All posts tagged "Championship"
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCurry ruled out of Six Nations
SALE confirmed that Tom Curry’s Six Nations campaign is over after his latest injury setback. The 24-year-old flanker had just recovered...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoSaints switch paying off for hooker Smith
By PAUL REES On the ball: Northampton hooker Robbie Smith Robbie Smith joined Northampton from Newcastle last summer because he wanted...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoItoje ready to silence Welsh roar
By GARY FITZGERALD Maro Itoje is fired up for England’s visit to Cardiff as they look for their first Six Nations...
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Latest News
/ 3 years ago£2m and rising – the cost of shambolic start to Six Nations
By PETER JACKSON Wales are paying a fearful price for their shambolic start to the Six Nations in lost prize money...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoEaling hold merger talks with Ospreys
By NEIL FISSLER EXCLUSIVE Ospreys are the Welsh region that Ealing Trailfinders have sounded out about a potential merger that would...
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Six Nations
/ 3 years agoTompkins set for Wales recall
By JON NEWCOMBE Saracens DoR Mark McCall says he will be surprised if Nick Tompkins was available to him in the...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoThat’s the height of hypocrisy
BEN Jaycock described last week how Stourbridge RFC is being used as a means to prevent Worcester being demoted to the...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years ago1 South West
By MO SHER CAMBORNE wrapped up the championship and promotion to the National Leagues with a barnstorming 42-38 win at Brixham,...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoNumber 13 proves lucky for Pooler
Championship round-up By ROB COLE PONTYPOOL completed the double over Admiral rivals Neath to make 13 wins out of 13 and...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoWe are taking the cup seriously, says Holden
By BEN JAYCOCK Doncaster have taken this season’s Championship Cup by storm and, while other teams are using the competition to...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoSnow glad to leave the bad days behind
By DAVID LAWRENCE Coventry scrum-half Joe Snow admits he visited a few dark places on his journey back to the first...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoAnger as new owners close down Warriors
By BEN JAYCOCK Worcester Warriors will rebrand as Sixways Rugby next season and merge with National Two West side Stourbridge after...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoHaag joins Scotland set-up with eye on England
By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE Junior World Cup-winning coach Martin Haag is poised to join the Scotland Women’s team as an assistant...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoGraham enjoys serving up the goods for Saints
By PAUL REES Impact: Saints back rower Sam Graham in action Sam Graham worked as a chef in a Michelin starred...
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National League One
/ 3 years agoNational One standard is rising all the time -Rossiter
By BEN JAYCOCK Jak Rossiter believes the standard of National One is increasing so much that any of the current top...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoWe should have been out of sight says Rae
By DAVID LAWRENCE Coventry ...........33pts Tries: Ma’asi 9, 20; Wilson 33, Ball 40, Penalty 56 Conversions: Mitchell 9, 20, 33 Bedford...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoStorming Pirates cruise into semis
By MIKE SINCALIR C Pirates ...........52pts Tries: Williams 10, King 19, Elderkin 38, Nelson 42, Haylor 61, Crane 67, Cant 71,...
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Features
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Sale & England U20s centre Reketi Ma’asi-White
By BEN JAYCOCK Introvert Rekeiti Ma’asi-White is hoping to use the Six Nations U20s experience with England to improve on his...
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National League 2E
/ 3 years agoMcLean targets 3,000 points for Worthing
By BEN JAYCOCK Potent points scorer Matthew McLean scored his 150th try in 300 appearances for Worthing last weekend and is...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoTop two warm up for main event
Championship round-up THE stage is set for the biggest game of the season next weekend in the Championship when Neath host...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTransition to hooker paying off for Terry
By BEN JAYCOCK It's almost two years since Cameron Terry made the transition from the back row to hooker at Ealing...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBorthwick: We’ll learn from pain
By GARY FITZGERALD New head coach Steve Borthwick admitted his England team will have to go through some pain to develop...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoRampant Romania run in 11 tries to stun Poland
By SAM JACKSON Under pressure: Poland coach Chris Hitt Romania got their Rugby Europe Championship campaign of to fine...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoFor France, the battle will start in Dublin
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It would be an amazing feat if France can do back-to-back Grand Slams, or...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoWith this record, it’s time Sweeney headed to the exit
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Bill Sweeney will be looking over his shoulder as the Six Nations gets...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoBlues smash six to keep semi-final hopes alive
By MARK WILLIAMS Bedford ............38pts Tries: French 16, 65; Rylands 39, Garside 42, Hughes 54, Matavesi 73 Conversions: Grimoldby 17, 43,...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoRFU sets deadline for new owners
The RFU has set the new owners of Wasps and Worcester Warriors a February 14 deadline to have their respective takeovers...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBurnell has big boots to fill in Jersey
PROMISING young flyhalf Ben Burnell has become the newest member of Jersey Reds’ squad as he joins the Championship side from...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCoventry swoop for Wilson
CHAMPIONSHIP side Coventry have signed former Worcester Warriors full-back Tobi Wilson with immediate effect. The 19-year-old was made redundant last year...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoUnbeaten leaders Pooler go seven-up
Championship, Nat 1 round-up PONTYPOOL ran in seven tries in their 49-7 home win over Cross Keys to move seven points...
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National League One
/ 3 years agoRFU creating a big divide in the game says Honey
By BEN JAYCOCK The RFU’s decision to lower the tackle height to ‘waistline and below’ next season for all levels below...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoScottish link-up helping Scott to develop
By BEN JAYCOCK Edinburgh born and bred Cameron Scott has gone outside his comfort zone this season to play on loan...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoChampionship round-up
By ROB COLE HOLDERS Neath, Pontypool, Ystrad Rhondda and Cross Keys advanced to the semi-finals of the WRU Championship Cup, while...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoRFU has no right to deliver this low blow
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The RFU has just introduced one of the biggest changes to the game...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe Sheriff riding in to rescue Wales
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Somewhere up there on the Elysian Fields, word might have reached Eric Evans...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoStudents beat the freeze to go top six
Welsh round-up By HARRY CORISH Cardiff Met took advantage of their 3G pitch at Cyncoed to ward off the cold weather...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoBeer’s ‘incredible feeling’ after Caldy bring down Ealing
By BEN JAYCOCK Louis Beer was in disbelief after his hat-trick helped Championship newcomers Caldy down the previously unbeaten, reigning champions...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoBenetton ………26 Bayonne ………… 7
BENETTON booked their place in the knockout stage of the Challenge Cup with a comfortable win over rock-bottom Bayonne in Pool...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoTwelvetrees and Reid set to sign for Ealing
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Ealing Trailfinders are lining up a double swoop on Gloucester for former England centre Billy...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: London Irish hooker Calum Scott
YOUNG GUNS LONDON IRISH HOOKER Calum Scott was this week called up to England’s U20s Six Nations squad and the London...
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News Extra
/ 3 years ago1959 Lions full-back Scotland dies aged 86
KEN Scotland, the former Scotland and Lions full-back, has died aged 86. He made his Scotland debut against France in the...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoNove does the trick to send Pooler top
Championship round-up By ROB COLE PONTYPOOL celebrated moving back to the top of the table. They secured an impressive 54-3 win...
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Six Nations
/ 3 years agoIreland and France – Top Favorites to win the 2023 Six Nations
The annual rugby competition known as Six Nations gathers more and more interest among sports fans. The six participating nations –...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoCaldy joy as it all goes wrong for 14-man Ealing
By JOHN LYON Caldy ................................ 26pts Tries: Beer 59, 66, 79; Royle 45 Conversions: Gourlay 46, 60, 67 Ealing T............................ 24pts...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoSecond-half blitz puts Pirates in control
By MIKE SINCLAIR Cornish Pirates ..37pts Tries: Crane 5, Wyatt 53, 79, Kessell 58, Tuima 75 Conversions: Bazalgette 53, Robson 75,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoThrilling finish in ‘73 never to be repeated
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER What with Italy looking more competitive, the 2023...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoKolisi to quit Sharks for long stay in Paris
NEWS EXTRA SOUTH Africa captain Siya Kolisi will join Racing 92 on a multi-year deal after the World Cup in October....
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSad to hear laughter over Traore incident
PETER JACKSON WHEN those at the ‘Secret Santa’ party hosted by the Benetton squad laughed at Cherif Traore unwrapping an over-ripe...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoHill: It’s biggest game of season
Preview Richmond v London Scottish December 31. Kick-off 2.30pm RICHMOND director of rugby Steve Hill says the showdown with local rivals...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoTrailfinders hit six for perfect 10 out of 10
By BEN JAYCOCK Ealing................ 43pts Tries: Bird-Tulloch 3, Kelleher 19, Hampson 30, 47; Kane 65, Willis 74 Conversions: Willis 3, 30,...
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