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20 Questions: Chris Brightwell – Moseley No.8

29 April 2015 1 comment

Must feel great to win the big relegation battle against Plymouth? Yes! We’ve known for a few weeks that it was going to come down […]

Brendan Gallagher’s column: Clermont reap benefits from hunting cleverly

16 April 2015 0 comments

Money invariably encourages envy and bad-mouthing but money per se has never guaranteed success in any sport. Winning is much more complicated than that. Some […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature on Alan Hancock’s try against Scotland in 1965

13 March 2015 2 comments

Everybody is famously allowed 15 minutes of fame, but for Northampton wing Andy Hancock that was abbreviated to 15 seconds. That’s pretty much the time, […]

Frustrated fans deserve more action says Wayne Barnes

11 March 2015 1 comment

Top referee Wayne Barnes is receptive to the idea of stopping the clock at scrums, lineouts and when tries are scored in order to prevent […]

20 Questions: Ken Pisi – Northampton wing

4 March 2015 1 comment

Enjoyable to see Northampton at the top of the Premiership? Yes it is. There’s a great bunch of boys at the club and we’re all […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature: Glint of gilded youth in Scotland v Italy

26 February 2015 0 comments

And so to the RBS Six Nations annual wooden spoon ‘decider’ between Scotland and Italy – the two nations between them have finished last in […]

Young Gun: Oskar Hirskyj-Douglas – Wasps back row

20 February 2015 1 comment

Oskar Hirskyj-Douglas has been a standout performer for Henley this season but getting his professional debut for Wasps was his main goal. That dream came […]

Brendan Gallagher: Medicine gives Tom Rees a challenge he craves

29 January 2015 0 comments

He was, all the critics were agreed, going to be the England rugby captain for a very long time. That rare thing, a natural English […]

20 Questions: Peter Richards – London Scottish backs coach

14 January 2015 0 comments

Enjoying the coaching gig at Scottish? Loving it. It’s a brand new set of fixtures, a different challenge against different teams and there’s some real […]

Young Gun: Conor Dolan – Wellington and Wasps centre

13 January 2015 0 comments

Taking on the best schools in the country on a weekly basis is no mean feat but that is what Conor Dolan and Wellington College […]

Young Gun: Adam Hastings – Millfeld and Scotland U18s fly-half

19 December 2014 0 comments

Adam Hastings already has one of the most famous names in rugby but if that was not enough pressure on his young shoulders, he decided […]

My Life in Rugby: Buster White – former Wasps flanker

11 December 2014 1 comment

The saying once a Wasp always a Wasp rings true with me, 100 per cent – even Coventry Wasps! Ironically my two boys play at […]

EXCLUSIVE: Samoan president accuses players of drinking culture

8 December 2014 3 comments

Players left raging by president’s hint at drinking culture and accusation of not training hard enough.

Brendan Gallagher: The one cap wonders woefully short-changed

20 November 2014 0 comments

Mention of David Bishop last week and the subject of the best Welsh one cap wonders in the game has known inevitably sends you off […]

Young Gun: Drew Cheshire – Moseley wing

7 November 2014 1 comment

Drew Cheshire has been one of the most prolific try-scorers in the National Leagues for the past two seasons with 46 tries in 69 games […]

Young Gun: Dan Thomas – Gloucester flanker

24 October 2014 0 comments

Former Wales U20 captain Dan Thomas hopes to be involved in the LV=Cup with Gloucester in three weeks and, with an A-League hat-trick against Leicester […]

Brendan Gallagher: Discovering the secrets of those great schools XVs

9 October 2014 0 comments

What makes a great schools rugby team? And which were the best ever school XVs? Two perennial questions that always enliven a clubhouse beer or […]

Jeff Probyn: Sadly, loyalty seems to be a one-way street for IRB

2 October 2014 1 comment

What price loyalty in rugby? That’s a question that is not as easy to answer as you may think. Back in the amateur days it […]

Moment in Time – the Cross Code Challenges of 1996

5 September 2014 0 comments

One hundred years of animosity and bad blood were about to be forgotten and an attempt made to answer the age old question which was […]

Brendan Gallagher: Lions must show their teeth in South Seas

4 September 2014 0 comments

Having been among those agitating for New Zealand finally to pay a debt of honour to the Samoan people and play a full Test in […]

Brendan Gallagher – So, is Maggie Alphonsi the retiring type?

3 September 2014 0 comments

All good things come to an end but you can sense Maggie Alphonsi’s reluctance to leave the international scene. England’s openside flanker has been having […]

Young Gun: Tom Bliss – Wasps and USA scrum-half

29 August 2014 2 comments

Tom Bliss is expected to make his Wasps debut today against London Welsh in a pre-season friendly at Adams Park. Joining the club’s academy this […]

Brendan Gallagher: They think the ball’s over … it isn’t now!

28 August 2014 1 comment

Today – August 17 – is exactly 20 years since a certain George Gregan made his Bledisloe Cup debut in Sydney and pulled off possibly […]

Tom Varndell dazzled by Alapati Leiua stardust

21 August 2014 1 comment

Winger reckons club is on cusp of new golden era.

Jeff Probyn: Go for it girls…just don’t ask my daughter to play!

13 August 2014 0 comments

With the Commonwealth Games Sevens over and South Africa surprisingly taking the spoils, it’s now time for women’s rugby to take centre stage. With 12 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steffon Armitage eyes World Cup chance with France

10 August 2014 0 comments

The original, and Exclusive, story from Neale Harvey on June 29.

Q&A with Richard Cockerill: Our attack is fine, Neil, it’s defence that cost us!

7 August 2014 0 comments

No trophies or finals last season – what’s your assessment of the campaign? I think we did some pretty good things, to be fair. Saints […]

Jeff Probyn: Warburton would be perfect fit at Kassam

31 July 2014 0 comments

Despite the fact we are in the ‘Dead Zone’ and there is no rugby to watch, there is still much bubbling below the surface that […]

Tom Mitchell: The heat is on – we must get it right or go home

25 July 2014 0 comments

The England 7s Captain gives the inside story from the athletes’ village.

Brendan Gallagher: Agony of 2010 can spur us to title in WRWC

23 July 2014 0 comments

A hard core of determined World Cup veterans may lay at the heart of England’s World Cup squad but equally it will need fearless younger […]

Friday to balance jobs between exiles and Eagles

18 July 2014 0 comments

London Scottish Director of rugby Mike Friday has agreed to become Head coach of the USA 7s squad. The former England 7s coach will combine […]

Brendan Gallagher: Girls go full-time and and full-on for big prize

8 July 2014 0 comments

Without fanfare or fuss a minor revolution has been taking place in and around Surrey Sports Park in Guildford this summer with the England Women’s […]

Young Gun: Cameron Cowell – London Irish full-back

4 July 2014 1 comment

Cameron Cowell says scoring his debut try for England U18s was the highlight of his career so far, but with the full-back set to continue […]

Jeff Probyn: Yes, Stuart Lancaster has makings of World Cup-winning squad

20 June 2014 1 comment

During last week rugby was a bit like the Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. The Good was England’s performance during […]

Brendan Gallagher: Yes, it’s time for All Blacks to end their Pacific shame

18 June 2014 2 comments

Guys, it’s not the dark side of the moon. No fewer than four airlines, including the national carrier Air New Zealand, with whom I understand […]

VIDEO: Tom Mitchell take on Colin Gregor in kicking challenge

29 May 2014 0 comments

England captain Tom Mitchell goes head to head with his Scottish counterpart Colin Gregor. Video courtesy of CNN’s International’s ‘Rugby Sevens Worldwide’, sponsored by HSBC.

20 Questions: Rob Vickerman – Leeds centre

28 May 2014 0 comments

Enjoyed your first season back from 7s? Really good. But it took twice as long as I thought it would to get back into the […]

Gavin Henson called up for Wales trial

13 May 2014 0 comments

Gavin Henson could make his international return in South Africa after being named by Rob Howley in Possibles squad for the trial match against the […]

How John Fisher state case for life at the top

9 May 2014 0 comments

With Dulwich winning their third consecutive Daily Mail Cup and Millfield their 14th Rosslyn Park Sevens Open this year, it’s fair to say public schools […]

Tom Mitchell: Keep the pathway clear for students to reach very top

2 May 2014 1 comment

We are a few days away from the penultimate tournament of the 2013/14 HSBC World Sevens Series in Glasgow and therefore only a couple of […]

US growth is reliant upon winning admits Chris Wyles

2 May 2014 0 comments

Chris Wyles knows qualification for the 2015 World Cup has given USA Eagles the best possible chance of breaking America but admits they must discover a winning formula to do so.

GK IPA Championship play-offs preview – part 1

1 May 2014 1 comment

Bristol Regular season With a strong squad at his disposal Andy Robinson has simply put the accent on piling up the points and developing […]

Brendan Gallagher: Brive and bloody, the short reign of French mavericks

11 April 2014 1 comment

It is 16 years since Brive clashed with Bath in the 1998 Heineken Cup final in Bordeaux and at the time both clubs, who met […]

Tom Mitchell: Konichiwa from Japan’s capital

20 March 2014 0 comments

Konichiwa! That is pretty much the extent of our grasp of the lingo out here. Of all our stops on the Sevens world tour, Tokyo […]

Brendan Gallagher: Why Barbados against mighty All Blacks will be no rum do

13 March 2014 0 comments

It’s a bleary-eyed Sunday morning on Aldershot Garrison Common where the icy wind knifes you in two and the freezing rain threatens to morph into […]

Gloucester confirm Greig Laidlaw’s arrival

4 March 2014 1 comment

Gloucester today confirmed that Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland half back Greig Laidlaw will move to Kingsholm ahead of the 2014-15 season. The 28-year-old has skippered […]

Glasgow confirm Carlin Isles signing

28 February 2014 0 comments

As revealed exclusively on February 18, Glasgow Warriors have pulled off a major coup by landing USA international sevens star Carlin Isles until at least […]