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Fans will have further opportunities to buy tickets for Rugby World Cup 2015 matches from Tuesday April 28, via tickets.rugbyworldcup.com , from 10am.

25,000 tickets will go on sale for an additional 12 matches at Sandy Park (Exeter), Kingsholm Stadium (Gloucester), Brighton Community Stadium (Brighton), Elland Road (Leeds) and Villa Park (Birmingham). This is in addition to the 16 matches currently on sale at tickets.rugbyworldcup.com

Tickets for additional matches on sale from April 28 include:

Brighton Community Stadium, Brighton South Africa v Japan, September...

Exeter City will head into their crucial clash with Southend United, knowing that they must avoid defeat if they are to remain hopeful of snatching a playoff spot this season. Exeter have lost back-to-back fixtures against Shrewsbury and Wycombe – which was settled by a 102nd minute penalty – and they now sit four points outside the playoffs with two favourable matches at the end of the campaign. There are five teams in the running for automatic promotion, and you can check out the odds, as well as other news, at Bookies website. We take a look at their remaining fixtures and give our...

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