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Newcastle Red Bulls have confirmed the signing of Sale Sharks scrum-half Raffi Quirke on a two-year deal for next season. Sale announced on Tuesday that the 24-year-old would be leaving at the end of ...

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How many players can say they have been called up for one British and Irish Lions tour as a tighthead and another as a loose? And a longer reverse migration isn’t something he would rule out ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...