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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoSaints are keen on Dombrandt
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler NORTHAMPTON Saints are leading the chase for Harlequins back row Alex Dombrandt as they...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoIreland puts a steer on the Dore Moor ship
By MATTHEW SMITH SHEFFIELD Tigers overcame a sluggish start to come out on top in a nervy game at Dore Moor,...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoIbitoye makes the magic we like says Gustard
TWO-TRY winger Gabriel Ibitoye was described as “a special talent” by Harlequins director of rugby Paul Gustard. “He’s been working hard...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoBacon looks crisp as Titans prevail
By JACK JOHNSON ROTHERHAM Titans ended a two-match losing run as a heroic defensive effort earned victory at Chinnor. The visitors...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoDevon proves a constant threat
By JOHN WHITE DEVON Constant scored twice as Leicester Lions withstood a late Dings fight-back to secure a bonus-point victory at...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoKirby and Wilson keep Billingham top
Northern Premier BILLINGHAM are still at the top the table after beating Ilkley 41-7 at Stacks Field. Matt Kirby and Luke...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoLet’s do it for Gats, orders Alun Wyn
ALUN WYN Jones has told Wales this morning’s World Cup quarter-final with France has been ten years in the making for...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoBorthwick in under Murphy
LEICESTER Tigers will be waiting for England’s World Cup campaign to finish so they can finalise a reshuffle of their coaching...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoForceful Fylde keep unbeaten run going
By STEFFAN JAMES FYLDE continued their winning record with a bonus-point win away on the road at struggling Midlands side Hinckley....
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWe showed fight roars triumphant Ackermann
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL JOHAN Ackermann and his players celebrated like wild men after a dramatic finale saw Gloucester open their Premiership...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoPack power steers five-star Albion
By PADDY MARSH INJURY-HIT Plymouth Albion produced their best display of the season to record a five-try victory over Sale FC,...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoSorry Lions tamed by merciless Titans outfit
By NICK CROWE A GALLANT Westcliff succumbed to a highly-disciplined and formidable Taunton side at Aviation Way, fighting tooth and nail...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGlory day, but Japan in Six Nations is a non-starter
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME If ever there was a sense of poetic justice in the game...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoVenner treble as Warriors overwhelmed
By DUNCAN WOOD GLOUCESTER-Hartpury Women put Worcester to the sword in a ruthless half-century display, with full-back Mia Venner notching a...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoSecond-half salvage job secures top spot in Pool
WALES led only 7-6 after a error-strewn first-half but went onto clinch the bonus point and ensure they topped Pool D...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoYoungs holds key to chances of victory
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Vital link: Ben Youngs must play well if England are to beat New Zealand THE...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoStour fly out of the traps in seven-try win
By MARTYN SMITH SUPER Stourbridge were on top form on home turf to put Scunthorpe to the sword in a thrilling...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoNo targets for us say Gloucester, just be best
Boss: Johan Ackermann VICTORIOUS Gloucester boss Johan Ackermann refused to set any targets for the season after his men saw off...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoYet more late heroics as Foresters dent the leaders
By TIM FORRESTER CINDERFORD are getting used to producing late shows, according to director of rugby Paul Morris, after another last-gasp...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoDiscipline costs TJs in historic Hawks win
By GARETH WITHERS TONBRIDGE Juddians’ head coach Peter Dankert was left to rue his side’s ill-discipline after Henley Hawks clinched a...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDu Preez aiming high after horror throat injury
RUGBY EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY TWELVEmonths after fearing his rugby days were over, braveheart back rower Cornell du Preez aims to...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoFindlay delighted by perfect blend
By MATT VERRI CO-HEAD coach Karen Findlay saluted her side’s backline as they fired Harlequins to a fifth consecutive bonuspoint victory...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoJosh is hunting down Shane’s try record
Alex Bywater talks to Wales wing Josh Adams who has scored five World Cup tries so far JOSH Adams never thought...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoEngland defence can win World Cup says Farr-Jones
PETER JACKSON VERDICT Glory day: Nick Farr-Jones lifts the World Cup in 1991 The middle-aged man occupying seat 91 in Row...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoThird successive win for Students
By JONATHAN BUSH LOUGHBOROUGH Students are starting to climb the table, after a third win on the trot was secured in...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoDiamond: We won’t let playoff place slip by again
NEWS EXTRA By GARY FITZGERALD STEVE Diamond is convinced Sale have the player power to mount a serious push for the...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoBack row brilliance sparks Mose to battling win
By PAUL SMITH LED by outstanding backrowers Buster Lawrence and Morgan Monks, Birmingham Moseley fought to victory over Canterbury. But the...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoRaiders bashed as eight try OAs run riot
By BRIAN QUINN OLD Albanian stormed home with eight tries to extinguish the faint hopes of Worthing Raiders and cruise to...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLudlam’s success has given us all a lift – Vesty
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY NORTHAMPTON coach Sam Vesty is backing his ambitious brat pack to defy second season syndrome by...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoLong trip south earns Sharks bonus
By TOM SOULSBY FOUR tries from DMP Sharks were enough to ease past Richmond in a result that heaped further misery...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoHuget: My sloppiness killed the mood in Six Nations
YOANN Huget admits the pain of his Six Nations horror show against Wales still hurts as he plans to make amends...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoEddie will need all his cunning to beat these!
From ADAM HATAHAWAY AS WARNINGS to England and the rest of the world this was as emphatic as it gets from...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoMonkey off Tyne’s back in home win
By BRIAN TILLEY TWOtries by hooker Dan Lowdon helped Tynedale to their first home win of the season at Corbridge. But...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWeir lands the points in a tragedy of errors
By ROGER PANTING THIS was a dreadful advert for Premiership rugby but Worcester won’t care a jot as they made it...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoUp-tempo Blood and Sand end home woe
By STEVE JACKSON CAMBRIDGE deservedly took four points for their first home win since March against a Rosslyn Park side looking...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoJames the saviour to seal late thriller
By MATT BALDWIN THOMAS James was the late hero as his last-gasp try gave Esher victory in a scintillating game at...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoS&C guru PJ helping Mercer hit new PBs in the gym
By NEALE HARVEY HUMAN dynamo Zach Mercer insists he is bigger and stronger as he bids to underpin Bath’s title charge...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWarburton red card still haunts me today
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND THERE is a picture of me after our 2011 World Cup semi-final defeat by France....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWe’ve got even more to come – Smith
NEW ZEALAND scrumhalf Aaron Smith claimed the world champions had more in the tank ahead of next week’s showdown with England....
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWe were nervous admits Solomons
WORCESTER’S director of rugby Alan Solomons was relieved to claim a tense game. He said: “If you start the Premiership with...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoDaly duo helps Club win ugly
By GRAHAM COX THIS wasn’t the prettiest of matches and both sides will look back and rue the missed opportunities that...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoShepherd secures bonus-point glory
By BILL HOOPER TWO second-half tries from full-back Matt Shepherd put Redruth on the road to a deserved bonuspoint win. Bury...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoAce Ezcurra out to catch the eye with Barbarians
NEWS EXTRA ARGENTINAcentre Bautista Ezcurra is keen to stay on British shores after he tours England and Wales with the Barbarians...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoRaise a glass to stickler Gardner
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S that time again. Who deserves a jouer de rugby gallant t-shirt this week for their class...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoAll Blacks were good but Irish looked spent
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT If ever you want a text book example of a team peaking 12 months too early, Ireland and...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoFully-fit hooker Taylor aims to show what Wasps and England have been missing
By NEALE HARVEY FORMER All Blacks hitman Malakai Fekitoa is handed his Premiership debut as Wasps take on newly-promoted London Irish...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoDMP soar past faltering OE’s
By KEVIN ROBINSON DARLINGTON Mowden Park comfortably overcame Old Elthamians, who simply ran out of steam in the last quarter. OE’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPooler’s perfect start has Ystrad reeling
Welsh Championship round-up By CARL FIELD THE Pontypool juggernaut rolls on. Leighton Jones’ defending champions powered to a sixth bonus-point win...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSquad lists all for 12 Premiership teams 2019-20
Take a look at the forwards, backs, coaches and captains which will make for another exciting season of Premiership rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership kick off! Sale Sharks must show more bite
It's time for Steve Diamond to aim for a top four finish, writes Brendan Gallagher












