Duncan Bech

Rugby correspondent for @PA - the UK’s national news & sport agency

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Australia v Lions…not a bad venue the MCG

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Caxton Street is popping ahead of Australia v Lions first Test

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Main event of the autumn - England v South Africa

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Minor curtain malfunction at the launch of the new British and Irish Lions jersey

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Eddie Hearn on Anthony Joshua ahead of Daniel Dubois fight: ‘I’ve never seem him so calm and calculating”. AJ has looked super relaxed all week to be fair

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A shirtless Courtney Lawes wearing ski goggles comes out for Northampton’s victory press conference. Lawes: ‘It’s the ending you want and there are no words to describe it. This team is going places’

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England v Ireland, Twickenham

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Borthwick declined to say what Sinfield will do next and explained it was his number two's decision to leave. Borthwick: 'A couple of weeks after the WC Kev and I met and he gave me his decision'

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Kevin Sinfield to leave England's coaching team after the summer tour to Japan and New Zealand. Until then he will oversee kicking and skills with Felix Jones taking charge of defence

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@Alan_Couzens What's your preferred protocol for improving VO2 max? Time not an issue

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Steve Borthwick: ‘We truly believed we’d do it and we came very close. We’re very disappointed’. Borthwick and Farrell look crestfallen at the post match press conference

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Heartbreaking defeat for England against the Springboks. Owen Farrell: ‘We thought we’d done enough to win but South Africa had something to say about that’

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Argentina celebrate beating Wales with a pile on. What happened to the team that couldn’t beat 14-man England in the group? Hard to begrudge Pumas fans - they’re the noisiest at the World Cup

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Team huddles after England scrape through by the skin of their teeth against Samoa. Fiji will have watched that with interest.

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England’s forwards complete defence drills at their training base. George Martin can certainly hit

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Absolutely disgraceful behaviour here by the heavies in the mixed zone at Lille.

I have been physically removed during a Sunday paper interview with man of the match Henry Arundell, while I was speaking to him.

This World Cup has been an utter shambles @WorldRugby #RWC2023

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Vamos Los Condores!

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@AlexMLowe I thought of you when I spotted the dingleberry

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Another captain’s run means another England huddle. This time Owen Farrell doing the talking ahead of his return as captain

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George Ford sends Joe Marchant over for a try in England training today