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Features
/ 5 years agoRussian powerhouse Kirill set for Kingsholm
RUGBY SHORTS GLOUCESTER have signed prop Kirill Gotovtsev for next season from Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk. The 33-year-old Russia international tighthead was...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoLondon Irish lock Rob Simmons interests Racing 92
RACING 92 are on the lookout for a new lock and have put London Irish’s former Wallaby star Rob Simmons on...
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Features
/ 5 years agoTwickenham to host Euro finals weekend
RUGBY SHORTS THE Champions and Challenge Cup finals will take place at Twickenham in May in front of up to 10,000...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoEddie Jones feels the heat in Japan
ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones’ disastrous year took a turn for the worst last week over his links with Japanese Top League...
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Features
/ 5 years agoI went round Campo, so what if he slipped!
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER ENGLAND, LEICESTER, SALE, ROTHERHAM & CLECKHEATON CENTRE/WINGER STEVE BURNHILL On the way to glory: Steve Burnhill of Leicester is...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWomen’s Game in Focus: Harlequins flanker Emily Robinson
Robinson has been chipping away in the Harlequins back row this season, aiming for a maiden Premier 15s title
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoMidweek pile-ups impossible to avoid | James Harrington
James Harrington explains why the Top 14 schedule is in a bottleneck
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Features
/ 5 years agoLions need to heed that Prem warning or else!
COLIN BOAG Predictably, there was a reaction to my comments on the Lions, and my view that perhaps the world has moved on...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRousseau’s romp has never been explained
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What’s happening here?...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoThis top ten would have a real pop at the Springboks | Jeremy Guscott
The players who need little mulling from Gatland as he selects his Lions squad to be announced this Thursday
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBT Sport must stay in rugby if only for our sanity | Chris Hewett
Can BT Sport rope in more rugby rights to save rugby fans from a fragmented landscape?
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Features
/ 5 years agoI wouldn’t play rugby now, outside-halves have to tackle!
PAUL REES talks to Lions great Barry John on the 50th anniversary of his star role in New Zealand Fifty years...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLions will need Underhill at his explosive best says Calder
By GARY HEATLY FINLAY Calder, Lions captain for the series victory in Australia in 1989, has backed England’s Sam Underhill to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoGlorious nearly men of St Peter’s will keep trying
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools St Peter’s York might be the third oldest school in the...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoBleddyn Jones, voice of an angel and heart of gold | Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson pays tribute to Bleddyn Jones with Leicester Tigers great Martin Johnson
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Features
/ 5 years agoRoom 101: Coventry back row Adam Peters
THE COVENTRY BACK ROWER AND CLUB CAPTAIN TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Breathing...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMeehan quits Irish as Waratahs eye Kiss
RUGBY SHORTS LONDON Irish scrumhalf Ben Meehan has departed the club for personal reasons. Australian Meehan, 28, was due to leave at...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWales play waiting game on Argentina
RUGBY SHORTS WALES will not tour South America this summer to face Argentina and Uruguay but hope the Pumas could still...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRock-bottom, but Jake Farnworth finds silver lining at Green & Whites
Daniel Gallan talks to Nottingham vice-captain Jake Farnworth about life at bottom of Tier Two
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoWorcester Warriors step in for fly-half Owen Williams
Worcester Warriors are interested in the fly-half/centre currently playing in Japan's Top League
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoRichard Wigglesworth not set on retirement just yet at Leicester
One more year?
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoNick Schonert fills the WillGriff gap at Sharks
Done deal at Sale Sharks for the Worcester tighthead
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoHarlequins eye Tommaso Allan to deputise for Marcus Smith
With Brett Herron and James Lang moving on, Quins are looking for immediate depth behind Smith
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoJohn Dobson in pole to take over at Harlequins
Neil Fissler reports on where Quins' search for a permanent head coach may lie
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Features
/ 5 years agoFrancis Baron exclusive – Pt.1: This is how rugby can be saved from peril
Introducing a new series with the former RFU chief executive on how the union in England can right the ship financially
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Features
/ 5 years agoRFU must rethink its policies and direction – Francis Baron
"I am passionate about the RFU and find it distressing to see it in such difficulties" - what to expect in...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoCould fan power stop Super League in rugby? | Chris Hewett
After a bitter week in football fuelled by greed, Chris Hewett considers whether fan power in rugby bears any weight against...
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Features
/ 5 years agoGeorge Skivington interview – Long-term success will be worth us suffering now
George Skivington and Lee Blackett, as the two youngest head coaches in the Premiership, share the lessons they have learnt in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoWave of English optimism sweeps Trafalgar Square
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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Columnists
/ 5 years agoMaro Itoje form is trump card in Lions call | Peter Jackson
Maro Itoje can be assured of his Lions place this summer, writes Peter Jackson
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoNo place for basketball scorelines in rugby | Nick Cain
PREMIERSHIP cheerleaders itching to break out the bunting in support of ringfencing should think again. The successful football fan rebellion against...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYoung Guns: Harlequins centre Lennox Anyanwu
After stints on loan at Esher and London Scottish, Anyanwu is now benefitting from a year under new coaching arrival Jordan...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoUgo Monye has a big battle to end elitist stigma of rugby | Jeff Probyn
Has the shift in development from its pyramid state two years ago to Premiership-pwned academies kept rugby's ability to reach more...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJOSH CAULFIELD
ROOM 101 THE CORNISH PIRATES LOOSE FORWARD TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES 1. Bad drawer etiquette You don’t see a chest...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCONNIE POWELL
WOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY HOOKER Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players THIS WEEK... Gloucester-Hartpury hooker Connie Powell sustained...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoTruro get their timing right in Daily Mail Cup
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools SIXTH form colleges competing against schools became a hot topic in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWe will be rusty but ready for the Lions
PAUL REES talks to Japan coach Jamie Joseph about Murrayfield date after 18 months with no internationals Japan generated such interest...
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Features
/ 5 years agoThrowing to Kruis has got Sakate on form
ATSUSHI Sakate believes the decision of the Lions to invite Japan to play them ahead of the tour to South Arica...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Neil Doak: Lara wicket highlight of my international career!
SPORT has played a huge part in my life. I played quite a lot of sports – football, golf, tennis –...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoChilds’ departure from Premiership Rugby was so secret
Club executives left in the unknown about Darren Childs' pending departure as Premiership Rugby CEO
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Features
/ 5 years agoTMO’s not perfect but don’t give him red card
COLIN BOAG Big call: TMO ruled out this try for Ben Youngs against All Blacks in 2019 Why after more than 20...
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Gloucester lock Ed Slater
The former Leicester and England Saxons lock selects his dream XV
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoDwayne Peel looks destined for the very top like Stephen | Shane Williams
WHEN we used to have backs’ meetings with Wales during my career there were always two men who were very vocal...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoRainbow Cup loses its meaning without Bok monsters | Shane Williams
IT’S a real shame the PRO14 Rainbow Cup began this weekend with confirmation the four South African teams won’t be coming...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Pass master John Dawes had a natural born genius
John Dawes played with the speed and accuracy of the NFL's best quarterbacks and basketball's best point guards
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoFind that lost slice of 50s life at Ealing
RUGBY MATTERS TRYING to celebrate your 150th anniversary with the usual array of dinners, golf days and social gatherings during a...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoMassimo Cuttitta was heart and soul of Azzurri | Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher remembers Massimo Cuttitta and the Italy of the late prop's era
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoForget Six Nations form, Maro Itoje can rattle the Boks | Jeremy Guscott
Itoje is so good that he will rise to the occasion in South Africa as a standout player for the Lions,...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoPremiership’s treatment of Lions is a scandal | Nick Cain
Nick Cain aims both barrels at Premiership Rugby for playing innocent of being misinformed over Warren Gatland's timetable for the Lions...
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Features
/ 5 years agoKruis’ Lions experience will keep him in the conversation
THERE are unlikely to be many bolters from the blue, if any, in the Lions squad for the tour to South...












