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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: London Irish prop Tarek Haffar
Capped at England U18 level, the Exiles loosehead looks to base his skills in the same mould as Mako Vunipola and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 tries of all time countdown: No.16-20
The de facto list of rugby's best ever tries. Part one of our four-part story drops with Christian Cullen featuring
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: All our yesterdays come gloriously alive again
Brendan Gallagher has found himself looking at the treasure trove of rugby videos on Youtube...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Ulster and Northampton No.8 Roger Wilson
A 15-year rugby career saw the back row play for Ulster, Northampton and Ireland
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Featured
/ 6 years agoGloucester wing Ollie Thorley upping his game in search of elusive England cap
What has been the message from Eddie Jones?
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLewis Thiede to leave Bristol Bears who await Sinckler’s arrival
Tighthead prop Thiede will exit Ashton Gate when his contract at Bristol expires
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens vice-captain Jackson Wray commits for season in Championship
Wray explains why leaving Saracens was never really an option for him
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Gloucester fly-half George Barton
England U20s sharpshooter Barton explains how Danny Cipriani has been offering him pointers
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Dream Team
/ 6 years agoDream Team: Worcester and ex-Saints prop Ethan Waller
Ethan Waller shows brotherly love and includes older sibling Alex in his Dream Team
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Hinckley head coach Chris Campbell
1. £1 Shopping Trollies Doing the food shop with two young kids is hard work at the best of times, so...
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Features
/ 6 years ago15 Kings of the North – Nick Cain’s team of the Six Nations 2020
Some nailed-on selections and some choice which may create debate
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Philippe Saint-Andre calls for cup shootout to decide title
James Harrington points out the three options open to the Top 14 and Pro D2
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Tomas Francis and Wales can’t be reunited soon enough
Peter Jackson explains why Wales need tighthead prop now more than ever given their selection policy
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Featured
/ 6 years agoWales face ace tighthead Tomas Francis staying with Exeter
Tomas Francis faces a choice between club and country
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Dan Lydiate is crucial to Ospreys’ revival
Incoming head coach Toby Booth can place all his reliance in flanker Lydiate, writes Williams
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: This rush to closure just creates even more confusion
Nick Cain writes on how life in the Championship have been sent into more controversy by the RFU
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHewett column: Now, more than ever, the game needs strong leadership
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Winston Churchill, no less, was busily preparing the ground for the formation of...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Why have flying 10s like Dan Carter disappeared?
Jeremy Guscott takes a special look at how the evolution of the role of centres has changed things for fly-halves
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Features
/ 6 years agoLydiate is crucial to Ospreys’ revival
Key signing: Ospreys blindside Dan Lydiate PICTURE: Getty Images DAN Lydiate could prove to be the signing of next season for...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaint-Andre calls for cup shootout to decide title
In the current health crisis in France professional rugby has, like all sports, taken a large backward step. Clubs, coaches and...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJamie’s experience would be a major asset in Cardiff
JAMIE Roberts’ rugby experience is unparalleled in Welsh rugby. That is why it would be great to see him come back...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoberts targets swansong at hometown club Cardiff
By STEFFAN THOMAS JAMIE Roberts says he wants to end his career by giving back to Welsh rugby with Cardiff Blues...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThat Pumas try cost me dear but it was a beauty!
Nick Cain catches up with Exeter and England wing Jack Nowell as he relishes being fit again Dive and twist: Jack...
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Features
/ 6 years agoParry puts his faith in Ospreys
SAM Parry has turned down a move to Cardiff Blues by committing to Ospreys for another season. Hooker has been an...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWillie John still can’t forgive ‘cowards’ who denied Irish
Peter Jackson remembers another chaotic season that scuppered Ireland’s chance of a Grand Slam Irish Lion: The great Mike Gibson Green...
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Features
/ 6 years agoChance for rugby to sort itself out
End of marquee players: Stars like Bristol’s Charles Piutau would be in the salary cap COLIN BOAG This is one of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll our yesterdays come gloriously alive again
Party time: Peter O’Toole and Richard Harris get in the mood PICTURE: Phil Shepherd Lewis It’s amazing the rugby stuff there...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhy have flying 10s like Carter all disappeared?
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Rose to the challenge: Nick Tompkins has the right attitude PICTURE: Getty Images THE...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTeleni beat shoplifting rap to lead Fiji v Wales
ONE OF rugby’s more controversial characters has passed away. Former Fiji captain Esala Teleni, below, has died having first come to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGame will return in a nicer form
SO rugby players in all our professional leagues will have to take pay cuts as we look to navigate our way...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGareth gem for Baa-baas still sets the benchmark
Brendan Gallagher kicks off our sparkling TOP 20 series with his view of the best tries ever scored TOP 20 …TRIES...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll smiles, as PC Perry’s helmet stars at Twickers
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of Rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTomas and Wales can’t be reunited soon enough
Least surprising headline of the week: Ireland’s Australia tour in doubt. Big loss: Tomas Francis leaves the pitch injured during World...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll Blacks B team? Marler’s got it right
IT WOULD seem that famous old All Blacks, or one at the very least, are acknowledging Joe Marler’s fondness for the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWilliam Webb Ellis died without realising he invented rugby
Brendan Gallagher begins his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Beginnings: The young Webb Ellis runs with...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYarde stays at Sale…with May?
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ON THE BLINDSIDE SALE Sharks winger Marland Yarde is unlikely to be heading to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoControversy, as Scots claim victory after a knock-on
Brendan Gallagher sets the scene for the first ever Test – between Scotland and England Pioneers: Scotland’s squad for the first...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHastings ready for code switch
Man of Steel: Hastings JACKSON Hastings, who was crowned Super League’s man of steel last October, is looking to make a...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TAREKHAFFAR LONDON IRISH LOOSEHEAD Modern rugby demands pace as well as power from its props so when Tarek Haffar scattered a...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLozowski opts to join Toulouse
Channel-hopper: Alex Lozowski is off to France SARACENS back Alex Lozowski is heading to play in France next season after agreeing...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFrustrating to win only the one cap
MY LIFEIN RUGBY ROGER WILSON THE FORMER IRELAND, ULSTER AND NORTHAMPTON No.8 AS a Belfast schoolboy, going to Ulster matches at...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBaxter delight as ‘odd-bod’ Harry signs on
By NEALE HARVEY ENGLANDtighthead Harry Williams has ended speculation that he might leave Exeter Chiefs by extending his stay in Devon,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThe Welsh were no saints, I assure you
Match-winner: Scotland’s Tony Stanger makes his break against England in 1990 PICTURE: Getty Images Reading last week’s Sunday’s Times I was...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Mr Prickly Alun Wyn Jones leads the world for grumpy PR
Peter Jackson analyses the poker face of Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones through his years sat in front of the media
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: High time Sale Sharks got the recognition they merit
Underappreciated in the sporting hub of greater Manchester? Brendan Gallagher looks at the unheralded success of Sale
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoWhen Fran Cotton folded Paper, England’s Grand Slam was on
Brendan Gallagher recalls England's triumphant Five Nations Grand Slam in 1980
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Nottingham winger Jack Spittle
Jack Spittle walks Neale Harvey through three of his biggest pet hates in life
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLevelling up – Regionalised leagues would strengthen the club game
A lop-sided National One leaves the North-South divide looking uncertain
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Northampton Saints prop Manny Iyogun
Leaning on the experience of the Franks brothers at Franklin's Gardens
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