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Psychiatric drugs no magic bullet

'Blunt instrument' treatment pushed by Big Pharma

BLADES SHOW PREMIER CLASS

CHESTERFIELD 0 | SHEFFIELD UNITED 2

RAUL IS THE MODEL PRO!

RAUL Correia is a model footballer in every sense.

GLEBE HAVE A HOMEGROWN EURO STAR IN LIONS' EMILE

WHEN Emile Smith Rowe held aloft the European Under-21 Championship trophy for England in Batumi last Saturday, it wasn’t just his club Arsenal bursting with pride.

Ounsley: We want to bring home gold next time

HAVING been forced to watch her Exeter side come up just short in the Premier 15s final, Jodie Ounsley is hoping to play her part in taking the Chiefs one step further next season.

Warriors setting ambitious targets

NEW Worcester Warriors women managing director Jon Graham has high hopes for his new club going forward, with ambitious targets both off and on the field for Premiership Women’s Rugby’s (PWR) only independent team.

Ringland: Time to cut back on subs

FORMER Ireland and British and Irish Lions player Trevor Ringland has called for rugby to “de-physicalise” by reducing the number of substitutes a team can use in a game.

Fantastic France demolish Ireland

FRANCE underlined their complete supremacy at the junior level with a thumping win in the World Rugby U20 Championship Final against Ireland.

'YOU'D BE MAD TO OWN A CLUB!'

...but it’s just how I like it

Delighted Searle on his way to Toulouse

BILLY Searle’s patience has finally been rewarded with a dream move to European aristocrats Toulouse, and the flyhalf can’t wait “to get stuck in” when he reports for work tomorrow.

SAVE OUR SHRIMPERS

Fans protest in support of crisis club

MORISON IS UP AND RUNNING

HORNCHURCH 1 | DAGENHAM & R 0

Borthwick knows what he wants at 9

STEVE Borthwick, who took over from Eddie Jones as England head coach in late 2022, hasn’t had much time in the saddle but he will definitely want to put his own stamp and authority on this squad. He would already have communicated how he wants to move forward and leave the past behind. What you will find is that he will revert back to where he wants England to be when they were at their best. To start off with, it’s about being a really strong set-piece team, having stellar lineout accuracy and physicality on defence.

CLEGG CALLS FOR A REALITY CHECK

MICHAEL Clegg says Warrington Rylands will play with more ‘realism’ after a chastening first season at Step 3.

Misery for Jones as Argentina snatch it

EDDIE Jones’s first campaign with England resulted in a grand slam, but a whitewash beckons at the start of his second stint in charge of Australia after Juan Martin Gonzalez’s late try gave Argentina a deserved victory.

70 years on, it's now tears of joy for Boston

AT HOME in Angelina Street one Friday evening during the early spring of 1953, Billy Boston thought about what he had just done and burst into tears.

I'm no fan of World League agenda

AM I the only one that thinks that the idea of the new World League competition may actually be very bad for the game as a whole?

Mo'unga in control as All Blacks look in the mood for World Cup

WITH the World Cup nearly on us, New Zealand served notice they will have a big say as to who wins the Webb Ellis Trophy in October.

McKellar's tough opening with Tigers

DAN McKellar has vowed to bring success to Leicester, but they will have to do it the hard way in the Heineken Champions Cup with a trip to holders La Rochelle followed by a home encounter with the team they with the team they defeated in the final, Leinster.

CUP KINGS WANDERIN' FREE AGAIN

A FASCINATING slice of embryonic football history has been revived in the lower echelons of the Non-League Pyramid.

WRITE US OFF AT YOUR PERIL!

Summer haul makes us stronger, says Maynard

CLARETS STILL HOT TO TROTT

Liam’s replacements can fire City

Now Bears to stage 'Big Game' in Cardiff

BRISTOL Bears are set to be the latest club to adopt the ‘Big Game’ concept by taking one of their home Premiership games to the iconic Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

Itoje: We can go all the way

MARO Itoje insists England have buried their Six Nations nightmare and are ready to be a force at the World Cup in France.

French firepower subdues England

ENGLAND’S hopes of winning a first Junior World Cup since 2016 were dashed as a formidable French team fought back to claim victory in the semi-final.

Barrett J has keys to the kingdom

RUGBY is a game of infinite possibility, especially when it comes to dreaming up collective nouns. A “squabble of hookers” sounds about right, as does an “annoyance of scrum-halves”. And if we’re talking specifically of England coaching hierarchies stretching back to Old Testament times, how about a “catastrophe of selectors”?

I was happy to fulfil my boyhood dream

GROWING up, all I wanted to do was play professional sport, whether it was rugby, football or cricket. Football was probably my first choice and I think rugby was probably my last option. But my parents decided that education was the most important thing and that’s when I went to Oakham for a couple of years and rugby and cricket are the two main sports there. Ian ‘Dosser’ Smith was coach. He never screamed or shouted but how he spoke to you sent shivers down your spine. I’ve never met anyone before or since who is better at psyching a team up. We won the Daily Mail Cup in my last year and I scored the first try with a little chip-and-chase. I’d say that is one of the top three highlights of my rugby career. You can’t beat winning stuff with your mates, especially at Twickenham.

The NextGen needs to be close at hand

IT WAS great to see the World Rugby U20 Championship back in full swing and it was a pretty cathartic exercise for the Welsh team. Wins over Japan and Romania may have been the highlights, but scoring five tries against a powerful Junior Wallabies team and getting within a point of New Zealand were also creditable performances. After their whitewash in the Six Nations it was proof enough that there is plenty of talent in the group.

We made too many mistakes, admits Chessum

ENGLAND’S tournament ended in disappointing fashion as they were beaten in the bronze medal match for the ninth time in 13 tournaments.

MAGPIES ARE JUST TOO HOT FOR HEED

GATESHEAD 2 | NEWCASTLE UTD 3