My 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 –...

Fiji hero Osea in hunt for DC Glory

MLR ROUND-UP By SAM JACKSON OSEA KOLINISAU will make his MLR debut for Old Glory DC today five years on from...

Super Rugby Aotearoa: Last-gasp McKenzie is match-winner

By BEN JAYCOCK DAMIAN McKenzie’s 83rd minute match winning penalty put Chiefs into pole position to make the Aotearoa final with...

Suntory end Alex’s Far East adventure

JAPAN ROUND-UP By MATT MCILRAITH ALEX Goode’s Japanese expedition is over. The England man’s season-long loan deal with NEC came to an...

Olowofela hat-trick has Reds reeling

AUSTRALIA ROUND-UP By ADAM ELLIS JORDAN Olowofela’s hattrick ended the Reds unbeaten season and propelled the Western Force to their first knockout...

Throwing 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...

We 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...

Truro 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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CONNIE 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...

Ugo 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...

Carry on, Eddie but problems remain for RFU

WELL, the inquiry has taken place, the excuses made and, quite rightly, Eddie Jones has been cleared to carry on. One...

Cov canter in as Cornwell blasts attitude at Hartpury

By ANDREW BEACHAM Hartpury ..........24pts Tries: R Smith 23; Venner 35, 57 Conversions: Williams 24, 36, 58 Penalties: Williams 32 Coventry...

Cornish Pirates 18-20 Ampthill: Off-colour Pirates are defied by Amps 13 men

The Dave Ward derby saw the hooker's current team edge his old employers at the Mennaye

Richmond 12-40 Doncaster: Rampaging Knights put Richmond to slaughter

Two tries for centre Howard Packman sees Knights back to winning ways after their mauling by Saracens a week ago

Jersey 55-12 Nottingham: Ten-try Reds enjoy happy homecoming in front of fans

JERSEY marked their return to home turf after a 60-week absence by turning on the style in a nine-try demolition of...

Sam’s big Lions regret

SAM Warburton admits his biggest regret from his two tours as Lions captain was not embracing more the special social side...

Dwayne Peel fiasco ends with no apology | Peter Jackson

SO THE Dwayne Peel saga has come to an end with all three parties – Scarlets, Cardiff and, not least, the coach...

Maro Itoje form is trump card in Lions call | Peter Jackson

Maro Itoje can be assured of his Lions place this summer, writes Peter Jackson

La Rochelle fabled past can help Ronan O’Gara bid | Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson explains why he is rooting for La Rochelle to taste European glory and for Ronan O'Gara to be realised...

Wave 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...

Find 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...

Rugby 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

George 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...

Erasmus: Tough competition will prepare us for Lions challenge

Building excitement: Wandisile Simelane of the Lions on the attack against the Bulls last season SOUTH AFRICA Rugby have released the...

Murray’s double ends the wait for Munster

By JOHN FALLON Leinster ............3 Munster ..........27 CONOR Murray crossed for two tries as Munster got their first win in two...

Ryan’s loyalty to Scarlets rewarded by captaincy

By ALEX BYWATER PREVIEW... Dragons v Scarlets Today. Kick-off 1pm, Rodney Parade RYAN Elias admits he thought long and hard about...

Big win soured by injury blow to North

By STEFFAN THOMAS Ospreys ............36pts  Tries: Phillips 8, 49; Williams 31, Aubrey 40, Cross 68, Parry 80 Conversions: Thomas 32, 40,...

Youngsters see Edinburgh home

Edinburgh..............24  Zebre ......................18 EDINBURGH head coach Richard Cockerill praised the young players that stepped in on Friday night. With 16 players...

Woeful Warriors smashed for six

Benetton................46 Glasgow ................19 BENETTON began their campaign with a thumping bonus point win over a poor Glasgow outfit. During the regular...

Captain’s challenge sets up Sullivan’s winner

By JOHN FALLON Ulster ..............24 Connacht ........26 CONNACHT coach Andy Friend is not convinced the new laws being trialled are going...

Alex Mitchell has that Melville quality | Chris Hewett

BACK in the early 1980s, a time when there were no arguments about ring-fencing in England because there weren’t any leagues...

Could 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...

Six Nations triumph can spur us on now vows Tipuric

JUSTIN Tipuric admits Wales’ Grand Slam heartbreak in Paris still haunts him, but he believes that Six Nations title win can...

Anxious wait for Ospreys wing and Lions hopeful George North

Wales wing George North hobbled off in Ospreys win over Cardiff Blues in the Rainbow Cup

Ugo Monye spearheads the fight for rugby diversity

FORMER England wing Ugo Monye hopes that as chair of a new RFU advisory group he can help make rugby more...

Scotland 27-20 Wales: Scots power past improving Wales

Scotland ................27 Wales ......................20 SCOTLAND pipped Wales to a fifth-place finish in a highly entertaining finale to the 2021 Women’s Six...

Ireland 25-5 Italy: Irish finish in style to seal third place

IRELAND signed off with a win to secure third place in the Six Nations. Dorothy Wall barged over in the corner...

Only threat to AWJ hitting high five is AWJ himself

I’M FED up of blowing smoke up Alun Wyn Jones’ you-know-what, but I’ve got no doubt he can go on and...

Rainbow 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...

Dwayne 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...

Falcons are antithesis of flying Chiefs

AFTER a flakey start, Stuart Hogg showed almost super-human stamina when he scored Exeter’s 77th minute try against Wasps, last weekend....

Eddie must lose his obsession with power

RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney’s decision to retain Eddie Jones as England coach shows his grasp of the realties facing English...

Totally disagree with Boag’s view on Lions

COLIN Boag wrote that the new law variation, regarding red-carded players being substituted after 20 minutes, is a spineless capitulation, which...

Now ditch the ring-fence

THE money-motivated soccer European Super League plan has been abandoned after an outcry from fans, players and managers. So how about...

Did Lansdowne ponder?

AMID the furore concerning football’s European Super League, I wonder how the ambitious owner of Bristol City FC, Steve Lansdowne –...

RFU and millionaires have led us by the nose

LAST month the RFU binned relegation for the foreseeable with the approval of the CBs (the community clubs’ representatives at HQ)...

No fun supporting whipping boys

WE CAN all enjoy the drama of a good game of rugby, regardless of whether or not our team comes through...

Regional rugby drove me over to the dark side

I HAVE been an avid reader of TRP for some time and, having scanned the results and news articles, my search...

Childs’ departure from Premiership Rugby was so secret

Club executives left in the unknown about Darren Childs' pending departure as Premiership Rugby CEO