All posts tagged "England"
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoI don’t see Smith-Farrell working as 10-12 combo | Jeremy Guscott
THE names just keep coming when Eddie Jones selects his England training squads, and his latest 45-man selection is full of...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoJonny May is target for Top League
ENGLAND winger Jonny May has been sounded out about a potential move to Japan despite being under contract at Gloucester until...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoBorthwick will give thanks for Ford axe!
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST No one ever called Leicester a quiet club – lest we forget, Austin Healey and Richard Cockerill...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoAnalysis: Eddie decides to go the way of Harlequins, not Saracens in autumn training squad
Paul Rees looks at the winners and losers from Eddie Jones' autumn international training squad
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoGeorge Ford and the Vunipolas omitted from England training squad
England head coach Eddie Jones has omitted five senior players including George Ford and the Vunipola brothers from his squad. Billy...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoQuestions the RFU’s new boss ignored
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK TOM Ilube’s first Press conference as RFU board chairman was carefully scripted, and...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTop four for Bath and England for me, says Tom Dunn
TOM Dunn hopes a top four finish for Bath this season can help him in his quest to become the best...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWallabies are threat to Eddie’s RWC future
EDDIE Jones’ autumn agenda took a more challenging turn yesterday when Australia – the team that have been whipping boys for...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWales Women can’t thrive in current set-up
Former Wales Women’s coach Sam Dodge tells Alex Bywater things are badly wrong in the camp ASA MAN who made a...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoEarle: Brownie recruited me for the Falcons
■By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Newcastle v Harlequins Sunday September 19, Kick-off 3pm, Kingston Park A CHANGE of life style and environ...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLightning and Saints Women’s teams join forces
By CYBIL HARDING Ambassador: Sarah Hunter PREMIER 15s side Loughborough Lightning have linked up with Premiership club Northampton Saints to create...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoI love to play ‘the Quins way’ says stand-in Tommy Allan
TOMMY Allan has been tasked with filling the boots of Marcus Smith for the opening two games of the season while...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoRobbo still California dreaming
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER CHRIS Robshaw has said he will continue playing for San Diego Legion in the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoIbitoye on Cup duty in Israel
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER GABY Ibitoye raised a few eyebrows last week when his name was included in...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoRacing all set to raid Prem in hunt for prop
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER RACING 92 are looking at the Premiership to strengthen their squad next season and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoMonye can waltz into a whole new world
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST When Ugo Monye squeezes himself into a sequined toreador’s jacket, spangly tights and a feather boa for...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoOne reason why Eddie may snub Marcus
THERE are plenty of supporters out there who hope and pray that Marcus Smith is promoted to the full England starting...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCanucks face Chile in bid for RWC 2023
BRENDAN GALLAGHER CANADIAN rugby is invariably a roller coaster and never more so than during the week of their back-to-back World...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoPark riding high in bonus-point glory
By MIKE AMOS Taunton................... 14 Rosslyn Park .........40 ROSSLYN Park produced a solid display to pick up a bonus-point win at...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBassett can’t wait to join the party
By GARY FITZGERALD Buzzing: Josh Bassett can’t wait to get started this season PICTURES: Getty Images WASPS have been left kicking...
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Latest News
/ 5 years ago‘Nut case’ Martin Gleeson will sort out England
ENGLAND’S new attack coach Martin Gleeson is a ‘mad genius’ – but a world-class operator in breaking down defences. That is...
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Features
/ 5 years agoEMILY SCOTT
WOMEN'S GAME IN FOCUS Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players THIS WEEK... HARLEQUINS BACK Harlequins’ Emily...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBok giant Vermeulen at Ulster
RUGBY SHORTS ULSTER have signed South African World Cup winning back-row forward Duane Vermeulen, who will join the club following the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWorcester 36-24 London Irish: Heinz is the maestro as Warriors start well
WILLI Heinz made an inspirational debut for Warriors as the team which finished bottom of the Premiership last season started this...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJones dies at age 49
RUGBY SHORTS FORMER Wales B international second-row Paul Jones has died at the age of 49. Bridgend-born Jones played for Llanelli,...
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Guest Blogs
/ 5 years agoRugby Has Roughly 475 Million Fans in the World Today
The next time the BBC decides to put the Six Nations results near the bottom of its home page, they may...
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Guest Blogs
/ 5 years agoHealth Benefits Associated With Playing Rugby
Rugby, which originated in England in the early 1800, has grown to be a worldwide sport that has acquired enormous popularity...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAre World 12s a good idea for the game?
COULD BE SAYS JOE LAUNCHBURY JOE Launchbury has strong reservations about the newly-proposed World 12s tournament and insists: “They would have...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agolast shot at success
Williams joined the club from Chinnor days before lockdown and hasn’t taken charge of a league match yet, in his 18...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSunshine cure has Nowell on track again
By NEIL FISSLER JACK Nowell almost completed a full preseason with Exeter Chiefs this summer for the first time in a...
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Features
/ 5 years agoIf we had Battle of Gnoll now we’d all be in jail!
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER LIONS, WALES, NEATH, OSPREYS, RICHMOND AND BRISTOL HOOKER BARRY WILLIAMS Good memories: Barry Williams playing...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoPlayer power puts pressure on players!
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER By all accounts, player power had much to...
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National League One
/ 5 years agoTitans hold on for a thrilling triumph
By TOM BULMER Darlington MP........32 Taunton...................38 NEWLY-PROMOTED Taunton made it backto-back away wins by edging past Darlington Mowden Park. An entertaining...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSam: Cips is great but we can’t rely on one man
By GARY FITZGERALD SAM Underhill has been impressed by the positive and creative input Danny Cipriani has brought to The Rec...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSanderson: Saracens are favourites for Premiership title
ALEX Sanderson has piled the pressure on his old Saracens pals by labelling them firm favourites to lift the title again....
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRough diamond Genge has matured into fine captain insists Youngs
By ADAM HATHAWAY Moving aside: Tom Youngs TOM YOUNGS might have handed over the captaincy at Leicester but the hooker will...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoFrench keep an eye on Slade and Simmonds
HENRY Slade’s name is appearing on the long term shopping lists of several French clubs that are also keeping tabs on...
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Features
/ 5 years agoFoulkes sees Coventry cast off their millstone
MOMENT IN TIME COVENTRY 1982-83 SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MERIT TABLE WINNERS NEIL FISSLER TALKS TO DAVID FOULKS AND PETER ROSSBOROUGH THE Seventies...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoWelcome to mad, mad world of modern rugby | Chris Hewett
A single English Premiership campaign is an interesting bunch of competitions. We’ve been treated to old-style fights for the title in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoScarratt in leg op
RUGBY SHORTS ENGLAND Women’s vicecaptain Emily Scarratt has had surgery on a broken leg – almost a year out from the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 years agoLatest twist in Sam Burgess saga can’t be ignored
THE controversy surrounding Sam Burgess, the Rugby League maestro who took to Rugby Union like a fish to concrete but still...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWiggy lands a new role at Tigers
RUGBY SHORTS SCRUM-HALF Richard Wigglesworth, 38, has been given a player-coach role at Leicester. “Richard has a wealth of experience at...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoI fear these World 12s are only about making money | Shane Williams
The new World 12s proposal has been the talk of rugby and while we must reserve a bit of judgement until...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBig personalties, big performances
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools EASTBOURNE College might not always be a pre-eminent force in the...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoKildunne hat-trick sparks Harlequins
By STEWART MCCULLOUGH Worcester ........31pts Harlequins ........66pts HARLEQUINS Women made it two wins out of two with a bonuspoint victory over...
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Features
/ 5 years agoFive tries and the chop for Lambert
ONE of the more remarkable Eastbourne College alumni was Danny Lambert, the England wing who got dropped after scoring five tries...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoScarratt surgery strikes Lightning plans
By ADAM ELLIS Preview Loughborough v Wasps Today, Kick-off 2pm LOUGHBOROUGH Lightning will attempt to get their season up and running...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBen Earl expects warm welcome in Bristol Bears
BEN Earl labels Bristol ‘my second club’ and is relishing a swift return to the place he claims has helped make...
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Features
/ 5 years agoEars and eyebrows marked out young Toby
Adam Hathaway talks to teammates about Toby Flood who retired this week Toby Flood was a skinny teenager when he was...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoSaracens spider web awaits fly-by-your-pants attackers | Jeremy Guscott
HARLEQUINS ability to defend the title they won last season prompted immediate thoughts that the likelihood is very slim, just as...















