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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoBrady’s Bream bunch capture stunning haul
By BEN JAYCOCK Bream RFC have made a miraculous rise through the leagues in recent years with their youthful squad and...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoFolau call was TV turn-off for Gareth
By NICK POWELL Gareth Thomas “refused” to watch the Barbarians vs World XV match last month due to the “contradiction” of...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoGame is spending above its means
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Just as we all thought it couldn’t get any worse now the...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoTop two get set to put on the glitz
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN It's the final the Top 14 wanted and needed. Toulouse and La Rochelle – the two best...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 years agoHeroic Brumbies fly the flag for Australia
By CAMERON STEPHENS Super Rugby Pacific round-up The Brumbies produced a heroic goal line stand to book their place in this...
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World
/ 3 years agoCheetahs ruin it for Steyn to bag first position
By CAMERON STEPHENS Currie Cup round-up The Cheetahs spoiled Morne Steyn’s Loftus swansong as they mounted a 19-point comeback to win...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSeries 2, Episode 22: Nick Abendanon on his career and French vs English domestic rugby, tributes to David Emery
In April earlier this year Bath and Clermont legend Nick Abendanon called time on a stellar 17-year career. Nick joins host...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoI would have always aimed for a career in rugby – O’Driscoll
Brian O’Driscoll has said he would’ve got involved in rugby in some capacity regardless of whether he was a player or...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoPremiership in freefall as Irish suspended
London Irish became the third club in eight months to be removed from the Premiership for financial reasons as the RFU...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoAnniversary celebrations set for Rugby School
Rugby School and the children’s charity Wooden Spoon will jointly celebrate two significant milestones on Saturday, June 24th. The event will...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoEaling look to pick up Caulfield
ON THE BLINDSIDE - NEIL FISSLER Ealing Trailfinders are still looking to strengthen their squad for next season despite finding their...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoFollowing famous footsteps
PETER JACKSON When he lived in one of London’s swishest hotels at the height of his trans-Atlantic stardom, Richard Harris made...
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Latest News
/ 3 years ago‘England are dark horses for big prize’
By GARY FITZGERALD England can be World Cup dark horses who “sneak up” on the rail and gallop off with rugby’s...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoOspreys to demand a transfer fee for Francis
By PETER JACKSON Ospreys are demanding a transfer fee for Wales prop Tomas Francis, France-bound after completing business at the World...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoTax bill pushes Irish to the brink
By SAM JACKSON London Irish’s hopes of Premiership survival are hanging by a thread after the club was hit with winding-up...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoCall to hold all county finals at Twickenham
By LUKE JARMYN All men’s and women’s County Championship finals should take place at Twickenham as part of a weekend festival...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoDickens raring to get going at Tigers
By BEN JAYCOCK Leicester Tigers new attack and backs coach Alan Dickens is excited about reuniting with the multitude of players...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoJones can fire up Aussies, says Cooper
By GARY FITZGERALD Quade Cooper is bubbling about Australia’s World Cup chances, now they have Eddie Jones back holding the reins....
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWe will have to front up, says Laidlaw
By BRYN PALMER Scotland's players need to swiftly “front up” to the reality of their World Cup pool if they are...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoSanderson: We want to improve and not just be one-off wonders
By PAUL REES Sale took their pain to Spain. The day after the Premiership final defeat to Saracens at Twickenham, the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoHard to see who can catch Saracens
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It's hard to predict whether this will be the start of a period of...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoGatland releases Carre after he fails to hit targets
Cardiff prop Rhys Carre has been released from Wales’ World Cup training squad having “failed to meet individual performance targets”. “Rhys...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoGraham struggling to land a new deal
By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE Homeless, a second child on the way and no job. That is the brutal reality confronting Gary...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime to call up X-factor reserves
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Where can Steve Borthwick find the X-factor players to take England back to...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoToo many young players rejected too soon
Georgia's U20 victory over England is an example of one country making the most of their resources, while the other is...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 3 years agoDavies makes her mark as Wasps bow out
By FERGUS MAINLAND Wasps.......................22 Bristol....................... 41 After 38 years in the top tier of women’s rugby, Wasps bowed out with a...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 3 years agoIt’s 12 in a row for Saracens
By HARRY SCOTT-MUNRO Loughborough....... 14 Saracens................. 21 Saracens secured a 12th straight bonus-point win but results elsewhere meant they will travel...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 3 years agoRogers makes sure for Chiefs
By JAMES FOWLER Gloucester-H.......... 19 Exeter.......................58 Exeter Chiefs produced a scintillating performance to thrash table topers Gloucester-Hartpury at the ALPAS arena....
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 3 years agoThrilling deadlock at Sixways
By SAM BYTHEWAY Worcester...............33 Harlequins..............33 Harlequins and Worcester ended their seasons with a thrilling draw in fabulous conditions at Sixways. Lauren...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 3 years agoThorpe steers Sale home
By TOM BULMER DMP Sharks.............. 5 Sale Sharks............34 An entertaining clash saw Sale Sharks win the battle over their northern namesakes...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoWarriors laugh off Farrell switch
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Wigan Warriors have moved to put distance between themselves and a reported big-money cross-code move...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoArundell and Pearson on Bath’s radar
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Bath will waste no time this week to cherry-pick the best talent if, as expected,...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoVan Vuuren keen to join Premiership
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Lions lock Pieter Jansen Van Vuuren, who is reaching the end of his deal with...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoCardiff facing battle for prop Rae
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Cardiff are keen on signing Bath tighthead prop D’arcy Rae, below, but they are facing...
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Features
/ 3 years agoHelping to develop the best referees
Paul Rees talks to Chris White about the specialist programme which has trained some of the top refs in world rugby...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoTime we got round to telling full story
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST "No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” So said J KRowling, who knows a thing or...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoFreedom of speech cuts both ways
If Steve Hansen did a million things right over the long stretch of a storied career as an All Black think-tanker,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoI love playing in ‘rugby city’, says Williams
By BEN JAYCOCK James Williams has enjoyed a breakthrough season in the top flight with Bristol Bears but is disappointed his...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 3 years agoStewart steps up for Ireland squad
Ulster hooker Tom Stewart, who set the record for the most tries in a URC season with 16, is one of...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoNo Webb or Carre but plenty of talent
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND We have a summer of international rugby to look forward to before Wales get to...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoOne night in St Helens made us all feel good
SHANE WILLIAMS For all those ‘Doubting Thomases’ out there who keep thinking there is nothing good left in Welsh rugby then...
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Features
/ 3 years ago15 stars of a bonkers season
Paul Rees selects his team of the tournament from the Gallagher Premiership 2022/23 The most emotionally charged Premiership campaign finished as...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoMcCaw tips Wales to cause carnage
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When it comes to talking about ‘carnage’ at the World Cup, nobody is more impeccably...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoKeyboard warriors target Carre case
The Welsh Rugby Union has been bombarded from all directions all year that it seems almost unfair to point out that...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoEddie is putting his mind to it
PETER JACKSON Australia scrum-half Nic White came up with an interesting observation on Eddie Jones finding room for three psychologists in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoStunning Munster are the best of the bunch
RUGBY MATTERS - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points What with an epic Champions Cup final and a very...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoBastareaud deserves his cheering send-off, too
Sergio Parisse’s long farewell has taken centre stage recently but let’s hear it also for Mathieu Bastareaud who also took his...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoAfter 96 years, Kent get to wear a county crown again
Bill Beaumont County Cup Division One By BEN JAYCOCK Kent are seen as an ‘unfashionable county’ with zero of their clubs...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoLancashire woe as Smith’s last-gasp kick goes wide
KENT secured their first Bill Beaumont Men’s County Championship in 96 years with an incredible 39- 37 comeback win over Lancashire,...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoLancashire find it pays to talk
Gill Burns Cup By BEN JAYCOCK Before the County Cup season started, Lancashire women’s head coach Chris Hall encouraged his side...
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