Tomas ducks that 60-cap rule again

EXETER re-signed Tomas Francis last week and in doing so appear to have reduced the Welsh Rugby Union’s 60-cap rule to...

Billy was a hard nut, but so was his mum!

PETER JACKSON Super fan: Evelyn Mainwaring at Cardiff Arms Park before the 1975 Welsh Cup final between Aberavon and Llanelli. Full...

Ackermann: Cipriani deal is credit to our environment

GLOUCESTER head coach Johan Ackermann believes Danny Cipriani has many more years at the top after the 31-year-old fly-half penned a...

Willie thanks Wasps for his return to the Boks

By NEALE HARVEY Mercurial: Willie le Roux touches down for Wasps’ third try against Northampton PICTURES: Getty Images Recall: Rassie Erasmus...

No stain on Green character says QC

NEWCASTLE lock Calum Green has been cleared of biting Sale’s Rob Webber during their match last month. The 28-year-old was suspended...

Francis staying a Chief

WALES prop Tomas Francis has extended his deal at Premiership leaders Exeter and will still be eligible to play for his...

Blacker to bolster scrum-half options

SCARLETS look set to bolster their ranks with the signings of Cardiff Blues scrum-half Dane Blacker and Ospreys prop Alex Jeffries....

Sam striving to stake Scots claim at Quins

By NEALE HARVEY Ambitious: Sam Hidalgo-Clyne is now at Quins PICTURES: Getty Images Mission: Danny Care ON-LOAN Harlequins No.9 Sam Hidalgo-...

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Noves discovers ‘serious misconduct’ charge at last

FIFTEENmonths after his sacking as France coach, it will finally be known tomorrow what wrongdoing – if any – was done...

Osborne opposed to taking ‘artificial’ American route

By NEALE HARVEY REGARDLESS of Leicester’s parlous position, promotion and relegation must remain an intrinsic feature of top-flight rugby says former...

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Dragons aim to end the shame

Preview Kings v Dragons Sunday, Kick-off 2pm LEON Brown insists the Dragons must use the pain of last season’s thrashing against...

Tavuyara’s late try earns thrilling draw

By RONAN O’BRIEN Leinster ..........27 Benetton ........27 RATUVA Tavuyara scored an added-time try and Tomasso Allan landed the tricky conversion to...

Seymour inspires clinical Glasgow

By LUKE JARMYN Glasgow ..........30 Ulster..................7 GLASGOW tighthead Zander Fagerson got on the end of a speculative Sam Johnson off-load to...

Terrific Tipuric tracks down Cheetahs for flying Ospreys

By ALEX BYWATER THE Ospreys kept alive their Heineken Champions Cup qualification hopes with a stunning bonus point triumph over the...

Edinburgh end-game scorches Scarlets

By STEFFAN THOMAS THE Scarlets are on the brink of missing out on qualification for next seasons Heineken Champions Cup as...

Blues’ try brilliance eclipsed by Irish power

By ROGER PANTING BLUES’ hopes of a securing a Pro 14 play-off spot took a savage blow as the Munster pack...

Carty’s penalties keep Connacht in frame

By JOHN FALLON Zebre ..................5 Connacht ..........6 CONNACHT head coach Andy Friend says attentions have turned to Cardiff Blues after a...

Nathan so right to get his final fix

Big stage: Thomas IT WAS great for me to read that the former Wales No. 8 and Bath European Cup winner...

Anscombe can help make Blues great again

SHANE WILLIAMS Inspirational: Gareth Anscombe has some big decisions to make PICTURE: Getty Images IT’S not about breaking the bank, but...

Owens demands reaction after Blues ‘embarassment’

KEN Owens has warned it will be unacceptable if his Scarlets team become the first in the region’s history not to...

Now Parkes takes aim at getting Scarlets firing

STEFFAN THOMAS sits down with a star of the Six Nations, Wales centre Hadleigh Parkes Finishing in style: Hadleigh Parkes scores...

Winters is back at Esher with plans for revival

NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY LEGENDARY England & British & Irish Lions flanker Peter Winterbottom aims to spearhead an Esher revival...

ROOM 101

RICHARD LIST THE DONCASTER KNIGHTS PROP TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. The name...

Top agent Hood loses his clients

AGENTS have been circulating like sharks around clients of disgraced Scottish agent Gordon Hood who has been been placed on the...

Ospreys make Anscombe bid

THE OSPREYS are the latest club to offer Wales playmaker Gareth Anscombe a contract to join them after the World Cup....

Polota-Nau ready to go back to Oz

Loan spell: Tatafu Polota-Nau with the Waratahs LEICESTER TIGERS hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau could depart the relegation threatened Welford Road side and...

ON THE BLILD SIDE

BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■EXETER CHIEFS have re-signed two more players in winger Tom O’Flaherty and Welsh international...

Lam ‘no interest’ in MacGinty

BRISTOL coach Pat Lam says that he is happy with his fly-halves after being linked with a move for Sale Sharks...

Saints chase prop Josh

NORTHAMPTON Saints are set to raid Premiership rivals Harlequins to strengthen their front row next season by moving for tight-head prop...

Clubs eye Warrior Kirwan

Options: Carl Kirwan WORCESTER Warriors back row Carl Kirwan is attracting interest from Premiership clubs with his time at Sixways coming...

Sharples: Ensure top four and we can go all the way

By NEALE HARVEY Confident: Gloucester flyer Charlie Sharples CHARLIE Sharples is adamant improving Gloucester can turn a solid campaign into a...

Mostert? He’s bloody good warns fiesty Moon

By NEALE HARVEY Must-win game: Alex Moon PICTURES: Getty Images YOUTHFUL Saints lock Alex Moon is relishing taking on Gloucester’s second...

Diamond: Come and watch us – please!

STEVE DIAMOND has urged the north-west sporting public: Come and support us! Sale moved to the AJ Bell Stadium on the...

Sale push ever on as Sinckler and Quins implode

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Bitten: Byron McGuigan runs in an interception try for Sharks Corner man: Jack Clifford touches down Harlequins’ second...

Deano: We need better officials

NEWCASTLE’S director of rugby Dean Richards believed the importance of the game merited more senior officials. Richards said: “I don’t know...

Error-strewn Sarries wake up just in time

By ROGER PANTING Full stretch: Max Malins scores Saracens’ second try Threat: Owen Farrell set up the final try IF THEY...

No drama in ring-fence

WHILE Premiership owners are cranking up the pressure to end promotion- relegation the rest of the game is absorbed by a...

Don’t make Sexton a special case, chaps

IRELAND found the transition of going from hunters to hunted uncomfortable in the Six Nations, and no-one more so than Johnny...

Irish imports could bring a tsunami of debts

NICK CAIN Reports that Adam Coleman, the Australia and Rebels lock, is set to sign for London Irish next season on...

Solomons: I’m still a believer in survival

ALAN Solomons backed his Warriors to fight their way out of trouble despite suffering a major blow at the Ricoh Arena....

Hurricane Hughes gets the monkey off Wasps

By GARY FITZGERALD Breakthrough: Wasps’ Elliot Daly eludes a tackler PICTURES: Getty Images My ball:Wasps’ Joe Launchbury, right, and Gareth Milasinovich...

Webb may ask Toulon for World Cup ticket

By PETER JACKSON RHYS Webb faces a tough decision if he is to be reunited with Wales this summer in time...

Ford: I’m sure I can help keep Tigers up

By JON NEWCOMBE Confident: Mike Ford MIKE FORD saw at first hand the size of his task at Leicester Tigers yesterday...

Tom Savage to leave Gloucester for Japan’s Top League

The former Cherry and Whites skipper will join Kieran Read and Ryan Crotty in playing in Japan's ten-team league

All Blacks full-back Israel Dagg forced to retire

World Cup-winner ends career at the age of 30 on medical advice

Argentine veteran Marcelo Bosch to leave Saracens

Mark McCall hails 'enormous integrity' of centre

Young Guns: Worcester Warriors fly-half Luke Scully

Learned under Dan Biggar at the Ospreys and now Jono Lance at Sixways