All posts tagged "Brendan Gallagher"

• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Keith Wood: Only Ireland’s very best for 80 minutes will suffice

  Only five nations on this rugby planet have beaten New Zealand in a Test match in 110 years of trying so...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher’s autumn verdict: McCaw & co look like world champions elect to me

  England gave it a rattle and for once New Zealand seemed to come off second best with the ref but still...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher’s verdict on Wales

  And still Wales can’t make the breakthrough the nation demands and expects and their talent warrants. For all their excellence on...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Latest News

  / 13 years ago

  Catch (and get) a piece of Welsh rugby history

  The glory days of one of Wales‘ best known rugby teams – Pontypool RFC -have been captured in a new book...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher remembers the 2003 World Cup triumph with Lawrence Dallaglio

  Lawrence Dallaglio wipes his plate clean – the monster ‘Magnifica’ breakfast at Carluccios in Richmond having been routed with lip-smacking relish...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: Gregor Townsend still getting to grips with the enigma of French rugby

  Gregor Townsend, who did rather more than simply survive five seasons of club rugby in France, has always insisted that one...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: Heroic, tragic and downright eccentric, yes rugby has it all

  A mate of mine, literary agent David Luxton, has had the brilliant idea of organising the inaugural London Sports Writing Festival...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: The quiet-man keeping that Tigers’ roar loud and clear

  A small, bald-headed gent has been taking centre stage at Leicester on match days this autumn but the volume and quantity...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: Don’t let the big boys’ Euro row put an end to Treviso dream

  While the ERC blazers, club representatives from England and France and TV executives squabble endlessly over the future of a European...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: At last, John Dawes gets his rightful recognition

  Why is ‘legendary’ status conferred on some outstanding rugby personalities but denied others? Who decides these things and how? Does the...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: Will tickets be banana skin that upsets RWC 2015?

  Two years out from the 1987 World Cup the competition didn’t exist, it was just a concept being kicked around by...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: When Pooler were top dogs, amid the blood, mud and beer

  Exactly 30 years ago Pontypool embarked on a season, the likes of which we will never see again in Britain or...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher finds an intriguing cultural exchange occurring at the Stoop

  Nick Evans may be on the verge of becoming a British citizen and proud UK passport holder and he has chosen...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher gets the inside track on how England’s academies are producing players to progress on the international pathway

  Until this June, England – despite its vast player resources – had never won the IRB U20 World Championship or indeed...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: Pomposity overload? Cure it with my minnows

  It might surprise you to learn that 131 of the scheduled 184 qualifying games for Rugby World Cup 2015 have already...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher on the new England speedster who is giving his club top priority

  Marland Yarde just missed the world renowned St Lucia Jazz festival this year – he was otherwise engaged making music for...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher: The Puma underdogs must show teeth again

  And now the hard work and the pain really begins. Making their debut in the Rugby Championship last season was an...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Brendan Gallagher

  / 13 years ago

  Brendan Gallagher meets the modest architect of Wasps greatness

  Rob Smith never sought the limelight as a player, coach or indeed guru to some of England‘s most promising youngsters, so...

  By The Rugby Paper Team