Championship rugby … – UK Express

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