‘Give WRU cash to regions, not hotel builders’

By STEFFAN THOMAS Low point: Scarlets thrashed by Sale SCARLETS chairman Simon Muderack has outlined a way out of the Covid-19...

PRO16 Boks will be fit and fearsome for Rainbow Cup warns Aled

Benefit: Aled Walters SOUTH Africa’s giant World Cup-winning Springboks will face the best of the Celtic nations in prime physical condition...

Ribbans keen to march on with Saints and England

By PAUL REES DAVID Ribbans has not been able to see his family in South Africa for 18 months because of...

Reds bolster pack options

JERSEY Reds have boosted their forward options after bringing in Glasgow prop Adam Nicol and Worcester lock James Scott. Nicol, 23,...

Chiefs keep hold of flier Cordero

ARGENTINA flyer Facundo Cordero has extended his contract at Exeter. The 22-year-old, who can play full-back or wing, joined last summer...

Attwood to stay a Bear next season

BRISTOL Bears veteran Dave Attwood has agreed to extend his contract with the Premiership club by a further year. The 34-year-old...

Pirates pair ruled out for season

AFTER waiting for a year to return to Championship action Cornish Pirates centres Callum Patterson and Nico De Battista have suffered...

Travel-weary Reds can’t wait for home comforts

Probyn: There’s more skill in the women’s game By LUKE JARMYN LIFE on the road is proving a tough slog for Championship...

Harmony at Toulouse is music to Kaino’s ears | James Harrington

Earlier this week, both Toulouse and Clermont head coaches insisted that their sides are underdogs for today’s Champions Cup quarter-final at...

I’m lucky I still get to work in my shorts!

MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE NEWCASTLE PROP AND SCRUM COACH MICKY WARD I LIVE about 15 minutes from the rugby club, and have never...

Former Scotland prop Gordon Reid to walk 500 miles in honour of Dad

FORMER Scotland prop Gordon Reid is taking on a mammoth charity challenge in memory of his father, Gordon, who died last...

There’s still room for skill in the women’s game

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME At last the women’s game has an equal platform to the men. The...

Giteau’s Giltinis blunt the Arrows

MLR ROUND-UP By SAM JACKSON MLR newcomers LA Giltinis continued their assault on the rest of the league with a 43-16...

Super Rugby Aotearoa: Damian McKenzie’s golden boot decides clash in Dunedin

DAMIAN McKenzie’s ‘golden point’ penalty dramatically secured three straight wins for the Chiefs to keep their Aotearoa final hopes alive. McKenzie...

Parkes powers up Panasonic charge

JAPAN ROUND-UP By MATT MCILRAITH HADLEIGH Parkes took his try tally to seven for the season as Panasonic Wild Knights beat Yamaha Jubilo...

O’Connor puts the boot into Brumbies

AUSTRALIA ROUND-UP By ADAM ELLIS THE Reds booked home advantage in the Super Rugby AU final with a late comeback in the...

Genia blown away by O’Connor transformation

Mature: James O’Connor FORMER Wallaby scrumhalf Will Genia has taken a lot of pleasure in watching James O’Connor come back from...

Japan is the Top League now, Quade Cooper tells Sanzaar

WALLABIES maverick Quade Cooper sees Super Rugby being turned on its head in the years to come as the growth of...

Farrell out of Sarries return

ENGLAND captain Owen Farrell’s return to action for Saracens has been delayed after he sustained a minor strain. The 29-year-old, who...

Happy 90th birthday to Lewis, the first of the flying Lions

LEWIS JONES, the first player to join a Lions tour by air at a time when everyone else still went by...

Walder: Mike Brown can be vintage for the Falcons

DAVE Walder believes the delivery of Newcastle Brown to Kingston Park next season will refresh the Falcons and ensure there is...

BECKY NOON

WOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING BACK-ROW Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players THIS WEEK... Loughborough Lightning are...

Michele off to France

ITALY centre Michele Campagnaro, 28, will leave Harlequins at the end of the season to join French Pro D2 side Colomiers....

Exiles prop cops three

LONDON Irish prop Will Goodrick-Clarke has been banned for three weeks after being sent off in last week’s Challenge Cup win...

Saracen Tompkins

WALES centre Nick Tompkins has returned to Championship side Saracens from his loan spell with PRO14 club Dragons. The 26-year-old scored...

Hill’s happy among best of part-timers

By LUKE JARMYN Thriving: Jesse Liston offloads to Kurt Schonert in Richmond’s win over Jersey PICTURES: Dante K Photography RICHMOND director...

Free-flowing Fisher put an emphasis on speed

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools JOHN Fisher School might have been founded as recently as 1929...

Right wing’s king for Kiwis

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER I WAS struck by an interesting tweet this week from respected New Zealand rugby journo Jim Keyes...

Lee was the heart and soul of Sevenoaks rugby

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A BELATED hat tip and farewell to an old rugby colleague – Lee Adamson – from Reigate...

Six Nations’ treatment of Spain blights game

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE has been much debate this week about...

McCarthy pumped for wrestle with Lions

Daniel Gallan talks to Bedford captain Seán McCarthy ahead of today’s Sarries clash Like so many of us, Seán McCarthy had...

Preview: Bath boys primed for Championhip debuts for Coventry

COVENTRY have added two more promising players from the Premiership ahead of today’s match against Ampthill. Director of rugby Rowland Winter...

Preview: McCall brings in heavies to avoid more slip-ups

MARK McCall has named a side with almost 400 Test caps admitting Saracens cannot afford another slipup if they are to...

Jersey 10-22 Doncaster: Knights weather the early storm to ride for victory

Steve Boden's men keep up their strong start to the Championship season, but he saw some faults in their win over...

Cornish Pirates 10-38 Ealing: Six-hitting Trailfinders get ready for Sarries

Sin bins to Tom Duncan and Shae Tucker open up room for Trailfinders to score two tries in bonus point win

Hartpury 15-13 Nottingham: Max is the hero for Hartpury with last-play winner

Nottingham let their lead slip in the final minute as first win of the season eludes Midlanders at the Alpas Arena

Harlequins get away with letting Europe down again | Peter Jackson

HARLEQUINS’ Champions Cup went belly-up from the start, a pointless sortie to Thomond Park yielding little more than three yellow cards,...

Team Wales casts long shadow over regions

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The newly-enthroned international champions of Europe are having to spend the weekend on their...

Cullen in his pomp was poetry in motion

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby‘s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What’s happening...

Israel Folau row looks set for re-run in Tonga | Chris Hewett

Folau's journey into cyberspace should inhibit any return to Test rugby, after recent comments by Tonga's head coach that he would...

Gourdon proves big is not the best policy | Chris Hewett

Rugby's struggles with David and Goliath statures for forwards can often by a headscratcher, writes Chris Hewett

Italy 3-67 England: Nine-try England book date in final

Italy played their best rugby in years in a first half which England still managed to score two tries in, before...

Wales 0-45 Ireland: Woeful Wales ship seven in Arms Park demolition job

Wales overwhelmed by Ireland to suffer second-successive heavy defeat in the Six Nations

Less can be more for rugby insists Hogan

Should seismic reform to place in the Premiership? A reduction in the number of games would be a good start, says...

Evaluating how ready the Springboks are for the Lions

NICK CAIN EVALUATES THE SPRINGBOKS PREPARATION FOR THE UPCOMING LIONS SERIES WHEN Faf de Klerk was buried by a brutal Jake Ball...

Long-serving Henry Trinder to leave Gloucester

LONG-SERVING Gloucester centre Henry Trinder has left Kingsholm to kick-start his career with French club Vannes on a deal until the...

Sale miss out in pursuit of Nick Schonert from Premiership rivals Worcester

SALE SHARKS are believed to have failed in a bid to land Worcester Warriors tighthead Nick Schonert on a deal for...

Thomas looks to France

ON THE BLIND SIDE Move: Henry Thomas HENRY THOMAS, the former England international tighthead, looks set to leave Bath to move...

Saracens gather all their on-loan stars back in the fold

Saracens head coach Mark McCall reveals the likelihood of having Nick Isiekwe and Ben Earl back at the club next season

Jeremy Jordaan may quit Agen for Newcastle Falcons

Dean Richards offers South African lock way out of Top 14 basement boys Agen