Super-sub Gallagher drives over for hat-trick

By JOHN LYON Caldy ..................26pts Tries: Wilkinson 23, Gallagher 35, 60, 69 Conversions: Barker 36, 61, 70 Coventry ...........22pts Tries: Nkwocha...

Grand Slam was ours, come hell or high water

My Life in Rugby with Iwan Tukalo - the former Scotland & Selkirk wing talks about his journey in the game...

50 years ago, and it’s a different world

RUGBY MATTERS - BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S funny how some things 50 years...

Unlucky Bev had just the two caps

It was remiss of this column not to note the passing of former Bristol and England prop Bev Dovey last month...

Rugby behind bars: How Italy is taking the game inside

Rugby is famously a game for men and women of all shapes and sizes and, in Italy increasingly, it has also...

Great to see jeopardy in battle to be champions

Q&A Ben Jaycock talks to former Harlequins and England winger Ugo Monye, below, now a pundit for TNT Sports, about the...

Dunn: I want to finish my time with a trophy

By PAUL REES Tom Dunn has spent his senior career at Bath and intends to finish it by emulating the teams...

Ojomoh delight as England call up his boy Max

By EDDIE McATEER Former England back row Steve Ojomoh is thrilled that his son Max has been called into the England...

Double agents out to prove their worth

Ben Nurse talks to two of Portugal’s World Cup stars looking forward to taking on England A Everyone who has ever...

Odendaal enjoying his life back in the Prem

By PAUL REES Burger Odendaal was one of the few Premiership players who did not welcome the break for the Six...

Dream Team with Robbie Smith

The Hartpury and former Doncaster Knights centre, chooses the best XV he has played with or against... 1. Joe Wrafter –...

I loved it! Cipriani calls it a day at 36

DANNY Cipriani has retired from professional rugby, describing it as a “sobering but freeing moment”. Cipriani, 36, left Bath at the...

Lions just do enough to claim toughest of wins

National 1 By DANIEL WINKLETON Leicester L....... 19 Plymouth A...... 12 LEICESTER Lions made it four wins in a row with...

Chinnor in battle to stay at the top

National 1 By JOHN VAUGHAN Chinnor.....................38 Sedgley Park.........34 CHINNOR went back to the top of league with a thrilling win. The...

Yates hat-trick is highlight for Park

National 1 By TOM BULMER Darlington MP.......42 Blackheath.............27 DARLINGTON MP continued their run of good form with a bonus point win...

Hughes steps up to break visitors’ hearts

National 1 By GARETH DANIELS Sale FC.............. 21 Cinderford........ 15 SALE secured a vital victory over fellow strugglers Cinderford. The visitors...

Generous Stortford hand win to Mond

National 1 By JOHN ALLANSON Bishop’s S.......... 14pts Richmond..........38pts Tries: Pope 24 & 44 Conversions: Cole 25 & 45 Penalties: 0...

Hosts have no answer to electric Kucera

National 2W By MO SHER Dudley K................... 19 Exeter Uni................38 DUDLEY Kingswinford’s winless start to 2024 continued as they lost out...

Hinckley roar to victory with Rory!

National 2W By CHRIS CAMPBELL Hinckley..................29 Newport (S)............ 21 HINCKLEY returned to winning ways on an attritional after noon at a...

Second-half surge seals the success

National 2W By NATHAN EDWARDS O Redcliffians .......26 Loughborough S... 15 OLD Redcliffians overturned a five-point half-time deficit to beat Loughborough...

Waters relishes biggest battles ahead in race to clinch title

By BEN CONEYBEARE The battle for supremacy at the top of the National 2 East can feel like a staring contest,...

McGann inspires Raiders to superb triumph

National 2E By RICHARD HOMER O Albanians.....26 Guernsey..........39 GUERNSEY ran out deserved winners with six tries to four against their hosts....

Late penalty from Adams seals win

National 2E By STEPHEN FITZMAURICE Sevenoaks..............22 Bury St Ed’s............. 21 WHEN a match comes down to a singular denouement, which this...

Hope’s hat-trick is not quite enough

National 2E By OLLY PINHEY Wimbledon.............23 North Walsham.....23 NORTH Walsham fought back from a 14-point half-time deficit to secure a draw...

Delighted Derrick snatches victory at the death

National 2E By HENR PARISH Worthing...........29 Westcombe P..26 THREE turned out lucky for Worthing as Thomas Derrick struck at the death....

Very close for Ionians but there’s no cigar!

National 2N By MALCOLM KNOWLES Hull Ionians......25pts Sheffield T........26pts Touching down: Oliver Butterworth scores for Sheffield Tigers, and right, James Sanderson...

Tykes show their class to blow Hull away

National 2N By RICHARD GORE Hull............................22 Leeds Tykes...........58 HULL were outgunned by a very good Leeds side. But despite missing some...

It’s a magnificent seven for Otley

National 2N By NICK DOYLE Otley..........................48 Huddersfield..........28 OTLEY secured their highest league score against Huddersfield with seven tries to bring local...

Armstrong gives Dale the strength

National 2N By EDWIN WILLIAMS . Wharfedale............ 31 Billingham................ 7 WHARFEDALE got back to winning ways on their long-awaited return to...

Ford looks the right Guy to build a bright future

By BEN JAYCOCK It has been a frustrating season for Chester head coach Guy Ford in National Two West, but with...

Young Guns: Newcastle wing/fullback Ben Redshaw

By BEN JAYCOCK Ben Redshaw has burst onto the professional rugby scene and is hoping his wonder try against Perpignan is...

Carnduff learns the Leicester way

By BEN JAYCOCK Finn Carnduff is honoured to join an illustrious list of England U20 captains and made it four of...

SAS – the attack motto for U18s

By BEN JAYCOCK ‘Speed, attachment, space’ is the motto of England U18s attack coach Will Parkin, who is tasked with unearthing...

Why Six Nations is pinnacle of game

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME HERE we are at the start of another Six Nations with everything...

Cotter off to winning opener with Blues

By BEN JAYCOCK Super Rugby’s Blues demolished Tokyo Sungoliath 43-7 in the first of four games in the inaugural Cross-Border Rugby...

Red Rose legends can’t wait for Lions to set sail

By PAUL MARTIN Maggie Alphonsi and Danielle Waterman share 156 England caps between them but both would have traded a few...

Kelly clocks up the miles for his ‘family’

Nick Powell talks to Fin Kelly ahead of an epic challenge to help fund his women’s sevens side and support a...

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Aspiration key to maintain a vibrant league

Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to Gavin Cattle, the joint head coach of Cornish Pirates Why...

Swansea claim a bonus to climb off bottom

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS The home stretch of BUCS Super Rugby settled into its flow after a hugely entertaining, and...

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Suffolk’s Ipswich take the spoils in Seaford

SCHOOLS REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS This week was the highlight of the school tens period, the Seaford Southern Tens tournament. The...

Spirit high at DMP despite long haul road trips

By EDDIE McATEER Darlington Mowden Park are the most northerly club in National One, with Sedgley Park the closest side to...

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Drovers run eight tries past Cardiff Welsh round-up

By ROB COLE LLANDOVERY scored eight tries at the Arms Park to complete the double over Cardiff and stretch their lead...

Uzokwe: We have a lot more in tank

By BEN JAYCOCK Ealing Trailfinders won seven out of their opening eight games in the Championship, have reached the Premiership Cup...

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Davidson relief as Castres stop rot

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The afternoon after the Friday-night chastening Six Nations defeat in Marseille before, a subdued French rugby audience...

Makin determined to lead struggling Ionians to safety

By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON In Joe Makin’s 15 years as a player and now head coach at Hull Ionians, he has witnessed...

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