RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER NEITHER Covid nor an unexpected cold snap – nor even the threat of Storm […]

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It was back in February 2009 that a few of us trooped […]

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE irony will not be lost on Wasps legend Alan Black, who passed away this week, but his one blemish in […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER The New Zealand women’s side – the Black Ferns – will be celebrating their […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER Keep it special: South Africa win the World Cup in 2019PICTURE: Getty ImagesIn all […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER THE death earlier this week of former IOC president Jacques Rogge will rightly be […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER AS predicted in these pages a few weeks back one of the big beasts of T14 Rugby – Stade Francais – have […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER ELSEWHERE in this edition we read of Horace Wyndham Thomas becoming the first rugby player of real note from Bridgend GS but […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER I’m not going to do a Rassie and make a 60- minute video nasty […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER THE rugby community is rallying around, as it always does, after the very sudden death from cancer in June of former Gloucester […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER THE Men’s Sevens tournament in Tokyo this week was by any criteria a cracker, […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER MORNE Steyn, still in the Boks long squad although unused in the series thus far, is usually best remembered as the man […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER WHAT to make of Rassie Erasmus, below, and his recent outbursts? He was a brilliant flanker in his pomp – definitely the […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER ENGLAND caps should never be given away goes the mantra, but it’s a philosophical approach that often seems on dodgy ground. Take […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER Power play: Wilco Louw scores for Quins in the final against Exeter PICTURE: Getty […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER HAVE Georgia finally unearthed their first superstar outside back?The lack of firepower behind the scrum has dogged them a little as they […]

RUGBY MATTERSA weekly look at the game’s other talking pointsBRENDAN GALLAGHER IFI was a betting man, and thank the Lord I’m not Sir, I would […]

RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER SUDDENLY our cup over-runneth with Lions previews not to mention retrospectives, podcasts, books and specials dealing with the glories of 1997. Bloody […]