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Features
/ 8 years agoScots interest in Falcons is doomed to disappoint
COLIN BOAG The Scottish Rugby Union chief executive, Mark Dodson, spoke openly last week about his desire for the Scots to...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMaro Itoje isn’t tired, he just needs new tricks
Saracens forwards coach Alex Sanderson says Itoje has not been overworked and must simply crack the rule books to rediscover his...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEngland wing Denny Solomona charged by RFU over alleged homophobic comment
Sale back will appear in front of disciplinary panel next month over incident in match against Worcester Warriors
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoBristol prop Jack O’Connell to make switch to Ealing Trailfinders
Loosehead to make switch from Ashton Gate to Bristol's main promotion challengers
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHarry Mallinder focussed on wearing the No.15 jersey for Northampton
Mallinder hopes to taste success when new head coach Chris Boyd takes over at Saints
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDave Attwood at home with ‘mutants’ in France
The Bath lock is enjoying life on loan at double-chancers Toulon
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoIreland internationals Jackson and Olding acquitted in rape trial
Nine-week trial concludes in Belfast after verdicts returned by jury
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoChampions Cup preview: Fancy Leinster to copy class of ’09
Brendan Gallagher examines the upcoming Champions Cup quarter-final fixtures this weekend
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoWilliams column: Shame Cardiff Blues didn’t go for home-grown option
Shane Williams questions why Wales looks set to have no Welsh head coaches in charge of the regions next season
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Cut the number of subs to see the game improve
Jeremy Guscott outlines why reducing the number of replacements will make professional rugby an even better watch
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWales legend Adam Jones announces retirement from rugby
The 37-year-old will move into coaching at the end of the season with Quins
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Features
/ 8 years agoStockdale scoops top prize
NEWS EXTRA WINGER Jacob Stockdale has been named Six Nations Player of the Championship, with three of his Ireland team-mates completing...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBigger club squads would aid England
Potential stars: Lower league players like Jake Polledri deserve a chance PICTURE: Getty Images COLIN BOAG It’s been open season on...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFancy Leinster to copy class of ‘09
BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for next weekend’s Champions Cup quarter-finals Grand Slammer: Johnny Sexton is key to Leinster’s chances PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCut the number of subs to see the game improve
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK No more of this: England captain Dylan Hartley is substituted after 57 minutes against Ireland...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSorry, Steve, your fatigue factor does not stack up
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW England’s Six Nations’ implosion has prompted the resurrection of a myth masquerading as...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSandwich-man Polledri could have been Welsh rarebit
HAD Wales done a genealogy check on Jake Polledri, the results would have entitled them to offer one of the English...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWe need to remember the heroes from Grand Slams past
GRAND Slams these days come awash with tickertape receptions, medals and cash, enough in Ireland’s case to have earned their triumphant...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHadleigh parks bride for La Rochelle date
STEFFAN THOMAS catches up with Wales’ new midfield star Hadleigh Parkes Euro bid: Hadleigh Parkes PICTURE: Getty Images HADLEIGH Parkes will...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTigers opt for Jersey boy Voss
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER have signed Jersey lock James Voss with immediate effect to plug the gap left by Dom Barrow’s departure....
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Features
/ 8 years agoLemi will play on after exit at Bristol
DAVID LEMI is set to extend his career after leaving Bristol at the end of the season and appears to be...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow it went wrong, match by match
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT EDDIE JONES’ REIGN SO FAR, AND DECIDES WHERE THE DECLINE SET IN EDDIE Jones often calls the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoON THE BLING SIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BATH will confirm the news that Blindside revealed in January that they are...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCox’s treble is key to Cup success for Loughborough
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP WITH the league wrapped up and the trophy perched in Exeter’s cabinet, attention turned to the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCuthbert snubs France to be Chief
Off to Exeter: Alex Cuthbert EXETER Chiefs have agreed a deal that will see them sign Wales and British Lions winger...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTyrrells Women’s Premier 15s
Quins go top but must now wait and see By LAURA EDDIE Saracens …29 Harlequins…32 HARLEQUINS have done everything they can...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSaints make Symons bid
NORTHAMPTON have made a last minute bid to stop Andy Symons from joining Newcastle Falcons next season. We reported a couple...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDodd doubles up in derby for Wasps
By HOLLY FOSKETT Wasps …44pts Richmond …17pts At the double: Louise Dodd celebrates with Christina Veale after scoring a try WASPS...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCortes off to Tigers
BRISTOL tighthead Gaston Cortes is set to move to Leicester Tigers when his contract runs out at the end of the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLund leads from front in play-off decider
By DUNCAN WOOD Gloucester H …36 L Lightning…8 GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY recovered from a lacklustre first half to book the final play-off spot...
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Features
/ 8 years ago‘Stylish’ Scarlets are right fit for me says Cassiem
Excited: Uzair Cassiem UZAIR Cassiem has revealed how he shunned other lucrative offers to sign for the Scarlets in the hope...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
LOUIS DEACON FORMER ENGLAND AND LEICESTER LOCK Growing up all I ever wanted to do was to play for my local...
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Features
/ 8 years agoShame Blues didn’t go for home-grown option
SHANE WILLIAMS Signing on: New Cardiff Blues coach John Mulvihill with CEO Richard Holland PICTURE: Getty Images Good to see Cardiff...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
CONNOR TUPAI NORTHAMPTON SCRUM-HALF As a confident 18- year-old seemingly in control of his own destiny, Connor Tupai has enjoyed a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoJackman’s Dragons will breathe fire next season
LET’S face it, things haven’t been going too well for the Dragons this season. In many people’s eyes they have been...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
FERGUS MULCHRONE, LONDON IRISH AND FORMER SALE, MACCLESFIELD & ROTHERHAM CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST…...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMacGinty’s kicking on with help from Callard
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Sale’s sharp-shooter AJ MacGinty now fit again after a knee injury Back in stride: AJ MacGinty takes...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU are right to let Eddie sort out this sorry mess
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Even before the echos of the Fields of Athenry had faded from...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoHougaard signs lengthy deal to stay at Worcester Warriors
South Africa international will be 33 by the time his new deal at Sixways expires
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoNorthampton Saints discipline George North for missing training session
Wales wing was dropped from Northampton's match against Sale earlier this month
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoConnacht sign Brumbies centre Kyle Godwin
One-cap Wallaby makes the move to the PRO14 for next season
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRory Best and Rob Kearney extend IRFU contracts
Grand Slam winners sign new deals with Ulster and Leinster
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoExeter Chiefs scrum-half Will Chudley to join Bath next season
Premiership winner becomes Todd Blackadder's latest recruit
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
CHRIS WALKER THE FORMER ENGLAND U20 CAPTAIN AND YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE FLANKER It was in a small, idyllic Yorkshire Dales village, watching...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBeckett leave best until last to gift Exeter the title
BUCS ROUND-UP ON Wednesday BUCS delivered the fittingly climactic finale the league deserved as the title went right to the wire....
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Features
/ 8 years agoFawcett leads Warwick lads to back-to-back victories
Schools Cup finals U18s Cup final Signing off in style: Warwick captain Tom Fawcett lifts the trophy WARWICK defended their Schools...
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Features
/ 8 years agoFast start puts Langley in the ascendancy
U18s Vase final LANGLEY defeated Wirral Grammar 48-22 to clinch the U18 Vase for the first time in their history. Langley...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWhitgift win wrestle up front
Top dogs: Whitgift celebrate another title U15s Cup final WHITGIFT school overcame Manchester Grammar 22-12 in a tense game at Twickenham...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHat-trick for Morris
U15s Vase final BEECHENCliff School scored six tries en route to a 36-14 victory over Kenilworth to win the U15 Vase....















